The Debate on Chemical Castration: Balancing Justice and Human Rights

Author: Shefali Awasthi & Shambhavi Upadhyay are students at the University School of Law and Legal Studies, GGSIPU. Introduction Sexual abuse especially related to children is considered to be one of the most heinous atrocities that is prevalent globally. Recently, the issue came to the limelight when the parliament of Madagascar, a nation in the...

Alternatives to Imprisonment within the Criminal Justice System [A. Rangarajan]

THE FUNDAMENTAL PREMISE - OF DETERRENCE One of the most compelling arguments against the traditional, segregation based institutional correction systems, is that they do not serve the objective of deterrence effectively, and that there are no definitive correlations between the severity of a sentence and the level of the crime.[i] On the other hand, it...