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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"criminal sanctions"”.
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Towards an effective enforcement of environmental criminal law : re-thinking sanctions for air pollution criminals in Iraq
… aims at assessing the extent to which current criminal law provides an effective system for protecting the environment from air pollution crime and whether its current provisions are appropriate for the prevention and sufficiently punitive as a deterrent for the level of environmental crime …
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Administrative enforcement and criminal and civil decisions regarding trademark counterfeiting in China
… reports of 10-year government data and 1,600 criminal and civil cases over 5 years, this dissertation investigates administrative enforcement, criminal sanctions, and civil protections on trademark counterfeiting in China. In 2013, the trademark law of China revised to include specific …
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The criminalisation of cartel conduct in South Africa and the United Kingdom
… Kingdom deal with this task by introducing criminal sanctions into their competition law for individuals engaging in cartel conduct. As the criminal law is the ultima ratio of a constitutional state, its introduction into competition law needs some justification. In the context of …
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The social and political determinants in the formation and implementation of habitat conservation policy : the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
… proof shows why the alternatives of using criminal sanctions or planning control were not chosen. Hypothesis 1 is that the system adopted for species protection had proved inefficacious and thus criminal sanctions were regarded as inappropriate for protecting habitats. This hypothesis is …
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Juveniles Adjudicated in Adult Court: The Effects of Age, Gender, Race, Previous Convictions, and Severity of Crime on Sentencing Decisions.
… of Justice entitled Juvenile Defendants in Criminal Courts (JDCC): Survey of 40 Counties in the United States, 1998. The cases from these 40 jurisdictions represented all filings during one month in 75 of the most populous counties. The current study found significant differences among race, …
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State Super-Maximum Security Policies: An Examination of Admission Characteristics, Classification Reviews, Mental Health Amenities, and Inmate Privileges
… a political environment that endorses tougher criminal sanctions. This punitive evolution has created new problems for correctional agencies attempting to control the “worst of the worst” inmates. Federal courts and researchers have examined the detrimental effects supermax isolation has on …
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Merger notification: the necessity for adequately defining control
… as well as considering the potential for criminal sanctions for failure to notify.
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Race to the Bottom? : A Critical Analysis of Canada's Modern Slavery in Supply Chain Legislation
… which ultimately eclipse the need for criminal sanctions against Canadian corporations with operations that employ modern slavery. This research helps to expose the reproduction of corporate impunity as a result of the inability/unwillingness to address the status quo of global …
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An analysis of the deficiencies impeding regulation of environmental standards in the Nigeran oil and gas industry and possible solutions through legal transplantation from other model regimes.
… the Nigerian environmental regime has provided criminal sanctions (as a regulatory tool) to prohibit a violation of such standards and stipulates penalties that can be imposed for such violations. Moreover, other relevant regulatory administrative enforcement mechanisms have been established in …
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The Legal Implications of Off Balance Sheet Financing: A Comparative Analysis of UK and US Positions
… advisers in terms of compensation suits or even criminal sanctions. Financial regulators were nonetheless found to be less likely to face legal consequences as a result of current judicial attitudes on the tort of public misfeasance. However, the extensive applications of OBF in conjunction with …
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Is international law a building or stumbling block to States' response to a legacy of massive atrocities? Reassessing the obligations to investigate and prosecute
… of states parties’ duties under the conventions, criminal prosecution cannot be the only tool for reckoning with the past because punishment also encompasses non-criminal sanctions. A pluralistic notion of accountability and an integrated approach to peacemaking are thus advocated. International …
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Police Conflict Resolution Processes for Spousal Violence in Nepal: Perceptions of Victims and Perpetrators
The criminalisation of spousal violence in many jurisdictions around the world has conferred powers on police forces to use coercive methods including arrest and detention to address this crime. Yet the use of punitive criminal sanctions in spousal violence remains contentious with empirical …
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The criminalisation of cartels in South Africa, United States and Australia and the effects of the Corporate Leniency Policy
… now makes provision for cartelists to face criminal charges for infringing Section 43 of the Act. Section 44 disallows firms from engaging cartel conduct and the objective of the recent amendment is to promote consumer welfare as well as to break the barriers to entry. Furthermore, allow for …
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Efficacy of Administrative Monetary Penalties in Compelling Compliance with Federal Agri-Food Statutes
… ambit. A historical perspective on the use of criminal sanctions is provided in Part I, touching briefly on strict liability in regulatory prosecutions. The Part also describes decriminalization, and the developments in Europe, the United States, Australia and Canada that are were ostensibly …
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A critical analysis of the Discrimintaion of the Wilfulltransmission of HIV/Aids in Zambia
… disease. One of the mechanisms adopted is the criminalisation of the wilful transmission of HIV/AIDS. Basically, criminalisation of the wilful transmission of HIV/AIDS involves a process by which the government, through the Legislature and the Judiciary, impose criminal sanctions on persons who …
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The political origins and development of Australia’s people smuggling legislation: Evil smugglers or extreme rhetoric?
… the ways Australian legislators justified the criminalisation of these voyage facilitators and investigates whether political elites were sufficiently informed about the circumstances of maritime asylum seeker journeys and the unique nature of their travel arrangements. The analysis is …
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RIPARAZIONE AMBIENTALE E GIUSTIZIA PENALE DEGLI ENTI: TRA RIORGANIZZAZIONE E RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
… legislator intended to relaunch the role of criminal sanctions, in the face of the "increase in environmental crimes and their effects" (Recital no. 3). The growing attention dedicated to the need to strengthen criminal protection of the environment has also forced the European legislator to …
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Penanganan nusyuz modern dalam Undang-undang Penghapusan Kekerasan Dalam Rumah Tangga perspektif gender
… other things abolished the violence and affected criminal sanctions for perpetrators. So too has to do with the theory of gender who want non-discrimination for the women and does not accentuate the male position as well as the protection of women. The research focus in this study is to find out …