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Crime

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

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July 2008
- 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 »
- 7 Years on, Chandra Murder Still a Mystery
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 13, 08 11:03 AM CDT
  
  The storm of press on the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy gave way to the 9/11 attacks—but the mystery was never solved. Today, the Washington Post begins a 12-part series probing the investigation and a number of pitfalls along the way. The first piece examines the early stages of the case as Levy went missing and Washington police struggled to gather clues to her disappearance. More »
- Rome Cracks Down on Revelers
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 11, 08 5:50 PM CDT
  
  Rome's residents and visitors had best behave themselves for the next 4 months: An experimental ordinance bans eating and drinking in the streets of the Eternal City, and cracks down on hooligans who want to "shout, sing or be noisy," Reuters reports. The newly elected mayor enacted the law, which applies through October in "areas of historic, cultural or artistic value." More »
- Revlon Boss Goes After Ex-Wife's Family in Court
  
  newser | Bloomberg | Jul 11, 08 4:59 PM CDT
  
  Revlon's billionaire chairman has sued his former brother-in-law over millions he says are owed to the estate of his late ex-wife and their daughter, Bloomberg reports. Ron Perelman alleges Robert Cohen was “wanton, willful and malicious” in persuading his parents—one ailing, the other incapacitated—to transfer their assets to him, despite verbal promises they made to their daughter, Perelman’s wife at the time. More »
- Bard-Working Librarians Help Nab Book Thief
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 11, 08 4:29 PM CDT
  
  Quick-thinking librarians have helped recover a valuable book of Shakespeare's works stolen from a British university 10 years ago, the Washington Post reports. A man who arrived unannounced at Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library with a copy of the 1623 First Folio set off "alarm bells" with his tale of the $2.5 million volume's provenance, says a library official. More »
- Survey Reveals Abuse In Teen, Tween Dating
  
  newser | CBS | Jul 9, 08 5:45 PM CDT
  
  Tween and teen dating is far from a bunch of innocent hand-holding: A survey finds 69% of teens who have had sex by 14 have suffered physical or emotional abuse in relationships, with only half of tweens knowing how to recognize a hurtful relationship. CBS reports more stats: The survey found 37% of 11- and 12-year-olds have been in a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. 9% of that same group has a friend who has had sex; 40% have friends who have been verbally abused in a relationship. More »
- DNA Clears JonBenet's Family
  
  newser | Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera | Jul 9, 08 3:35 PM CDT
  
  New DNA evidence in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case has exonerated the entire Ramsey family, the Boulder Daily Camera reports. Scientists analyzed a sample from JonBenet's clothes, using new technology called "touch DNA," and found no match to JonBenet's parents, brother, or anyone in law enforcement databases. The local district attorney apologized to the family for their ordeal after the 1996 murder. More »
- Homeless Man Charged in UK Student Killings
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jul 9, 08 3:05 PM CDT
  
  London authorities charged a homeless man today with the brutal murders of two French students, the Guardian reports. Nigel Edward Farmer, 33, is accused of stabbing the two a total of 243 times in a London flat June 29, and then setting the apartment on fire. Farmer was arrested after walking into a city police station early Monday. More »
- Georgia Dad Charged in Daughter's 'Honor Killing'
  
  newser | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Jul 9, 08 6:25 AM CDT
  
  A Pakistani-born Georgia man appeared in court yesterday accused of strangling his daughter with a bungee cord after she filed for divorce, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The man's wife told police that he had argued with his 25-year-old daughter over her plans to end her arranged marriage. The father maintains his innocence. More »
- Judge: Rape Victim Can Sue Lottery-Winning Attacker
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jul 9, 08 5:04 AM CDT
  
  Britain's High Court has ruled that a rape victim can sue her lottery-winning attacker 20 years after the crime, reports the Guardian . The man bought a lottery ticket while on day release from prison and won a $14 million jackpot. The case is exceptional but it may set a precedent for other victims previously defeated by a six-year limit for compensation claims. More »
- Vt. Girl's Death a Homicide: Investigators
  
  newser | Barre-Montpelier Times Argus | Jul 8, 08 9:40 AM CDT
  
  The death of a 12-year-old Vermont girl was murder, prosecutors said yesterday, and her uncle may face the death penalty under federal kidnapping laws. A judge ordered Brooke Bennett’s uncle, who has not been charged with kidnapping but not murder, held without bail after Bennett’s body was found near his home, the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus reports. More »
- Cape Cod Baseball Brawl Ends in Court
  
  newser | Cape Cod Times | Jul 7, 08 5:15 PM CDT
  
  A Cape Cod man is in police custody after allegedly beating another man with a baseball bat because he believed—mistakenly, it turns out—that the other man was a New York Yankees fan. Robert Correia and his friends noticed New York license plates on a car leaving a fireworks display in Falmouth, Mass., Friday night and allegedly assaulted William Nestor, the Cape Cod Times reports. More »
- Drunk Golf-Cart Driver Charged in Accident
  
  newser | Minneapolis Star Tribune | Jul 7, 08 2:40 PM CDT
  
  A 47-year-old Minnesota man is facing vehicular-homicide charges after a friend fell from the golf cart he was driving while intoxicated Friday and died. The 41-year-old passenger fell backward from the rear of the moving cart after a fireworks display at a campground. He struck his head on a paved road, and CPR attempts failed to revive him. More »
- Easy St.: Thieves Having a Gas
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 6, 08 9:28 AM CDT
  
  Stealing gas by siphoning it from vehicles is a simple crime that can reap big rewards—and as fuel prices soar, the crime is ever-more tempting for thieves, the Washington Post reports. A Maryland county reported zero or one thefts yearly from 2005 to 2007, but cops have already logged seven this year. Meanwhile, sales of locking gas caps have skyrocketed. More »
- Imposter Priest Confessor Nabbed at Vatican
  
  newser | BBC | Jul 6, 08 8:00 AM CDT
  
  A phony priest was stopped just as he was about to hear confessions in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, the BBC reports. The man had on the right clothes and produced valid-looking priestly documents and Vatican ID—"but the expert eye of our personnel didn't need much to sense something strange in his behavior," said a Vatican judge. More »
- Cops Probe 'Horrific' London Murder of French Students
  
  newser | BBC | Jul 4, 08 5:32 AM CDT
  
  Scotland Yard detectives are investigating the "frenzied" murder of two French research students in their flat on a quiet London street, the BBC reports. The biochemistry students were tied up and stabbed a total of 243 times before being set alight. A man was seen running from the building after an explosion. More »

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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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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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