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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
Time: 11:54 am
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Results for judicial corruption
2 results foundAuthor: Juvenile Law Center (Pennsylvania) Title: Lessons from Luzerne County: Promoting Fairness, Transparency and Accountability. Summary: In October 2009, in an unprecedented opinion, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated former Luzerne County juvenile court judge Mark Ciavarella's adjudications of delinquency made between 2003 and May 2008. Just three months later, Special Master Arthur Grim ordered that all cases heard by former Judge Ciavarella were to be dismissed. In providing relief, the Supreme Court restored integrity to Pennsylvania's juvenile justice system and gave hope to youth who suffered enormous harm at the hands of corrupt judges. However, it was not just the judges who failed these youth; the system failed at numerous levels. District attorneys, public defenders, juvenile probation officers, the state Judicial Conduct Board, private attorneys and other court personnel--everyone connected to the juvenile justice system in Luzerne County failed these children. What safeguards, policies and methods of accountability permitted this toxic environment to flourish? How can we prevent another Luzerne tragedy? How can we make sure that Pennsylvania's juvenile justice system dispenses justice equally and with the same high standards in every county? This report aims to answer these questions, with the hope that legislators will recognize the systemic failures brought to light by the Luzerne County "kids-for-cash" scandal and enact measures to guarantee the rights of all children in Pennsylvania's juvenile justice system. The recommendations we propose are organized under six topic areas, each representing a chapter: -Ensuring Access to Counsel -Instituting Meaningful Appellate Review -Increasing Transparency and Accountability in the Juvenile Justice System -Reducing Referrals to the Juvenile Justice System -Ensuring Respectful and Appropriate Treatment of Youth in Detention or Placement and in Court -Reducing the Consequences of Juvenile Records Details: Philadelphia: JLC, 2013. 104p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 27, 2015 at: http://www.jlc.org/sites/default/files/publication_pdfs/Lessons%20From%20Luzerne%20County%20Report.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://www.jlc.org/sites/default/files/publication_pdfs/Lessons%20From%20Luzerne%20County%20Report.pdf Shelf Number: 129821 Keywords: JudgesJudicial CorruptionJuvenile Justice ReformJuvenile Justice Systems |
Author: Haggqvist, Linn Title: 'Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands': Violent Vigilantism in Post-War Societies Summary: Why do some post-civil war societies experience high levels of violent vigilantism, whilst others do not? Vigilantism, i.e. when citizens take the law into their own hands, in post-civil war societies is an overlooked topic within peace and conflict research. It is however a daily reality in some parts of the world, where populations are facing challenging post-war conditions, with the transition from war to peace being marked by high levels of crime and lack of order and security. Studies on vigilantism have pointed to the importance of state legitimacy; if the state is not viewed as the legitimate, this may spur citizens to take matters into their own hands. One potential variable that can undermine state legitimacy is judicial corruption. The judiciary has an important role in enforcing law and order, but if this role is perverted by corrupt practices, then citizens can no longer expect that the state is able to uphold the law in a fair way, and may turn to vigilantism. The aim of this thesis is to test this argument by studying the post-civil war cases of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. While the hypothesis gets some support, the overall conclusion is that while judicial corruption may harm the popular attitude toward the judiciary, it is perhaps not the most important variable in explaining high levels of violent vigilantism. Details: Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University, 2017. 85p. Source: Internet Resource: Thesis: Accessed August 7, 2017 at: http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1113108&dswid=-8101#sthash.LqhbBkvw.dpbs Year: 2017 Country: Central America URL: http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1113108&dswid=-8101#sthash.LqhbBkvw.dpbs Shelf Number: 146763 Keywords: Judicial CorruptionSelf Defense Vigilantism |