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NEW – Drilling boom brings surge in crime to small towns
Authorities in Pennsylvania and other states are quick to point out that the vast majority of workers streaming in are law-abiding. But they also say the drilling industry has brought with it a hard-working, hard-drinking, rough-and-tumble element that
Updated: 10/26/2011 06:36A
Bad Boys: Drilling boom brings surge in crime to small towns
Authorities in Pennsylvania and other states are quick to point out that the vast majority of workers streaming in are law-abiding. But they also say the drilling industry has brought with it a hard-working, hard-drinking, rough-and-tumble element that
Updated: 10/26/2011 06:24A
Summary Judgments for Oct. 26
There are, for now, four contenders: the incumbent deputy prosecutor of the ICC, a junior prosecutor at the court, the current chief judge of Tanzania, and a war-crimes lawyer at the Canadian Department of Justice. All four meet the search criteria,
Updated: 10/26/2011 06:15A
Anti-Bribery and Corruption - E-Learning
It amends and reforms the UK criminal law and provides a modern legal framework to combat bribery in the UK and internationally. According to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: "The Bribery Act 2010, attracted strong cross party support in Parliament
Updated: 10/26/2011 06:10A
New Deck May Resolve Parking Woes
Given the need for additional parking spaces by the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy, the city may be on the road to a new downtown parking deck. The conversation, at least, is beginning. The dearth of parking spaces downtown is actually a
Updated: 10/26/2011 06:03A
Saudi Arabia needs a more transparent justice system
The arbitrary nature of Saudi justice extends to civil disputes. Like Europe in the middle ages, Saudi Arabia maintains a mixed civil and criminal system under which people other than the prosecutor can demand criminal sanction, such as imprisonment
Updated: 10/26/2011 06:01A
Drilling boom brings surge in crime to small towns By The Associated Press
In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots
Updated: 10/26/2011 05:35A
Support for mandatory cumulative sentencing law
Such a law change would assist our justice system in working for ordinary Kiwis rather than the criminal minority like Redeemed. If it means spending additional money on prison beds in the interests of justice for victims and the community safety for
Updated: 10/26/2011 05:27A
Chester to Host First Heritage Crime Conference
Law enforcement, Council and conservation delegates will be in Chester on Friday October 28th to help find a solution to a crime wave that is playing havoc with the Borough's historic buildings and monuments. Soaring values of second hand scrap metal
Updated: 10/26/2011 05:26A
Report says sexual-crime convictions increasing
"The special sentence, particularly lifetime supervision, will increase the parole caseload by 78 percent in 10 years," according to the report, released this month by Iowa's Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning.
Updated: 10/26/2011 05:21A
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