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These acts may be illegal for persons under a certain age, while remaining legal for all others, which makes them status offenses. Status offense may also apply to other classes, including laws forbidding ownership of firearms by felons, where such ownership is otherwise legal; or residence within a given distance (typically, in America ...
The constitutionality of sex offender registries in the United States has been challenged on a number of state and federal constitutional grounds. While the Supreme Court of the United States has twice upheld sex offender registration laws, in 2015 it vacated a requirement that an offender submit to lifetime ankle-bracelet monitoring, finding it was a Fourth Amendment search that was later ...
delinquency, crimes committed by minors, which are dealt with by the juvenile courts and justice system; criminal behavior, crimes dealt with by the criminal justice system; status offenses, offenses that are only classified as such because only a minor can commit them. One example of this is possession of alcohol by a minor.
But illegal immigration has fallen dramatically this past year, for various reasons, and the Trump administration stands to inherit a U.S.-Mexico border in which unlawful crossings are at a five ...
Judge Jeanine Pirro's latest Fox Nation special, "Sanctuary America," draws from firsthand perspectives of families impacted by the consequences of sanctuary policies.
Employment discrimination against persons with criminal records in the United States has been illegal since enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [citation needed] Employers retain the right to lawfully consider an applicant's or employee's criminal conviction(s) for employment purposes e.g., hiring, retention, promotion, benefits, and delegated duties.
South Carolina Republicans slammed the Biden administration's border policies after an alleged bomb hoax by an illegal immigrant from Jordan shut a highway down for hours.
Many activities that were once considered crimes are no longer illegal in some countries, at least in part because of their status as victimless crimes. One example is the British sturdy beggar laws that applied the death penalty to unemployment. Two large categories of victimless crimes are sexual pleasure and recreational drug use (drug ...