Tag: Crimes

There were several inmates within hearing distance of this dialogue. When they heard this remark from this particular staff member their expression was one of shock and surprise. It really should not have come as a surprise, sad to say. My experience with prison staff of various rank has always tend...

Lombroso’s work dominated thinking about criminality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Criminals who displayed “atavistic traits” received harsher sentences. In some cases, those traits were weighed even more heavily than witness testimony or physical evidence. ...

A14-year-old White teenager, John Sheeran, has been indicted on attempted murder charges for reportedly trying to drown a Black teenager in a Cape Cod pond in Chatham, Massachusetts, last July, a crime prosecutors describe as a "racially-motivated attack." The Black teenager told inve...

In New York City, it’s up 14%. Up 27% in Houston and up 30% in the City of Brotherly Love. In the City of Angels, it is up 41%. And in Chicago, it is up a whopping 85%. Depending on our perspectives, we could try guessing the activity. Car thefts? COVID hospitalizations? Unemployment? Publi...

A high-profile lawsuit over racial profiling in Japan has some online peddling the old saw that foreigners in Japan commit more crimes than Japanese citizens. Is this true? The short answer, based on the statistics, is no. At least, not in any way that matters. Let’s see what the numbers sa...

This week’s article is a bit of an “outtake” from “A survey of prosecutors and investigators using digital evidence: A starting point,” which compared prosecutor use of digital evidence for a variety of crime types, not just “obvious” ones like crimes agains...

Like much of the general public, I’ve watched in horror as the facts of Lucy Letby’s crimes have unfolded. Not only is there the sheer number of attempted and successful murders, but this is alongside the frankly unbelievable circumstances, the delayed action by the hospital where Letby ...

First of all, Intentional targeting & unlawful killing of unarmed civilians. The bombing of civilian areas in conflicts such as the Syrian Civil War, where airstrikes have frequently hit residential neighborhoods is considered as a war crime. The civilian population is non-combatant f...

Albert Fish’s name may not be as widely recognized as other infamous serial killers, but his crimes are some of the most barbaric in American history. Born in 1870 in Washington D.C., Fish would grow to become one of the most heinous figures in true crime, earning nicknames such as ‘The ...