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  • Incarceration

    Forms of Criminal Punishment: IncarcerationIntroduction to IncarcerationThe most serious or repeat offenders are incarcerated. In the United States about one-fourth of all persons who are convicted of a crime are incarcerated. Canada incarcerates about one-third of all convicted of…

  • Encyclopedia of Censorship

    Encyclopedia of Censorship Encyclopedia of Censorship Encyclopedia of Censorship List of Entries ABC Trial, The Abelard, Peter Abrams v. United States Académie des dames, L’ Achilles Statue, The Acta Pauli actual malice Adult Film Association of America Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The advocacy Afghanistan Age d’or, L’ Age of Reason, The Agrippa, Henry Cornelius Alabama…

  • Environmental and Social Theories of Crime

    Environmental and Social Theories of Crime The most common criminological theories attribute criminal motivation to environmental or social factors rather than biological or psychological traits. These theories may focus on social influences on crime or on economic factors. Social Causes One of the first theories describing the influence of social factors on crime came from…

  • Top 25.000 English words

    Which are the top 25.000 most popular English words? According to a review from Lawi, these are the 25.000 most popular English words, in order: you the i to a and it of that in is me what this for my on your we have do no don’t are be i’m not was he it’s…

  • Law Journals Ranking Worldwide

    Law Journals Ranking Worldwide Note: see also Law Journals (entry). Over the years, many ranking systems for law journals have evolved, incorporating a variety of methodologies and factors, including frequency and other factors. The publication of rankings may change submission patterns, with journals with higher ratings receiving a much greater number of submissions, some of…

  • Citation of legal blogs in law reviews

    The importance (and credibility) of law blogs was confirmed when the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States cited its first blog in January, 2005. See United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738, 775 n.4 (2005). An article in Slaw (“citing blogs in Law Journals ) points the idea that the “question still arises…