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Crime

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

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July 2008
- Israel to Judge: I Did Attempt Suicide
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 3, 08 11:24 AM CDT
  
  A hedge-fund cheat who faked his death to try to dodge a 20-year prison sentence has told a judge that he did actually try to commit suicide this week. Samuel Israel appeared in Manhattan federal court today for a new charge that could get him an extra 10 years. More »
- Missing Vermont Girl Found Dead
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 3, 08 7:21 AM CDT
  
  Vermont authorities found the body of a missing 12-year-old girl in a fresh grave yesterday, CNN reports. Brooke Bennett’s death “appears to be foul play,” said police, who arrested her uncle and stepfather on separate sexual assault charges. Bennett’s uncle, Michael Jacques, initiated her into a sex ring the day she disappeared, another girl told police. The other girl, now 14, said in an affidavit that she had been having sex with Jacques since she was 9. More »
- Fugitive Hedge- Fund Swindler in Feds' Custody
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 2, 08 11:02 AM CDT
  
  It's official: Samuel Israel definitely isn't dead. The fugitive hedge-fund swindler turned himself in today, federal authorities say. Israel disappeared last month on the day he was supposed to report to federal prison. His car was found parked near a bridge over the Hudson River, with the words "suicide is painless" scrawled in the dust on the hood, leading to brief speculation that Israel had killed himself. More »
- Wills' Ship Busts Coke Runner
  
  newser | Sun (UK) | Jul 2, 08 10:00 AM CDT
  
  The Royal Navy warship Prince William is serving on busted a speedboat carrying $80 million worth of cocaine northeast of Barbados, the Sun reports. The Ministry of Defense said today that Wills was “part of the ship’s company” but would not specify his exact role when they intercepted the 50-foot boat, supposedly en route to Europe or West Africa. More »
- Ex-Con Suspected in 8 Murders Captured in Ill.
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 2, 08 9:04 AM CDT
  
  An exhaustive, two-state manhunt for an ex-convict suspected in eight grisly slayings ended with the man quietly arrested last night outside a bar known as a police hangout. Police knew from a number of witness reports that Nicholas T. Sheley, 28, was in the area, said the police chief in the St. Louis suburb of Festus, Mo. "He was desperate and he gave up without a fight. He's had a rough two days." More »
- HP Exec Busted for Passing IBM Secrets
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 2, 08 6:21 AM CDT
  
  A former Hewlett-Packard vice president faces federal charges for sharing trade secrets from IBM, the Wall Street Journal reports. The exec requested confidential pricing information while he was working for IBM. Two months later, he got a job at HP and emailed the info to an HP executive, according to investigators. Hewlett-Packard fired the new hire and reported him to IBM and authorities. More »
- Fish Toxin Buyer Linked to Murder Plot
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jul 2, 08 3:58 AM CDT
  
  An Illinois man busted trying to buy enough puffer fish toxin to kill dozens of people had been seeking to hire a hit man on the internet to kill a mystery woman, reports the Chicago Tribune . The financial planner sent emails to people offering $8,000 for the murder, authorities said. He was arrested yesterday when police found six empty vials of the deadly puffer fish neurotoxin in his home. More »
- Supreme Court Goofs Up Key Fact in Child Rape Decision
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 2, 08 2:36 AM CDT
  
  The Supreme Court misconstrued a key fact in reaching its recent decision banning the death penalty for child rape, reports the New York Times . Swing justice Anthony Kennedy mistakenly noted in his decision that child rapists did not face the death penalty in federal jurisdiction. But in fact the rape of a child was made a military capital crime when the military code of justice was revised in 2006. More »
- No Charges for Texas Man Who Shot Neighbor's Burglars
  
  newser | Houston Chronicle | Jul 1, 08 2:59 PM CDT
  
  A Texas grand jury’s decision to take no action against Joe Horn, who killed two burglars on his front lawn, has focused attention on the state’s “deadly force” laws, the Houston Chronicle reports. Horn’s life was not in danger until he confronted the thieves fleeing his neighbor’s house, but his actions were legally protected by a statute dating from the 1850s. More »
- Suspected Md. Cop Killer Was Strangled in Jail
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 1, 08 12:47 PM CDT
  
  A man accused of killing a police officer was strangled to death Sunday in a Maryland county jail, coroners have ruled. State police have taken over the case, and the FBI is investigating on civil-rights grounds, the Washington Post reports. “We live in a constitutional democracy, and no one has the right to be judge and jury,” fumed one county executive. More »
June 2008
- NY Billionaire Guilty on Hooker Charges
  
  newser | New York Post | Jun 30, 08 6:04 PM CDT
  
  Manhattan banker and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida today to hiring an underage prostitute, and began serving an 18-month sentence. A year of house arrest and a life on the national sex offender list will follow. "They will be tracking you for the rest of your life," a judge told Epstein, 55, a philanthropist who has socialized with figures such as Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. More »
- Why Is Memphis the New South Bronx?
  
  newser | Atlantic Monthly | Jun 29, 08 4:00 PM CDT
  
  Despite a flattened national crime rate in large cities, Memphis was recently dubbed the nation's leader in violent crime, prompting Atlantic Monthly to ask: “Why has Elvis’s hometown turned into America’s new South Bronx?" Local experts offer an unsettling answer: demolition of low-income housing projects isn’t eradicating crime and poverty by giving residents a fresh start—it’s just decentralizing and relocating the problem. More »
- 'Rape' Girl's Death Sparks Chinese Riots
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 29, 08 6:48 AM CDT
  
  Furious Chinese mobs claiming authorities are covering up the murder of a teenage girl yesterday stormed government buildings in southwest China. Several thousand people set fire to county and party buildings and police stations in Wengan county in Guizhou, the BBC reports. Authorities have ruled the death of the girl a suicide. But rioters charge she was raped and murdered by the son of a government official. More »
- China's One-Child Policy Leads to Nation of Angry Men
  
  newser | New Republic | Jun 28, 08 7:43 PM CDT
  
  China’s got a big problem, one of its own making. The nation's one-child policy, now 30 years old, has resulted in a land of angry, testosterone-filled young men unable to find wives, writes Mara Hvistendahl in the New Republic . Finally worried about the world's biggest gender imbalance and its related spike in crime, the government is "vainly" seeking solutions—one campaign makes the point that having a baby girl isn't so bad, after all— but the problem seems almost certain to get worse in coming years. More »
- Ex-Army Doc to Get $5.8M in Anthrax Case
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 27, 08 7:44 PM CDT
  
  The Justice Department will pay nearly $6 million to an ex-Army scientist for naming him in an anthrax probe 7 years ago, the AP reports. The feds settled out of court today for calling Steven Hatfill a "person of interest" in the still-unsolved case, but continued to "deny all liability in connection with Dr. Hatfill's claims,” a DOJ spokesman said. Hatfill, who has never been charged, accused officials of trying to smear him. More »
- Star Lawyer Gets 5 Years in Bribery Rap
  
  newser | Clarion-Ledger | Jun 27, 08 5:50 PM CDT
  
  Disgraced Mississippi lawyer Dickie Scruggs was sentenced to the maximum 5 years in prison today in a judicial bribery scheme; at the hearing, the class-action pioneer said, “I could not be more ashamed than I am today.” The judge hinted he might shave some time off if Scruggs cooperates with authorities in other bribery probes, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. More »
- Metro Workers Busted in Transit Sex Ring
  
  newser | MyFox Washington | Jun 27, 08 4:58 AM CDT
  
  Two workers in the Washington Metro transit system have been busted for running a prostitution ring from one of the train stations, and using a loudspeaker to arrange a tryst, according to police. One of the staffers, a station manager, advertised available "sexual pleasures" in flyers, reports Fox TV. She presented a book of options to an undercover cop that could be obtained on trips to Brazil—or locally, police said. More »
- FBI Busts Child Prostitution Networks
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 25, 08 9:29 PM CDT
  
  Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution. In all, authorities arrested 345 people, including 290 adult prostitutes, during the operation that ended this week in 16 major cities. "The sex trafficking of children remains one of the most violent and unforgivable crimes in this country," said FBI chief Robert Mueller. More »
- Battered Women Deserve Help Over Animals
  
  newser | More Intelligent Life | Jun 25, 08 4:30 PM CDT
  
  With 3,800 animal shelters in the US to only 1,500 shelters for battered women, economist Allison Schrager tackles the disparity in More Intelligent Life. "If we value people more than animals can we ever justify giving to an animal-welfare charity?" she asks, and underlines the complexities that make donating to human causes harder, but more important. More »
- Man May Have Planned Factory Rampage
  
  newser | Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.) | Jun 25, 08 2:59 PM CDT
  
  The man who shot and killed six people at a Kentucky plastics plant today might have planned his rampage in advance, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. A supervisor had to escort the worker from the premises following an argument with a fellow employee early this morning. The man took a gun from his car, shot the supervisor, and returned to shoot four more, then himself. 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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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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