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The stranger next door
A clever cat's heroism helps two twelve-year-old boys become friends after their families, one of which is in a witness protection program, move to neighboring houses in Hilltop, Washington.
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Secreted lives: notes on perversion in the Witness Protection Program
This article addresses perversion in the clinical and social field, comprehending the clinic as a field of investigation through which it is possible to access the current social phenomena and dominant discourses. We worked with research in psychoanalysis, choosing to dialogue mainly with readings of two authors - Contardo Calligaris and Edilene Queiroz - who use their experience in the psychoanalytical clinic to build an analysis concerning the social field. Taking a text by Calligaris (1991) entitled A Sedução Totalitária (1991), along with the book A Clínica da Perversão (2004), by Queiroz, we intended to merge them, having as common thread a professional experience working in the Witness Protection Program (Provita). Some of the psychoanalytical concepts that are used in this study are the perverse structure, discourse and assembly, as nodal points of the clinical and social analysis. The working experience with the witnesses in the Program enabled some associations with aspects concerning the field of perversion.
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NEED FOR WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM: IN PAKISTAN IN GENERAL, AND IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA IN PARTICULAR
A ‘witness’ is an imperative aid in the administration of Criminal Justice System. Witnesses perform a significant role in assisting the court of law in all the stages of a criminal proceeding in order to decide the innocence or guilt of an accused person. If no protective measures are taken in order to protect the witnesses and their families against such threats then many persons would be reluctant to collaborate with the authorities and in this way Justice System would be paralyzed in most of the cases. Need of the study arises when we see that there is no such protection program in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to protect the witnesses in critical cases. Absence of such programs/laws has aided in strengthening of the offenders and criminals for reason that in the absence of witness protection program, the witnesses turn hostile which further complicated the situation. Therefore, enacting witness protection laws, in Pakistan in general and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in particular, is need of the hour.
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Towards a witness centric approach: analysis of witness protection scheme, 2018
Legislation on witness protection was long overdue in India. In the wake of several incidents of attacks on witnesses, the Supreme Court of India directed the Centre to formulate a scheme to safeguard the interests of witnesses. On December 5, 2018, the Supreme Court approved the Witness Protection Scheme submitted to it by the Centre. It directed all the states and union territories to formulate legislation regarding the same. While few states adopted the scheme in its letter and spirit, many have not taken any step in this regard. The paper aims to critically examine the Witness Protection Scheme, 2018 by discussing the major provisions and looking at various challenges to its implementation. On examining the provisions of the scheme carefully, the authors found that the majority of the provisions in the scheme provided a framework for protection of witnesses from threats and intimidation. However, there are some areas that the scheme failed to address including online intimidation, issues of funding, maintain police force balance, mental well-being of witnesses, and interests of vulnerable witnesses. Several recommendations are provided that can be adopted to make the scheme more witness centric.
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Shortcomings in the Operation and Coordination of Witness Protection in Australia. Where to from Here?
Witness protection in Australia has, to date, been less than successful in implementation and execution. An ad hoc system of Commonwealth and state/territory witness protection programs have co-existed with often substandard outcomes for participants, law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Although in accordance with Australia’s federal system of government, the framework of witness protection that has emerged has resulted in numerous witness protection programs in operation across states and territories with little in the way of consistency, cooperation and coordination. Reform in Australia’s witness protection system is needed to improve and streamline programs for the benefit of witnesses, communities and the criminal justice system. This article addresses shortcomings and draws attention to worthwhile changes that would benefit and enhance domestic witness protection.
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PROTECTION OF WITNESSES IN EUROPEAN JUDICIAL PRACTICE
Witnesses are vulnerable subjects with a crucial role in criminal law. Witness protection programs are important institutions, in wich countries can decide for themself the way they want to handle it. In the European Union, the inspiration was the United States model, and more countries try to establish a common practice for the member states. A common practice is more efficient and encourages cooperation between nations in the fight against crime.
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MARTORUL SI PROTECTIA ACESTUIA ÎN NOUL COD DE PROCEDURA PENALA/WITNESS PROTECTION IN THE NEW CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
In criminal proceedings and other judicial procedures in connection with a criminal case a determining role have the witnesses who, in application of the legal principle of finding out the truth, represents an important element in taking evidence, whereas holding information relating to facts or circumstances in which an offence has been committed. During the criminal investigation, prosecution or trial of criminal offences there are circumstances in which there are outlined reasonable suspicions that the lives, bodily integrity, liberty, property or professional activity of the witnesses or their families are in danger, so it is necessary to protect them legally by granting them a status of threatened witness or vulnerable witness. The article captures the contents of the legal provisions applicable in the field of the protection of witnesses and highlights the innovations of the current Code of criminal procedure in relation to the old regulations.
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The Witness Security Program: Becoming Imperceptible in the Relocation Matrix
How are relocated witnesses in the US federal witness security program equipped to \"hide in plain sight\" and remain untraceable? Two models of social identity combine to account for this—social role play (Goffman) and performativity (Butler, Barad, Braidotti)—as an immanent process of \"becoming-imperceptible.\"
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CONSIDERAȚII REFERITOARE LA PROTECȚIA MARTORILOR ȘI PROCESUL ECHITABIL
The aim of the present paper is to cover the main aspects regarding the legal treatment of witness protection in the Romanian criminal legislation by presenting, from a critical standpoint, the current regulation of the witness protection. The authors analysed essential aspects regarding the protection of threatened witnesses, the protection measures ordered during the criminal investigation, the protection measures ordered during the trial or the protected witnesses hearing, as well as the protection of vulnerable witnesses by reporting to the European Convention of Human Rights provisions and jurisprudence. Also, the present paper analyses the probative value of the protected witness statements and contains comparative law matters on witness protection laws in several European countries.
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Security incident reporting: an essential best practice for all courts
[...]the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Judicial Independence in 2014 estimated that there have been 406 court-targeted acts of violence since 2005. From a symbolic or practical perspective, it reinforces the importance of court security by involving everyone (judges, staff, facilities management, and law enforcement) in a cooperative enterprise of vigilance. [...]it is imperative that state judiciaries undertake this fundamental best practice in court security.
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