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Sarasota's overt drug markets
In 2011, violent crime — chiefly shootings — escalated in north Sarasota and parts of the unincorporated county. Combating such severe violence requires more than one criminal-justice strategy, of course. Solutions need to include a stronger community
Updated: 01/10/2012 01:30A
DNA can boost NY justice
Cops can use DNA samples from low-level convictions to later identify assailants when they commit more serious crimes — or close cold cases. According to the Division of Criminal Justice Services, DNA right now holds the key to solving nearly 40000
Updated: 01/10/2012 12:43A
CRIME WRITER'S CASEBOOK(OSCAR SLATER CASE)
One of the grossest miscarriages of justice in the British History of Criminal Jurisprudence took place a century ago in Scotland when Oscar Slater was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. This trial went through many stages
Updated: 01/10/2012 12:36A
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | SEC Changes “Neither Admit Nor Deny” Practice for
In the longer term, there may be pressure on the SEC to obtain admissions in high profile matters even where there is no parallel criminal case. Also, the “neither admit nor deny” formulation is used by virtually every other federal civil law
Updated: 01/10/2012 12:24A
E-justice to arrive in Mahoning Co.
By Peter H. Milliken This will be the year that Mahoning County's justice system moves into the 21st century, the county auditor said. “E-justice will make certain that our criminal justice system is taken out of the Stone Age and brought into the
Updated: 01/10/2012 12:19A
Another view: Lahey sentencing - legal system falls short
Latimer is right when he says the shortcomings of the criminal justice system discourage potential victims of sexual abuse from coming forward because the outcome is often unsatisfactory. But the “legal system” is also larger than the criminal law,
Updated: 01/10/2012 12:16A
Fewer youth in state detention after juvenile realignment
A recent study released by the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice attributes the increase to factors including decreased state funding for local programs, which essentially made it cheaper for counties to send kids who break the law to state
Updated: 01/10/2012 12:07A
Liberals' Women's Commission wants hate speech laws to include 'gender'
Canada should expand the scope of hate propaganda laws to include gender hatred, according to a motion at this week's Liberal convention in Ottawa. The proposal by the National Women's Liberal Commission would amend the criminal laws against
Updated: 01/09/2012 11:18P
The Risk Professional: "Clean Sheet" draft money laundering law proposed
He has now produced the draft law, which he has termed the Counter-Money Laundering and Anti-Financing of Criminal Conduct Act 2011. The draft Act draws in both money laundering and the funding of future crime, including but not limited to terrorism,
Updated: 01/09/2012 09:38P
Paying a Price, Long After the Crime
Alfred Blumstein is a professor of urban systems and operations research at Carnegie Mellon University. Kiminori Nakamura is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Updated: 01/09/2012 09:18P
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