The Model Penal Code l drafted by the American Law Institute in 1962 contains the following paragraph: "As used in this Article the terms 'mental disease or defect' do not include an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct." This paragraph was meant to exclude the designation of antisocial personality as an illness. which could result in a plea of insani...

The present study attempts to understand the justice delivery mechanism from the perspectives of women litigants specifically within the context of Section 498-A Indian Penal Code (IPC). This research work empirically examines and explores the process of women's resistance to the male dominion within the sphere of family and law. It is a part of the larger study being taken up by the Centre for...

The unification of the West and East Germany has provided an interesting natural experiment for studying the relationship between legal and extra-legal factors and drinkingdriving crash rates. Prior to unification, both countries had differing drinking-driving legislation and BAC limits. In the former West Germany, the penal code did not allow driving under the influence of alcohol and other dr...

in islamic penal law, most of the crimes against national and social security are gathered under the title muḥāriba (waging war); whereas, in jurisprudence, there is disagreement about the nature and criteria of muḥāriba and the concept of arms in muḥāriba. however, by research and delving into evidences derived from jurisprudential texts, a true definition of this category can be achieved, acc...

Este artigo pretende apresentar dois modelos de exclusão provas indesejáveis que operam em ordenamentos continentais e common law. São analisados os mecanismos bloqueio informações antes se tornaram no processo penal, quais podem ser definidos como instrumentos (soluções) adotadas um determinado modelo penal permite a verificação eventual inadmissíveis pois definidas à dos fatos. Com base uma “...

Revisiting Penal Substitution Kevin D. Kennedy Assistant Professor of Theology Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 2001 W. Seminary Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76115 Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow. Evangelicals, in their preaching as well as their worship, have recognized that the cross of Christ is central to the life of the beli...

It is true that the study of family relations falls under civil law and law, but Moroccan legislator gives paramount importance to protection unit institution marriage. For this reason, he conferred treatment abandonment criminal law. Penalties are thereforeprovided for spousewho voluntarily abandons matrimonial home if constituent elements act met. This article aims elucidate specificity penal...

an intelligible torm," with the essentials of Indian Medical Jurisprudence. Such being the case, we think this work more than fulfils the modest intention of the authors. The chapters are broken up into numbered paragraphs, so that they have a familiar aspect to the legal mind, like the sections of the Penal Code. We think the value of the work would be increased, and its usefulness to medical ...

Oh to be in Grendon now that group therapy's there. Frank Norman's book, sub-titled 'Reform of the Penal System', is not just a plea for psychiatric treatment of offenders and praise for Britain's first psychiatric prison, Grendon Underwood. But the mood is captured in the final chapter where he writes: 'Quite simply, in Sweden, the penal authorities take a far more enlightened view of criminal...