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Crime

"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." -G. Gordon Liddy

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July 2008
- 'Ironclad' Authority of DNA Evidence Questioned
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 20, 08 11:47 AM CDT
  
  With odds of a definite match to suspects often cited as high as 1 in 100 billion, the power of DNA evidence in a criminal case is rarely disputed. But new studies are leading some to question whether DNA evidence should be an ironclad determination of guilt, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
- Khloe Spends 173 Minutes in Slammer
  
  newser | Us Magazine | Jul 19, 08 12:52 PM CDT
  
  Reality TV starlet Khloe Kardashian is free today after spending 173 minutes in a California jail for a parole violation, Us Weekly reports. For those keeping track, her stay was more than twice as long as Nicole Richie’s last year at the same detention facility. More »
- Requests for Pardons Flood White House
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 19, 08 11:33 AM CDT
  
  President Bush is nearing the end of his term, and felons are coming out of the woodwork in historic numbers to ask for pardons and reduced sentences, the New York Times reports. It is not unusual for there to be a spike in pardons granted by a president in his final months in office: Half of Bill Clinton’s 459 pardons happened in his last three months. More »
- How Piracy Can Boost Business
  
  newser | Economist | Jul 19, 08 11:03 AM CDT
  
  Intellectual piracy is bad for business, yes, but also inevitable—and companies fare better when turning it to their advantage, the Economist reports. The large (and illegal) volume of music and video exchanged online, for example, can reveal who’s popular in which countries. And Microsoft, which officially battles piracy, also derives massive benefits from bootlegging of Windows. More »
- Illegal Search Rule Faces New Challenge
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 19, 08 8:16 AM CDT
  
  America is the only country in the world where evidence—even a carload of narcotics—is automatically suppressed if the police are found to have acted wrongly in acquiring it, writes the New York Times . Courts in other countries weigh the level of police misconduct with the gravity of the crime and the power of the evidence. In the US, the exclusion is absolute, but a change could be coming. More »
- Peterson Blog Sparks Outrage
  
  newser | Radar | Jul 18, 08 7:29 PM CDT
  
  Scott Peterson has a blog—of sorts. The death row inmate, convicted for the murder of his wife Laci and the fetus she carried, is posting his thoughts on a website set up by a Canadian anti-death penalty group, Radar reports. The occasional postings concern his appeal, his "wrongful conviction," and his “mother-in-law,” Laci's mom—who went on Larry King Live last night to describe her outrage. More »
- Phone Dragnet Redefines 'APB'
  
  newser | WBZ 4 | Jul 18, 08 3:50 PM CDT
  
  Foiled in their attempts to track down a hit-and-run driver by conventional means, cops in a Boston suburb are enlisting the help of thousands of city residents—by phone. A BMW struck a 9-year-old girl Saturday, leaving her with a fractured skull and investigators with little info. They sent a recorded message to more than 24,000 households and now have dozens of leads, WBZ-TV reports. More »
- Jogger in Mystery Murder Abused by Hubby: Family
  
  newser | ABC News | Jul 18, 08 9:37 AM CDT
  
  The family of a woman found murdered in North Carolina has won custody of her two children after they told the court that her "mentally unstable" husband had been emotionally abusive and had been involved in an affair. No suspects have been named in the mystery murder, but police have taken a DNA sample from the husband. More »
- Woman Sues Spitzer Call Girl in ID Theft
  
  newser | Star-Ledger | Jul 18, 08 5:59 AM CDT
  
  A New Jersey woman has filed a federal lawsuit against Ashley Dupre—better known as Eliot Spitzer's high-priced call girl—and Girls Gone Wild for defamation and invasion of privacy for Dupre's use of the woman's lost driver's license on the raunchy program. More »
- AK-47s Flooding US Cities
  
  newser | Mother Jones | Jul 17, 08 3:03 PM CDT
  
  At least one of America’s borders is wide open: Gun manufacturers are selling imported semiautomatic weapons with ease ever since the Bush administration allowed 1994's assault weapons ban to lapse, writes Bruce Falconer for Mother Jones . “We’re being flooded with these AK-47s,” said Miami’s police chief, who has seen semiautomatic usage account for 20% of his city’s homicides. More »
- Murdered Girl's Stepdad Indicted for Child Porn
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 8:15 AM CDT
  
  The former stepfather of murdered Vermont teenager Brooke Bennett has been indicted for child pornography, and may face obstruction of justice charges for the girl’s death, the AP reports. Raymond Gagnon was charged yesterday with both transporting child porn and having it on his computer. More »
- Maddy 'Suspect' Wins Libel Damages
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 6:47 AM CDT
  
  A man named by police as a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann will collect $1 million in libel damages from a number of British newspapers in a deal expected to be announced today. Brit Robert Murat, 34, lived near the Portuguese resort where Maddy disappeared during a family vacation last year. Maddy's parents, also named as suspects, have also won major libel settlements. Portuguese officials plan to announce the next step in the case Monday. More »
- Boy-Band Promoter to Repay $300M
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 16, 08 1:47 PM CDT
  
  Lou Pearlman and federal authorities have finally agreed on how much the former boy band promoter swindled from banks and investors in a decades-long scam: a staggering $300 million. That's how much the creator of the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync will have to pay, at a minimum, in restitution for the fraud conviction for which he's serving a 25-year prison sentence. More »
- Ex-Samsung Boss Convicted in Tax Case
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 16, 08 6:20 AM CDT
  
  A South Korean court convicted former Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee of tax evasion today, but handed the country's iconic business figure a 3-year suspended sentence, leaving him free from prison, reports the AP. The Seoul court found Lee, who resigned in April when the charges were brought, guilty of not paying about $46 million in taxes and fined him $109 million. More »
- LA's 'Black Widows' Get Life in Prison for Murders
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 16, 08 1:43 AM CDT
  
  Two elderly women who carried out a cold-blooded scheme to murder homeless men have been sentenced to life without parole by a Los Angeles judge. Helen Golay, 77, and 75-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt—nicknamed the "Black Widows" in the media—lured two vagrants off the street, cared for them for two years, then murdered them for $2.8 million in life insurance, reports the Los Angeles Times . More »
- Manson Follower Won't Go Free
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 15, 08 6:11 PM CDT
  
  A California parole board today refused to grant a compassionate release for Susan Atkins, a follower of Charles Manson who admitted murdering Sharon Tate 40 years ago, the AP reports. Atkins, 60, is dying of brain cancer, and the parole board listened to impassioned pleas from both sides in a 90-minute hearing before unanimously rejecting her release. More »
- DA to Prison Board: Don't Free Ailing Manson Killer
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 15, 08 9:30 AM CDT
  
  The Los Angeles County district attorney has asked the California parole board to deny Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins' request for compassionate release from prison. Atkins, who was convicted of seven 1969 murders, is terminally ill with brain cancer. The DA noted that Atkins stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate, tasted her blood, and used it to write the word "Pig" on the victim's door during a murderous Manson Family rampage. More »
- Husband Charged With Soldier's Murder
  
  newser | Fayetteville Observer (NC) | Jul 14, 08 4:48 PM CDT
  
  Police today charged the husband of a missing Army officer with first-degree murder in her death, the Fayetteville Observer reports. Authorities discovered a charred corpse, believed to be the body of 2nd Lt. Holly Wimunc, yesterday near Camp Lejeune, NC. The husband, a marine, is stationed there. He and an alleged accomplice also face arson charges. More »
- 'Bonnie' Joins 'Clyde' in ID Theft Guilty Plea
  
  newser | Philadelphia Inquirer | Jul 14, 08 2:28 PM CDT
  
  Jocelyn Kirsch, half of the Philadelphia couple once dubbed the “Bonnie and Clyde of Identity Theft,” followed her ex-boyfriend’s lead and pleaded guilty today, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The 22-year-old ex-Drexel student faces a mandatory minimum of 2 years in federal prison for her part in the plot. She and Edward Anderton swiped over $116,000 from friends and relatives. More »
- Ex-Inmates Say Russia Keeps 'Torture Prisons'
  
  newser | NPR | Jul 14, 08 6:30 AM CDT
  
  Overcrowding and disease are comparatively minor problems for inmates in Russia's alleged "torture prisons," where convicts are said to suffer regular beatings. Officials insist that they probe all complaints, but NPR has yielded harrowing stories from ex-inmates after four were reportedly clubbed to death this spring. "God help you," one former prisoner said, "if you end up in a Russian jail." More »

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prison
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

prison place of confinement for the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals. By the end of the 18th cent. imprisonment was the chief mode of punishment for all but capital crimes. At that time, largely as a result of the writings of Cesare Beccaria in Italy and John Howard and others in ...

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crime
A Dictionary of Sociology

crime A crime is held to be an offence which goes beyond the personal and into the public sphere, breaking prohibitory rules or laws, to which legitimate punishments or sanctions are attached, and which requires the intervention of a public authority (the state or a local body). Ideally, the ...

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