FACTS REGARDING CRIMINAL ABORTION.

Criminal Abortion

Criminal Abortion in the Punjab

The cases which form the basis of the following paper canie under my official notice as Chemical Examiner for the Punjab from November 1893 to November 1894, i.e., during the time I held that office. The facts detailed are derived?(]) from notes made by me on the official documents forwarded by the local medical officers and subordinates, as well as by the police, the main source being from the...

Repeat abortion: facts and issues.

BACKGROUND The commonest reason for undertaking termination of pregnancy (TOP) in the UK is as defined by Clause 2 of the Abortion Act. There are no agreed criteria for defining 'recurrent abortion seekers'. We aimed to review the characteristics of women requesting termination of at least two consecutive pregnancies within 24 months of the first and to identify any factors for seeking repeat T...

Iran’s Criminal Policy Regarding Double Punishment in International Criminal Law

Different nations’ tendency to expand their judicial and legislative territory outside their ruling kingdom has caused conflicts in the criminal qualification and the coming into existence of legal bad effects. Among these bad effects is the double or additional punishment of someone who has been tried and received their penalty in another country before, which is at odds with the principles of...

FACING THE FACTS Criminal Consequences of Child Abuse Homicides

h Though prosecution and sentencing processes have built-in discretion to accommodate the circumstances of each case, prosecutors, judges, and other experts in criminal justice believe that the wide variation in the outcomes listed above is beyond the expected bounds of discretion, and occurs primarily for two reasons. h First, it is important to recognize that successful prosecution requires s...