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Hunger strike is a common form of protest in prisons and is a potential cause of many types of problems, both for the prison administration and the doctors who care for prisoners who participate in one. Issues of conflict of rights and obligations involved, and how to treat people who are subject to the Administration, which in this case takes the position of guarantor, have created major contr...

To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this Federally-funded grant final report available electronically in addition to traditional paper copies. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

In many American Indian nations the security situation is dire. While scholars have studied how institutions shape economic development in and Alaska Native (AIAN) nations, role of AIAN for violent crime has received much less attention—despite extensive literature highlighting important effective legitimate long-term decline violence. We analyze varying types polities judiciary fare tackling u...

The state’s liability for damages in the field of climate change remains one those areas international law that has not yet been comprehensively regulated. At present, Warsaw International Mechanism Loss and Damage, specific to norms law, is an alternative general principles regulating responsibility compensation issues states sphere law. application customary legal mechanisms relation damage c...

The paper analyses the right to be exempt from jurisdiction (immunity) under customary international law and European civil procedural following interpretation of Court Justice Union. aim is research balance between this access courts as its potentially restrictive factor in case Union compare it with Human Rights. In deciding LG Others v. Rina Ente Registro Navale most important regard, states...

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 ...