Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system is recognised as an important social policy issue and ‘closing the gap’ is a key priority for the sector, promoted through the National Indigenous Law and Justice Framework (SCAG 2009) and in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander justice agreements and plans that exist in every jurisdiction (ie NSW Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council...

The age of criminal responsibility of children in the Islamic Penalties Act has been determined as religious Bulugh (puberty) Nasab. According to this, criminal authorities hold girls criminally liable and punishable at 9 complete lunar years and boys at 15 complete lunar years. Unfortunately, our legislator has set criminal responsibility of children based on sexual maturity; therefore, thousa...

This paper proposes an identification framework of the possible criminal offences charges based on textual criminal cases of the Civil Law system. The framework is constructed as the model, devised as a multi-stage based on the defined charges structure in criminal law codes. The first stage is to modularly identify type of action which is designed based on the offences charges abstractly categ...

An immense proportion of alleged felons are under the influence of mindaltering substances when they are arrested, and many people arrested for drug offenses and other crimes are addicted. Indeed, possession and use of illicit substances, which are necessary criteria of addiction, are crimes in every state and under federal law. Assessing the moral and legal responsibility of agents who engage ...

Regulation of the interstate practice of medicine represents a challenge to state medical boards. Although laws prohibiting the unlicensed practice of medicine were originally enacted to protect the public from unqualified practitioners, they could be invoked in a whole host of common clinical situations such as calling in prescriptions to a patient in another state, giving expert testimony in ...

theorization in the realm of criminal policy is badlyneeded by the country. lack of coherent, indigenouspattern of managing activities dealing with offence anddeviation causes lack of harmony of governmentalinstitutions invested with administrative affairs, and thiswill lead to nothing but drop of standards of criminaljustice in iran. although approaching criminal justice iniran is primarily an...

The periodic revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) reset the standard for diagnosis of mental disorders and hence are of immense importance to the mental health professions. Although primarily intended for use by clinicians, the criteria embodied in the manual serve several other purposes, including undergirding forensic evaluatio...