Questions tagged [crime]
an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government
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is prisoners not being able to vote and disenfranchisement a major reason for why there is a lack of lobbying in criminal justice reform?
Most of the lobbying on criminal justice reforms seems to be more towards the side of bringing more "tough on crime" and "zero tolerance" policies. there isn't much of a movement ...
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How can this new ban on drag possibly be considered constitutional?
This seems impossibly ridiculous.
How do they define, specifically, what it means to be dressed in drag? Let's say we are clear on whether someone is male or not; now, what does it mean, specifically, ...
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US President Barack Obama has acknowledged that civilians have been killed in drone attacks . Can this be considered as war crime?
US President Barack Obama has acknowledged that civilians have been killed in drone attacks in Muslim nations.
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Can this be considered a war crime?
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What is the Indian government doing to combat rape?
Rape is a very prominent issue in India for the last few years. In Delhi, 5 women get raped each day.
Recently, two girls were raped and tortured to death which attracted a huge public outcry. Yet, ...
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What authority does the United States have to hold and try persons accused of assassinating the Haitian president?
It's about U.S. Charges Four in Connection With the Assassination of Haiti’s President article:
The decision to charge the men, considered to be ringleaders in the
assassination plot, in the United ...
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Have the political community recognized the social issues behind mass shootings? [closed]
Mass shooting incidents are very commonplace in the USA.
Whenever any shooting occurs, the same debate about "gun control" comes again and again.
However, shooting incidents are a byproduct ...
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Are there statistics that show if clothing choices have an effect on sexual assault rates? [closed]
I am curious to know if women who dress provocatively are more or less likely to be victims of sexual assault. The best way to find out would be to conduct a study in a country where a considerable ...
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Is there any evidence that Filipino president Duterte's war on drugs has been successful?
Is there any evidence to suggest that the war on drugs in the Philippines by president Duterte has proven to be successful, with regards to the reduction of drug-related crimes?
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What are grooming gangs in United Kingdom, and why is it a political issue?
PM Rishi Sunak just addressed the issue of grooming gangs in UK (gangs that kidnap / "adopt" underage females, oftentimes poor, oftentimes immigrants, oftentimes disabled, and then "...
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I don't understand the current Harry Dunn/Anne Sacoolas situation, and why the virtual court appearance?
I think I am missing something about this case (particularly the criminal case), because I don't understand the current situation and legally/politically, how it got there and where it's at.
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Was anyone in Orbán's circle reported w/ clear & convincing evidence to have engaged in compelling adverse interest w/ the anecdotal "carrot & stick"?
Has there been any cases where, say, a video recording or audio recording stood as manifest proof of anyone within Fidesz, people with close ties thereto, NER or his family to have offered the stick ...
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What makes Brittney Griner more worthy of a prisoner swap?
My guess is that there are thousands of USA citizens convicted of foreign crimes (and held in prison in foreign countries), and hundreds with a misdemeanor nature similar to that of Brittney Griner's ...
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Why are notable prisoners sometimes comfortably housed?
I know of a US citizen who committed pretty brutal crimes in Afghanistan pre-Taliban, and went to a notorious Afghan prison. He had a dorm-like cell and was reportedly given alcohol and movies. The ...
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Why are arrest records public in the United States?
As I understand, arrest records (records showing that someone was arrested by police) are public in the United States, at least in many states (see e.g. Are Arrest Records Public?).
However, it seems ...
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Is there any correlation between the violent crime rate and race in the USA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_intentional_homicide_rate
I have a feeling that white-dominated states of the USA have lower murder rates. For example, I checked ...
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Why does the USA seem to have a higher crime rate than other OECD countries?
Crime rate by country 2022
Even though France and Sweden have higher crime rates than the USA, why do I have an impression that the USA is more crime-ridden than other OECD countries?
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Why does a high number of capital punishments often attract international criticism?
Take, for example, a country like the United States.
Firstly, the US has a relatively high homicide rate. Secondly, the US might not have enough money to keep large numbers of murderers in prison, as ...
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Has the Israeli Intelligence Service, or Army (Mossad, IDF) ever been implicated in human trafficking?
Given that the operatives of Israel are almost entirely self financed, and that Israeli crime groups often engage in drug dealing, prostitution etc, it seems feasible that they may or may not have ...
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Why are Jewish related places being targeted?
Places related to presumably non-Israeli, non-American Jews have been violently attacked subsequent to the Trump administration’s Jerusalem decision: in Europe a synagogue was firebombed and a kosher ...
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Are there any peer reviewed studies into whether hate crime legislation decreases the frequency of hate crimes?
The title mostly says it all. I understand the motivation of hate crime legislation, and if it works I'm totally supportive of it. However, I'm curious if it works in practice. Are criminals really ...
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Which US congressman had the idea of metropolitan area, and said that poverty causes crime?
In "The Machinery of Freedom" by David Friedman, at chapter 17 "A First Step", Dr. Friedman writes:
In the Washington circles where Great Ideas are conceived and circulated before ...
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What's the history of the general public preventing prosecutions?
You may know that a few days ago a protest in Bristol, UK, ended up with people bringing down a statue of Colston, a slaveowner, and dumping the statue in the river.
Regardless of whether you agree ...
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What alternatives have been proposed for prison sentences for violent crimes?
According to prison critics and others, prisons are schools of crime. This viewpoint holds that when someone gets a prison sentence for a small crime, they will meet bigger criminals and build a ...
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What solutions have been proposed in the US to an abstract contaminated vote bag problem?
Suppose in an anonymous voting system, we have a bag of 100 legitimate votes soon to be counted. Unfortunately, before the 100 legitimate votes reach the the counting table, a man in a bandit mask ...
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Does Romania or any other EU country have a criminal law that punishes originating or spreading false information?
It's been said on Euronews that
A misleading Facebook video had suggested that there were no patients at a temporary hospital in the northeastern city of Piatra-Neamț.
Officials at the health centre ...
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Is increasing punishments for gun smuggling effective at curbing gun violence?
One common argument often made by pro-firearm activists as a counter to blanket gun-control measures is that in order to curb gun violence, the solution is to have increased punishments on the process ...
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Dealing with crime in cryptocurrency based economies
Most cryptocurrencies are anonymous where the origin of coins is not known and transactions are also anonymous (this may not be 100% true but lets assume perfect anonymity). The society prevents ...
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Why does decriminalisation/legalisation not reduce the cost of drugs?
It is conventional wisdom that the criminalisation of the supply of recreational psychoactive drugs causes an increase in the cost to supply and therefore to the user. In an unreferenced but somewhat ...
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What happened in California in 1994 when hate crime increased so much?
I'm playing with the dataset provided by FBI Crime Data Explorer. And I found a significant increase in hate crime incidents.
I'm not familiar with U.S. politics and policy. Does anyone have any clue ...
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Are there studies of murder rates that correct for the average health of the community? [closed]
In World War 1, they found head injuries increased after handing out helmets. This was a selection bias issue; before helmets, soldiers hit in the head would die and not be counted. I would think a ...
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How can police brutality be prevented through policy?
Police Brutality (defined as a civil rights violation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a civilian) is not equally prevalent in all governments and all places, which indicates ...
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Are there countries where the Roma have integrated into local society?
I live in Czech Republic and the Roma minority here is considered to be the biggest source of crime - most prisoners belong to the Roma ethnic even though they only make up 2-3% of the population.
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Why doesn't the FBI crack down on websites allowing cartoon child pornography?
In the United States, visual depictions (such as drawings) of child abuse images is illegal provided they are ruled as obscene. This would make things like lolicon/shotacon (a type of cartoon child ...
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Why would a country fight money laundering by nationals of non-allied countries?
Many Western countries have laws that forbid money laundering which apply to citizens of all countries rather than just their own nationals. Countries like UK have been recently cracking down on ...
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Has a U.S. president (or other politician) commenting on a criminal case ever actually led to a major setback for the prosecution?
We often hear politicians-- and U.S. presidents especially-- being criticized for weighing in on criminal cases on the grounds that their comments could prejudice a jury. Most recently Joe Biden and ...
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How can gun violence be prevented through policy or action without infringing on the 2nd Amendment? [closed]
The definition of "infringing on the 2nd Amendment" is highly subjective and a heavy source of debate, so for the scope of this question, let's assume that this means the government cannot ...
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Why allow convicted criminals to vote?
According to a 1998 HRW report,
The United States may have the world’s most restrictive criminal disenfranchisement laws. We know of no other democracy besides the United States in which convicted ...
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What is the motivation for felony disenfranchisement?
Felony disenfranchisement is to take away someone's right to vote during or after this person is in prison. It appears particularly common in the United States.
What is the aim of such a rule? Is ...
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Are minorities given harsher sentences in the criminal justice system in the US?
US has the largest incarceration rate of any country with 1 in 100 being in prison or incarceration.
In 2016, the Prison Policy Initiative estimated that in the United States that about 2,298,300 ...
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Why are female offenders given lesser sentences for the same crime as men?
I'm particularly talking about student-teacher relationships. Females are usually given less punishment for the same or a similar crime. A couple of years ago I found my former high school teacher ...
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How was this person considered for a pardon in Iceland?
Iceland's government is collapsing. At the heart of this is apparently a scandal involving the Prime Minister's father, who vouched for the character of a convicted sex offender.
Part of the story ...
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Trump to prosecute rioters under Federal Law?
On the White House website President Trump's administration posts a decidedly change in law enforcement priorities:
Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community
One of the fundamental rights of ...
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What percentage of mass shootings in the USA are actually stopped by ordinary gun-bearing Americans?
It has been hypothesized that the harms of mass shootings in the US could be mitigated or prevented by encouraging gun ownership and reducing legal obstacles to gun carrying.
With approximately 400,...
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What was the stated reason for giving Trump this award?
US president Donald Trump recently received the Bipartisan Justice award for his work toward the passage of a criminal justice reform bill.
This is a bit surprising in several respects. The ...
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What is the status of an elected foreign president that previously fled the US on criminal charges?
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was a very serious candidate for the French presidency.
His political career was stopped in its tracks when he was arrested and charged with the sexual assault and attempted ...
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What is Sweden's historical violent crime rate vs. immigration rate?
I tried to find a historical chart of Sweden's violent crime rate and came across this:
Which was the first image search result: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sweden+violent+crime+rate+history+chart&...
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Can members of the military resign if they do not want to follow an order without punishment?
If a solider were ordered to go to war and they thought the war was very bad for the country, could they just resign or would they still be punished for not following the order?
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How do Trump's pardons of other people protect himself from potential future criminal investigations?
A Washington Post article that describes President Trump's pardons over the last few days says the following:
The move sparked blowback, mostly from Democrats, who accused him of wielding his ...
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Voter intimidation versus poll observing?
What distinguishes, if anything, the ominous presence of one or more partisan self-appointed possibly armed poll observers full of appraising stares, and the federal crime of voter intimidation? The ...
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Is Mexico winning its war on drug cartels? (2019)
In 2006, Mexico's president Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs. This was in response to the growing power of Mexico's cartels, who had acquired vast wealth from the proceeds of drug trafficking. ...
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