The landmark 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Jackson v. Indiana prohibited the indefinite commitment of criminal defendants on grounds of incompetence to stand trial if there was no substantial probability of restoration to competency in the foreseeable future. Such defendants are still subject to ordinary civil commitment; however, not all will meet civil commitment criteria, given that th...

In recent years, state and federal legislative initiatives have heavily emphasized punitive laws to combat sexual crime. These statutes include indefinite civil commitment, which is the ultimate infringement on sexual offenders' civil liberties. Many of these committed offenders have repeatedly offended against prepubescent children (pedophiles), and many have committed nonconsensual sexual off...

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The study is devoted to the substantiation of criminal-legal significance compensation for harm from a crime. To fight crime and other offenses, criminal procedure law aims at creating property barriers illegal unjustified use objects all forms ownership, ensuring return victim or harm. protection violated subjective rights can be carried out not only with help civil legislation but also admini...

"Governmental authority and civil society are increasingly threatened by transnational networks of crime, narcotics, money laundering and terrorism. Access by underworld groups to sophisticated information technologies and weaponry as well as to the various instrumentalities through which the global market economy functions is vastly increasing the potential power and influence of these groups,...

the aim of this paper is to demonstrate that money laundering is not a crime according to the islamic jurisprudence (verses, traditions, judgments of jurisprudents) and iran’s legal system through descriptive research method and analysis of documents. money laundering only creates civil responsibility and its following social effects. this subject seems as one of the challenging issues, so inve...

To address the data and technical challenges facing ISI, we present a research framework with a primary focus on KDD (Knowledge Discovery from Databases) technologies. The framework is discussed in the context of crime types and security implications. Selected data mining techniques, including information sharing and collaboration, association mining, classification and clustering, text mining,...

stability and commercial prosperity of a given nation. Where a country has had years of civil peace and development, allowing of possibilities of personal advancement and the quick absorption into remunerative occupation of the schoolleaving youth of the country, juvenile crime is at a low ebb. When a nation, following the emotional stress of a great upheaval, has had a prolonged period of trad...