Contributing Factors that Influence a Student’s Decision Regarding a Juvenile Sentence

On March 21, 2000, 15-year-old Alonza Thomas ran away from home. During Alonza’s time away from home, he met a man and went to his apartment. Alonza stayed at his apartment for a couple of days (McNally, 2018). The man cooked for him and gave him a place to sleep. Alonza tried to go home, but the man became irrational and approached Alonza with a gun, stating “You think you’re gonna eat my food for free? Live in my house and just walk out? And think things come free like that? No, you’re gonna have to rob this store. ...You’re gonna do this for me” (McNally, 2018). Fearing for his life Alonza did as he was told; he went to the Fastrip gas station and placed a gun at the clerk\u27s chest. Alonza held his gun the way he saw actors hold their gun in movies such as “Menace II Society” and Boyz n the Hood.” He told the clerk to empty the register. The clerk hit his hand on the glass and the gun discharged. Alonza tried to make a run for it, but the store clerk leaped on top of Alonza and began beating him. The clerk and other workers held Alonza at gun point until the officers arrived. Alonza was charged with three counts of second-degree robbery, one count of assault with a firearm and enhancements for personal use of a firearm (McNally, 2018)

SDG16: peace, justice and strong institutions - a political ecology perspective

This chapter assesses the implications of UN SDG 16: ‘Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions’ for both forests and people. Particular focus is placed on three thematic areas: 1) peace and the reduction of armed conflict, 2) the rule of law, accountability, transparency, and access to justice and 3) inclusiveness and participation. Conflict is widely variable in its effects, and may either prevent agricultural expansion or drive illicit crop production, and foster migration in or out of forested areas; while peace is often accompanied by state-supported mining and expansion of commercial crops. Regarding rule of law, forest policy in many countries favours political elite, large-scale industry actors and international trade. Hence, if SDG implementation strengthens state institutions, the ‘rule of law’ and transparency linked with international trade, it is likely to reinforce existing inequalities, unless it is counter-balanced with legal reforms that strengthen local rights to land and resources. While there has been much recent progress in promoting ‘participatory’ forest management, this is often tightly controlled by the state, contributing to local administrative burdens without redistributing power and benefits. In sum, the impacts of SDG 16 on forests and people depend on how it shapes power and resource distribution

The Persistent Problem of Consent in Australian Criminal Laws on Trafficking in Persons, Slavery and Slavery-like Practices

The Australian federal government, in its recent review of the trafficking in persons, slavery and slavery like offences in divs 270 and 271 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), revisited the question of whether these offences adequately enshrine the principle of the irrelevance of consent originating in art 3(b) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. The task of ensuring compliance with this principle is fraught, given that both the meaning of consent in this context and the parameters of the principle itself are not settled. This article argues that, contrary to the intention of Australian legislators, consent is in fact relevant for the purposes of establishing a number of the offences in divs 270 and 271. It suggests that law reform on this matter is warranted, not only to address compliance with international law, but also to contend with challenges in the implementation of these laws connected to the meaning and role of consent

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