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Tag: Crimes

  • Beginning

    Sunday, Begins, Ends From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Sunday, Begins, Ends (1): Usually people believe they know what the word Sunday means, when it begins, and when it ends. Christianity usually recognizes the time from midnight to midnight as Sunday, and that is the […]

  • Virgin

    Religion, God, Ridicule, Virgin From the book The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law, about Religion, God, Ridicule, Virgin (1): Words vilifying the Christian religion,721 denying God or the final judgment,722 and profane ridicule of the Holy Scriptures or of Christ,723 are usually punishable. […]

  • Search Warrant

    Search Warrant Search Warrant, in criminal law, order of a court, usually of a magistrate, issued to an officer of the law authorizing a search of the premises named in the warrant for stolen articles, property possessed in violation of the law, or the instruments or evidence of a crime. The warrant authorizes the officer…

  • Genocide Definition

    Introduction to Genocide DefinitionGenocide, crime of destroying or conspiring to destroy a group of people because of their ethnic, national, racial, or religious identity. Raphael Lemkin, a Polish legal scholar, coined the term in 1944 to describe Nazi Germany's annihilation of groups…

  • USA Patriot Act

    USA Patriot Act The official name of the USA Patriot Act is the ‘Uniting and Strengthening America Act by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism’ of 2001. This US federal piece of legislation “places special emphasis on foreign investigative work and the investigation of aliens engaged in terrorist activities. At the international…

  • Corporate Crime

    Corporate Crime Corporate Crime Worldwide and in the United States in 2013 More companies than ever are affected by theft and fraud. In interviews with 901 executives worldwide last summer, Kroll found that more companies than ever were affected by theft and fraud in the previous twelve months. Among U.S. executives, 66 percent said their…

  • Capital Punishment Development

    Capital Punishment Development For most of recorded history, capital punishment was available to every government for especially serious crimes and often for a great variety of less serious offenses. The term felony, which today signifies all serious crime, was the traditional classification in England for crimes punishable by death. Since the 18th century, the long-term…

  • Death Penalty Debate

    Death Penalty Debate Capital Punishment: the Death Penalty Debate The practice of capital punishment is as old as government itself. For most of history, it has not been considered controversial. Since ancient times most governments have punished a wide variety of crimes by death and have conducted executions as a routine part of the administration…

  • List of Crimes

    Hello Hello List of Crimes and Felonies The following is a comprehensive list of crimes, felonies and misdemeanors. List of Less common crimes: Abandonment of wife Accidental criminal, situational criminal Assault with intent to commit rape Bone trade Car cloning Chantage (blackmail), form of blackmail Child Exploitation, child exploitation Click job Clothing theft Complicity in…

  • List of Prisons

    List of Prisons Needed to be included Arkansas State Penitentiary Asinari, penal colony in Italy Bath Institution, Canadian jail Besancon prison Bory Prison, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia Casale Monferrato prison, Rome, Italy Coldbath Field House of Correction Concord Prison Conservation camp, highway camp, harvest camp, honor camp Dawiak prison, Warsaw Eastern Judicial District Gaol Englewood Federal Prison…

  • List of Forgery Topics

    List of Forgery Topics Forgery is a crime (a serious offense in many jurisdictions) in which someone falsifies (in broad sense, with the process of making, adapting, or imitating) something (objects or documents, for example) with the intent to deceive.There are a number of different types of forgery. While in Canada some kinds of forgery…

  • List of Fraudsters, Impostors and Cases of Fraud

    List of Fraudsters, Impostors and Cases of Fraud Fraud Topics Carcass trade Dissolving cheque Fare-beating Filing a false tax return Fraud Against the Government Fraudulent billing Fraudulent loan Insurance-underwriting racket – Jobbing firm, fraudulent business Just-a-few-dollar-more scam Mail-order fraud Major procurement fraud Marinated money scam Million-dollar dump Money-making machine Phoney money-producing scheme Phony accident claim…

  • List of Robberies, Heists and Capers Entries

    List of Robberies, Heists and Capers Entries List based in the entries covered in Michael Newton’s The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers. A Edward J. Adams Gordon Alcorn (see Verne Sankey) Alvord-Stiles Gang George “Dutch”Anderson Nola Anderson and Frank Ryan Richard Paul Anderson Argentine Liberation Front Art Theft John Ashley Earl Edwin Austin B…

  • List of International Organized Crime Entries

    List of International Organized Crime Entries Main Entries Albanian organized crime (Albania) Triads (China) Medellà­n Cartel (Columbia) Indian mafia (India) Yakuza (Japan) Bratva (Russia/Ukraine) Transnational organized crime: the list Note: see List of United States Organized Crime Entries here. List of International Organized Crime Entries starting with A Arturo Acuna (see Operation Foxhunt) Patrick Adams…

  • Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness

    Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness Mark Freeman (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006, 316 pp) The emphasis on the ‘right to know’1 as a crucial aspect of ending impunity has lead to a greater focus on the necessity of holding truth commissions. As many authors in the fields of transitional justice and International Criminal Law…