The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, known as PAS, a political party with a strong base in the Malaysian state of Kelantan, pushed through the Sharia Criminal Code Enactment (II) 1993, which calls for ...

The aim of criminal law is the punishment of the convicted offender. But one may ask what the aim of punishment is? Generally speaking, there are five different reasons why punishment is meted out to ...

Speaking in late October to delegates from the International Assn. of Penal Law, Pope Francis called for the abolition not only of capital punishment, but also of life in prison, which he called a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper describes developments in punishment theory since the middle of the twentieth century. After the mid-1960s, what Stanley I. Benn ...

Presently, 19 states still allow corporal punishment. The United States Supreme Court decision in 1977 said that “corporal punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment and is, thus, allowed in ...

Social Theory and Practice is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of theoretical and applied questions in social, political, legal, economic, educational, and moral philosophy, including ...

The Roman Catholic Church’s current opposition to the death penalty is inconsistent with historical church teaching about ...

Los Angeles is burning as we speak, with raging fires consuming an area larger than the whole of San Francisco – or, in our terms, about seven times the size of Makati. I’m sure you’ve been just as ...