Fisheries observers can both collect scientific data and report on compliance with fisheries regulations. Observers are used only for scientific purposes in most US fisheries. However, North Pacific groundfish fisheries observers are required to report violations of fisheries regulations that they witness. Based on evaluation of historical enforcement incidents and survey data, this paper consi...

In criminal law enforcement, legally formally it will lead to administrative issues. Where in the exercise of power related examination matters at level police, prosecutor's office judiciary, must be able provide certainty that there is no abuse power. Not infrequently a incident, many suspects are involved and other actions. The contribution everyone who commits an act same event rewarded with...

The subject of this research is the social relations arising in context application administrative sanctions for violating forestry legislation. object legislation on offenses Russian Federation and foreign countries, law enforcement judicial practice. author observes ambiguity offences by state departments some constituent entities Federation. Therefore, scientific article indicates one releva...

Facial composite images are often used in the criminal investigation process to facilitate the identification of an offender. Research generally shows that the effectiveness of various composite systems in generating accurate facial representations is low, however these findings do not reflect a number of newly developed computerized systems. This study investigated the prevalence of composite ...

the enforcement of hodood (divine prescribed punishment) in the major occultation era of imam mahdi is one of the remarkable subjects of twelver shia (imami) jurisprudence. referring to a juridical principle called adam-al-vilaayah (lack of guardianship); some shia jurists consider the task as the prerogative of infallible imam or his special representatives and maintain that the enforcement of...

How best to measure the effectiveness of environmental enforcement is a long-standing question . Over the 42 years during which the U .S . Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has engaged in enforcement work, the agency’s system for evaluating its own enforcement efforts (as well as those of the states) has evolved considerably . Beginning with a simple counting of numbers of formal enforcemen...

Regulatory enforcement of forest conservation laws is often dismissed as an ineffective approach to reducing tropical forest loss. Yet, effective enforcement is often a precondition for alternative conservation measures, such as payments for environmental services, to achieve desired outcomes. Fair and efficient policies to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) wil...

We examine individual harvesters’ preferences for government enforcement of a quota imposed on the exploitation of a common pool resource. We develop a model of Nash behavior by identical risk neutral harvesters to explain individual equilibrium preferences for enforcement of an efficient harvest quota. If the quota is not enforced well, we demonstrate that individual harvesters will always pre...

Annual forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon had in 2012 declined to less than 5,000 sqkm, from over 27,000 in 2004. Mounting empirical evidence suggests that changes in Brazilian law enforcement strategy and the related governance system may account for a large share of the overall success in curbing deforestation rates. At the same time, Brazil is experimenting with alternative approaches to co...