In 1935, the Nazi government introduced what came to be known as the abrogation of the prohibition of analogy. This measure, a feature of the new penal law, required judges to stray from the letter of the written law and to consider instead whether an action was worthy of punishment according to the ‘sound perception of the people’ and an ‘underlying principle’ of an existing criminal statute. ...

This study aimed to discuss the close relationship between mental health, the criminal justice system and the prison system, whose specific interfaces are the HCTP (Hospital de Custódia e Tratamento Psiquiátrico, or Judicial Psychiatric Hospital) conflict and the person with mental disorder in conflict with the law. There will be presented extensive discussions on the Penal Execution Law and th...

Lord Longford s Group, reporting only six months after being appointed, n' m numerous proposals for reform. Some of these, like the suggestions for strengthen^1 8 j police (e.g. by the codification of powers of arrest) are neither new nor very controvef j. The re-classification of offences, so as to give a truer picture of their nature and graV ^f already under official consideration. It is wid...

After four decades of steady growth, U.S. states' prison populations finally appear to be declining, driven by a range of sentencing and policy reforms. One of the most popular reform suggestions is to expand probation supervision in lieu of incarceration. However, the classic socio-legal literature suggests that expansions of probation instead widen the net of penal control and lead to higher ...

In Indonesia, criminal law reform is manifested in plans to amend several laws and regulations, including the Criminal Code, Procedure Correctional Law. addition, justice sub-systems have issued policy regulations that put forward principle of penal mediation accommodate limitations or shortcomings formal resolving cases. These various steps change a value known as restorative justice. The conc...

In the last five years, medical care policies for prisons in the Argentine Federal Penitentiary Service were developed by the previous Medical Care Assistance Office of this Institution to improve primary medical healthcare. Policies were applied with heterogeneous criteria in comparison to the ones established by the Ministry of Health. This may be why I am interested in taking a deeper look a...