human rights

Conscripting is the act of enlisting individuals into the armed forces. Conscripting children is a war crime punishable by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The crime has the following elements:

Corporeal is a thing that has a physical existence and is capable of being seen and touched. In a legal context, “corporeal” is used primarily in the context of property. The state of Louisiana has a statute that defines corporeal and incorporeal.

A correctional program is typically a rehabilitation program for incarcerated criminal offenders. Correctional programs may include employment training and education services to assist offenders in overcoming their past, and to aid in their reintegration into society. Specific modalities include: high school equivalency training, mental health diversion, substance abuse treatment, and seminars.

Corrections in the legal context refers to the retribution, rehabilitation, and supervision of criminal offenders through the system of incarceration, probation, and parole. 

A corrections program is a program that provides for the retribution, rehabilitation, and supervision of criminal offenders through the systems of incarceration, probation, and parole.

Crimes against humanity are specific crimes committed in the context of a large-scale attack targeting civilians, regardless of their nationality. These crimes include the most egregious violations of human dignity, especially those directed towards civilian populations.

• international criminal law

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Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase mentioned in the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, the Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

• eighth amendment
• constitutional law
• U.S. CONSTITUTION
• cruel and unusual punishment

De facto segregation was a term used during the 1960s racial integration efforts in schools, to describe a situation in which legislation did not overtly segregate students by race, but nevertheless school segregation continued. In Balsbaugh v. Rowland, 447 Pa.

• constitutional law

The death penalty is the state-sanctioned punishment of executing an individual for a specific crime.

• criminal law
• death penalty
• eighth amendment
• constitution
• U.S. CONSTITUTION
• constitutional law
• cruel and unusual punishment

Death row is defined as the section of a prison that holds prisoners who have been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution.

• lawsuits-court
• criminal law