Animal abuse not among convictions for man.
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard After a day and a half of deliberation, a Lane County Circuit Court jury convicted Eugene resident Anthony Lee Weber of several domestic violence offenses, but acquitted him on a felony count of aggravated animal abuse and three other charges. ...

The paradox of hope: the crime and punishment of domestic violence.
INTRODUCTION In 1995, a Chicago district court judge allowed Samuel Gutierrez to enroll in a batterer treatment program in exchange for pleading guilty to choking his girlfriend Kelly Gonzalez. This was one of nine incidents of abuse documented by Chicago police reports. Then, in August...

Shelter from the storm: using jurisdictional statutes to protect victims of domestic violence after the Violence Against Women Act of 2000.
"[M]other has no lodging, no money and constant oppression. If [she] wants to try for a better life with the two children, the court gives her its blessings. Slavery was abolished 125 years ago and so was oppression. The mother's condition following her divorce has been analogous to that...

Understanding, investigating and prosecuting strangulation cases.
TEN PERCENT OF VIOLENT DEATHS in the United States are attributable to strangulation. (1) The fatality risk for women and children is alarming. (2) Despite the high fatality risk of strangulation, it is often misunderstood or misidentified as something far less serious. Frequently, in adult domestic violence cases, in...

Domestic violence cases may go in limbo.
Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard Domestic violence victims soon may lose some of their strongest allies unless Lane County finds more money for parole and probation officers. State funding pays for probation and parole officers to supervise only felony offenders, and most domestic violence offenses...

Divided U.S. Supreme Court decides that phrase "convicted in any court" in federal statute penalizing gun possession by felons applies only to prior U.S. convictions.
In 1994, a Japanese court convicted Gary Small (defendant) of smuggling firearms and ammunition. After serving a five-year sentence there, he returned to the U.S. and bought a gun in Pennsylvania. When the authorities found out about his conviction, they charged him under 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1). It prohibits...

Help stop domestic violence.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Shelly Bosworth For The Register-Guard You know them because of a short item in the City/Region section of the March 13 Register-Guard, just another domestic violence murder-suicide in Springfield. We knew Bryan and Sarada Malakoff by their nicknames, Sofa and Scratchy....

Sex before violence: girls, dating violence, and (perceived) sexual autonomy.
INTRODUCTION Something amiss is happening to adolescent girls on their way to womanhood. It appears that girls today are experiencing violence, both as victims and as perpetrators, to a far greater extent than a generation ago. (1) Thus, they are finding themselves more frequently in contact with...

Which homicides decreased? Why?
In a sense, criminologists are luckier than economists. Economists are asked to forecast what will happen to the economy, and a lot of them get it wrong. Criminologists are asked to back-cast, to explain what happened after it happens, and probably with about the same success as economists have...

The Anti-Money Laundering Act (The AMLA).
Byline: Joker P. Arroyo THE FATFs peremptory and summary dismissal of the congressional amendments to AMLAC even before the ink had dried was predictable. Why? Because top BSP and Finance officials who after its passage are duty bound to support and defend it as the countrys national...