Sexual minority rights in contemporary Africa is a contentious issue, where some countries, same-sexuality portrayed by media and politicians as “un-African” “white disease” imported from the West. Same-sex sexual activity criminalised 31 African countries. Political, legal religious frameworks exacerbate homophobic attitudes, related discrimination hate crimes toward individuals who identify l...

Beginning in 1992, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) Sex Crimes Unit began analyzing reported sexual assault cases with the hope that sexual assault could be prevented in our community by a better understanding of the character and context of the cases being reported. Almost immediately it was apparent that although most of the prevalent sexual assault prevention messages described a stran...

Despite the promises made after World War II to eliminate the commission of atrocities, crimes against humanity persist with horrifying ubiquity. Yet the absence of a consistent definition and uniform interpretation of crimes against humanity has made it difficult to establish the theory underlying such crimes and to prosecute them in particular cases. In the 1990s, several ad hoc international...

This paper addresses the question of the relative gravity of crimes against humanity vis-à-vis war crimes. The issue is tackled from a double perspective. First, the categories of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes are compared at the general or legislative level. The analysis is mainly based on international treaties and other instruments that consider these crimes from the viewp...

BACKGROUND Sexual violence is considered a serious violation of human rights which affects mainly young women and adolescents. There is little information about the conditions under which sexual offences occur. We evaluated characteristics of sexual violence against adolescent girls and adult women. METHOD This is a quantitative, retrospective, descriptive study of sexual violence against ado...

The criminal justice system has traditionally been seen as in the business of doing justice: punishing offenders for crimes committed. Yet, the past decade has brought a shift from punishing past crimes to preventing future crimes through the incarceration and control of dangerous offenders. Habitual offender statutes, like "three strikes" laws, sentence repeat offenders to life imprisonment. J...

To the best of our knowledge, the present register is the only nationwide forensic psychiatric patient register in the world. The aim of this article is to describe the content of the Swedish National Forensic Psychiatric Register (SNFPR) for Swedish forensic patients for the year 2010. The subjects are individuals who, in connection with prosecution due to criminal acts, have been sentenced to...

Abstract Previous studies of the geographical and temporal features serial sex offenses are limited by small samples and/or areas, dated. We address a significant gap in literature investigating proximity crimes 402 stranger offenders UK. Periods incarceration were extracted from calculations giving more accurate picture series duration time elapsed between same series. A notable minority commi...