Deterrence - Judgment Search Results

Atkins Vs. Virginia

Court: US Supreme Court

..... there is a serious question whether either justification underpinning the death penalty retribution and deterrence of capital crimes applies to mentally retarded offenders as to retribution the severity of ..... of execution thus executing the mentally retarded will not measurably further the goal of deterrence the reduced capacity of mentally retarded offenders provides a second justification for a .....

Gopi Cinema Vs. State of Gujarat and ors.

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: AIR2002Guj296

..... numbers of this neo criminal tribe are rapidly escalating form a deterrent exemption to human softness in sentencing the penal strategy must ..... the customs act which affect the economy of the nation deterrent punishment has to be meted out in my view smuggling ..... punishment for the violation of such laws must be equally deterrent the offences against export and import restrictions and customs are .....

Ring Vs. Arizona

Court: US Supreme Court

..... texas 45 crime delinquency 481 1999 no evidence of a deterrent effect bonner fessenden absence of executions a special report states ..... than in non death penalty states see also radelet akers deterrence and the death penalty the views of the experts ..... over 80 of criminologists believe existing research fails to support deterrence justification as to incapacitation few offenders sentenced to life without .....

Ashcroft Vs. Free Speech Coalition

Court: US Supreme Court

..... for abusing real children if fictional computerized images would suffice moreover even if the market deterrence theory were persuasive the argument cannot justify the cppa because here there is no underlying ..... allowed the suppression of speech in all cases e g bartnicki supra at 529 market deterrence would not justify law prohibiting a radio commentator from distributing speech that had been .....

Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. Vs. Nlrb

Court: US Supreme Court

..... those purposes involve more than victim compensation they also include deterrence i e discouraging those individuals who have suffered harm quoting ..... nation s labor laws see ante at 152 recognizing the deterrent purposes of the national labor relations act nlra sure tan ..... 904 n 13 1984 same without the possibility of the deterrence that backpay provides the board can impose only future oriented .....

Kansas Vs. Crane

Court: US Supreme Court

..... 360 that distinction is necessary lest civil commitment become a mechanism for retribution or general deterrence functions properly those of criminal law not civil commitment id at 372 373 kennedy j ..... 29a02 a 2000 cum supp ordinary recidivists choose to reoffend and are therefore amenable to deterrence through the criminal law those subject to civil commitment under the svpa because their mental .....

State Vs. Kampala Khamari and anr.

Court: Orissa

Reported in: 2002(I)OLR602

..... number of criminals go unpunished thereby increasing criminals in the society and law losing its deterrent effect it is also true that the exaggerated adherence to and insistence upon the establishment ..... repulsive but in all cases of murder sentence of death would be improper undesirable and deterrent therefore the balance sheet of aggravating and mitigating circumstances has to be struck and while .....

Simranjit Singh Mann Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court: Punjab and Haryana

Reported in: 2002CriLJ3368

..... acts are also considered guilty of the offence for that too a deterrent punishment of imprisonment which may extend to a term for life or ..... may not correct the man who is hanged but it provides a deterrent for others like him and for the unjust strict punishment is the ..... kind danger of losing ill gotten property can also be a definite deterrent in view of the above conclusions we find that there is no .....

K.D. Vohra Vs. Kamleshbhai Gobarbhai Patel

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: (2003)2GLR1343

..... judicial review is to encourage the public authority to function properly through deterrence it stands to reason that tort law may and often prove ..... to meet the ends of justice and will act as a deterrent against the public authority for preventing it from acting with a ..... to be more effective deterrent than administrative law for the authority may take risk of being .....

Smt. Ramakanya Devi and anr. Vs. State of Karnataka and ors.

Court: Karnataka

Reported in: I(2003)ACC644; II(2003)ACC267; 2003(1)KarLJ227

..... for the use of an aerodrome is no barrier or burden or deterrent to traders who in their absence may have to take a longer ..... amount of tax or toll to an amount which would beprohibitive or deterrent or create other impediments which instead of facilitating trade and commerce would ..... charge for a facility provided and that which would really be a deterrent to a trade but the distinction if it has to be .....