Open AccessFacing the Law, Bruised
Author(s) -
Tina Achcar-Naccache
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.816
Subject(s) - criminology , law , political science , criminal law , psychology
For the first time, the Lebanese police began processing reported crimes on a computer data-base system in 1994. The first comprehensive statistics werereleased in 1995, The information in the data-base can be accessed by date, age, gender, location, and every type of crime recognized by Lebanese criminal law, including the latest to have entered the books. e.g., the buying and selling of children. a criminal activity that has flourished during and after the war. We now know how many rapes of virgins were reported. but we still do not know how manywomen have been battered by their husbands.