Tag Archives: crime

Justice Delivered; Message Lost

Suppose that a particular right is both worthy of judicial support and in need of it. The details of codification take on an importance equal to that of the right itself, because the final draft is responsible to the entire legal system as well as to its own message (e.g. laws governing illicit drugs and parole boards).

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Immigration: Law and Border

I know undocumented foreigners and would not affect scorn towards them in place of the affection I feel. Many willingly close their eyes to felt warmth, replacing it with a suppose-to bitterness rather than just doing what has to be done; others close them to each problem that comes hand in hand with this trickle invasion.  Continue reading

A Tale of Three Databases

Frontside of ID card issued in Taiwan

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This is about a national identification card and system that would secure the privacy of holders. There is much to be gained and by what follows little likelihood of a breach in their trust of personal information.

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Beyond Three Strikes

 

English: United States Penitentiary, Leavenwor...

Leavenworth Prison

 

 

This approach to the problem of recidivism goes way beyond current three-strikes-you’re-out legislation. Since a criminal may operate in different states, it would become either part of federal law or of state laws for a growing association of states that accept it:

 

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