OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he is “open” to including the term “femicide” in the Criminal Code, which ...

Circuit courts are divided over what the word means in a statute aimed at reducing mass incarceration through an array of criminal justice reforms. For thousands of defendants, eligibility for ...

This historic toppling of words’ ordinary meaning comes from a recent ruling in which the court dashed the hopes of thousands of criminal defendants ... for the majority, Justice Elena Kagan ...

The new laws are more victim centric and upgrade the definition of crime to catch ... and technologically advanced criminal justice system in India. Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention ...

Advocates urge Ottawa to define femicide in the criminal code as more Ontario police use the term to describe gender-based killings.

a criminal justice reform group. At least three were homicides. The U.S. Department of Justice has also raised questions about Alabama’s definitions of violent crime. In a 2019 memo, obtained by ...

How do these Bills relate to various special laws? Do they help unclog the criminal justice system? Are various definitions and provisions drafted well without ambiguity? There are seven issues ...

said they would be offering online master's in criminal justice or criminology programs in accordance with the definition. The rest of the schools either said they would not have a program or ...