News related to the legal system.
Reading Time: 4 minutes A revision to the Police Record Checks Reform Act in the province of Ontario, Canada has thrust the province’s prospects in the field of legal form in the direction from punitive to rehabilitative. As around 4 million Canadians have criminal … Continue reading “Ontario, Canada – Police Record Checks Reform Act – Nov. 1, 2018 Revision” →
Reading Time: < 1 minute The US has the largest number of incarcerated people in the world, especially thanks to the increasing privatization of prisons. The prison-industrial system in the US is a multi billion dollar industry. Many states have three strikes laws, which while … Continue reading “Correctional Facilities: US vs. Norway” →
Reading Time: 2 minutes Both are effective systems in themselves, and we can easily put the American system of policing in between these two in terms of the methods and approaches used. The British system is one in which the police do not generally … Continue reading “Police Reforms: British vs. Russian Systems” →
Reading Time: < 1 minute Removing the human element out of the equation when it comes to determining verdicts can be argued to sometimes have been beneficial, both to the advantage of serving justice and protecting the innocent from being wrongfully convicted. People say as … Continue reading “Artificial Intelligence in Courtrooms” →
