Secondary penalties are penalties which can be imposed in addition to a principal punishment (such as fines, penal labour or transportation) but not as a “stand alone” punishment. Continue reading Secondary penalties
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Outline Penal Code
Below an outline of our proposal for a penal code. The proposed code is under construction and will with crimes, while lesser offences (calles contraventions) are treated in the offences code.
In the comment section you could propose specific provisions for this code, but recall that those should fit into our commitment to secular, liberal humanism. More specific we do not believe in victimless crimes, i.e. a crime should impose harm on either individuals or on society at large.
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