Criminal Code Reform News Today

The political journey that took place in the old Parliament created fractured citizenship by legitimising and institutionalising concepts of religious majority and minority. This was a negation of secularism, which Hindus practised since time immemorial

“Scant,” “Fair Shot,” “Comeback”?  

Congress has enacted 452 new crimes over the eight-year periodbetween 2000 and 2007-a rate of about 57 new crimes per year-for atotal of 4,450 federal crimes in the U.S. Code. As Congresssubjects more and more activities to criminal sanction, thecriminal law's power as a system of moral education andsocialization is diminished.

There are several Indiana criminal laws that make penalties harsher if the offender knows they have HIV.

The law has now gone far from that model of liability for an actand, in effect, begun to impose criminal liability for the acts ofanother based upon failures of supervision that are far differentfrom the common law's historical understanding.

The Indonesian government should release the latest draft of the proposed Criminal Code to ensure a full and informed public discussion of its provisions.

A row that erupted ahead of the passage of Indonesia’s controversial new criminal code has continued to deepen after talks between an alliance of legal and civil liberties groups and the government to discuss the legislation broke down

A row that erupted ahead of the passage of Indonesia's controversial new criminal code has continued to deepen after talks between an alliance of legal and civil liberties groups and the government to discuss the legislation broke down. The Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights invited the National Alliance for Criminal Code Reform to discuss issues related to the...