The doctrine of the composition an administrative offense occupies one central places in and legal science has great practical importance, which is primarily due to definition signs illegal act, distinguishing it from other types offenses applying appropriate measures responsibility guilty persons. It was determined that (misdemeanor) a fact formed normative factual components, formally causes ...

RESEARCH SUMMARY: This article examines the growth in marijuana misdemeanor arrests in New York City (NYC) from 1980 to 2003 and its differential impact on blacks and Hispanics. Since 1980, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) expanded its use of arrest and detention for minor offenses under its quality-of-life (QOL) policing initiative. Arrest data indicate that during the 1990s the prim...

BACKGROUND Empirical evidence has suggested that drug treatment courts (DTCs) reduce re-arrest rates. However, DTC program completion rates are low and little is known about the effectiveness of lower levels of program participation. OBJECTIVES We examined how DTC program referral, enrollment without completion, and completion, affected re-arrest rates during a two-year follow-up. RESEARCH ...

Summary court proceedings regarding criminal misdemeanors are a differentiated type of in the first instance. Three forms simplification singled out, particular: 1) with accelerated holding trial session; 2) without 3) examining evidence those circumstances that not contested by anyone. The list documents, presence which is prerequisite for consideration indictment order summary proceedings, ha...

In misdemeanor cases, pretrial detention poses a particular problem because it may induce otherwise innocent defendants to plead guilty in order to exit jail, potentially creating widespread error in case adjudication. While practitioners have long recognized this possibility, empirical evidence on the downstream impacts of pretrial detention on misdemeanor defendants and their cases remains li...

This paper primarily examines the judicial determination of non-penalization for misdemeanor cases and conducts an empirical study based on analysis 85 relevant court judgments. The reveals that in practice, exhibits a certain degree flexibility diversity, as judges take into account both nature offense social context. Additionally, this finds that, regarding mitigating circumstances, threshold...

The study aims to consider scientific opinions on the feasibility and effectiveness of introducing misdemeanor category into Russian criminal-legal complex conduct a comparative legal analysis within framework foreign legislation historical retrospective. authors use comparative-legal, historical-legal, statistical methods, as well method systemic analysis. article studies issues relevant crimi...