By Sonakshi Verma, National Law University Jodhpur Editor's Note: Sex related offences are a universal phenomena, which take place in every society in different circumstances and social settings. It may take the form of sexual violence, which sometimes cause severe and irreparable damage to the … [Read more...]
Female foeticide
By Gayatri Loomba The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata Editor’s note: Female foeticide is the gory practise of sex-selective abortion, which renders the girl child a victim of the highest degree of gender-rooted prejudice. This paper examines the factors leading … [Read more...]
Victimology and Emerging Trends of Compensation
By Gurratan Wander, RGNUL and Harsimrat Kaur, Army Institute of Law, Mohali "Editor's Note: More often than not, most discourses pertaining to criminal law, or the commission of mass crimes involve the element of criminology, and the principles of criminal law, including basic concepts such as … [Read more...]
Future of Criminology
-Shreeyam Jain & Aishwarya Shree, CNLU Patna Law was there when people used to live in tiny family groups taking everything that they needed. It was the Sacred Law. There was no law for property except that everything must be shared. There was no law for money because they didn’t have any. … [Read more...]
Public Opinion in Sentencing Policy: The Need of the Hour
By Anupam, Rajeev Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur Editor’s Note: Sentencing of a convict basically embarks the culmination of the judicial process which begins with the detection, enforcement of the law, prosecution and adjudication. Thus the importance of Sentencing … [Read more...]
Theories of compensation in criminal law
Prakhar Maheshwari, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Editor’s note: Offences against the State fall under the domain of criminal law. Relief is usually granted, in criminal cases, by punishment of the offender, unlike civil cases, where relief may take the form of … [Read more...]
Retributive Theory of Punishment: A Critical Analysis
By Abhishek Mohanty, WBNUJS Editor's Note: The issue of punishment of criminals has been a well debated topic for societies since time immemorial. This has been debated by jurists like Hart, Anthony Flew and Stanley Benn. The broad theories of punishment are divided into consequentalist and … [Read more...]
Autrefois Acquit And Autrefois Convict
by Rahul Deo, CNLU Patna Editors Note: The doctrine in a way is the rule again double jeopardy. Rule against double jeopardy means that a person cannot be tried for the same offence once again if he has been either convicted or acquitted in the trial relating to same offence. This paper … [Read more...]
The Corroding Faces of Indian Women: Acid Attack
By Shatrunjay Bose, UPES Dehradun Editor's Note: Acid attacks have become a menace in India for women. The inappropriate use of acid on human body causes devastating effects on the body of the person. The most notable effects of an acid attack are the lifelong bodily disfigurement. The acid can … [Read more...]
Rights of Working Women: A Case Study
By Vivek Singh, Institute of Law, Nirma University Editor's Note: According to the author, a male employee who is in a higher position is always in search of taking undue advantages of a female employee.This research paper is based on real legal dispute at the trial court level with regards to … [Read more...]