How much have you had to drink?
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New research found a disparity between the sentences women and men are given for offence when alcohol is an aggravating factor.
Jordanian Bedouin border guards on parade.
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The old ways of doing things still matter – it’s just that some of it now takes place online.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was recently the subject of a racist video rant.
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Calls to impose harsh prison sentences for verbal crimen injuria are often premised on the need to deter such behaviour.
The #MeToo movement and more recent allegations against Brett Kavanaugh have posed questions about past conduct.
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Whether the sins of our past stay with us forever has become a pertinent question of our time. A philosopher argues we don’t need to carry our past burdens – although there are some moral conditions.
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From cannibalism to carbolic smoke balls, these are some of the fascinating cases that have made the law of England and Wales what it is today.
Barbed wire surrounds the the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.
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A historian reminds us that protests in prisons are often followed by retaliation.
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The Verdins principles affect the way offenders with mental health problems are sentenced in a court of law.
Protester one year after Occupy Wall Street.
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The support for the key values that pervade the discourse about social justice is overall very strong but it may be surprising that democracy and solidarity receive less support among respondents.
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Mental health courts work to reduce reoffending, enhance public safety and improve the well-being of individuals with mental illness.
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New plans will speed students through an intensive training course, that will see them working cases in 12 weeks.
The courts are, or can be, theatres of remorse.
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In many legal jurisdictions of the world, including Australia, an offender’s remorse is a mitigating factor at sentencing. And yet how judges evaluate such expressions is unclear.
Remorse and contrition have a role that seems natural, but the justice system makes it difficult to apply.
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Remorse is a vital, but often overlooked and underused aspect of justice, for both the victim and the offender.
Those women affected fear the inquiry they fought for will protect, rather than uncover, the state’s secrets.
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The women who called for an inquiry into the actions of undercover police have since walked out of proceedings they see as unjust.
Use of IT in courts could help make justice more efficient. But would it be fair?
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Big data and algorithmic applications could transform how our legal institutions work, but the digital revolution must keep the needs of judges, attorneys and especially citizens at its heart.
How do survivors find healing? Chum Mey, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, walks past a portrait of Nuon Chea, a former Khmer Rouge leader.
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The accounts of survivors of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge show how they were able to find justice and healing by breaking their silence and speaking on behalf of those who were killed.
Six memorial candles are lit during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Sharkey Theater on board Naval Station Pearl Harbor.
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Remembrance days and memorials provide people the opportunity to share stories with a community. An expert explains how that can make a difference.
Australian governments have too often succumbed to perceived community pressure to limit parole authorities’ independence and powers.
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Government and judicial interventions into the decisions of parole boards display a progressive loss of faith in these independent bodies.
Lucy Francineth Granados, a Montréal community organizer advocating for the rights of undocumented workers was forcibly and violently arrested at her home by the Canadian Border Security Agency on March 20, 2018. Community protests like this one on March 23 sprang up all over the city.
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What kind of a country is Canada? One which truly welcomes and respects immigrants and their lives and safety? Or one which just says it does but brutally detains and deports them?
George Pell emerges from court during his committal hearing on historical sexual offences.
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George Pell’s current committal hearing engages the principle of ‘open justice’ and some of its most important exceptions.
The detail of the government’s reforms remains elusive four months after commissioners Margaret White and Mick Gooda handed down their final report.
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Implementing the Don Dale royal commission’s recommendations will test the capacity to redress the ‘systemic and shocking failures’ it identified.