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It persecuted and prosecuted dissenters and recusants who stood in its path and it proclaimed its right so to do in innumerable sermons and treatises.
Many other examples, ranging from neighbours arguing over trespass to alleged thieves being prosecuted before sheriff courts, could be given.
Violence between spouses, partners, parents or children has been less likely to be prosecuted than 'public ' violence.
Democracies require that criminals be apprehended with evidence and prosecuted through the legal system before being sentenced.
Although their treachery was irrefutable, the authorities thought it wiser not to prosecute.
To be sure, it is not at all easy to uncover decisions not to pursue or prosecute thieves, or to understand just why investigations failed.
The concern with prosecuting the transgressors of enclosure rather than the violators of chastity - the latter always entailed the former - reflects developments in secular legislation.
How this revolution was to be prosecuted was never systematically discussed, nor were other options explored.
The failure to prosecute landholders responsible for the violence ' may have heightened political polarization, armed conflict, and disenchantment with the government ' (p. 161).
Of the 21 bakers prosecuted by the vice-chancellor between 1600 and 1602, only 6 appeared just once.
He led the resurgent postwar opposition and was twice prosecuted for seditious libel.
Such documentary evidence forms an imperfect measure of the actual incidence of corruption, since many incidents are never discovered or prosecuted, especially in corrupt environments.
It also tends to favour the more spectacular and public criminal purge prosecuted through the special purge courts.
This occurs only when the judicial system is highly inefficient, in the sense that the probability of being prosecuted lies below a threshold level.
This would conveniently gloss over the immunity they enjoyed and the dissatisfaction of individual victims who demanded the right to prosecute.
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