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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Life sentences"”.
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Moral messages, ethical responses: Punishment and self-governance among men serving life sentences for murder
… explore moral communication in the contemporary life sentence, as seen through the ethical lives of men serving life sentences for murder. Empirically, it describes three things. First, moral communication *about murder*: what a conviction for this crime and the experience of imprisonment for …
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Availability Of The Felony-murder Rule Today: Equitable And Just Or Unfair And Excessive?
… the doctrine is utilized, and the subsequent sentences allowable for defendants convicted under the theory. Current statutes are analyzed to establish what circumstances specifically constitute felony murder and the criteria required by each of the jurisdictions. Additionally, it determines to …
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IL CANONE DELLA RIDUCIBILITÀ ALLA PROVA DEI FATTI: CRITICITÀ PERSISTENTI NEL MECCANISMO DI LEGITTIMAZIONE DELLA PENA PERPETUA
The dissertation examines the compatibility of life imprisonment with the constitutional and conventional principles governing the function of punishment in the Italian legal system, focusing in particular on the principle of reducibility as a structural condition for the legitimacy of life …
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Laisvės atėmimo iki gyvos galvos bausmės ir žmogaus teisių santykis /
… with the concept, features and objectives of life imprisonment. In this part of the thesis, an analysis is made of the characteristics of life imprisonment in order to distinguish between life imprisonment and fixed-term imprisonment. The work further discusses the application and execution of …
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Domestic chains, carceral lives: women’s pathways to and experiences of incarceration through the lens of love, marriage, and kinship in India
… with 127 incarcerated women – many serving life sentences for the murder of their husbands or affinal family members– it explores how socio-cultural and moral determinants surrounding love, sex, and marriage shape women’s involvement in violent crimes and their subsequent incarceration …
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The Penal Code (Amendment) Act, 2005, Does the intention of Parliament Harmonize with the practice of Courts?
… while courts have resorted to imposing long jail sentences on the convicts. Interestingly, the Supreme Court, in a long time, has upheld a life sentence imposed on a twenty four year old defiler of Mazabuka district, by the Livingstone High Court in Southern Province. Generally speaking, child …
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American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
… project. In the 1990s, judges overturned the life sentences of defendants in most major cases, and several prominent journalists and lawyers condemned the phenomenon as a witch-hunt. They accurately understood it to be a powerful delusion, or what contemporary cultural theorist Jean …
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The significance of restorative justice on the rehabilitation, restoration, and healing of incarcerated persons sentenced to life imprisonment: A case study of Voorberg Medium B Correctional Centre in the Western Cape
… holistic healing of incarcerated persons serving life sentences in South Africa. Against the backdrop of a predominantly retributive correctional system and the socio-theological challenges of post-apartheid society, the research addresses a critical gap: the need for empirically grounded, …
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The Impact of Release on Mandatory Life-Sentenced Prisoners’ Identities
… explores the impact of release on mandatory life-sentenced prisoners’ identities and their experiences of returning to the community after serving a lengthy period of imprisonment. In 2023, there were over 7,000 individuals serving life sentences in England and Wales, most of whom will …
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Resentenced and Released: Re-Entry Needs Following Release from Juvenile Life Without Parole
<p>Over 2,100 individuals serving juvenile life without paroles (JLWOP) sentences in the U.S. became eligible for resentencing following the 2016 Montgomery v. Louisiana Supreme Court ruling. Michigan housed an estimated 370 juvenile lifers at that time, the second largest JLWOP community in the …