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Archive for the ‘Crime Control’ Category
January 14th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Terrorism and its control
David Frum asks: If dynamic concentration is good for criminals, why not for terrorists? Ans. Because there was no squeegee-artist or turnstile-jumper collective trying to outwit the police.
January 12th, 2010
Category: Crime Control
Should prosecutors who frame innocent people be immune from civil liability?
January 9th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Prisons and penal policy
Letting ICE monitor its own detention facilities turned out to be a bad idea. Some heads should roll.
January 4th, 2010
Category: Crime Control
At age 19, boys whose mothers received nurse home visits as part of a randomized controlled trial of the Nurse-Family Partnership program were no less criminally active than boys in the control group. Since crime is overwhelmingly a male phenomenon, the finding in the same study that NFP greatly reduced criminality among girls (4% [...]
January 2nd, 2010
Category: Crime Control, The War in Iraq
The judge had no choice; the prosecutors screwed up big-time. But there’s still a chance to make a criminal case for false statements and obstruction of justice.
December 7th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
…actually Mark is getting plenty of props in his own country too, but When Brute Force Fails is a Book of the Year in The Economist’s annual list of easy-to-wrap presents for smart friends. The rest of the RBC is happily basking in his reflected glory: you should just click on the first link, and [...]
November 23rd, 2009
Category: Crime Control, Watching Conservatives
How could a “fiscal conservative” approve of spending $200,000 of public money to punish a $500 drug transaction?
November 22nd, 2009
Category: Crime Control
Two men rob a store with pistols. Each shoots someone. One of the victims dies. The robber who actually killed someone gets life; his partner is executed. Yes, it’s a weird outcome. But was the executed man really the victim of a miscarriage of justice? Doesn’t look that way to me.