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Jung Joon Young  - Initial Sentence: 6 years in prison.  - Reduced Sentence: 5 years after expressing regret.  - Additional Penalties: 80 hours of sexual assault therapy rehabilitation, banned from working in facilities related to children and youth for 5 years. Choi Jonghoon  - Initial Sentence: 5 years in prison for rape.  - Reduced Sentence: 2 years and 6 months after a settlement with victims.  - Additional Penalties: 80 hours of sexual assault therapy rehabilitation, banned from working in facilities related to children and youth for 5 years. Seungri  - Initial Sentence: 3 years in prison for nine charges, including prostitution mediation, embezzlement, and habitual gambling.  - Reduced Sentence: 1 year and 6 months by a higher military court.  - Additional Penalties: Ordered to pay a significant fine, partially overturned. https://lnkd.in/gJfzgSPd

How communities look at crime has become a genre, not just a narrative. At CPE, we work with elected officials, activists, and police departments to create an interruption in the current genre and introduce a new counter-genre to transform how we think about crime. Watch this reel from our recent 'Justice Talk' with CPE CEO and Co-founder Dr. Philip Atiba Solomon to learn more!

Deputy Public Defender Mike Mangels—who leads NJOPD’s team of public defenders representing civilly committed detainees—recently spoke with NJ Advance Media about how rare victories are for individuals trying to be released from what can be an indefinite detainment at Special Treatment Units. Learn more about this critical issue below. #NJOPD #publicdefender #civilcommittment #SpecialTreatmentUnits

In this podcast produced with Asymmetrical Haircuts, two Justice Info correspondents take the floor. Mariam Sankanu, who is covering the post-Truth Commission period in Gambia. And Hannah el Hitami, who in Germany has covered several major universal jurisdiction trials, including the latest against a Gambian, Bai Lowe, sentenced to life imprisonment. They recount their experiences of these trials, and explain, along with two legal experts, what we can expect from the trial of former minister Ousman Sonko,

I have yet to see Keir Starmer admit to ANY mistakes. To paraphrase JFK: success has many fathers, failure an orphan. He has many questions to answer. #MrBatesvsThePostOffice #postofficescandal #politics #labour #accountability #crownprosecutionservice #injustice

The story about how Bradley Balzan was shot and killed in his own backyard by plainclothes police after an encounter where he was identified as suspicious simply for wearing a hoodie is horrifying. In this episode of Background Briefing, "Stop and Search 3 - The numbers Game," Paul Farrell goes into the forensic detail of proactive policing and especially how policing efforts and resources are driven by particular sets of statistics. I was intrigued by this especially because as a young lawyer decades ago I worked for the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service, with a focus on training, management and oversight. Importantly as a person who has worked as a senior public servant, in management, and in regulation, it was a stark reminder of how absolutely important it is that KPIs and targets are truly tied to organisational goals. They must not become false gods in their own right and must be revisited and reassessed to ensure that they are doing their job. We must also keep in mind important intangibles that are difficult to measure. This is core business that cannot be ignored and in some areas the lack of checks and failure to continually watch that alignment can have devastating consequences. #publicservice #publicsafety #publicadministration #kpis #law #lawenforcement #regulation https://lnkd.in/g3hFr43g

From veteran Dateline NBC producer Dan Slepian comes… THE SING SING FILES: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice—an account of Slepian’s two-decade-journey through the criminal justice system to free six innocent men falsely imprisoned for murder. Coming September 3, 2024. Pre-order your copy now: https://bit.ly/3J5sLXY "Dan Slepian’s engrossing insider’s narrative lays bare the infuriating incapacity and willful blindness of New York prosecutors, police, defense lawyers, and judges to recognize and correct wrongful convictions. The Sing Sing Files is a vitally important book that inspires hope that we can and will do better." —Barry Scheck, Co-Founder and Special Counsel, Innocence Project "Dan Slepian has written a book that is as informative as it is enraging. In these gripping case studies of innocent men wrongfully convicted, you learn how and why the truth often does not prevail in the American justice system. You also get a glimpse of the strength of the human spirit and of heroic efforts to right these wrongs. The stories are inspiring and so is the author. He has spent a career 'given the buried voice sound,' as one incarcerated man put it. This volume is on full blast with this tour-de-force. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about criminal justice, mass incarceration, or humanity." —Rachel Barkow, author of Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration and Professor at @NYULaw Like Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, THE SING SING FILES is a powerful account of addressing wrongful imprisonment but in the nation’s largest city, not the rural South. Slepian’s extraordinary book, at once infuriating and full of hope, shines a light on an injustice whose impact the nation has only begun to confront. #TheSingSingFiles

Yesterday I visted the The Royal Society in London to attend a conference organised by the Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) on ‘Fighting Crime with Legitimacy and Procedual Justice’. What an excellent event! Incredibly insightful talks presented from a range of experts in the field! Alex Murray Lawrence Sherman Alexis Piquero tom tyler Gary LaFree Justice Tankebe Peter Neyroud and others! A wealth of knowledge and innovative research shared that will inform my role. Some of my favourite quotes from the day: -Legitimacy is an inherent good (Justice Tankebe) -Police Legitmacy is a strategy (tom tyler) - We created institutions, we can change them (Gary LaFree) - The UK do EBP well, leaders must listen to the research (tom tyler) #continualprofessionaldevelopment #conference #theroyalsociety #societyofevidencebasedresearch #policelegitimacy #proceduraljustice

“Seen from the vantage point of the present, the future appears uncertain…At the present moment we cannot know how they [future events, even in the moment] will turn out. But we can know that we ourselves or other observers will in a future present know what the situation is, and will then judge differently from the way we do now- although differences in judgement among us might arise…and in addition…what can occur in the future also depends on decisions made at the present(Luhmann, 2008, p. 16).” The only way to know if a future decision affecting an event was the right decision is to look back in hindsight. Even then disagreement can be had over how the decision should have been made. But are those using hindsight going through the same tunnel of decision making as those encountering the event with the future uncertain? Nope. It’s easy to be perfect when one looks back in time and says they should have, could have, or would have…if only they were there. Luhmann, N. (2008). Risk. A Sociological Theory. Aldine Transaction.

Representing the Public Defenders' Department along with my colleague Shuzvon Ramdass featuring on a live broadcast hosted by the Rise Maximum Radio, a radio station based in Maximum Security Prison, Arouca. This monthly initiative of the PDD is meant to reach the inmates to provide much needed information about their legal rights, options available to them, and how the Criminal Justice System works. The PDD is a department that provides quality defence representation to legally aided clients in the High Court. #publicdefenderstt #publicdefenderstrinidadandtobago #pddtt