AbstractThis article concerns the privatization of prisons and its consequences for weakening state’s monopoly on punishment. It presents an analytical overview arguments against in light recent developments Norway. concludes that are complex interwoven they rest several value judgments empirical assumptions.
 AbstractArtikkelen omhandler privatisering av fengsler. Det redegjøres enkelte g...

The article analyzes the problems of functioning judicial system in Crimean Khanate. law institute judges was an important component system. Its principals and features development are analyzed article. A brief historical review establishment qadi institution Muslim legal is carried out. independence indicated, its internal structure considered. It found out that consisted three levels, similar...

OBJECTIVE To describe the socio-demographic along with the medico-legal characteristics of rape victims reporting to a female police station of Lahore. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Female Police Station in Shadman, Lahore, from, June 1995 to January 2009. METHODOLOGY A total of 74 cases of alleged rape victims were identified while reviewing all available ...

The advent of new imaging techniques is broadening our understanding of the major psychiatric illnesses. The increased knowledge of brain function will have consequences for the expert medical witness who has to give evidence in court. Both the insanity defence and the defence of automatism depend on disorders of the mind. Psychiatry is now able in many cases to produce evidence that these are ...

had considerable experience of " shell-shock" in the war, and included eminent neurologists. They heard evidence from a number of distinguished men, representing opinion on the military, medical and legal aspect of the subject, and also from officers and men who had suffered from " shell-shock." They have made a lengthy and exhaustive report which must long remain the authoritative work on the ...

After a decade of war, there is a great need for treatment and alternatives to incarceration for justice-involved veterans. U.S. military service members are returning from combat with substantial mental health challenges, which increase the potential for justice involvement. Veteran Treatment Courts are starting across the nation to meet this need for therapeutic justice. These problem solving...