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CRIME VIOLENCE [26 records]

Record 1 2025-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • International Relations
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
CONT

Alternative development is an approach aimed at reducing the vulnerabilities that lead to involvement in illicit crop cultivation and ultimately eliminating such cultivation. Alternative development can break the vicious cycle of rising illicit drug production, weakening rule of law, decreasing growth of the licit economy, decreasing investment in licit sectors, strengthening organized crime and increasing violence by effectively promoting factors fostering a sustainable licit economy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Relations internationales
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
CONT

Le développement alternatif est une approche visant à réduire les vulnérabilités qui conduisent à se lancer dans les cultures illicites et à terme à éliminer ces cultures. Il peut rompre le cercle vicieux de l'augmentation de la production illicite de drogues, d'affaiblissement de l'état de droit, de ralentissement de l'économie licite, de diminution des investissements dans les secteurs licites et de développement de la criminalité organisée et de la violence en favorisant efficacement des facteurs propices à une économie licite durable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
  • Relaciones internacionales
  • Drogas y toxicomanía
CONT

El desarrollo alternativo favorece la reducción sostenible de los cultivos de drogas al mejorar los medios de subsistencia. Por lo tanto, la política debe considerar la lucha contra las drogas como una cuestión de desarrollo.

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Record 2 2025-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of the Family
CONT

Abuse between spouses is not just a private problem. Assaulting, threatening or harming another person is a crime, whether or not they are your spouse. The law applies equally regardless of gender or the status of the relationship. Both women and men can be victims of violence from a family member and violence can occur in heterosexual and same-sex relationships.

OBS

Spousal abuse is a pattern of behaviour intended to exercise control that one married or common-law partner perpetrates towards the other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie de la famille
OBS

La maltraitance conjugale est un schéma de comportement adopté dans le but de contrôler qu'un époux ou conjoint de fait exerce sur l'autre.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

An act of entering a private dwelling while it is occupied, with the intention of committing a crime, usually burglary, often while threatening the resident.

CONT

The impact of "home invasions" extends beyond the violence of the crime itself to a long-term loss of the victim's sense of safety at home.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
DEF

Intrusion violente dans un domicile habité afin d'y commettre des crimes.

CONT

Les conséquences de la violation de domicile vont au-delà de la violence même du crime et concernent la perte à long terme du sentiment de sécurité de la victime à la maison.

OBS

invasion de domicile : Bien que l'on retrouve le terme «invasion de domicile» dans un intertitre du Code criminel, il s'agit d'un calque du terme anglais «home invasion» et d'un terme à éviter. En français, on privilégie l'emploi des termes «violation de domicile avec agression» ou «violation de domicile», qui sont bien installés dans l'usage.

Spanish

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Record 4 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
OBS

... the crime of murder was divided into "capital murder" and "non-capital murder". Capital murder, generally speaking, is murder that is planned and deliberate; murder committed in the course of certain crimes of violence by the direct intervention or upon the counselling of the accused; and murder of a police officer or prison warden, acting in the course of duty, resulting from such direct intervention or counselling. All other murders are non-capital.

OBS

A classification formerly used in the Criminal Code.

OBS

See now SECOND DEGREE MURDER

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
OBS

[...] le crime de meurtre fut classé en deux catégories, soit le «meurtre qualifié» et le «meurtre non qualifié». De façon générale, le meurtre qualifié est un meurtre prémédité et commis de propos délibéré; le meurtre commis à l'occasion de certains crimes avec violence, par l'intervention directe ou sur les conseils de l'accusé; et le meurtre d'un agent de police ou d'un garde de prison dans l'exercice de ses fonctions, meurtre résultant d'une telle intervention directe ou de tels conseils. Tous les autres meurtres sont des meurtres non qualifiés.

OBS

Une classification anciennement utilisée dans le Code criminel.

Spanish

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Record 5 2024-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys
  • Criminology
CONT

A... recommendation is to improve the reporting of the victimization of children and youth. This requires that communities provide incentives for reporting such victimization, such as encouraging youth in developing strategies to protect themselves from repetitive victimization and retaliation. Other recommendations are to intervene early with juvenile victims; screen youth in substance abuse and delinquency programs for violence and trauma exposure; increase awareness that various kinds of juvenile victimization are crimes; and publicize the availability of crime compensation funds for juvenile victims.

OBS

... at-risk groups include minority adolescents, children in single-parent families, adolescents living in urban areas, children who have previously been victimized, children with disabilities, and children living in disadvantaged communities.

Key term(s)
  • juvenile victimisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
  • Criminologie
CONT

[...] l'étude de la victimisation juvénile repose sur le développement et le perfectionnement d'outils comme l'ESG [Enquête sociale générale] et le JVQ [Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire]. Il est essentiel de se doter d'instruments de mesure appropriés afin de documenter la victimisation juvénile et ainsi développer des théories adaptées au phénomène en se détachant des théories axées sur l'explication de la délinquance.

Spanish

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Record 6 2024-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

Crime Against Life. Crime against life means causing another person's death by using violence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
CONT

[...] l'attentat comporte deux éléments fondamentaux : une action de la part de son auteur et un but répréhensible. Les exemples classiques donnés sont les attentats contre les souverains [...] Sans que ce soit énoncé expressément, l'attentat demeure un attentat, qu'il soit réussi ou non. [...] l'opprobre vise plus précisément le geste que le résultat. Lorsqu'on conjugue les données [...] l'attentat à la vie est donc un geste qui a pour but, atteint ou non, de mettre fin à la vie d'une personne.

Spanish

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Record 7 2024-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
CONT

It is worth noting here that the criminal dynamics that characterize high levels of homicides and lower clearance rates in black neighborhoods are not race-based. Indeed, disadvantaged white neighborhoods of Boston have been known to exhibit similar patterns of violence and lack of cooperation with the police. For instance, the Charlestown, South Boston and North End neighborhoods of Boston were noted strongholds of Irish and Italian organized crime organizations during the 1960s through the 1980s that were characterized by repeated, unsolved killings by warring factions of the organizations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie

Spanish

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Record 8 2022-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of Women
  • Sociology of the Family
CONT

So called "honour" violence happens when family members believe that the victim has behaved in ways that will bring shame or dishonour to the family. The violence can be perpetrated by a partner or family member, and from the perpetrator’s perspective, is used to protect the family honour and restore the family’s reputation.

OBS

Forced marriage, female genital mutilation and honour crime are manifestations of honour-based violence.

Key term(s)
  • honor-based violence
  • honor violence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie des femmes
  • Sociologie de la famille
OBS

Le mariage forcé, la mutilation génitale féminine et le crime d'honneur sont des manifestations de la violence basée sur l'honneur.

OBS

violence basée sur l'honneur; VBH : terme et abréviation tirés du mini-lexique «Violence faite aux femmes» et reproduits avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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Record 9 2018-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Criminal Law
  • War and Peace (International Law)
DEF

A crime or series of crimes, such as genocide, directed against a large group because of race, religion, country of origin, or other reason unconnected with any individual’s responsibility for having committed a criminal act.

CONT

Crime against humanity means murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution or any other inhumane act or omission that is committed against any civilian population or any identifiable group and that, at the time and in the place of its commission, constitutes a crime against humanity according to customary international law or conventional international law or by virtue of its being criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations, whether or not it constitutes a contravention of the law in force at the time and in the place of its commission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal international
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
CONT

Meurtre, extermination, réduction en esclavage, déportation, emprisonnement, torture, violence sexuelle, persécution ou autre fait — acte ou omission — inhumain, d'une part, commis contre une population civile ou un groupe identifiable de personnes et, d'autre part, qui constitue, au moment et au lieu de la perpétration, un crime contre l'humanité selon le droit international coutumier ou le droit international conventionnel, ou en raison de son caractère criminel d'après les principes généraux de droit reconnus par l'ensemble des nations, qu'il constitue ou non une transgression du droit en vigueur à ce moment et dans ce lieu.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho penal internacional
  • Guerra y paz (Derecho internacional)
DEF

Crimen de especial gravedad, como el asesinato, el exterminio, la esclavitud, la deportación o el traslado forzoso de población, la privación grave de la libertad o la tortura, que se comete como parte de un ataque generalizado o sistemático contra una población civil y con conocimiento de dicho ataque.

OBS

crimen de lesa humanidad; delito de lesa humanidad: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, recomienda utilizar la expresión "crimen de lesa humanidad" y no "delito de lesa humanidad".

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Record 10 2017-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence
OBS

Youth Now on Track (YNOT) is a community based organization dedicated to giving meaning to the lives of youth in conflict with the law. [It] primarily [services] the Downsview and Weston Area of Toronto, ON.

OBS

YNOT provides prevention and intervention strategies to divert youth away from dangers of the streets and empower them to become productive members of society. [It helps] them to set and achieve their goals. [YNOT] addresses youth violence and offers a holistic service approach including counselling, mediation and recreational activities to address crime prevention. [It helps youth get] back into school; [empowers] them to overcome their personal challenges and to reach their full potential.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Sociologie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence

Spanish

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Record 11 2017-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Social Law
  • Criminology
OBS

A small national organization founded in 1975 [member of Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC)].

OBS

CFSC’s Quakers Fostering Justice (QFJ) program committee works toward discerning, developing and encouraging responses that actively prevent harm, repair harm and move beyond harm in relation to the justice system. It does this in ways that are healing for all concerned and for society as a whole. The fostering of justice as healing is the ground from which QFJ’s methods, processes and partnerships emerge.

OBS

Mission : To build [a] caring community without need for prisons; to explore alternatives to prison based on economic, social justice and fulfillment of human needs; to foster awareness within and outside [the] Quaker community of roots of crime and violence in society; to reach and support prisoners, guards, victims and families.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Droit social
  • Criminologie

Spanish

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Record 12 2015-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Maneuvering of Ships
CONT

The crime of maritime violence is committed when, for any unlawful purpose, any person or persons, intentionally or recklessly :...(e) employs any device or substance which is likely to destroy or cause damage to a ship, its equipment or cargo, or to an aid to navigation...

Key term(s)
  • damage a ship

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Manœuvre des navires

Spanish

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Record 13 2015-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Regional and Municipal Government Programs
  • Police
  • Protection of Life
DEF

An intensive, violence reduction and community mobilization strategy intended to reduce crime and increase safety in [Toronto] neighbourhoods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes de gouvernements régionaux ou municipaux
  • Police
  • Sécurité des personnes

Spanish

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Record 14 2015-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

A voluntary confession is one made spontaneously by a person accused of crime, free from the influence of any extraneous disturbing cause, and in particular, not influenced, or extorted by violence, threats, or promises.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve

Spanish

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Record 15 2010-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
  • Offences and crimes
  • Criminology
CONT

Drugs are related to crime in multiple ways. Most directly, it is a crime to use, possess, manufacture, or distribute drugs classified as having a potential for abuse(such as cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and amphetamines). Drugs are also related to crime through the effects they have on the user's behavior and by generating violence and other illegal activity in connection with drug trafficking.

OBS

deal: sell (illegal drugs).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Criminologie
CONT

Le problème du trafic de stupéfiants ne peut être résolu uniquement à l'échelle nationale, mais exige une coopération internationale. À cet égard, les pays fournisseurs et les pays consommateurs doivent collaborer davantage, de même que les pays qui servent au transit entre pays fournisseurs et pays consommateurs.

CONT

Les effets secondaires du narcotrafic - par exemple la violence qui va de pair avec la production, le trafic et la distribution de drogues illicites - peuvent causer la mort d'innocents. Qui plus est, les drogues illicites sont lourdes de conséquences, sur le plan social et au chapitre de la santé, pour les familles et les jeunes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Drogas y toxicomanía
  • Infracciones y crímenes
  • Criminología
CONT

[...] algunas organizaciones guerrilleras en Colombia comenzaron su relación con el narcotráfico al cobrar impuestos sobre la pasta de coca y la cocaína procesada que se producía en las extensas zonas del sur del país controladas por ellas y al derivar otros ingresos de la protección militar a cultivos y laboratorios.

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Record 16 2010-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Security
OBS

The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community(CARICOM), at its twenty-Second Meeting held in Nasau, The Bahamas in July last year, expressed concern over the new forms of crime and violence that continue to pose threats to the Region's security. The new forms of crime have implications for individual safety and the social and economic well-being of the Region as a whole. The Heads agreed to establish a Regional Task Force on Crime and Security to examine the major causes of crime, and to recommend approaches to deal with the inter-related problems of crime, illicit drugs and firearms, as well as terrorism.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Sécurité

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Seguridad
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Record 17 2009-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Problems
  • Criminology
CONT

The goal of the meeting, held in Pretoria, was to broaden understanding of the links between a vast range of issues regarding youth involved in organized violence, from participation in war and armed conflict (including military and para-military groups) to forms of urban violence in gangs, protection rackets and street children organized around violent acts.

CONT

Canadians are also seeing first-hand the problem of organized crime violence. In Quebec, for example, biker gangs have been tied to dozens of bombings and relating violence.

Key term(s)
  • organised violence
  • organised crime violence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Criminologie
CONT

Violence organisée englobe «torture ... autres peines ou traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants» comme dans l'article 5 de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies. La violence organisée englobe l'emprisonnement sans procès, les exécutions simulées, la prise d'otage, les disparitions ou toutes autres formes de privations violentes de liberté.

CONT

La violence des gangs: la violence du crime organisé et des gangs dans la collectivité a conduit certaines autorités nationales à adopter des mesures très répressives contre les jeunes appartenant à des gangs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Problemas sociales
  • Criminología
CONT

Las tendencias en los indicadores y escenarios de violencia junto con los patrones y proporciones de la participación de los actores organizados (guerrillas, paramilitares y narcotraficantes bajo un doble interés: cultivos ilícitos e inversiones en tierras) entre 1987-1997 han permitido identificar y caracterizar dichas configuraciones y dinámicas de la violencia organizada en Colombia.

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Record 18 2007-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminal Psychology
  • Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence
DEF

... the phenomenon of violence and crime taking place within educational institutions.

CONT

... school violence includes a range of activities, including bullying, threatening remarks, physical fights, assaults with or without weapons, and gang violence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie criminelle
  • Sociologie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence
CONT

[...] les questions relatives à la violence à l'école portent davantage sur l'endroit où elle se produit que sur sa nature ou ses caractéristiques. La définition de la violence à l'école va du harcèlement et de l'intimidation à l'agression physique.

Spanish

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Record 19 2006-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Sociology
OBS

A Canadian Institute for the Study of Violence in Society which would be financed by the federal government and operated by an independent board representing a wide spectrum of disciplines. The purpose of the Institute would be to co-ordinate and evaluate research in this area. It would also initiate, promote and assist the funding of new research and pilot projects related to violence and crime in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Sociologie
OBS

L'établissement d'un Institut canadien sur l'étude de la violence dans la société qui serait financé par le gouvernement fédéral et géré par un office indépendant représentant un vaste étalage de disciplines. L'Institut vise à coordonner et évaluer la recherche dans ce domaine. De plus, il lancerait, favoriserait et aiderait le financement de nouvelles recherches et de projets pilotes ayant trait à la violence et aux crimes au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 20 2006-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Social Services and Social Work
OBS

Victims of Violence Canadian Centre for Missing Children was founded in March of 1984 by families of abducted and murdered children. Victims of Violence is a national nonprofit, non-government funded charitable organization that was founded in 1984. We are dedicated to the prevention of crimes against children and in this respect to educating children on personal safety issues. We have a wide variety of child safety and educational materials available through our head office. Victims of Violence also helps victims of violent crime. We are equipped to deal with families and victims who are placed in the criminal justice system through no fault of their own.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Services sociaux et travail social
OBS

Appellation confirmée par l'organisme.

Spanish

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Record 21 2005-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Conduct of Military Operations
  • International Relations
CONT

Terrorism, both foreign and domestic, represents an extreme form of criminal violence. This recent incident [September 11], not part of an organized military conflict, resulted in the immediate deaths of thousands of innocent victims and is the most violent crime ever perpetrated on American soil.

Key term(s)
  • organised military conflict

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conduite générale des opérations militaires
  • Relations internationales

Spanish

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Record 22 2004-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Police
  • Criminology
OBS

ViCLAS is the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System. It is a national database for tracking violent offenders and the offenses they commit. More specifically, ViCLAS is an automated case linkage system designed to capture, collate and compare crimes of violence through the analysis of victimology, offender/suspect description, modus operandi, forensic and behavioural data. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in co-operation with other Police Services developed the ViCLAS system in 1991.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Police
  • Criminologie
OBS

[...] base de données qui a été conçue par la GRC et qui permet d'établir rapidement les liens possibles entre les crimes violents commis à l'échelle nationale.

Spanish

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Record 23 1997-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Protection of Life
  • Security Devices
OBS

Report prepared in 1995 by the Department of Justice, Communications and Consultations Branch, on behalf of the Interdepartmental Communications Committee on Violence in Society and Crime Prevention.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Sécurité des personnes
  • Dispositifs de sécurité
OBS

Rapport préparé en 1995 par la Direction des communications et de la consultation, ministère de la Justice, au nom du Comité interministériel des communications sur la violence dans la société et la prévention du crime.

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Record 24 1996-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
OBS

This project of the Solicitor General Canada identifies community-based strategies and proposed measures to reduce school violence, including an assessment of the feasibility and potential effectiveness of measures advocating a "zero tolerance" approach to reducing violent youth crime.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
OBS

Ce projet du Solliciteur général du Canada permet de déterminer les stratégies d'action communautaires et les mesures proposées pour lutter contre la violence dans les écoles; il s'agit notamment d'évaluer la faisabilité et l'efficacité des mesures préconisées au nom du principe de la «tolérance zéro» pour réduire les cas de crimes violents perpétrés par des jeunes.

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Record 25 1995-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
DEF

A policy which should guide the police and Crown through family violence incidents. The policy exists to acknowledge wife assault as a crime, and to prosecute and punish offenders while providing safety and support to the victim by removing the onus from the woman for laying or dropping a charge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
DEF

Politique qui est censée orienter l'action de la police et de la Couronne dans les cas de violence familiale. La politique d'accusation existe pour reconnaître que les voies de fait à l'égard des conjointes constituent un crime, et aussi pour poursuivre et punir les contrevenants; elle a également été élaborée en vue d'apporter dans une certaine mesure une sécurité et un soutien à la victime en enlevant à la femme la responsabilité de porter ou de retirer des accusations

Spanish

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Record 26 1992-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Does research on the effectiveness of crime prevention and studies of police problems, sentencing, juvenile violence, and other areas of interest

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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