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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"legal policy"”.
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Perceptions Of Legal Policy And Sex Offender Treatment
<p>Sex offender policy, treatment, and public perception are greatly intertwined in the numerous policies in place regarding sex offenders. These policies tend to reflect the underlying perceptions and myths about sex offenders than the reality of sexual offenses and treatment. These perceptions …
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Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy
… Exposing this slippery and self-serving legal categorization, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor target an audience with an American understanding of exclusive racial categories whereas Beatrice Culleton, Joan Crate, and Thomas King address …
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Older Federal Inmates: Needs, Institutional Treatment, and Legal Implications
… is a blend of social science methodology and legal interpretation aimed at investigating the quality of life of older Canadian federally incarcerated offenders and whether their rights are being respected. For this study I used social science empirical methodology to answer certain legal …
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Judicial Enforcers? Exploring Lower Federal Court Compliance in Regulating the Obscene
… placed within a federal hierarchy, and receive legal and judicial training that emphasizes the importance of the judicial framework and its structure, such judges are also subjected to other pressures such as the types of litigants within the courtrooms as well as their local political …
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Documentary Credits and Independent Guarantees: A Critique of the ‘Fraud Exception’ Position in English and Jordanian Law.
… credits and independent guarantees is a legal principle of autonomy which dictates that these financial instruments should, as a matter of law, be treated separately from a trader’s contractual agreement. However, despite this, fraudulent behaviour may still occur when these financial and …
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ARAACtional exuberance : lessons and prospects for age-restricted active adult housing development in Massachusetts
… windfall. After a thorough exegesis of the legal, policy, and economic factors at play in this finding, I propose a new framework that municipalities can use to better manage the supply and form of ARAACs and conclude with key findings and recommendations directed at municipalities.
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Organizational Constraints and Supports for Psychosocial Care of Ethiopian Children at Risk: The Case of Services in Addis Ababa
… the presence of sufficient but fragmented legal, policy and strategic framework, Ethiopia's social protection landscape has suffered from a historic dearth of interventions that address psychosocial risks and vulnerabilities. Over the past decade and half, however, psychosocial support …
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Community Benefits Agreements for Equitable Renewable Energy Siting: The Importance of Negotiation Power and Stakeholder Engagement
… case studies, stakeholder interviews, and legal-policy analysis, alongside a limited quantitative assessment of CBA implementation outcomes. The study examines both the procedural and structural conditions that influence how benefits are negotiated, formalized, and monitored. By analyzing …
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A rights-based approach to HIV prevention, care, support and treatment: a review of its implementation in Ethiopia
… the country needs to overcome and a number of legal, policy and practical problems that it should rectify, if it is to conform to its HIV/AIDS-related human rights commitments.
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Analysis of Social Security Schemes In Tanzania With Response To the ILO Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952
… at chapter five, that there needs to carry out legal, policy and institutional reforms plus an over haul the entire legal regime governing pensions so as to widen the benefits being offered to meet the ILO minimum standards. The study recommends also that the ongoing Constitutional reviews …
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Competing constructions of children's participation in social care : analysing text and talk
… of children’s participation within social/legal policy texts and the discourses of social care. The focus is on children within contemporary UK welfare contexts who are either identified as being ‘at risk’ of significant harm or who are Looked After by the local authority. I examine the way …
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Reconciling biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the context of international and domestic law in Rwanda
… conservation and agricultural development in a legal context in Rwanda, a small and poor African developing country. It does so against the backdrop of relevant international conventions, the relatively recent constitutional dispensation in the country as well as the land reform process which …
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The Legal Classification of Cryptocurrency in South African Law: An Argument for Classification as Currency.
… importance of such a classification for legal policy design generally, and the practical effects thereof. This dissertation hypothesises that the value of the blockchain technology lies in its commercial viability and its potential scalability, particularly in the African context. Thus, …
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Sexual violence against women and the criminal justice system's response in Malawi
… women and developed a robust and harmonised policy framework, there remain significant legal, policy and institutional gaps that are barriers to access to justice for victims of sexual violence against women. This thesis suggests that Malawi should consider establishing an independent …
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An analysis of whether Mozambique can gain greater participation in the natural gas value chain
… with industry experts to understand the legal, policy, and technical barriers that could hinder Mozambique from gaining greater participation in the natural gas value chain. Key findings of the study pointed to the inadequacies of existing laws and contract provisions to deliver the …
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Developing guidelines for the protection of indigeneous knowledge under agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area
… the efforts aimed at establishing a robust legal and policy framework within the AfCFTA to foster African economic development. Although the Protocol to the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area on Intellectual Property Rights (IP Protocol) has been adopted, there is …
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Legal and Policy Implications for Early Childhood Professionals in Ontario's Kindergarten Programs
… and regularize the early childhood sector. The legal and policy implication of systems integration in Ontario includes the movement of a largely unionized private non-profit sector workforce into the realm of public education in Full Day Kindergarten (FDK). Ontario was the first jurisdiction in …
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The United Kingdom's Responses to Adverse Strasbourg Judgments: A Look Inside Government
… formulation, development and execution of public policy. Therefore, I look inside Government through interviews with current and former officials, ministers and advisers. I present my findings in four stages. First, I set out the people and processes involved, demonstrating that in practice, the …
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Where rape does not exist: tracing the unsettled position of marital rape in South Africa through women's recourse-seeking journeys
… institutional responses to marital rape in legal, policy, and social contexts. Drawing from an array of academic traditions spanning law, the social sciences and the humanities, as well as empirical research with women’s rights organisations undertaken by the author, my research question …
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Non-conviction-Based Forfeiture of corruptly acquired assets to promote the right to education in Malawi.
… Using a qualitative doctrinal and socio-legal methodology, the study analyses Malawi’s legal and institutional framework on asset recovery in light of international human rights obligations requiring states to utilise their “maximum available resources” to realise socio-economic rights …
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