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Adding to the Fourth Amendment "reasonableness" debate, Professor Bellin argues that the Supreme Court should factor in a new variable-crime severity-to determine whether a search is reasonable. After advocating for its adoption, the article presents a framework for incorporating crime severity into Fourth Amendment doctrine.
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From Refugee Protection to Transnational Organized Crime In the wake of the World War II, before the development of the Refugee Convention, Hannah Arendt (1966:286) wrote that classifying the refugee as a criminal afforded greater legal protection: "Since he was the anomaly for whom the general law did not provide, it was better for him to become an anomaly for which it did provide, that of the criminal.
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SAN DIEGO March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Join The Crime Victims Fund as we commemorate National Crime Victims' Rights Week on Friday, April 15, 2011, at the Rooftop Beach at the W Hotel from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
At approximately 6:10 p.m. San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and County Sheriff Bill Gore will release 100 butterflies in honor of San Diego victims of crime. "This butterfly release is a silent but strong symbol of the meaning of National Crime Victims' Rights Week." Wings of Hope donated the butterflies.
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Local officials are bracing for a radical realignment of the state penal system that will place thousands of low-level felons in county jail rather than prison.
Depending on whom is doing the analysis, the change, set to take place Saturday, could either result in a huge crime spike or a noticeable drop in recidivism rates.
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This study examines male-female differences of juveniles arrested for a sex offense. A cross-national sample of juvenile boys (n = 177) and a population of juvenile girls (n = 177) arrested for a sex offense are utilized for this analysis. It is hypothesized that (1) boys and girls differ substantially in their offending patterns. Based on Moffitt's social-amplification hypothesis, it is also hypothesized that (2) juveniles who act with a co-offender commit more serious offenses (i.e., more likely to be arrested for rape and have more victims) compared to those who act alone. The results show boys differ from girls: juvenile girls are slightly younger, more likely to be White, more likely to have a co-offender, less likely to commit rape, and be processed formally by law enforcement. Th...
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Raylan | ELMORE LEONARD: Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens initially appeared in Pronto (1993), Riding the Rap (1995), and the short story "Fire in th...
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME, TERRORISM AND HOMELAND SECURITY HOLDS A HEARING ON LOCAL CRIME AND JUSTICE GRANTS
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Mortgage fraud, a white-collar crime committed against lending institutions, has grown tremendously over the past few years across the United States. Mortgage fraud has community implications, and does not follow traditional categories of white-collar crimes, which usually are limited in the types of victims affected. Because of the negative externalities that emanate from neighborhoods hit by cases of mortgage fraud, the ramifications of this crime have long-lasting and harmful effects for multiple parties, in terms of quality of life and financial hardship. This paper explains the implications that mortgage fraud can have on both affected neighborhoods and public administrators. Future research opportunities are also addressed regarding this complex phenomenon. Finally, a brief list o...
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Prologue -Introduction. -I The Original Ideology Of Feminist Criminal Law Reform . -II. The Victims' Rights Movement . -A. Origins Of The Victims' Rights Movement . -B. Essentialism And Object/Agent Characterizations In The -Victims' Rights Movement -III. Women's Historical Objectification -IV. Feminists Get Tough On Crime -A. Domestic Violence And The Conservative Agenda -B. Essentialism And Object/Agency Discourse In Domestic Violence Reform -V. Suggestions For Future Thought . -Epilogue
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Silver Spring, MD-based PR and Marketing Agency to Provide $30,000 in Pro Bono PR Services to National Non-Profit Serving Victims of Crime
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