Political Crime Research Articles

In re Barratini.

Extradition — Conditions of — Political Crime — Nature of.

Extradition (Germany and Italy) Case.

Extradition — Political Crimes — Discretion of Extraditing Government.Extradition — Limitation of Trial to Grime for which Surrender was Granted — Political Grime — Incompetence of Courts to Review Decision of Extraditing Government — Discretion of Extraditing Government — Extradition Treaty and Rights of Individual.

The Position of Aliens in National Socialist Penal Law Reform

The draconic character of German National Socialist legislation on political crime has been brought forcibly to public attention by the recent activity of the People’s Court (Volksgericht), which was established last year for the purpose of assuring a more effective repression of treason and espionage. The subject is one of international concern, since the court has jurisdiction over aliens for acts committed abroad as well as upon German territory, and applies a law which is almost unparalleled at the present time in its severity and comprehensiveness. The safeguards commonly deemed essential to the protection of the accused are absent from the proceedings of the Volksgericht, which are secret as to indictment, investigation and trial.

Population Growth and Birth-Control

RAPID increase of the population of India has led to a demand for the inception of preventive measures. Birth-control there, and also in Great Britain, is, however, criticised by Col. C. A. Gill in a recent somewhat polemical paper (J. Hygiene, 34, 502; 1934). According to Col. Gill, population in an area ought to be considered not only from the point of view of numbers, but also from the occurrence of irregular changes or ‘movements' in the population, which, apart from migration, are largely determined by forces controlling the birth- and death-rates. Statistical methods forecasting future population ignore such ‘movements' of population, and estimates based upon population-growth curves have proved unreliable, for example, in India, and must be accepted with reserve. In a primitive community, prolificity as a means of race survival and an essential factor for progressive evolution is a paramount necessity, and artificial birth-control would constitute racial infanticide. Rural India, it is held, is such a community and is under-populated, and any State action to promote the practice of birth-control there is regarded as being a political crime and a biological blunder. In Great Britain, natural forces are now acting tending to limit increase of population, such as postponement of the average age of marriage and, possibly, a real decline in fertility. Since Nature requires a wide field of selection, nothing should be done to restrict the reservoir from which in the past many have sprung who have contributed greatly to human progress. The encouragement of birth-control among the masses, it is argued, is therefore to be regarded as being biologically reprehensible.

In re Vogt.

285Extradition — Political Crimes — Assembly of Workpeople in the Course of Food Riots — Taking of Hostages.

Pavan Case.

Extradition — Political Crime — Requirements of the Political Character of a Crime — Direct Connection between the Crime and the Desired Political Object — Murder of an Alleged Fascist Spy by an Italian in France — French Request for Extradition.

Noblot Case.

350Extradition — Political Crime — Forgery of Documents with Political Object in View.

In re Dr. Paulo Deleuze.

265Extradition — Extraditable Crimes — Extradition of Nationals — Conditions of Extradition — Procedure — Political Criminals — Trading with the Enemy as a Political Crime.

Spanish-German Extradition Treaty Case.

Individuals in International Law — Rights of Individuals under Extradition Treaties.Political Crimes — Rights of Individuals under Extradition Treaties — Extradition for Common Murder — Prosecution and Conviction for a Political Crime.

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Political crime in India

Political crime in India