adjective
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a penal/criminal code (= relating to the punishment of criminals )
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At that time the penal code allowed the death penalty.
penal code
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■ NOUN
code
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Both Nash reversion and Abreu's simple penal codes are subgame perfect equilibrium strategies and so satisfy this criterion of credibility.
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At the start, parliamentarians were given different versions of the penal code to discuss.
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Self-defacement, inciting anti-Soviet attitudes, it's all in the penal code .
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But lawyers, investigators and police have only contempt for the penal code , in force since Jan. 1.
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But what needs to be changed is the spirit of the penal code .
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You should note that the penal codes of some nations impose time limits for the reporting of crime.
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This law includes amendments to the penal code and the conditional release of approximately 38,000 prisoners.
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Euthanasia technically remained a criminal offence subject to a minimum prison sentence of 12 years under Article 293 of the penal code .
colony
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You play Ripley, who has to despatch hordes of alien-infested humans from an underground penal colony .
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Leper colonies are only one entry in this classification of special communities; certain penal colonies would be another.
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He was appointed superintendent of the penal colony on Norfolk Island in 1840.
crisis
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Woolf correctly identifies some of the components of an adequate theory of the penal crisis .
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Riots and Disorder To the general public, the most noticeable symptom of the penal crisis is of course the prison riot.
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We shall be suggesting later that this insight is of crucial importance in understanding the penal crisis .
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These findings are significant in relation to the wider penal crisis in at least two respects.
institution
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Convicted criminals in penal institutions are disqualified as are persons convicted of certain corrupt or illegal practices at elections.
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Lacking white skills, disproportionately large numbers are incarcerated in penal institutions , alcohol rehabilitation centres and psychiatric hospitals.
law
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The signing of a penal law co-operation treaty was reported to be imminent.
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To complicate matters further, substantial changes in criminal and penal law were made by the Criminal Justice Act, 1967.
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He opposed the abolition of the penal laws , and accepted the Revolution of 1688.
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Criminal law on the other hand deals with matters involving the state and the enforcement of penal laws.
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The penal laws in force at the time, however, made mixed marriages difficult, if not impossible.
policy
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These mainly constructive changes in penal policy were not matched by changes within the prison system.
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The abolitionist stand does provide a warning beacon against which penal policies , such as prison building programmes, might be assessed.
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I hope one of the outcomes of the debate will be to move the focus of penal policy away from custody.
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Since their election victory in 1979 the Tories have followed a two-pronged penal policy .
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The period saw few radical departures in penal policy .
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That would leave the Home Office with policing, penal policy and the criminal law.
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The Home Office would retain powers over policing, penal policy , and the criminal law.
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Constructive ideals of training and rehabilitation were translated into penal policies that appeared to be meeting their objectives.
practice
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The overall picture of sentencing and penal practice presents a rather more complicated situation.
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The history of penal practice is replete with particular sanctions falling into disuse.
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The whole endeavour was set in an international context, the Commission being charged with acquainting itself with modern penal practice abroad.
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Firstly, it fails to explain the mechanisms linking an economic imperative with a penal practice .
reform
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To pick up on an earlier theme, there are two main traditions in penal reform .
reformer
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If the primary object of penal reformers is not to abolish prisons it is certainly to secure reductions in prison population.
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Maconochie was a pioneer in unrelated disciplines but it was as a penal reformer that he was most influential.
servitude
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He was on the Sûreté list and was arrested in November 1930 and sentenced to 12 years penal servitude in September 1931.
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Justice Day sentenced them both to 20 years' penal servitude .
system
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Any penal system can be vilely abused.
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Paragraph 3 of Article 10 states that the essential aim of the penal system is reformation and social rehabilitation.
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The purpose of penal systems was clearly to deal with male delinquency and crime.
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The Administration proposed an understanding clarifying the relationship between these goals and other traditional goals of the penal system such as punishment.
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The penal system is in a state of crisis.
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More young black men are now in the penal system than in higher education.
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Of course, there is still a considerable task ahead for Government in improving the penal system .
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Some researchers believe Wallenberg died in the Gulag penal system as late as the 1980s.
treatment
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The biological positivists did not, however, involve themselves in the detailed specification of penal treatments .
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But this lofty and detached comment misses the central issues of comparison and equality in penal treatment .
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a penal colony
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Children who never became penal inmates surely deserve equal consideration.
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Historical materialism can also be used to explain the history of penal thought sketched in the previous chapter.
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If the primary object of penal reformers is not to abolish prisons it is certainly to secure reductions in prison population.
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It has been very difficult too for women to reach the higher levels of penal policy-making and administration.
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The possibility of penal cancellation charges in the public domain is a rumour.
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These mainly constructive changes in penal policy were not matched by changes within the prison system.
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This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments.
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Where deviance has a categorical, unproblematic quality, a penal response is triggered.