In this article, the author investigated legality and legitimacy of African Criminal Court. Despite immunity provision criticized by international community, its is consistent with law, while it cannot be argued that Court an "panacea" for combating impunity serious crimes. The initial support International Union member States in process creation turned into strained relations after indictment ...

Since the early 1980s, specialized problem-solving courts known as drug emerged in United States a response to backlog of and alcohol-related cases plaguing U.S. criminal justice system. In few decades, with seeming success court helping AOD defendants achieve sobriety while reducing recidivism, model has achieved international prominence well. This paper discusses pilot study which seeks analy...

Mental health experts are increasingly being utilised by the criminal justice system to provide assistance to courts during the assessment of issues falling beyond the knowledge and/or experience of the courts. A particular domain where the assistance of qualified psychiatrists and psychologists is becoming essential is where the defence of pathological criminal incapacity falls to be assessed....

A national survey of front line police officers’ perceptions and attitudes regarding detection and processing of driving while impaired (DWI) charges, the criminal court proceedings, and DWI sanctions was conducted. A sample of 1545 officers representative o f all jurisdictions across the country, different types of services (i.e., national, provincial, municipal) and types of policing (i.e., t...

In 2000, conjoined twins were born in England. What made this case unique was the fact that if the twins remained unseparated, medical opinion held they would die; if they were separated one twin would live, and one twin would die; the parents refused to consent to separation; and the hospital charged with their care brought the matter to court. The trial court and court of appeal approved of t...

Justice Fortas in this quotation was addressing the extent of procedural due process provided in juvenile proceedings in 1966. Well-meaning members of the criminal justice system had developed a court process intent on helping juveniles, rather than punishing them as criminal offenders. Since there was no criminal adjudication, and anonymity was generally assured, it was believed that the nicet...

Little attention has been paid to the processing of insanity acquittees subsequent to criminal trial. This study first obtained descriptive data on new insanity acquittees (N = 137) in Illinois between January 1982 and July 1984 and then examined the criminal commitment criteria used by evaluating psychiatrists and criminal courts in the disposition of insanity acquittees. Acquittees in Illinoi...

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Natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina have resulted in the displacement of families to locations throughout the nation. Juvenile courts have been affected by this mass migration of youths. Post-disaster recovery has been slow. Consequently, a cohort of youths has aged out of the juvenile justice system before their juvenile competency hearings could be held. Some of these young adults now...