The Janplex Post

Evidence suggests that women in England and wales commit fewer crimes than men in the same region. According to this evidence, the number of female prisoners in England and Wales is about 4000 compared to the number of male prisoners in the same region which is over 70000. Based on these figures, policy makers are trying to reward few female offenders by proposing a scheme called the “Local Resettlement Programme for female offenders”. The local resettlement programme for female offenders involves accommodating female prisoners in local prisons rather than in distant places. It is argued that female prisoners who spend their custodial sentence within this setting can maintain family bond with their loved ones as well as enhance their chances of getting a job on release. Any effort to ensure that prisoners do not suffer more than their punishment could allow including allowing female offenders to spend their time under the local resettlement programme should be welcomed. However,...

We regularly hear about criminals behind pirated materials such as DVDs, music, and Video materials. These criminals are said to be largely poor and live in developing countries, principally from China and Columbia. Similarly, whenever the issue of fake food is being raised, accusing fingers also tend to be pointed at small food retailers. It is assumed that fake food is largely circulated by small food retailers because these retailers do not have enough resources to get food supply very cheaply from suppliers. Large food retailers are believed not to be very much involved in fake food because they have the resources to coerce food suppliers to get genuine food supplies cheap from them. In contrast, small food retailers do not have this bargaining power to buy genuine food supplies cheap from the suppliers. They trade on very narrow margins. Those who want to compete with large food retailers therefore must cut corners in order to compete effectively, which might include buyi...

A number of legislations have been introduced recently by various governments in the United Kingdom including the Sexual Offences Prevention Order and Foreign Travel Order to tackle sex crimes. However, these legislations seem not to be effective in dealing with these crimes as the level of sexual crimes in the country is believed to be on the increase rather than on the decrease. Now the government is proposing two sets of orders to fight the sexual crimes. One of these sexual offences order is called The Sexual Risk Order. This sexual risk order replaces the “risk of sexual harm order”. It can be imposed on both convicted sex offenders and persons who have never been convicted of any sex offences in the past but are perceived to pose a significant risk to the public. Among the terms of this order include the restriction of the ability of defendants to use the internet or travel abroad once the sexual risk order is imposed on them. The minimum period in which the sexual risk or...

The minimum age of driving in the United Kingdom is 17 years. Any person under this age is barred by the law from driving a vehicle. The rationale for this restriction is that driving a vehicle, amongst other things, involves having the ability to make sound judgment. People under 17 years of age are assumed to not have this ability because their brain is not fully matured before 17 years and enough personal experience to form a sound judgment. Immediately a person reaches this driving age and passes the driving test, he or she can theoretically drive for life unless he or she commits a serious traffic offence such as driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and is banned from driving by the court, or the driver can no longer drive due to underlying medical conditions. Critics have argued that this current arrangement in which a driver is given a licence to drive a vehicle for life once that driver passes the driving test at 17 years of age is flawed. According to them,...

The term discrimination is often associated with negativity. Negative discrimination involves treating one group of people less favourably than another group. The main causes of negative discrimination are many and they include race, gender, colour, religion, and sexual orientation. The victims of discrimination are always the minority groups in society while the perpetrators are often the majority groups. However, discrimination can also be described in terms of its positivity. Discrimination is said to be positive if it is used to readdress the imbalance in society caused by negative discrimination. The importance of positive discrimination is recognised almost universally. Article 2.2 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, for example, urges signatories or member states to legislate for positive discrimination. The laws of most of the countries around the world including the United States, Canada, India, China, Israel, Malays...

A large proportion of people in Britain especially those between the ages of 19 and 27 get drunk every Friday night. Emergency services including the Ambulance and police services provide round the clock care to these drunks to ensure that they are okay. In the past, policy makers have tried to tackle this binge problem by introducing different measures including the restriction of the age at which a person can purchase alcohol, asking Pubs not to sell drinks to any customer they suspect to be drunk, and increasing the taxation on alcohol. So far none of these measures has helped in reducing the binge culture. Now the police have come up with a new solution to the persistent problem of drinking called the “Drunk Tanks”. The Drunk tanks will involve private cells designed to accommodate drunk people until they become sober. They will be run by private companies who will be required to follow specific guidelines relating to the caring of vulnerable people. The cost of these servi...

Online piracy is a major problem facing the digital industry including the music, film, software, and eBooks industry. Research shows for example that about $12.5 billion is lost annually as a result of Piracy in the music industry, almost all the music downloaded online (95%) is non-copyrighted, and 42% of software being used across the world is downloaded illegally. While these figures are alarming there seem to be justifications for online piracies. The justification for online piracy is associated with poverty. The cost of many of the items being downloaded illegally online is too high compared to the cost of pirated copies of those items. People who cannot afford to pay this high price are left with no option but to get adulterated copies of the items either for a fraction of the original cost or even for free. What is the evidence for this? Research has found that the vast majority of people who download or upload pirated copies of original items are from developing countr...