Criminal Law - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Fathering by partner-abusive men: attitudes on children's exposure to interparental conflict and risk factors for child abuse.

30 Jul 2009 A substantial body of research concludes that children in homes marked by intimate partner violence (IPV) and conflict are at increased risk for maladjustment. Although studies often attribute these difficulties to the aggressive acts witnessed, ... Read more...

Challenges at the interface of working between mental health services and the criminal justice system.

29 Jun 2009 Provision of mental health reports for defendants in contact with the criminal justice system is problematic. This paper explores factors that facilitate the flow of information on a defendant between the courts and the mental health services. It ... Read more...

The relationship between sex offender registry utilization and awareness.

30 May 2009 Although registries of convicted sexual offenders are widely popular, little is known about the impact of the policies. The goal of this research was to measure one aspect of the impact of registry policies: patterns of usage of publicly available ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Criminal Law - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• New models of collaboration between criminal justice and mental health systems. 30 Oct 2009
• The law as it stands on assisted suicide could not be clearer. 3 Aug 2009
• Fathering by partner-abusive men: attitudes on children's exposure to interparental conflict and risk factors for child abuse. 30 Jul 2009
• Human rights. DS (India) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2009). 29 Jun 2009
• Criminal evidence. R v Michael Christopher Horncastle (1) David Lee Blackmore (2): R v Abijah Marquis (1) Joseph David Grahan (2): R v David Michael Carter (2009). 29 Jun 2009
• Challenges at the interface of working between mental health services and the criminal justice system. 29 Jun 2009
• Parallel proceedings and the perils of the adverse inference. 29 Jun 2009
• The relationship between sex offender registry utilization and awareness. 30 May 2009
• Constitutional law--substantive due process--Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that criminal defendant's best interests justify forcible medication.--Commonwealth v. Sam, 952 A.2d 565 (Pa. 2008). 29 Apr 2009
• Criminal law as it pertains to 'mentally incompetent defendants': a McNaughton rule in the light of cognitive neuroscience. 30 Mar 2009
• Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity. 30 Mar 2009
• When our eyes deceive us. 21 Mar 2009
• As the tide turns: the changing HIV/AIDS epidemic and the criminalization of HIV exposure. 27 Feb 2009
• Abandonment and reconciliation: addressing political and common law objections to fetal homicide laws. 27 Feb 2009
• Effects of sex offender registration policies on juvenile justice decision making. 11 Jan 2009
• "Race salience" in juror decision-making: misconceptions, clarifications, and unanswered questions. 30 Dec 2008
• Community sentiment and the juvenile offender: should juveniles charged with felony murder be waived into the adult criminal justice system? 30 Dec 2008
• Substance abuse services and issues in community offender supervision. 30 Dec 2008
• Neuroscience and the law: philosophical differences and practical constraints. 30 Dec 2008
• On the presumption of evidentiary independence: can confessions corrupt eyewitness identifications? 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Criminal Law'

Definition: A branch of law that defines criminal offenses, regulates the apprehension, charging and trial of suspected persons, and fixes the penalties and modes of treatment applicable to convicted offenders.

Descriptor UI: D003416

Alternative terms: Criminal Law; Criminal Laws; Law, Criminal; Laws, Criminal; Criminal Justice; Justice, Criminal;

Related Mesh Headings: Law Enforcement;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.198.290; I01.880.604.583.100;

History Note: 91(78); was see under JURISPRUDENCE 1978-90

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; specify state or country