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impeding apprehension or prosecution   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)

... apprehension or prosecution Under the Criminal Law Act 1967 s 4, giving assistance to a person one knows to be guilty of an indictable offence with the intention of preventing or delaying his arrest or prosecution (e.g. providing a hiding place or destroying evidence). There are also special offences of (1) agreeing not to disclose information that might help to convict or prosecute a criminal ( see compounding an offence ), (2) refusing to aid a police officer when asked to help stop a breach of the peace, (3) obstructing a police officer , and (4)...

harbouring   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)

... n. Hiding a criminal or suspected criminal. This will normally constitute the offence of impeding apprehension or prosecution . See also escape...

harbouring   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)

...Hiding a criminal or suspected criminal. This will normally constitute the offence of impeding apprehension or prosecution . See also escape...

impeding apprehension   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)

... apprehension or prosecution Giving assistance to a person one knows to be guilty of an indictable offence (one for which the sentence is fixed by law or on first conviction an adult may be sentenced to five or more years’ imprisonment) with the intention of preventing or delaying his arrest or prosecution (e.g. providing a hiding place or destroying evidence): s 4 of the Criminal Law Act 1967 . There are also special offences of (1) agreeing not to disclose information that might help to convict or prosecute a criminal ( see ...

aid and abet   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)

...defendant had knowledge that he was assisting the principal in the commission of the crime. See also impeding apprehension or prosecution...

aid and abet   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)

...defendant had knowledge that he was assisting the principal in the commission of the crime. See also impeding apprehension or prosecution...

accessory   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)

...summary offences under section 44 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980. 2. One who knowingly assists a person who has committed an indictable offence with the intention of impeding apprehension or prosecution . For the mens rea element of an accessory, see R v Jogee [2016] UKSC 8, [2017] AC...

accessory   Quick reference

A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)

...CJ held that the words should be given their ordinary meaning. Similar provision is made in respect of summary offences under section 44 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 . 2 One who knowingly assists a person who has committed an offence with the intention of impeding apprehension or prosecution (s 4, Criminal Law Act 1967 (as amended by the Serious Organized Crime and Police Act 2005...

Human Trafficking Overview   Reference library

Fariyal Ross-Sheriff and Julie Orme

Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work

...The use of the Internet to conduct illicit business transactions, such as solicitation for labor or sexual services, further obscures victims from the public eye. The actual apprehension of traffickers is also impaired by HT conducted via the Internet, where computer IP addresses rarely lead to an arrest. If the human trafficker can be found, victims of HT may not be interested in prosecuting their trafficker, due to fear of retaliation or possibility of deportation. At Micro/Individual Level Moreover, the consequences of prolonged exposure to...

Procedure   Reference library

The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History

...and, in the case of conviction, the pronouncement of a sentence by the judge. But there were major differences. The first concerned the conduct of the prosecution. Apart from a tiny number of high-profile cases where the attorney general acted, in those days all prosecutions were brought by private citizens: the victim of the offense or the surviving relatives or, in the case of victimless offenses, the accused's fellow citizens, often motivated to prosecute by the hope of a reward. So in its “classic” form English criminal procedure was, among other...

Proactive Policing and Terrorism   Reference library

Badi Hasisi, Simon Perry, and Michael Wolfowicz

The Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology

...and terrorism may mean that a zero-tolerance policy toward subterroristic radical violence and hate crime can help reduce the risk of terrorism. As such, zero-tolerance policies are primarily intended to provide a high degree of deterrence by increasing the threat and risk or apprehension and the consequences with which it is associated ( Walfield, Socia, & Powers, 2017 ). Many countries already take a zero-tolerance approach. For example, Weenink ( 2012 ) details a case in the Netherlands in which a known radical was found to be in possession of two firearms...

Maritime Piracy and Foreign Policy   Reference library

Brandon C. Prins and Ursula Daxecker

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis

...pirates by states, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, have made ship seizures more difficult. Further, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime established its Maritime Crime Program (MCP) in 2009 to assist governments with the apprehension, prosecution, and imprisonment of captured pirates. Not only have correctional facilities been built or refurbished in Somaliland and Puntland to hold many of the pirates captured during operations in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean, but also the MCP now assists with counter-piracy capacity building in the Gulf of Guinea. The...

United States of America   Reference library

The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality

...a scarf or Velcro blood-pressure cuff. Corseting of the waist is another less obvious method of impeding oxygen intake. This practice takes the lives of an estimated 250 to 1,000 Americans each year. It is believed that many more people experiment with asphyxia safely alone and/or with a partner, but because this act carries great legal liability if things go wrong, it is impossible to estimate the number of people who engage in it. During the early 1990s, a Seattle man made an effort, through workshops and lectures, to teach safety techniques to practitioners....

The Eruv as Contested Jewish Space in North America   Reference library

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America

...apprehensions reveal “the tenuous sense of acceptance in the locality that some Jewish people felt, which the eruv was seen to threaten further.” 22 Non-Orthodox Jews, who had themselves encountered an unwelcoming reception in Tenafly, now feared their own acceptance could be adversely impacted by the claims of a more religiously observant group of Jews. The Tenafly Borough council voted unanimously to remove the eruv, citing a 1954 Borough ordinance prohibiting unauthorized posting of signs, advertisements, or “other matter” on public poles or...