Questions tagged [crime]
an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government
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Why did cannabis get legalized first?
The number of drug "addicts" are about 5% of users. So most users are not even addicts.
This one says 10% of users become addicts. I am sure it means 10% of illegal drug users.
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What are the true statistics on farm murders in South Africa
For the most part the ones pushing the idea that white farmers are under assault by the black majority is the organization Afriforum.
At first other organizations tried to debunk their stats and ...
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Vote coercion in U.S.A
Rebecca Solnit wrote a provocative article describing husbands that "bully, silence and control" the votes of their wives in the United States. She musters anecdotes of Republican men preventing their ...
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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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Is it fascist/racist to doubly punish for people who live in "poor" areas? [closed]
Suppose a government is going to doubly punish for crimes committed by people who live in certain areas. Those areas are selected by a combination of all of the following criteria:
lots of foreigners ...
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Purpose of the European Arrest Warrant
In 2005, Osman Hussain, who tried to blow up the London Underground on 21st July that year, was extradited from Italy using the European Arrest Warrant.
This is held up as an example of the utility ...
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What possible laws have been proposed to modify limited liability of corporations?
I wonder if there’s a workable tweak to the limited liability of shareholders that would make it less profitable for those who wish to indirectly indicate to their flunkie ceos that they better cut ...
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What justice and legislative system reforms have been proposed that account for the absence of free will?
From what I understand, psychology plays a large role in our criminal justice systems- especially in the United States. Psychologists evaluate police officers who go on to arrest people who are ...
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Have any studies been performed which show that campaigning for or being appointed to an office of public trust leads to criminal activity?
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List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes
List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes
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What is the UK doing about acid attacks? [closed]
A three year old boy was injured in a suspected acid attack in Worcester with several people arrested, and statistics indicate acid attacks are on the rise in London (though I suppose it could be ...
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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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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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Who is in favor of mandatory minimum sentences and why?
The US law seems to be quite enamoured with mandatory minimum sentences, especially when it comes to drug crimes.
Mandatory minimum sentences seem to have mostly impacted prison populations rather ...
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What are the arguments for and against Statutes of Limitations?
I was reading this article earlier today about the alleged Golden State Killer which mentioned that the State of California passed a law a few years ago which eliminated the Statute of Limitations for ...
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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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Has any policy countered the regressiveness of property protection?
Protection of private property is one of the main roles of most governments, but the job is inherently regressive since the wealthy have so much more property to protect. Police tend to be more ...
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Is lying during a congressional hearing a crime?
Do congressional hearings have any legal binding?
And, is lying during a congressional hearing illegal? Has anyone ever been convicted for lying to Congress?
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Has the UK spent millions of pounds to track a fugitive other than Assange?
From an answer to "Why is the British government so determined to arrest Julian Assange?":
And now someone can tell me why it is not unusual that a government pays millions of pounds to track a ...
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Has the UK prosecuted or attempted to prosecute individuals other than Assange for jumping bail?
Has the UK prosecuted, or attempted to prosecute, individuals for jumping bail, or otherwise trying to evade the justice system, other than with Julian Assange? I had a look at the England and Wales ...
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Longest known chain of command? [closed]
What's the longest known chain of command length for any government, military, or large organization, (legal or illegal)? For example, WP's abstract military organization chain length is 11:
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Global policies on hiring ex-convicts
Spawned from this other SE question.
In the United States it is challenging for ex-convicts to find gainful employment. A few states have gotten on board the Ban the Box initiative, referring to the ...
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How does legalized prostitution affect human trafficking, if at all?
When reading up on prostitution in places like Nevada, Greece, Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, et cetera; one reoccurring theme I keep see popping up is that Human Trafficking seems to become a ...
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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 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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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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What's the purpose of the International Criminal Court?
In general, law is a system used by national entities (I'll go with that term in place of a more loaded one like "countries" or "states") to keep their people in check and maintain prosperity for the ...
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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 is the US the only country in the world with nearly absolute "double jeopardy" protections?
Looking at the article about "double jeopardy" it seems that the US is the only country in the world where the prosecution is not allowed to appeal an acquittal in the lowest court, unless the trial ...
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Is gun violence in the US mostly limited to people involved in property/violent crime?
This follows a question of mine on expatriates.SX:
I may move to the US, but I'm kind of scared of the gun violence
One of the answers there suggests that US gun violence is not as bad as the ...
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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.
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What is Congress doing to address phone scams using spoofed phone numbers?
There's a growing problem of phone spam/scam calls which use spoofed phone numbers (caller ID masking) to pretend to be calling from a phone number in your area code/locale (first 6 digits of phone ...
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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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Why is the death sentence considered to be an unacceptable punishment in the Council of Europe, while life imprisonment is not?
I've always been baffled at the Council of Europe fight against the death sentence: on the one hand you have the rights of the prisoner and how a death sentence is too harsh for any crime. On the ...
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Who were the three lawmakers who voted against decriminalising domestic violence in Russia?
In Russian parliament votes 380-3 to decriminalise domestic violence, it's said that there was a 380 to 3 vote in favour of a bill to decriminalise domestic violence under certain circumstances.
Who ...
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Have pro-prostitution policies in Germany and Nevada been found to help reduce rape and sexual assault?
Have the (comparatively) pro-prostitution, or at least prostitution-friendly policies of places like Germany and Nevada been linked to a decrease in sex related crimes like sexual assault and rape?
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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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Are there many liberal democracies that use "the more favorable criminal law" principle?
This question is somehow a followup of this one (split suggestion). At the end of January 2017, Romanian Government (executive branch) made several changes to Criminal Law using a Government Ordinance....
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Is there a significant increase in crimes against Muslims in the US? [closed]
My sister has recently been accepted for MS/PhD program in a number of universities in US.
The hate crimes on Indians, in US, appear to have been on a surge. Hailing from a Muslim family, we are ...
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Sweden rape statistics 2016
There has been a lot of discussions around an increase in Sweden's rape crime and it has been suggested that it was due to loose immigration policy.
I cannot find any of the data for rape in Sweden ...
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Tally of fake hate crimes? [closed]
Is there a tally of fake hate crimes in the United States, by year, with ideological identification? I'm defining a fake hate crime as any incident where one:
defaces, destroys or vandalizes a ...
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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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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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Why aren't police obliged to keep the information about terrorists secret?
After the terrorist attack in Berlin, the media started to broadcast much information about the people involved.
It seems to me that this just supports the terrorists' motivation of fame and allows ...
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After the 2004 Ohio recount campaign, on what charges was an election administrator subsequently jailed?
The front page for the 2016 election integrity recount campaign of the Green Party provides an interesting fact:
Details You Need to Know
In 2004, the Cobb/LaMarche campaign demanded a ...
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Are the death threats against Trump electors unprecedented in America?
Detroit News reports:
Trump’s opponents have deluged [Michael] Banerian and other GOP electors with pleas and nasty emails to reverse course and cast their ballots for Clinton, according to the ...
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Review of Hillary Clinton's email problem
Who revealed first that Hillary Clinton has used her family's private email server for official communication?
What was Clinton's first reaction? Did she admit the fact immediately? Did she deny it?
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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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Is the condoning and urging of murdering drug dealers by the Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte an international crime?
Rodrigo Duterte had repeatedly given statements condoning violence against criminals. Recently he urged the general population to murder drug dealers. Is this an international crime?
From Wikipedia:
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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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Can a US official be charged and tried in court without first being impeached?
For example, could Bill Clinton have been charged with perjury in the standard judicial system, even while sitting President? Or is impeachment and removal a prerequisite for judicial proceedings?
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