The Chinese regime is well known for the large-scale detention of dissidents and ethnic minorities. However, little about fates political prisoners. This study investigates determinants duration imprisonment in China. I argue that shaped by (a) perceived threat individuals’ actions, (b) their religious identities. Drawing on prisoner database, investigate predictors with survival models. Since ...

This article critically examines the provisions of Criminal Code governing measures and penalties relating to children in conflict with law light principles ‘detention or imprisonment as a measure last resort’ ‘for shortest period’. The assessment shows that Ethiopian criminal justice system does not adhere principle since corrective detention home arrest are first resort. Imprisonment on other...

How does domestic surveillance affect the frequency of political imprisonments in autocratic states? In contrast to conventional wisdom, I argue that reduces power-maximizing autocracies. Surveillance decreases uncertainty about correct targets repression, allowing for more selective detentions and shifts silent instruments repression. To investigate these claims, draw on a unique county-level ...

Background: Due to the importance of medical studies, researchers of this field should be familiar with various types of statistical analyses to select the most appropriate method based on the characteristics of their data sets. Classification and regression trees (CARTs) can be as complementary to regression models. We compared the performance of a logistic regression model and a CART in predi...

The scientific article explores a new stage of humanization the criminal-legal influence on application punishment in form life imprisonment. It has been established that number decisions European Court Human Rights served as prerequisite for this process, which generally stated absence mechanism early release convicts from serving sentence imprisonment Ukraine, would allow educational purpose ...