• A Habitual Criminals Act is an act where, after a certain number of convictions for certain crimes, dependent upon severity, a person is sentenced to an...
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  • adopted habitual offender legislation. Under the provisions of the Habitual Criminals Act 1957 (NSW), an offender can be designated a habitual criminal and...
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    the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). This criminalised entire communities by designating them as habitual criminals. The first CTA, the Criminal Tribes Act 1871...
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  • offender laws, a comparison of similar laws in several countries Habitual Criminals Act HADOPI law Incapacitation (penology) Indefinite prison sentence...
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    and Video Pirates Act, 1982, popularly known as the Goondas Act in Tamil Nadu, India and Gundar Sattam in Tamil, is a law for habitual offenders to be detained...
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    States Union, Rajasthan and Punjab. Another such measure was the Habitual Criminals Act of 1930, under whose provisions the Meenas were placed. The community...
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    The Criminal Code (French: Code criminel) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada. Its official long title is An Act respecting...
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  • The Criminal Tribes Act was repealed in 1949 and thus 'de-notified' the tribal communities. This Act, however, was replaced by a series of Habitual Offenders...
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    for being habitual criminals, and so were placed under Criminal Tribes Act, although they were underrepresented in the population of criminals and were...
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  • Double jeopardy (category Criminal procedure)
    for Prevention and Disposition of Robbery, Theft, etc., which addresses "habitual larceny". The Court ruled that in the event that there are two trials for...
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  • and the Due Process Clause. The relevant Oklahoma law applied to "habitual criminals" but excluded white-collar crimes from carrying sterilization penalties...
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  • British colonial rule, the Habitual Offenders Act of 1952 was able to rid itself of the classification of certain groups as criminals, but it did retain some...
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  • Self-incrimination (category Criminal procedure)
    In criminal law, self-incrimination is the act of making a statement that exposes oneself to an accusation of criminal liability or prosecution. Self-incrimination...
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  • is very closely monitored. It is common for violent criminals, higher-ranking gang members, habitual offenders, and sex offenders to be supervised at this...
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  • 67 of the Family Law Act of Ontario. "Domicile of Minor 67 The domicile of a person who is a minor is, (a) if the minor habitually resides with both parents...
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    conferred on this act by section 2 of this act. This short title was conferred on this act by section 1 of this act. The citation of this act by this short...
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  • Award for Best Comedian - Kader Khan According to the Police Act, 1861, habitual criminals or recidivists are required by law to report at regular intervals...
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  • Civil procedure Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 of India Court Appointed Special Advocates Criminal Procedure Act Criminal procedure in the United States...
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  • murder has carried a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 introduced new mandatory life sentences and created a new kind...
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    The Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act 1955 (often known by the abbreviation "CLTPA") is a Singapore statute that, among other things, allows the...
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    "Criminaloids" were further categorized as "habitual criminals", who become so by contact with other criminals, the abuse of alcohol, or other "distressing circumstances...
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    March 18, 2018. "FL Stat § 775.084 Violent career criminals; habitual felony offenders and habitual violent felony offenders; three-time violent felony...
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  • however, they are required to register for the rest of their life on a "Habitual Offender" registry that is available to the general public. Ohio has a...
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    for admission. The act stated that any immigrant who "is or was ... a habitual drunkard" or "narcotic drug addicts or chronic alcoholics" challenged the...
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    U.S. 535 (1942), which involved compulsory sterilization of male habitual criminals (and came to a contrary result). Legal scholar and Holmes biographer...
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    2008). "Race, Ethnicity, and Habitual-Offender Sentencing: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual and Contextual Threat". Criminal Justice Policy Review. 19...
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  • coverage played a role in inspiring other criminals to commit crimes in a similar fashion, and even for non-criminals to begin committing crimes when they...
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    provided safe houses for criminals) often played the role of a fence as well, in receiving stolen goods from their harboured criminals to sell to other customers...
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  • orders. Suspended sentences were introduced to English law by the Criminal Justice Act 1967. Suspended sentences are not used in Scotland or Northern Ireland...
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  • Charles Ray Hatcher (category 20th-century American criminals)
    Penitentiary for the attempted abduction and auto theft under the Habitual Criminal Act. While Hatcher was waiting to be transported to prison, he unsuccessfully...
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