Coercive plea bargaining has been criticized on the grounds that it infringes an individual's rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, incorporated in the UK's Human Rights Act 1998.

The Boston Port Act ( the Trade Act 1774 ) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which became law on March 1, 1774, and is one of the measures ( variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts ) that were designed to secure Great Britain's jurisdictions over her American dominions.

The First Continental Congress was convened in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, to coordinate a colonial response to the Port Act and the other Coercive Acts.

Its predecessor, the First Continental Congress, had sent entreaties to the British King George III to stop the Coercive Acts and had created the Continental Association to establish a coordinated protest of the Coercive Acts ; in particular, a boycott had been placed on British goods.

That First Congress provided that the Second Continental Congress would meet on May 10, 1775, to plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the Coercive Acts.

The First Continental Congress was convened at Carpenters ' Hall in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, to coordinate a response to the Coercive Acts.

In 1993, he co-founded Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network ( FACTNet or F. A. C. T. Net ) as an information resource on cults.

* Coercive function, mathematical function that " grows rapidly " at the extremes of the space on which it is defined

* 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

The issue of Parliament's authority in the colonies became a crisis after Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774 to punish the Province of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party of 1773.

In Connelly, the Court held that " Coercive police activity is a necessary predicate to a finding that a confession is not ' voluntary ' within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Schein published Coercive Persuasion and Lifton published Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism.

Many colonists saw the Coercive Acts as a violation of the British Constitution and thus a threat to the liberties of all of British America.

Isaiah Thomas of the Massachusetts Spy drew links between the Quebec Act and legislation circumscribing American liberties, such as the Tea Act and the Coercive Acts.

Huntington was an outspoken critic of the Coercive Acts of the British Parliament.

* Coercive Power is the manager's ability to punish an employee.

; Coercive power: Coercive power is the application of negative influences.

Coercive power tends to be the most obvious but least effective form of power as it builds resentment and resistance from the people who experience it.

These measures were known as the Coercive Acts in Britain, while dubbed the Intolerable Acts in the colonies.

* Coercive Persuasion: A socio-psychological analysis of the " brainwashing " of American civilian prisoners by the Chinese Communists ( 1961 ), W. W. Norton ( publishers )

The Coercive Acts or the Intolerable Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America.

Although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least protest of the Coercive Acts.

Many colonists saw the Coercive Acts as a violation of their constitutional rights, their natural rights, and their colonial charters.

The citizens of Boston not only viewed this as an act of unnecessary and cruel punishment, but the Coercive Acts drew the revolting hate against Britain even further.

As a result of the Coercive Acts, even more colonists wanted to go against Britain.

Great Britain hoped that the Coercive Acts would isolate radicals in Massachusetts and cause American colonists to concede the authority of Parliament over their elected assemblies.

The Continental Congress created the Continental Association, an agreement to boycott British goods and, if that did not get the Coercive Acts reversed after a year, to stop exporting goods to Great Britain as well.

Relations between the colonies and the mother country had reached a crisis in Boston, Massachusetts, following the 1774 passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament.

Following shortly after a sex scandal that had forced Prescott to resign his ministerial responsibilities while retaining his salary and privileges, the incident was portrayed as evidence that Prescott had little real responsibility for running the country during the absence of the Prime Minister.

With the help of his underling, Tim Stamper, Urquhart goes about making sure his competitors drop out of the race: Peter MacKenzie, secretary of health, accidentally runs his car over a protester at a demonstration staged by Urquhart and is forced to withdraw by the public outcry, while Harold Earle, secretary for education, is blackmailed into withdrawing when Urquhart anonymously sends pictures of him in the company of a rentboy he had paid for sex.

While the majority of trafficking victims are women, and sometimes children, who are forced into prostitution ( in which case the practice is called sex trafficking ), victims also include men, women and children who are forced into manual labour.

The trafficker retains control over the migrant — through force, fraud or coercion — typically in the sex industry, through forced labour or through other practices similar to slavery.

For a brief time Ryan is the National Security Advisor, but when Vice President Ed Kealty is forced to resign after a sex scandal, President Roger Durling taps him for the job.

While Plaid Cymru regarded itself as the natural beneficiary of devolution, others attributed its performance in large part to the travails of the Labour Party, whose nomination for Assembly First Secretary, Ron Davies, was forced to stand down in an alleged sex scandal.

Suffrage activists, especially Harriet Burton Laidlaw and Rose Livingston, worked in New York City's Chinatown and in other cities to rescue young white and Chinese girls from forced prostitution, and helped pass the Mann Act to make interstate sex trafficking a federal crime.

Eric enters the room, and after brief questioning from Goole, he breaks down, admitting that he drunkenly forced Eva to have sex and stole £ 50 from his father's business to pay her off when she became pregnant.

The mainly Russian language film follows a young girl living in an unspecified country in the former Soviet Union ( filmed in Estonia ) as she is abandoned by her mother, drops out of school, is forced into prostitution and then is kidnapped into sex slavery.

Girls are often forced to be sex slaves.

On her wearing of trousers, she said at the time that her choice of attire was simply practical as it facilitated her work with animals: " I was forced to recognize that the clothing of my sex was a constant bother.

" Nichols pointed to the firing and rehiring of police chief Bruce Nichols and to a town judge, who later was forced to leave his post, who pleaded no contest to clearing a woman's speeding ticket in exchange for solicited sex.

Grunseth was forced to withdraw amid allegations of a sex scandal just two weeks before the election.

In the wake of a succession of issues — the pushing of a highly unpopular consumer tax through the Diet in late 1988, the Recruit insider trading scandal, which tainted virtually all top LDP leaders and forced the resignation of Prime Minister Takeshita Noboru in April ( a successor did not appear until June ), the resignation in July of his successor, Uno Sosuke, because of a sex scandal, and the poor showing in the upper house election — the media provided the Japanese with a detailed and embarrassing dissection of the political system.

Sexual slavery may include single-owner sexual slavery, ritual slavery sometimes associated with certain religious practices, slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes but where non-consensual sex is common, or forced prostitution.

Dutch news site Expatica reported that in 2008, there were 809 registered trafficking victims in the Netherlands ; out of those 763 were women and at least 60 percent of them were reportedly forced to work in the sex industry.

Many clients may not realize that some of the women who work in these massage sex parlors are actually forced in prostitution.

In some cases women who have been sex trafficked may have to undergo plastic surgery or even forced abortions.

Activities can include strap-on dildo penetration ( pegging ), in which the dominant partner performs anal sex on the submissive partner, facesitting or smothering, which both tend to focus on the submissive partner giving the dominant partner cunnilingus, or in some instances " forced " feminization of a male partner.

At the party on October 3, 2002 she was discovered, by forced inspection ( conducted by Brown ), to have male sex organs, following which the men with whom she had sexual relations with became violent.

" Variety called the show " forced and derivative ," " bland " and " predictable and silly " while conceding that the sex is " no more outrageous than daytime soapers, no more outspoken than Three's Company.

In this castle they spend several years learning to become obedient and submissive sexual property, accepting being spanked and forced to have sex with nobles and slaves of both sexes, being publicly displayed and humiliated, and crawling around on their hands and knees like animals until they return to their own lands " being enhanced in wisdom.

* South Korean actress, Jang Ja-yeon claimed that she was forced to have sex with several VIPs, including Bang Sang Hoon, CEO of Chosun Journal ; Vice-President of Sports Chosun, Bang Myung-Hoon ; and Chosun Central Journal's Director of Advertising, Lee Jae Young in her suicide note.

Davies was then forced to resign his position after an alleged sex scandal, whereupon Morgan again ran for the post.