Problem
Government failure to prosecute offenders
Other Names:
Government pardoning of convicted human rights offendersArbitrary reduction of sentences for offenders after conviction
Inadequate punishment of international criminals in their own countries
Official amnesty for killers
Incidence:
In Argentina, for example, the government passed a series of decrees pardoning almost all those convicted as responsible for human rights abuses involving the forced disappearance of an estimated 15,000 people during the military dictatorship's operations in the 1970s and 1980s. Several Italian politicians accused in corruption scandals were pardoned in 1992 by emergency parliamentary decrees which decriminalized offences involving financing political parties with illegally-raised funds. Broader Problems:
CriminalsInadequate national law enforcementInadequate enforcement of human rightsUnethical practices in the legal systemDeficiencies in the criminal justice system Narrower Problems:
Injustice of military tribunalsIneffective war crime prosecutionInadequate evidence to convict known offenders Related Problems:
Legal inconsistencyExcessive leniency in sentencing of offenders Aggravates:
Neglect of victims of crimePremature release of offendersInternational criminal activity Reduces:
Punishment Strategies:
PardoningInternational penal codePunishing international criminalsChanging prison sentencesReducing prison sentencesJudging criminalsProsecuting offendersImproving punishment of international criminals in their own countriesProviding inadequate punishment of international criminals in their own countriesPunishing crimes Subject(s):
Societal Problems → FailureSocietal Problems → Destruction
Societal Problems → Crime
Societal Problems → Punishment
Societal Problems → Inadequacy
Government → Government
Law → Tribunals, courts
Law → Arbitration
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST