When crime pays.
Between federal, state, and local jurisdictions, countless acts and omissions are deemed illegal, each with numerous elements and characteristics. Given this immensity, when monitoring and analyzing crime rates and trends, researchers generally use a crime typology in their methodology. Crime typologies are designed to capture specific components of crime,...

Letter to the Editor.
In a recent group of articles [July/August 2004], your publication wrote about crime in public housing communities and also in communities where public housing residents have relocated as a part of the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation. I want to offer a few facts that show that CHA...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses II. FEDERAL APPROACHES A. Federal Criminal Code 1. National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 a. Offenses Under the Statute b. Jurisdiction c. Defenses i. Jurisdiction ii. Statutory Interpretation iii. Amount of Damages d. Sentencing 2. Other Statutes...

Property offenses, social tension and racial antagonism in post-Civil War rural Louisiana.
The parish of Lafayette was the scene in June 1873 of a particularly brutal double murder. Daniel Lanet, a Frenchman, and Alexander Snaer, a black justice of the peace, who were also business partners, were murdered in their store by four blacks. The two killings took place in the course...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION This Article tracks developments in computer-related criminal law and legal literature, analyzes federal, state, and international approaches to computer crime legislation and enforcement, and reviews recent developments in these areas. Section I defines computer crime, discusses the different forms it can take, and explores the...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION This Article tracks developments in computer related criminal law and legal literature, analyzes federal, state, and international approaches to computer crime legislation and enforcement, and reviews recent developments in these areas. Section I defines computer crime, discusses the different forms it can take, and explores...

Property offenses, social tension and racial antagonism in post-Civil War rural Louisiana.
The parish of Lafayette was the scene in June 1873 of a particularly brutal double murder. Daniel Lanet, a Frenchman, and Alexander Snaer, a black justice of the peace, who were also business partners, were murdered in their store by four blacks. The two killings took place in the course...

Intellectual property crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION II. THEFT OF TRADE SECRETS A. Economic Espionage Act of 1996 1. Definition of Trade Secret 2. Elements of the Criminal Offenses a. Economic Espionage b. Theft of Trade Secrets 3. Applicability to Conduct Abroad 4. Prosecutions Under the EEA 5. Defenses a. Independent Development b. Reverse...

Predictors of serious and violent offending by adjudicated male adolescents.
This longitudinal study investigated predictors of serious and violent offending by adjudicated male adolescents. Participants were 132 males with a mean age of 13.5 years who had been adjudicated delinquent and evaluated in a secure juvenile justice facility in South Carolina for approximately 30 days. The sample was 60%...

Computer crimes.
I. INTRODUCTION A. Defining Computer Crime B. Types of Computer-Related Offenses II. FEDERAL APPROACHES A. Federal Criminal Code 1. National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 a. Offenses Under the Statute b. Jurisdiction c. Defenses i. Jurisdiction ii. Statutory Interpretation iii. Amount of Damages d. Sentencing 2. Other Statutes...