Compare and contrast crime "myths" and "facts."
The media plays a huge role in forming people's perceptions of crime. Without the media we would remain ignorant to occurrences outside our direct so...
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Here’s a bit more reshuffling from Eliot Spitzer, who, earlier today, named a new interim communications director.
Spitzer announced that his commissioner for the Division of Criminal Justice...
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The House voted Tuesday to pay off up to $60,000 in student loans for lawyers who commit to working as public defenders or prosecutors for at least three years.The bill, which would cap the loan sp...
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A judge on Friday ordered the release of up to 42 criminal defendants, saying they aren't being adequately represented by the city's financially struggling indigent defenders office, but he immedia...
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A prisoner who had threatened to harm corrections officers before his execution was put to death Wednesday evening for the rape and fatal shooting of a woman during a break-in at her home nearly 10...
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A father sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's 8-year-old daughter, police said.The father, 32, turned himself into to authorities on Friday and was r...
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