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Family appear in court to face slavery charges
Six men and one woman appeared at Luton Crown Court on Monday charged in connection with an investigation by Bedfordshire Police into allegations of slavery and servitude on a traveller site near Leighton Buzzard. The defendants face charges of
Updated: 12/06/2011 04:24A
California homicide rate fell to 44-year low in 2010
“The homicide rate drop is both interesting and promising and it parallels the national trends,” said Weisberg, director of Stanford's Criminal Justice Center. The state figures show more than 80 percent of homicide victims in 2010 were male.
Updated: 12/06/2011 04:18A
Scope broadens for crime victims protection
When it enters into force, the European Protection Order (EPO) will enable anyone protected under criminal law in one EU state to apply for similar protection if they move to another. Spanish Socialist MEP and the Civil Liberties Committee rapporteur
Updated: 12/06/2011 04:14A
Solano homicide numbers, rate grow
"The homicide rate drop is both interesting and promising and it parallels the national trends," said Weisberg, director of Stanford's Criminal Justice Center. The state figures show more than 80 percent of homicide victims in 2010 were male.
Updated: 12/06/2011 04:13A
Mandatory life sentences are 'unjust and outdated'
Prof Mitchell, from Coventry University, and Oxford University's Prof Roberts said they wanted to test the assumption that anything less than automatic indefinite jail terms would undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system.
Updated: 12/06/2011 04:08A
County confident in doing DUI blood tests at jail
MURFREESBORO — Rutherford County Sheriff's officials are confident the department's contracted physician can maintain independent blood draws in DUI cases, even if one of their own officers is arrested. But a local attorney is concerned the sheriff's
Updated: 12/06/2011 04:02A
Government to reward contributors to crackdown on crime profits
The current law stipulates that the authorities may confiscate profits earned by offenders from specific “serious crimes,” such as influence peddling, organized crime and sex trafficking, in order to eradicate economic incentives for such crimes and to
Updated: 12/06/2011 03:36A
Mandatory life for murder is 'unjust and outdated'
Prof Mitchell, from Coventry University, and Oxford University's Prof Roberts said they wanted to test the assumption that anything less than automatic indefinite jail terms would undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system.
Updated: 12/06/2011 03:30A
Psychopaths' brains wired that way?
In an article last year in the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Simon Fraser University doctoral student Lauren Freedman and Prof. Simon Verdun-Jones suggested severe punishment of psychopathic offenders may not be justified on
Updated: 12/06/2011 03:23A
Raleigh Divorce Attorney Kathy Holmes Certified By The North Carolina State
Kathy Holmes, a Raleigh divorce attorney at the law firm of Hatch, Little & Bunn, LLP is one of only 197 lawyers statewide to achieve the distinction of a specialist in family law. While everyone at Hatch, Little & Bunn, LLP applauds Kathy for being
Updated: 12/06/2011 03:19A
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