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Texas police officer Shaun Lucas was arrested and charged with murder Monday night in the fatal shooting of Jonathan Price, with the Texas Rangers releasing a statement saying they concluded that ...
Contrary to arrest, which is ordered by juridical decision, detention is ordered by prosecution office. Public prosecutor can order detention only if the measure is a requisite for investigation and there is concrete evidence that one is suspicious of a crime.
Virtually all individuals who are arbitrarily arrested are given no explanation as to why they are being arrested, and they are not shown any arrest warrant. [4] Depending on the social context, many or the vast majority of arbitrarily arrested individuals may be held incommunicado and their whereabouts can be concealed from their family, associates, the public population and open trial courts.
The most significant difference is in the relative size of male and female populations; in 2014 there were approximately 1,440,000 male and 112,000 female prisoners in the United States. [2] The much larger size of the male prison population causes major differences in the institutions in which male and female inmates serve their time. [3]
The purpose of arresting illegal border crossers, including fake families, Homan argues, “is about saving lives and stopping the sexual assault of women and children coming across the border.”
More so, it has also expanded the criminalization of people by race and gender. For example, there has been a distinct increase in the number of incarcerated African American and Latina women in the U.S., who make up a disproportionate number of women arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated for drug-related offenses. [34]
In 2011, it was reported that 85 to 90% of women incarcerated were victims of sexual and domestic violence, which is significantly higher than the national average of 22.3% of women in the United States. [50] Women who face sexual or domestic violence are more likely to commit crimes themselves and become incarcerated. [51]
In New Zealand, the total number of convicted women increased by 111% between 1996 and 2005. [38] In 1963, women made up 7.7% of those convicted in New Zealand's court system, with most causes of arrest being offences against property and some offences being crime against persons and/or assault.