This commentary offers a perspective from another common law jurisdiction, specifically the law in England and Wales, where competency to stand trial on a criminal charge is known as fitness to plead. The commentary begins with a discussion on the principle of proportionality evident in health care decisions by way of comparison with the topic in the criminal arena. Fitness to plead is an histo...

UNLABELLED Problem. To study court ordered substance abuse commitment (SAC) in one jurisdiction. We investigated who was evaluated, by whom, and with what outcome. Is SAC primarily a purely civil procedure as originally intended? Are men and women being treated equally? METHOD Questionnaire survey of court clinicians to determine demographic and clinical status of persons evaluated, the proce...

The revitalized implementation of Sharia law and its expansion from the personal to criminal aspects in twelve northern states in the wake of Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999 represents one of the most turbulent cases of intergroup relations in the contemporary history of Nigeria. The development was set in motion by the formal adoption of stringent Sharia codes by Ahmed Sani, the go...

Criminal acts of a computer crime are no longer new social and legal phenomenon. In addition to the execution criminal that fall within domain crime, computers have found their application in so-called classic acts, giving them different modus operandi. A spatial distance between action taken resulting consequences during led strengthening transnational crime. Initially, international community...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of debatable question whether provisions Code Criminal Procedure Russian Federation on investigative jurisdiction, including substantive apply stage initiating a criminal case, issuance decision refuse initiate or they exclusively preliminary investigation. It shown that jurisdiction various bodies investigation established by law (Articles 150-152 Federatio...

T he Task Force on Community Preventive Services presents recommendations in this supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine relating to the transfer of juveniles to the adult criminal justice system. 1,2 The questions the Task Force considered are whether transfers reduce or prevent violent crimes by people younger than 18 by means either of individual deterrence (reducing futur...

Under our federal system of government, every state, and the federal government, has its own set of criminal laws. This means that Congress and each state legislature must determine whether to enact capital punishment in its jurisdiction. Today, 38 states and the federal government have death-penalty laws. These laws apply only to first-degree murders, those done with deliberation and calculati...