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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Forfeiture"”.
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Civil Asset Forfeiture in the Fight Against Drugs (Policy Analysis)
… their financial assets are removed. Thus, civil forfeiture intends to dismantle the economic infrastructure of drug trafficking networks. Civil forfeiture considers the property as guilty, rather than the owner, and it may exist even if there is not a criminal action. Therefore, it is claimed …
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The international mechanisms relating to mutual assistance in the field of information exchange and civil forfeiture
Several international instruments relating to the forfeiture of assets derived through unlawful means have been developed in the last decade. These relate to both civil and criminal forfeiture proceedings. Nevertheless, the processes of tracing the assets and having them forfeit to the State …
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Non-conviction-Based Forfeiture of corruptly acquired assets to promote the right to education in Malawi.
… has historically relied on conviction-based forfeiture, which is often ineffective due to the complex, clandestine nature of financial crimes. This study examines the potential of Non-Conviction-Based Forfeiture (NCBF) as an alternative mechanism for recovering corruptly acquired assets and …
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The relationship between the macroeconomic and demographic factors and the demand for and lapsation of life insurance in Malaysia and the United States
… for lapsation of life insurance, both the forfeiture and surrender rates appear to be affected by the emergency fund effect with respect to the performance of the stock market in the previous period. Only fixed deposit rate is found to have the intended (positive) interest rate effect on …
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The Constitutional application of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998
… Act 121 of 1998 (‘POCA') presents a means for forfeiture of property to the state which was either instrumental to an offence, or the proceeds of unlawful activity, without necessarily proving criminal wrongdoing beyond reasonable doubt. At the advent of POCA the consensus amongst legal …
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An Analysis of the Correlation Between the Attitude, Belief, Opinion, and Demographic Components of Voluntary Forfeiture of One's Fourth Amendment Constitutional Right in Order to Permit Police Officers the use of New Concealed Weapons Detection Technology
… and the Constitutionality of one's voluntary forfeiture of a Constitutional right to permit such use. Data collected for the study is from 100 residents of Madison, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C., aged 18 years or older. The study analyzes Frequencies, Crosstabs, Chi Square, and Pearson's (r) …
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The effect of accrued pension benefit preservation on worker mobility in multiemployer plans
… The assumption that pension benefit forfeiture retards worker mobility was considered. The assumption that worker mobility is enhanced by benefit preservation is one of the justifications for tax incentives provided retirement plans. Several variables were considered in addition to …
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An assessment of money laundering legislation in Canada and the United States
While the seizure and forfeiture of the proceeds of crime is a deterrent for some criminals, in reality, this option is not enough to fight money laundering effectively. This essay will examine the different programs, strategies, laws and regulations concerning money laundering and drug trafficking …
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Effectiveness of the Criminal Justice Process in Reducing Drug & Drug-Related Crimes in England & Wales
… through ancillary orders (e.g. confiscation and forfeiture). Both the medical and punitive paradigms have been evident in drug legislation and policy decisions. Social, human, cultural, and political considerations have been added to the policy framework; for example, the effects of drug misuse …
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Compensation for victims of sexual violence in South Africa : a human rights approach to remedial criminal compensation provisions
… sentencing matters, and in quasi-criminal civil forfeiture proceedings, as is frequently done for other classes of complainants (namely, commercial crime complainants and victims of violent crime in general). A conclusion was reached, after conducting extensive research for this thesis, that …
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The Preservation of the Colonial Spanish Horse and Robert E. Brislawn, Sr.
… American populations through wars, disease, and forfeiture of territory also contributed to less reliance on horses. Born in 1890, Robert E. Brislawn, Sr., a dedicated horseman, decided to collect and preserve the best Spanish-type horses that he could locate as links to western heritage. From …
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Payback: The Nature and Morality of Revenge
… and rational action. Using the notions of moral forfeiture, reciprocity, and the ""clean hands"" doctrine of equity jurisprudence, I argue in Chapter 4 ""Morality, Justice, and the Right of Revenge"" that revenge can be morally permissible, and in Chapter 5, that incorporating revenge into …
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Hungry Spirits: Anishinaabe resistance and revitalization
… Becker, Mahnomen, and Clearwater counties (tax forfeiture lands); religious organizations and major corporations. The anthropological research problem is this: how does one analyze and compare relationships between community and market economies (Lofving, ed. 2005; Gudeman 2008)? In their …
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A Study in Police Preparedness to Respond to Active Shooter Situations to Provide a Safer Learning Environment in the Schools of Bergen County, New Jersey
… The first was between the amount of forfeiture funds reported by municipal police departments and the number of police officers trained to train other police officers in active-shooter response tactics. The second statistically significant relationship found was between the total …
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Exploring the challenges of quitrent rights on land use, development and ownership in the Eastern Cape
… Even though some quitrents lapsed due to forfeiture or cancellation, most of these quitrent titles in the former Transkeian Territories are still reflected in the Deeds Registry. Until an investigation reveals that a (still registered) quitrent has lapsed, it must be regarded as valid and …
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"The assessed loss as the driving force behind schemes of arrangement and compromises under s 311 of the Companies Act 61, 1973, as amended"
… 20 and 103(2). Section 20(1) results in a forfeiture or sterilization of assessed where there was mercantile abstinence on the part of the company. While section 20(1)(a)(ii) provides that the balance of assessed loss shall be reduced by the amount or value of any benefit received by or …
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The householder defence in Canada and England and Wales: between proportionality and penal populism
… be discussed, namely: choice-of-evils theory, forfeiture theory, rights-based theories, and communitarian theory.<br/>The jurisdictions for this dissertation’s exploration of policy reform of the householder defence are Canada and England & Wales (E&W). In Canada, the entirety of the …
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‘hwonne habbe we ðonne ne gemotad?’; Narrative Strategies in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century English Property Disputes
… caught in the act’ as a justification for land forfeiture. The conclusion stresses that lawsuit documents were directly inspired by and constructed with a wide range of ‘legal’ and ‘non-legal’ language, formulation and rhetorical strategies in mind, but nonetheless followed a coherent enough set …
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Investigation of a process analytical technology (PAT) for rapid cleaning verification in the pharmaceutical industry to reduce product changeover time
… facilities, the equipment downtime is a huge forfeiture for the business; ultimately, all of this cost is added up to the final price of the drug/s. The average equipment downtime for Pfizer multi-product facilities is 30% of the total manufacturing time. In addition, there is a great …
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Reconfiguring racial regimes of ownership: vacancy and the labor of revitalization on Chicago's South Side
… installment contracts, declarations of contract forfeiture, tax deeds, liens, and tax sale records. I find that vacancy results not from disinvestment but from the influx of hyperextractive investment – predatory mortgages, tax debt purchases, and land installment contracts – over the past seven …
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