Any person assisting or attempting to assist the unauthorised entry of a foreigner in the EU is liable for prosecution. This "crime" has a name: the offense of solidarity. In theory, European ...

Can you imagine that a thief, a rapist or any other criminal could be arrested today even before he commits his crime? This sci-fi scenario is already partly an established  reality in Los Angeles, ...

Juvenile justice usually has to choose between punishing and educating. In Switzerland, judges can do both. Swiss juvenile law requires that young offenders who have dropped out and have family ...

How did a mother turn from a helpless victim to a whistleblower in the Depakine health scandal? This anti-epileptic drug, produced by French Big Pharma giant Sanofi, is notoriously known to have ...

How far can the greed of slum landlords go? This investigation into the living conditions of Filipino workers in Geneva reveals a sordid traffic in which an apartment can be rented by the room at ...

Ten years ago, Adeline Morel accompanied an inmate on a therapeutic outing. Fabrice A., twice convicted of aggravated rape, slit her throat. The killer was sentenced to life imprisonment, and joined ...

The wave of testimonies regarding elite sport coaches' acts of psychological, physical or sexual misconduct continues to flood in and undermine the world of high-performance sport. More and more ...

When a crime is committed, the spotlight is always on the victim and his or her family. But what aboutthe perpetrator's relatives? Their lives will never be the same again either. Dominique Moulinas ...

How can children be protected when they getcaught up in warfare during high-conflict divorceor separation? In order to better identify familydysfunctions, justice authorities sometimesrequest ...

He had everything going for him: sumptuous mistresses, despite a sham marriage, the prestige of power over Spain, whose  democratic transition he had ensured after Francos's military dictatorship. ...