International Criminal Court

PESTLE Analysis of UK: ¬ Political factor: The United Kingdom is one of the most prosperous and influential countries in the world and has a great role to play on the international scene. UK is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, one of the founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a member of the G8 and a member of the European Union, despite it cautious approach to the issue of European integration. David Cameron is a British politician…

Chicago, Illinois in 1910, when his fingerprints were found at the scene of the crime. The Thomas Jennings Trial was an important trial because it changed what evidence can be used it court, by challenging and redefining American values such as what is used to convict criminals, fingerprints being allowed in court, and how minority are treated. On the night of September 19, 1910, Thomas Jennings broke into three houses in Chicago, Illinois. The last house Jennings broke into was Hiller…

A significant number of offenders have been convicted of drug related offenses, many of which have entered the United States’ court system, jails, and prisons. Of these offenders many are suffering from drug related addictions (Journal of Experimental Criminology). Drug use and crime have continuously been of increasing concern. Drug abuse is becoming much more prevalent, as drugs are becoming more readily accessible. Research shows that incarceration of offenders charged with drug-related…

Familiar international non-governmental organizations (INGOs, for short) include Amnesty International, known for its collection on data about human rights violations, and the International Red Cross, which offers aid to foreign countries after natural disasters. While these organizations’ goals differ organization to organization, the basis is that they find international human rights violations, sometimes punish those who violate human rights, and offer aid to other countries in need…

USA be bothered when there was no equal threat, and her interests and survival were protected? Why would it even lower itself from the most powerful nation under the sky to commit itself to the shared values and norms and rules of the International Criminal Court? Yes, there is decline of American multilateralism, but it is not a weakness but rather a strategic and rational one. The Emerging economic powers such as Germany, Japan and China, have often shied away from taking pivotal roles in…

Since the historic 1972 Supreme Court ruled that Georgia?s death penalty statute could be interpreted as ?cruel and unusual? punishment had an effect on death penalty laws in all states that still practiced them prompting a suspension of the punishment nationwide until the 10 year moratorium on executions ended on January 17, 1977. Over 1300 executions have occurred in the United States since 1977, one year after the Supreme Court reiterated its approval of the use of the death penalty…

the mechanism of rendering justice, as for many of these courageous witnesses taking part in the justice rendering system can be life threatening sometimes resulting in death. The lack of a comprehensive witness protection program as part of the criminal justice system is effectively facilitating attempts to…

African-American men. There is great amount of ethnically and discriminating ways. The disturbing think about this situation is that prosecutors or juries are apply the death penalty on African-American men on every step of the criminal. Nearly all the white group of courts people like prosecutors and even judges are being make the decision about who deserve to live and who dies, and this kind of racially rules are hurting African-American innocent by those objective defenders. And the result of…

globalization as the procedure by which businesses and institutions improve international repercussion or start running on an international scale. Globalization has, without a doubt, taken the world by storm. Although there are a few benefits of globalization, from the top of my head – greater job opportunities in less developed countries, allowing businesses in less developed countries to sky by becoming parts of international organizations and etc. there is one major negative effect of…

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, increased speculation of terrorist attacks connected to maritime piracy has occurred in social media and national government discourse (Young & Valencia, 2003). Young and Valencia (2003) provide a valuable contribution to the issues concerning maritime piracy and terrorism by defining the differences and similarities between these two types of crimes. The similarities between terrorism and maritime piracy are that the underlying environmental…