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This is a pioneer, long overdue and truly original book that off ers a unique, comprehensive and thorough exposition of the criminal law of Cameroon by a leading scholar. This latest book by Professor Carlson Anyangwe adopts a thematic approach, each chapter covering a specific aspect of the criminal law. The text is a clear, simple and comprehensive exposition of all the offences codified in the Penal Code. It offers a rich, clear, learned and discerning analysis to understanding of the criminal law. The book is designed to instruct and to contribute to a deeper understanding of the subject, the treatment of which is unique, informative and makes for compelling reading. This is the first textbook ever on the subject in Cameroon and it is undoubtedly an indispensable tool of trade for judges, prosecutors, lawyers in private practice, academic lawyers, law students and law enforcement officers.

The study indicates the solutions introduced by the amendment to the Penal Code during the pandemic. These are the so-called anti-crisis shields - shield 1.0, shield 3.0 and shield 4.0. The primary role of these laws was to respond to the crises related to the COVID-19 epidemic. Amendments to the Penal Code were introduced in a manner inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and the Regulations of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. The mere legislative change and increasing punitiveness of the criminal law system and penal policy will not significantly reduce crime. The work is of a presentative and systematising character. The assumed hypothesis boils down to the assertion that the changes to the penal code made pursuant to the so-called anti-Covid laws are irrational and introduced without the required legislative procedure. The study mainly used the formal-dogmatic method.

By the Act of 27 November 2013, the Dutch Government has radically changed the provisions of its Penal Code pertaining to the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction (Arts. 4-8 Penal Code). The new rules take effect from July 1st 2014 onwards. Most importantly, the Act widens the scope of the passive personality principle, generalizes the application of the domicile principle, which equates permanent residents with nationals for purposes of the application of the active personality principle, and establishes jurisdiction over foreigners present in the Netherlands who have committed a serious crime abroad if extradition proves impossible (aut dedere aut judicare), even if international law does not oblige the Netherlands to do so. In addition, the Act brings order to the Penal Code's hitherto rather chaotic jurisdictional provisions by, inter alia, grouping the jurisdictional mandates based on international legal instruments together in one provision, and limiting the number of jurisdictional grounds on which offences can be prosecuted.

In this paper, the authors propose a data-driven approach to draw insightful knowledge from the Indian crime data. The proposed approach can be helpful for police and other law enforcement bodies in India for controlling and preventing crime region-wise. In the proposed approach different regression models are built based on different regression algorithms, viz., random forest regression (RFR), decision tree regression (DTR), multiple linear regression (MLR), simple linear regression (SLR), and support vector regression (SVR) after pre-processing the data using MySQL Workbench and R programming. These regression models can predict 28 different types of IPC cognizable crime counts and also a total number of Indian Penal Code (IPC) cognizable crime counts region-wise, state-wise, and year-wise (for all over the country) provided the desired inputs to the model. Data visualization techniques, namely, chord diagrams and map plots, are used to visualize pre-processed data (corresponding to the years 2014 to 2020) and predicted data by the relatively best regression model for the year 2022. For the chosen data, it is concluded that Random Forest Regression (RFR), which predicts total IPC cognizable crime, fits relatively the best, with a 0.96 adjusted r squared value and a MAPE value of 0.2, and among regression models predicting region-wise theft crime count, the random forest regression-based model relatively fits the best, with an adjusted R squared value of 0.96 and a MAPE value of 0.166. These regression models predict that Andhra Pradesh state will have the highest crime counts, with Adilabad district at the top, having 31,933 predicted crime counts.

A change is more often than not faced with resistance from thinking minds before it is welcomed. This paper emphasizes the urgent need to scrutinize the proposed changes to the age-old Indian Penal Code to be brought about by the enactment of the new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS). It critically evaluates every such new change to resolve all doubts and apprehensions, in delving particularly into the inspection of the BNS, in a theoretical study comparing with the Indian Penal Code. The paper discusses the “legislative intent and colonial continuities”, “anti-democratic tendencies” and “general critiques” addressing the debates over “patriarchal biases, problems laden within a false promise to marriage in the BNS, linguistic imperialist connotations, and the ambiguities over punishments”. This paper aims to evaluate the premise for an overhaul of the existing penal code and to identify and correspond substantial changes suggested in the new act in light of a promised wave of decolonization. Los cambios suelen encontrarse con la resistencia de las mentes pensantes antes de ser bien recibidos. Este artículo destaca la urgente necesidad de examinar los cambios propuestos al antiguo Código Penal de la India que se introducirán con la promulgación de la nueva Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. Evalúa críticamente cada uno de esos nuevos cambios para disipar todas las dudas y aprensiones, profundizando particularmente en la inspección de la Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, en un estudio comparativo y teórico del Código Penal de la India. El artículo analiza la “intención legislativa y las continuidades coloniales”, las “tendencias antidemocráticas” y las “críticas generales” que abordan los debates sobre los “sesgos patriarcales, los problemas que conlleva una falsa promesa de matrimonio en el BNS, las connotaciones imperialistas lingüísticas y las ambigüedades sobre los castigos”. Este artículo tiene como objetivo evaluar la premisa para una revisión del código penal actual e identificar y hacer corresponder los cambios sustanciales sugeridos en la nueva ley a la luz de una ola prometida de descolonización. Un changement se heurte le plus souvent à la résistance des esprits réfléchis avant d’être accueilli favorablement. Cet article souligne la nécessité urgente d’examiner les modifications proposées au Code pénal indien séculaire qui seront apportées par la promulgation de la nouvelle Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita de 2023. Il évalue de manière critique chaque nouveau changement de ce type pour dissiper tous les doutes et appréhensions, en se penchant notamment sur l’inspection de la Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita de 2023, dans une étude comparative et théorique du Code pénal indien. L’article aborde « l’intention législative et les continuités coloniales », « les tendances antidémocratiques » et « les critiques générales » abordant les débats sur « les préjugés patriarcaux, les problèmes liés à une fausse promesse de mariage dans le BNS, les connotations impérialistes linguistiques et les ambiguïtés sur les sanctions ». Cet article vise à évaluer les prémisses d’une refonte du code pénal existant et à identifier et à faire correspondre les changements substantiels suggérés dans la nouvelle loi à la lumière d’une vague de décolonisation promise. 在受到欢迎之前，变革往往会遭到思想界的抵制。本文强调，迫切需要审查新⟪印度新法律汇编⟫（2023 年)颁布后对古老的⟪印度刑法典⟫提出的修改建议。它批判性地评估了每一项新的变化，以解决人们心中的所有疑虑和忧虑，特别是深入研究了⟪印度新法律汇编⟫（2023 年)，对⟪印度刑法典⟫进行了比较理论研究。本文讨论了“立法意图和殖民延续性”、“反民主倾向”和“一般批评”，针对“父权偏见、BNS 中虚假婚姻承诺中的问题、语言帝国主义内涵和惩罚的模糊性”的争论。本文旨在评估对现有刑法进行全面改革的前提，并根据非殖民化浪潮的承诺确定和对应新法案中建议的重大变化。 غالبًا ما يواجه التغيير مقاومة من العقول المفكرة قبل الترحيب به. تؤكد هذه الورقة على الحاجة الملحة إلى التدقيق في التغييرات المقترحة على قانون العقوبات الهندي القديم والتي سيتم تحقيقها من خلال سن قانون بهاراتيا نيايا سانهيتا الجديد لعام 2023. كما تقوم بتقييم كل تغيير جديد بشكل نقدي لحل جميع الشكوك والمخاوف، مع الخوض بشكل خاص في فحص قانون بهاراتيا نيايا سانهيتا لعام 2023، في دراسة نظرية مقارنة عبر قانون العقوبات الهندي. تناقش الورقة ”القصد التشريعي والاستمرارية الاستعمارية“، و”الاتجاهات المناهضة للديمقراطية“، و”الانتقادات العامة“ التي تتناول المناقشات حول “التحيزات الأبوية، والمشاكل المحملة بوعد كاذب بالزواج في BNS، والدلالات الإمبريالية اللغوية، والغموض حول العقوبات”. تهدف هذه الورقة إلى تقييم الفرضية لإصلاح قانون العقوبات الحالي وتحديد التغييرات الجوهرية المقترحة في القانون الجديد ومطابقتها في ضوء موجة الاستعمار الموعودة.

This essay argues that the Indian Penal Code (1862) served as a surrogate constitution under colonial law. Lacking a framework for civil rights, the Law Commissioners sought to bring clarity to the law by supplementing the criminal code with extensive notes and illustrations. While the IPC aspired to universality in substantive law, the notes and illustrations worked in opposition to this goal by perpetuating racial hierarchies. Using hypothetical narratives, the notes and illustrations painted a portrait of Indians as habitually criminal and unruly in their appetites and affections. The tension between the IPC’s universalist rhetoric and its persistent recourse to racial difference is exemplified in the laws dealing with marriage. Focusing especially on bigamy, the essay examines how the threat of colonial contamination both worked to discipline the Indian population and to reinforce marital normativity in England. In legal trials as well as novels, the bigamy plot captured the Victorian imagination. The fascination with bigamy, however, was also routed toward more cautionary ends. Turning to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, which is typically read as a story of Jane’s development into a proper English woman, this essay shows how Rochester’s own development from colonial bigamist into faithful English husband epitomizes the Victorian legal and literary ideal.

This paper identifies and addresses a significant weakness in the literature on mobility -the theorisation of mobility and power, and specifically, the consideration of mobility as an expression of power. It argues that the 'mobilities turn' has tended to draw a connection between mobility, autonomy and freedom, and in so doing has inadequately explored and theorised involuntary and coerced mobility. To illustrate this, the paper draws together two literatures that have thus far been poorly integrated, and that at first seem an unlikely pairing -the mobilities work that has exploded in scope and diversity over the past decade and that seeks to 'undermine sedentarist theories' in geography (Sheller M and Urry J 2006 The new mobilities paradigm Environment and Planning A 38 207-26, p 208), and the nascent field of 'carceral geography', a body of work beginning to coalesce around the spatialities of detention and imprisonment, but that, in its focus on spatial regulation, has thus far tended to overlook the mobilities inherent in carcéral practices. The two are drawn together through consideration of an example of ' disciplined mobility' -contemporary prisoner transport in the Russian Federation, which serves as an illustration both of punitive power expressed through mobility and of mobility in the carcéral context. The paper then argues that future research in mobilities must consider more fully the disciplinary nature of mobility, and suggests that the concept of 'disciplined mobility' (after Packer J 2003 Disciplining mobility: governing and safety in Bratich J Z, Packer J and McCarthy C eds Foucault, cultural studies, and governmentality State University of New York Press, New York 135-63), may form a framework for such future research.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (and hereafter ISIS) is a globally renowned terrorist organisation. Although it was defeated in 2019, its threat continues to loom over the world. Even amidst the current global pandemic caused by COVID-19, there is no indication that ISIS will cease its acts of terror. As we enter a post-COVID era and strive for normalcy, it remains imperative for international societies to remain vigilant and stay informed about recent developments related to extremist groups like ISIS. When discussing ISIS, there is often a focus on the cruel acts committed by the group during times of war and their underlying ideological motivations for these brutalities. Images and videos depicting these horrific acts have circulated widely on social media platforms and continue to be extensively discussed by the public. The incorporation of Islamic law into the penal code during ISIS rule raises crucial questions about its integration. Understanding Islamic history and law in non-Muslim contexts is essential for addressing public misconceptions and negative stereotypes towards Muslims. It is important to distinguish between ordinary Muslims and extremist groups like ISIS, as their association with terrorism can perpetuate misunderstanding among non-Muslims. This article aims to clarify the application of Islamic law in the penal code implemented by ISIS. It assumes that readers may not have a comprehensive understanding of Islamic law and how it was utilised by ISIS in areas they controlled during times of conflict. This discussion will begin with an explanation of Islamic law, followed by an outline of the penal code enforced within these occupied zones, and finally delve into its sociological and cognitive implications for interpreting Islam.