Translation of "délits de vagabondage et d'extorsion " (French → English) :

44.Calls on the Member States to adopt a proactive approach to investigating cases of extortion, for example through incentives and forms of financial support to enable complainants to continue their business activities, together with the launch of investigations on the basis of intelligence work; believes it is essential to strengthen both the role of civil society and partnerships between civil society and the judicial system and the police, and that this is to be encouraged; calls on Member States to encourage the signing of memorandums of understanding between the public and traders and entrepreneurs complaining of racketeering, in ...[+++] order to enable them to work despite the attendant difficulties; calls on the Commission, in its proposal for a directive on the confiscation of the proceeds of organised crime, to extend the measures currently provided for in Article 3(1) of Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA to the offence of extortion;

In many countries, such persons are regarded as wrongdoers rather than as victims of crime and prosecuted for breaches of immigration laws, prostitution, or serious or lesser indictable offences that the law subsumes under terms such as ‘indecency’, ‘vagrancy’, and the like.

Considering that “addicts” were “basically criminals who daily violate the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act”, the Committee argued that municipal and police authorities, more particularly those of Vancouver, should more effectively invoke the provisions of the Criminal Code dealing with theft, vagrancy and prostitution.

all major crimes (Verbrechen), i.e. all offences carrying a minimum of one year's imprisonment, e.g. serious forms of trafficking in people, theft and receiving as well as illegal trade in drugs and arms all less serious crime (Vergehen) under Section 29, subsection 1, first sentence No 1 of the Narcotics Act ( Betäubungsmittelgesetz) or Section 29, subsection 1 of the Commodities Control Act (Grundstoffüberwachungsgesetz), in particular illegal trade in narcotics and precursors (a 'Vergehen' is an offence carrying a minimum sentence of less than one year's imprisonment or a fine) certain 'Vergehen' involving property, fraud, document and corruption offences committed on a commercial basis by a member of a gang formed for recurrent commis ...[+++]sion of such offences (e.g. commercial and gang fraud) all Vergehen committed by a member of a criminal association within the meaning of Section 129 of the Criminal Code (e.g. extortion, procuring and illegal gaming).

If the leader of the third party does not know, let me tell him that what has been done has been to amend the Criminal Code to provide for victim impact statements wherever they are prepared; to allow for the return of stolen property; to protect the identity of victims and witnesses of sexual offences and extortion; to levy victims fine surcharges; to amend the code to permit the courts to order restitution to victims; and to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act to recognize the role of victims in relation to federal corrections.

The Criminal Code has a number of provisions now relating to victims' rights. There are sections dealing with the identification and prompt return of stolen property; protection of the identity of witnesses or victims in certain offences including sexual offences and extortion; the imposition of a victim fine surcharge at sentencing, which was expected to raise $11 million last year; the use of victim impact statements at the time of sentencing.