Although delusions are prima facie evidence of psychosis, their mere presence is not a sufficient condition for exculpation on the grounds of insanity. In most cases, a determination of insanity will depend on the specific content of the delusions and whether, as a result of these delusions, the defendant was unable to know or appreciate the wrongfulness of his or her act. Delusions may be subd...

Malicious cyber activities are no longer a matter of if but of when, and in our increasingly interconnected world, threats to our national sovereignty can come from unexpected sources and directions – a 360-degree globalised challenge. Cyber security is no longer the preserve of any single country because of the trans-border nature of malicious cyber activities and an increasingly connected and...

The regulation of euthanasia by the criminal law has tended to be one of the more contentious areas of medical law, and continues to be the subject of debate. Few areas of the criminal law have been so consistently the target of reformist pressure, and certainly few areas have so strongly resisted change. Understandably, legislators are unwilling to involve themselves in a matter of law reform ...

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...

The history of the personality-disorder diagnosis in law and psychiatry-in particular, the antisocial personality disorder-is recounted along with the arguments of renowned forensic psychiatrists as well as public opinion. Jurisdictions around the world are divided on the impact of the diagnosis on criminal responsibility or on sentencing.

Charge bargaining is a potentially important form of discretion in criminal sentencing that is obscured in many studies of sentencing outcomes. Our procedure to measure the difference in sentencing outcomes caused by plea bargain emphasizes the amount, in months, that the sentence length is reduced. Using this measure, we compare prosecutorial discretion across counties in two different states....

Diversion is a constructive effort to rebuild social relations that have been damaged by criminal acts, basically diversion has relevance the purpose of punishment for children. The formulation problem 1) How implementation restorative justice in Juvenile Criminal Justice System through at Semarang City District Attorney, 2) What are obstacles Attorney. method used juridical empirical. results ...