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December 29, 2011

The December issue of “Justice Today” features an article that discusses the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s year in review. This issue also includes articles about a new public education campaign to combat the purchase and sale of counterfeit and pirated products, the National Training and Technical Assistance Center, and the Prescription Monitoring Information Exchange.

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- Rwanda immigrant faces post-genocide fraud charges in U.S.
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- Harper Government launches next phase of Youth Gang Prevention Program
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- Politics live blog: PMQs and NHS risk register debate
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- Is the US the only country where more men are raped than women?, by guardian.co.uk - Jill Filipovic @ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:39:00 -0000
American Bar Association
- Supreme Court Rejects Montana’s ‘Short Interruptions’ Approach in Riverbed Dispute
AOL Crime News (search crime)
- Centenarian Sex Offender to Go Free
Stateline.Org (Pew Center for the States)
- AL: Alabama Senate votes to stop convicted officials pensions
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USA Today (click on crime catagory)
- Feds drop big case of alleged foreign bribery
Times News (UK)
Huffington Post
- Scott Morgan: 5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police Search (Even if You Have Nothing to Hide)
Digital Journal
- Philadelphia police investigate theft of brass door knockers
Alltop Crime News
- 'ID thieves have bounced back': Big jump, survey says
  Identity thieves have regained the upper hand, suggests a new survey released Wednesday by fraud research firm Javelin Strategy & Research. The firm's annual survey of 5,000 consumers suggests a rise in the rate of ID theft during 2011, reversing a drop in identity-related that was found in last year's survey. The main cause of the new increa […]
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Violent Crime News
- Second man sentenced for murder of 10-year-old February 22, 2012
  Raymond Jones was sentenced Tuesday to 75 years in prison for the September 2008 shooting death of Nequiel Fowler. […]
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- 'ID thieves have bounced back': Big jump, survey says February 22, 2012
  Identity thieves have regained the upper hand, suggests a new survey released Wednesday by fraud research firm Javelin Strategy & Research. The firm's annual survey of 5,000 consumers suggests a rise in the rate of ID theft during 2011, reversing a drop in identity-related that was found in last year's survey. The main cause of the new increa […]
Computer Crime News
- 9th International Information Security Conference "Securitatea Informationala-2012" February 10, 2012
  The Laboratory of Information Security of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova announces the 9th International Information Security Conference... […]
The Crime Report
- School Crimes: 17 Student Homicides, 359,000 Violent Cases in Year February 22, 2012
  A new federal edition of school crime indicators says that of the 33 violent deaths in schools in the year ending June 30, 2010, there were 25 homicides, five were suicides, and three were "legal interventions." The cases included 17 student homicides and one student suicide. In 2010, students ages 12-18 were victims of about 828,000 nonfatal victi […]
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- AL: Alabama Senate votes to stop convicted officials pensions
  The Alabama Senate has passed a bill that would stop convicted public officials and public employees from receiving taxpayer-funded pension benefits. […]
- AL: Alabama casino developer to testify for 5th day
  Country Crossing developer Ronnie Gilley is returning to the witness stand for a fifth day of testimony in the gambling corruption trial in Montgomery. […]
- AZ: GOP budget plan would scrap Arizona prison study
  A budget proposal by Republican legislators would scrap a longstanding requirement that the state Department of Corrections conduct a cost and quality comparison study for publicly and privately operated state prisons. […]
- CA: Proposition 8 backers seek review
  California's Proposition 8 gay-marriage ban will likely take another detour through the federal-appeals-court system before reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. […]
- CA: Feds ask judge to drop Calif. postal records suit
  The battle lines have been drawn in an unusual public records spat between a state agency responsible for upholding election laws and the U.S. Postal Service. […]
- CA: Gay-marriage foes to ask appeals court to review Prop. 8 ruling
  Opponents of same-sex marriage said Tuesday they planned to ask a federal appeals court to reconsider this month's 2-1 ruling that struck down Proposition 8, California's 2008 ballot measure that banned gay marriage. […]
- CO: Colorado's first black federal judge stepping down as chief
  Wiley Daniel, the first African-American federal judge in Colorado, will step down as the district's chief judge at the end of the year. […]
- CO: Colorado Supreme Court upholds "magic words" test for political spending by 527s
  Handing political organizations known as 527s a big victory heading into the 2012 election, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the groups should not be limited in how much money they may accept from donors if their political advertisements don't include so-called magic words such as "vote for" or "elect." […]
- CO: Colorado Supreme Court ruling- Some attack ads legal
  The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that some political attack ads in state races are not subject to contribution limits if they don't urge voters to elect or defeat a particular candidate. […]
- GA: Georgia lawmakers want to outlaw assisted suicide
  State lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would outlaw assisted suicide in the wake of a recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling that destroyed a long-running criminal case against members of a suicide group. […]
- IA: Iowa high court justices hear arguments in work force veto
  DES MOINES — A district judge "got it right" when he ruled as invalid Gov. Terry Branstad's veto that effectively closed 36 work force centers last year and the Iowa Supreme Court should not allow the governor to succeed in reversing that order, an attorney representing a group of Democratic legislators and a labor union leader argued Tuesday […]
- IA: Lawmakers say they've reached prison spending deal
  Legislators say they have struck a deal to increase this year's spending on the state's prison system to avoid layoffs of guards. […]
- ID: Idaho vote to privatize liquor might be illegal
  Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said Tuesday a proposed voter initiative to privatize Idaho's lucrative hard liquor business might be illegal because the state constitution says such decisions are the Legislature's purview. […]
- IL: Gov. Pat Quinn -- Close super-max downstate Tamms prison
  A super-maximum security prison in Downstate Tamms that human-rights groups contend is inhumane and a women's maximum-security prison in Dwight face closure under a proposed spending plan that Gov. Pat Quinn's administration described as "the toughest budget we've faced." […]
- IL: Quinn would shutter 2 prisons, 12 other facilities
  Gov. Pat Quinn prepared Tuesday to deliver an Illinois budget proposal stuffed with grim news including closing two prisons and 12 other state facilities, slashing Medicaid by $2.7 billion and cutting spending at most state agencies. […]
- IL: Quinn wants to close Aurora facility
  Gov. Pat Quinn wants to close the Fox Valley Adult Transition Center in Aurora, a facility where female inmates in Illinois go to prepare to move from prison to daily life. […]
- IN: Ind. legislators discuss rights to resist police
  A legislative proposal aimed at telling Indiana residents when they can try to stop police officers from entering their homes could undergo key changes sought by law enforcement groups. […]
- KY: Senate panel to consider revised gambling proposal
  The sponsor of a constitutional amendment to allow casinos in Kentucky will offer a revised proposal at a committee meeting Wednesday that attempts to address the concerns of some critics who say the existing language goes too far to benefit the horse industry. […]
- LA: Prosecutors wary on jury legislation
  A proposal for consideration in the upcoming legislative session is sparking concerns among district attorneys. State Sen. Ed Murray, D-New Orleans, wants to allow jurors in criminal trials to use notebooks and pens and take notes. […]
- MA: Trial Courts' 9% pay hike sparking cry of injustice
  Pay soared by an average of 9 percent last year at the Massachusetts Trial Courts — home of the patronage-plagued Probation Department — raising objections from Beacon Hill watchdogs looking for fiscal justice. […]
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- Conviction in conspiracy and computer hacking
Inentity Theft Protection.Net
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Psychology and Crime
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The Independent (UK)
- Pregnant woman attacked by knifeman
Early American Crime
- Early American Criminals: The Mother of the Infant in the Well
White Collar Fraud
- Overstock.com Was Ineligible to File a Registration Statement Last December
Crime Case Files
- Not guilty plea in 'bondage' case
Black Political Thought
- The Hinterland Gazette Has Moved to WordPress
Connected Cops.Net
- Finnish COP named National Police Officer of the Year for Investigations in Social Media
Crooked in Canada
- Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth – ‘You sneaky bastard!’
White Collar Fraud
- Overstock.com Was Ineligible to File a Registration Statement Last December
Verlinkenswertes (German Criminology Blog) University of Hamburg
- Diese Woche auf Twitter (2012-02-16)
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Mexico’s Drug War
- "US State Department Renews - And Extends - Mexico Travel Warning."
The Crime Analyst’s Blog
- If A Crime Happens In The Woods And Nobody Reports It, Did It Really Happen?
A Police Wife
- Personally: Words
The Twining Chronicles-UK
- Customs staff sacked in race probe
Arcadia Police Officers Association Blog
- APOA Seeks Change of Venue
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