Essays about: "community punishment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words community punishment.

  1. 1. Indigenous justice in Guatemala: Indigenous women’s access to justice versus indigenous communities’ collective rights

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Mónica Alejandra Escobedo Reyes; [2022-05-20]
    Keywords : indigenous justice; indigenous women; indigenous girls; Guatemala; legal pluralism; feminism; human rights; women’s rights; indigenous peoples’ rights;

    Abstract : In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ruled in favor of validating the application of ancestral justice by the indigenous authorities of the community of Comitancillo, San Marcos, to an individual who raped a 10-year-old girl. In addition to recognizing the application of an ancestral punishment that consisted in asking for forgiveness and receiving some lashings from members of his family as valid, the court ordered the dismissal of the case in the legal ordinary system, claiming the aggressor had already been judged and punished. READ MORE

  3. 2. Piecing the Puzzle: Restorative Justice with Children and Young Offenders in Scandinavia, an Interview Study with Professionals

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Nancy Gutiérrez Olivares; [2021-02-04]
    Keywords : Restorative Justice; Children and Young Offenders; Victim Offender Mediation; Youth Punishment; Restorative Processes; Social Work; Scandinavian Justice Systems;

    Abstract : The modern roots of restorative justice in Scandinavia go back to the emergence of the mediation movement in Norway in the mid 1970s (Miers, 2001), a process that reached Sweden in the late 1980s (Wahlin, 2005). Victim Offender Mediation (VOM) in Sweden, and Youth Punishment (YP) in Norway, are some of the processes based on the primary components of restorative justice. READ MORE

  4. 3. Banishing the “Language of Murder, Blood and Revenge”: The EU’s Campaign Against the Death Penalty in Iraq

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Hannah Bludau; [2021]
    Keywords : European Union; Iraq; human rights; death penalty; normative power Europe;

    Abstract : The abolition of the death penalty lies at the core of the EU’s human rights agenda. Iraq, a long-term partner of the EU, has one of the highest execution rates in the world. Despite the plethora of policies, agreements and strategies of the EU in its relations with Iraq, the death penalty remains unbridled and in widespread use. READ MORE

  5. 4. Fearing the Queer and the War on “Indecency” : Portrayals of LGBT Individuals, and the Struggle for Religious Decorum in Aceh, Indonesia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Jeanna Nilsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Acehnese discourse; LGBT; qanun jinayat; Shafi’i Islam; gender; liwath; musahaqah; kodrat; Islam; Aceh; Indonesia; Asian studies; South-East Asia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In 2014, the sharia-ruled Aceh province of Indonesia legislated bylaw qanun jinayat no.6/2014, which criminalised same-sex acts, and imposed a caning punishment consisting of a hundred lashes if a person was found guilty. READ MORE

  6. 5. (In)equality before the law? : An analysis of the role of gender in sentencing in cases concerning welfare fraud tried in the Norwegian Court of Appeal

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Aksel Reppe Villum; [2018]
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    Abstract : The fight against welfare fraud currently sees an increased focus from Norwegian authorities. This attention is connected to the narratives of real and perceived threats to the welfare state, where welfare fraud not only implies the misappropriation of government funds but may also be detrimental to the public’s support of the welfare state. READ MORE