It's not for the law to forgive | Julian Baggini A calculation of the benefits of rehabilitation has little, if anything, to do with forgivenessThe question: Is forgiveness possible?Do you believe that people should be treated appropriately to how they treat others, and that bad behaviour should not be rewarded? Do you believe that the public should be protected from dangerous or persistent criminals? Do you believe that it is more effective and productive to reform criminals than it is to merely punish them? And do you believe that penalties for criminal behaviour should be sufficient to deter people from engaging in it?My guess is that most people would answer yes to all four questions. In doing so they would agree that each of four most common justifications for punishment – retribution, reform, public protection and deterrence – have something in them. Most differences of opinion only emerge when you try to work out their relative importance.Attempts to do that often make the false assumption that justice is one thing, the essence of which is real and discoverable. A better way to understand the fourfold theory of justice is that it shows that it is not one thing after all, but a composite of different elements. How important each one is depends on the particular circumstances. Determining this is an imperfect human endeavour, not something we can do with anything approaching mathematical precision. That may sound unsatisfactory, but it is better to muddle through knowing that is exactly what you're doing than it is to stride through the fog with the misguided belief that the road is clear. Justice is a messy business which works worse if we try to tidy it up too much.Such considerations have to borne in mind when we think about how to deal with young murderers like John Venables. Too often, the debate is posed as リハビリの利点の計算では、もし何か、forgivenessThe質問：赦しは可能ですかあなたは、人々を適切にどのように他人の治療に、扱われる必要があります悪い行動報わすべきではないと考えてくださいとはほとんど関係は？場合には、公共の危険性または永続的な犯罪者から保護されるべきであると考えていますか？そのことがより効果的であり、犯罪者を改革する生産性よりも、単にそれを罰するためであると考えていますか？そしてあなたは、犯罪行為への罰則をこれに従事する人々を阻止するのに十分であるべきだと思いますか？私の推測では、ほとんどの人々はい、すべての4つの質問に答えることである
Riot in Venezuelan prison kills 8 A riot among prisoners in a prison center near the capital Caracas killed eight people and injured three others on Tuesday.
Consuelo Cerrada, national director of the Prisons Services of the Interior and Justice Ministry, said the riot took place in the Santa Ana Prison Center in Tachira state, 850 kilometers southwest of Caracas. The situation is now under control.
He said the riot was due to a dispute among the inmates for the spaces in the prison.
The Venezuelan Observatory of Prison ... 首都カラカスの近く中心部に刑務所の囚人暴動が間人が死亡、8と、法務省、インテリア負傷3人を上のサービスの刑務所火曜日
Bahrain Backs Away From Opposition Party Ban Bahrain's Justice Ministry statement said two opposition groups had attempted to bring down Bahrain's constitutional order バーレーンの法務省文には2つの野党グループは、バーレーンの憲政秩序を停止しようとしていただ
China welcomes WTO ruling on US ban on Chinese poultry imports China welcomes the final ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO) expert panel that the U.S. ban on imports of Chinese poultry is inconsistent with WTO rules, said Yao Jian, spokesman of China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC), Thursday.
In a statement on the MOC website, Yao said Chinese poultry products were safe and called for the U.S. to conduct fair assessments and tests on the meat.
China hoped the U.S. would take further steps to eliminate policies that discriminated against Chinese ... 中国は、ルールの世界貿易で歓迎最終的な判決を家禽が矛盾してWTOの中国のパネルが専門家）WTOの組織（の輸入米の禁止は、木曜日に言いました八尾建は）中国の報道官は、法務省の商業（建設省
U.S. hands Saddam's two half-brothers over to Iraq Iraq announced on Friday that the U.S. military has delivered 196 prisoners detained at the Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport to Iraqi control, including two half-brothers of former president Saddam Hussein.
Iraq's Justice Ministry said in a statement that it received the detainees on Thursday, among whom were five top officials of Saddam regime including Saddam's two half brothers Sabaawi Ibrahim al-Hassan and Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan, and former defense minister Sultan Has ... イラクは、米軍は元大統領サダムフセインの二つのハーフの兄弟を含むイラクの制御にバグダッド国際空港近くのキャンプのクロップで拘留196人の囚人を、提供してきたと発表した
Israel ex-president appeals rape conviction JERUSALEM - FORMER Israeli president Moshe Katsav went before the Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday to appeal his conviction and sentence for rape and sexual harassment, a justice ministry official said. 'Katsav arrived at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem this morning, accompanied by his lawyers, to appeal his conviction and sentence,' the official said on condition of anonymity. エルサレム - 元イスラエル大統領モシェカツァブがレイプや性的嫌がらせのために彼の信念と判決をアピールするために日曜日にイスラエルの最高裁判所の前に行って、法務省の関係者は述べています
Khunying Porntip appointed to CRES Khunying Porntip Rojanasunan, director of the Justice Ministry's Central Institute of Forensic Science, has been appointed another member of the Centre for the Resolution of Emergency Situation (CRES), acting government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said on Tuesday. Khunying Porntip Rojanasunanは、法務省の中央研究所科学捜査のディレクター、解像度は非常事態（クレス）のためのセンターの他のメンバーは、政府スポークスマンはPanitan Wattanayagorn代行に任命されたと発表した
Kyrgyzstan requests Ireland to extradite former energy minister Kyrgyzstan's Prosecutor General's Office on Friday sent a request to Ireland asking for the extradition of a former energy minister, 24.kg news agency reported.
The Prosecutor General's Office told 24. kg that in accordance with the UN Convention against Corruption, it had sent a request to the Ministry of Justice of Ireland for the extradition of former energy minister Saparbek Balkibekov.
Balkibekov, ex-head of the Ministry of Energy under ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev' reign, was d ... 金曜日にキルギスの検事総長のオフィスは元エネルギー大臣の身柄引き渡しを求めてアイルランドへの要求を送り、24.kg新華社通信が報じた
Three quarters of London rioters have criminal records: statistics LONDON, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The British Ministry of Justice (MOJ) revealed Thursday that nearly three quarters of those who have appeared before the courts in connection with August's riots had previous criminal conviction.
According to the statistics MOJ published on its website, 73 percent of those arrested and who have so far appeared before the courts had criminal records.
The riots in August which saw burglary, looting, arson and murder first on the streets of London and after three ... ロンドン、9月15日（新華社） - 正義の英国国防省（法務省）は、8月の暴動に関連して裁判所の前に登場している人のほぼ4分の3は、以前の犯罪歴を持っていたことを明らか明らかにした
Stocks And Dollar Boosted By Bin Laden Death, Metals And Crude Slide Navy SEALs finish off Osama bin Laden and get back to base with the body. Nice work, guys! Thank you. Justice may have been delayed, but it’s done. Accomplishing this mission gives your fellow Americans something to celebrate after a decade when it seemed like nothing would go our way. 海軍シールズ、オサマビンラディンを終わらせるとバック車体をベースに取得します
Guinea Arrests 38 in Conde Attacks Official with Justice Ministry told reporters suspects include 25 military personnel 法務省との当局者は記者団に対し、容疑者は25の軍人が含まれています
Inmates could get phones in cells Prisoners could soon have telephones fitted inside their cells, the Ministry of Justice says. 囚人たちはすぐに法務省は言う、彼らの細胞内に取り付けられた電話を持つことができます
DSI: More warrants for alleged terrorists The Justice Ministry's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is planning to ask the Criminal Court to approve more arrest warrants for people on terrorism charges within this week. 法務省特別捜査部（DSI）をテロ容疑で人々のため、今週中に多くの逮捕状を承認する刑事裁判所を求める方針だ
Cabinet nod for 300 more DSI staff The cabinet on Tuesday approved the Justice Ministry's proposal for the Department of Special Investigation to employ 300 more staff because of the increasing workload, particularly cases related to national security, DSI director-general Tharit Pengdit said. 火曜日の閣議は、部門特別捜査のために法務省の提案を増やす負荷のために300以上スタッフを、特に例国家安全保障に関連する雇用を承認、DSIの局長Tharit Pengditは言った
Justice to help 4 more reds with bail The justice fund committee of the Justice Ministry has approved requests for assistance from four more red shirts - two detained on charges of violence and two of breaching the conditions of the emergency decree imposed during the prolonged protest led by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship - so that they can seek release on bail. 法務省の司法基金委員会は、4つの赤シャツから支援要請を承認している - 2つは、暴力の罪と独裁に対する民主主義のための統一戦線が主導長期抗議中に課された緊急命令の条件に違反の2つに拘留 - ので、保釈のリリースを求めることができることを確認します
More firms bribed The number of Chinese companies bribed by California-based Control Components Inc has expanded to 19, the 21st Century Business Herald reported Wednesday, citing a document it gained from the United States Department of Justice.
Prominent companies mentioned in the document include PetroChina, China National Offshore Oil Corp, Datang Power, Shenhua Group and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, the paper said.
&$&$Source: Global Times &$&$ ... 中国企業の数は19コンポーネント買収により、カリフォルニアベースのコントロールに拡大している株式会社は、21世紀ビジネスヘラルド紙は、法務省reported水曜日の米国部門、イギリス引用文書をそれがどこから得た
Tunisia's ex-dictator facing charges Tunisia's toppled dictator and his wife are facing charges of inciting violence in connection with a bloody crackdown following his January ousting, the official TAP news agency reported.The report cited a Justice Ministry statement... チュニジアの倒さ独裁者と彼の妻は彼の月の追放、次の流血の弾圧との接続での暴力を扇動の罪に直面している、公式のTAPニュース代理店reported.Theレポートには、法務省の文を引用し...
Two riot victims compensated Two victims of the violence during the April-May red-shirt protest last year - one totally blinded and the other partially blinded - received compensation from the Justice Ministry's Rights and Liberties Protection Department on Monday. 4〜5月、赤シャツの抗議の間の暴力の2人の犠牲者は昨年 - オン全面的に盲目に他の部分盲 - 法務省の権利、月曜日に自由保護部から受信した補正をします
Aussie imprisoned for murdering sons An Australian man was sentenced to life in prison today for murdering his three young sons by driving them into a reservoir on Father's Day to spite their mother.Victoria state Supreme Court judge Justice Lex Lasry ordered Robert... オーストラリア人は、そのmother.Victoria州最高裁判事法務省レックスラスリーは、ロバートを命じたにもかかわらず、と父の日に、貯水池にそれらを駆動することによって、彼の三人の息子を殺害し、今日の刑務所での生活を宣告された...
Long prison sentences fail not just offenders, but society too The tough US sentencing model appeals to the vengeance-hungry British press, but rehabilitation is the key to tacking crimeWhen the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) released figures this month comparing reoffending rates, commentators fell over each other jumping to conclusions. According to the MoJ, longer sentences (of two to four years) resulted in a lower rate of reoffending than shorter sentences. Community orders and suspended sentences also led to less reoffending than sentences of under a year, but most newspapers chose to ignore any fact which might have obstructed their inalienable right to call for stiffer sentencing.The biggest predictor of reoffending is not length of sentence but age. Inmates released after a four-year term are older and their offending goes down accordingly. They have also had the benefit of interventions which those serving short sentences do not enjoy. In addition, they are supported on release by an offender manager.The MoJ research could have confounded the pundits if it had investigated other factors. For instance, when services are extended to provide help finding jobs and housing on release, reoffending drops. This is true whatever the length of sentence. It is also proven that facilitating consistent family contact during a sentence increases the chance of successful resettlement: this, too, is unrelated to length of sentence.Since the figures prompted predictable calls for more sentences, longer sentences and tougher jails, let's look at a nation where exactly that formula has been applied. The US began to follow the path now prescribed by British commentators at the end of the last century.Where has it led them? Well, first to the highest incarceration rate in the world. According to research by King's College London, in 2009 there wer 復讐に飢えた、英国のマスコミに厳しい米国の量刑モデルのアピールが、リハビリは再犯率を比較すると、今月法務省（法務部）の公表数値をcrimeWhenタックの鍵であり、コメンテーターは、結論に互いにジャンプしてしまった
Strauss-Kahn's letter from prosecutors Letter from prosecutors to Dominique Strauss-Kahn's lawyers detailing inconsistencies in the story of the alleged victimDistrict Attorney County of New York June 30, 2011 People v. Dominique Strauss-Kahn Indictment No. 2526/2011 Dear Mssrs. (William) Taylor and (Benjamin) Brafman:In connection with the above-captioned case, the People disclose the following information to the defense pursuant to Criminal Procedure Law 240.20 as well as Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its doctrinal progeny.In an application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal dated December 30, 2004, the complainant provided the United States Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service with factual information about herself, her background and her experiences in her home country of Guinea. This information was in the form of a written statement attached to her application, and was submitted as a basis for her request for asylum. In her application, she certified under penalty of perjury that her written statement was true.In substance, the complainant's statement claimed that she and her husband had been persecuted and harassed by the dictatorial regime that was then in power in Guinea. Among other things, the complainant stated that the home she shared with her husband was destroyed by police and soldiers acting on behalf of the regime, and she and her husband were beaten by them. When her husband attempted to return to what was left of their home the next day, she stated that he was again beaten, arrested and imprisoned by police and soldiers. She stated that she also was beaten when she attempted to come to her husband's aid. In her statement, she attributed the beatings to the couple's opposition to the regime. She stated that during her husband's incarceration, he wa Mssrs親愛なる申し立て2011年6月30日、ニューヨークの弁護士郡をvictimDistrict人対ドミニクストロスカーンの起。号2011分の2526の物語の中で矛盾を詳述ドミニクストロスカーンの弁護士に検察官からの手紙
U.S. help Cambodian judicial officials on IT data base Ninety-seven members of Cambodia's Ministry of Justice received diplomas on Wednesday after they had successfully completing an intensive information technology (IT) training program funded by the United States.
The statement released by the United States Embassy in Phnom Penh said the five-month course -- the first of its kind offered at the ministry -- provided basic technology skills to the graduates and trained them on the use of an electronic information system that is being install ... 後は正常にアメリカ合衆国が資金を提供（IT）の研修プログラムを集中的に情報技術が完了した95カンボジアの法務省令7メンバー水曜日に卒業証書を受け取った
The Budget Crunch Spreads from DOJ to Wall Street's Cops As I recently noted in LIBOR: The Antitrust Division’s Trojan Horse? (Street Sweeper, April 2, 2011), it appears that the Uniteds States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division is straining under the weight of its ambitious agenda. In that article I commented that
<blockquote>Additionally, the present political environment is demanding pay freezes, staffing reductions, and a smaller government footprint — all of which raise questions about how the Division intends to accomplish its ambitious agenda. Taking on yet another high-profile case may be the equivalent of opening the Antitrust Division’s doors to a destructive Trojan Horse.</blockquote>
Frankly, it was a pretty simple inference for me to make that the rumored LIBOR investigation could break the Antitrust Division's back. There are widespread reports of similar financial and morale problems effecting virtually all state and federal regulators and prosecutors.
Money Crunch Spreads
This morning , Dealbook confirmed that Wall Street's regulators are indeed feeling the strain of tightening budgets and ambitious agendas. In U.S. Regulators Face Budget Pinch as Mandates Widen (by Ben Protess, Dealbook/New York Times), we learn that
<blockquote>he Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are struggling to fill crucial jobs, enforce new rules, upgrade market surveillance technology and pay for travel. 反トラスト局のトロイの木馬：私は最近、リボルで述べたように？ （ストリートスウィーパー、2011年4月2日）は、法務省の反トラスト局のUniteds米国部は、その野心的な計画の重みで負担されていることが表示されます
UK to compensate Algerian pilot THE British government will compensate an Algerian pilot falsely accused of helping the hijackers responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Ministry of Justice says. 英国政府は、アルジェリアのパイロットを誤ってハイジャック犯は、9月11日のテロ攻撃は、2001年、法務省の責任を助ける被。補償するという
Ex-leader of Japan far-left terror group dies The ex-leader of an armed Japanese far-left group from the 1970s has died on death row, 29 years after she was sentenced to hang over the savage group killings of 14 fellow radicals.Hiroko Nagata, 65, a central figure in the now-defunct extremist group the United Red Army, died late Saturday from multiple organ failure, Jiji Press and other news outlets said, quoting Japan's Justice Ministry. 1970年代から武装日本左端のグループの元リーダーは彼女が14の仲間radicals.Hiroko永田、65、今の中心人物での野蛮なグループの殺害を二日酔いに刑を宣告された29年後、死刑囚が死亡した故人となった過激派グループは、米国赤軍、多臓器不全後半から土曜日死亡、時事通信社およびその他の報道機関は、日本の法務省の言葉を引用し、と述べた
Turkey wants to prosecute military coup leaders Turkey's ruling party claimed here on Wednesday that it would like to see leaders of the 1980 military coup prosecuted following the change to the amendment in the Constitution that previously prohibited such trials.
The statement was made by Omer Celik, deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), at a press conference held in Istanbul.
The senior party figure said that the military coup leaders should be brought to the court and they should be tried because they com ... トルコの与党は、試験などの禁止以前は次の主張憲法改正に起訴以下のように変更をクーデター軍1980を参照してください指導者を希望し、それがここでその水曜日
Letters: Legal cuts threaten access to justice Last Wednesday the case against our client Alan Clough was dropped after crucial video footage emerged. This showed him acting quite lawfully and then being punched in the face by a police officer (Inquiry after police hit anti-fascist protester, 22 October). Mr Clough was due to stand trial on a public order offence after he attended a protest against the English Defence League in Bolton in March. We represented many people arrested on that demonstration and have received many reports of oppressive tactics and arbitrary violence by the police. The original police account of the day, widely reported in the media, was that officers acted with professionalism and restraint in the face of extreme violence from demonstrators. It has taken many months of digging by lawyers and campaigners for a more accurate picture to emerge. In Mr Clough's case, without the video footage there is every possibility that the court would have accepted the accounts of the officers and a miscarriage of justice would have occurred.It is a basic principle of a democratic society that those accused of a crime are able to have their case brought promptly before a court and have access to quality legal representation. Mr Clough's case shows that we cannot always trust state authorities to act with fairness and transparency. The role of a legal aid lawyer can often be decisive in preventing a miscarriage of justice. Spending cuts at the Ministry of Justice will lead to more delays, inefficiency and mistakes. The £350m cut in legal aid will bring us closer to a scenario where there is one law for the rich and one law for the poor. These measures fundamentally threaten access to justice and must be resisted.Robert LizarRobert Lizar Solicitors, ManchesterLegal aidUK criminal justicePoliceEnglish Defence 重要なビデオ映像は、明らかになった後、先週の水曜日は、我々のクライアントアランクラフに対する訴。削除されています
Late Chechen Leader Dudayev's Widow Seeks Georgian Citizenship Alla Dudayeva, who hosts a talk show on Georgian state television's Russian-language channel, and her son Tegi applied for citizenship to Georgia's Justice Ministry.
アラDudayeva人グルジア国営テレビのロシア語のチャネル上でのトークショーのホスト、および彼女の息子Tegiジョージアの法務省に市民権を申請した
Cartel Client Review closed down One of the biggest claims management companies, Cartel Client Review, has been shut down by the Ministry of Justice. 1つは、最大の債権管理会社のカルテルクライアントからの評価は、法務省令によってシャットダウンされている
Simon Singh's libel victory: how many libel cases are there? As science writer Simon Singh wins his libel case, we look at how the numbers of proceedings have changed• Get the dataSimon Singh has won his libel case - over a piece he wrote in the Guardian. The British Chiropractic Association dropped its libel action against the science writer today, filing a notice of discontinuation in the high court.The case had become a cause celebre, with scientists, celebrities and freedom of speech campaigners lining up to condemn the British libel laws and argue that Singh had a right to express his opinion in print.The sudden end to the case (read the full judgment here) will strengthen the campaign for reform of the libel laws, which Jack Straw, the justice secretary, is considering. It is also a specific pledge in the Liberal Democrats' manifesto.According to statistics from the Ministry of Justice, libel cases have seen a huge jump recently - and big cases are now the largest percentage of the total they have ever been. The Libel Reform Campaign now has 50,000 signatures in its' petition to reform the laws - in addition to commitments from Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.And defending yourself in a libel case is an expensive buisness: Singh tells the Datablog he lost 46 solid weeks of work in defending his article and it cost him £200,000.We've pulled together the data from several years below. What can you do with it?Download the data• DATA: download the full datasheetWorld government data• Search the world's government data with our gatewayCan you do something with this data?Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at datastore@guardian.co.uk• Get the A-Z of data• More at the Datastore directory• Follow us on TwitterData summary LawLabourConservativesMedia lawJack StrawPress f 科学ライターのサイモンシンは彼の名誉毀損の勝訴として、我々は手続の番号が変更されてどのように•dataSimonシンは彼の名誉棄損訴訟を獲得して入手してください - 彼はガーディアンに書いた作品で見てください
S Korean judiciary seeks to abolish adultery law: media South Korea's Justice Ministry said Thursday its criminal code revision committee is seeking to scrap the disputed law that penalizes adultery, local media reported citing ministry officials.
The committee members voted to repel a clause in the criminal code punishing adultery after months of heated debate, and the ministry will draw up a draft deal based on the recommendations from the 24-member committee, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Introduced in 1953, the controversial law has met ... 韓国の法務省は18日、刑法改正委員会は、姦淫、地元のメディア同省当局者の話として報じた処。紛争法を廃棄しようとしている
