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• Harmony in Flux

  Published: July 24, 2007, 12:05 pm

  Tags: Criminal Justice, Education, Sexual Ethics, Trends

  Over at Reason's Hit & Run, the Agitator, Radley Balko, proclaims "Childhood Now A Sex Crime." What? From The Oregonian:  The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran -- what some kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is against

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• Too Weird for Words

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Arts Media, Criminal Justice

  What do the following have in common? 1) Michael Jackson2) Filipinos3) The Backstreet Boys4) Prisoners Yes, it's creepy, and you might not believe it, but the BBC sure does.

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• Apple wants your iPod to stop charging for thieves

  Published: July 28, 2007, 7:56 pm

  Tags: Apple, Charge, Crime, Criminal, Hijinx, Ipod, Itunes, Patent, Patented, Patents, Steal, Stolen, Stolen Ipod, Stolenipod, Thief, Thives

  Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Hey, it's no shocker that Apple's iPod is a coveted item even for those who acquire their wares in less than legal manners, but a recent patent application from Apple shows that someone at Cupertino cares about you rightful owners out there. Essentially, the technology would invoke a "guardian" recharge

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• Parolee's crime wave foiled by GPS anklet

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:03 am

  Tags: California, Crime, Criminal, Dumb, Gang, Gps Tracking, Gpstracking, Parole, Police, Stupid, Tracking

  Filed under: GPSFor most of us level-headed citizens, we'd probably straighten up our act if a GPS bracelet was strapped onto us by the boys in blue, but for a certain Southern California parolee, his skewed judgment recently got the best of him. Just months after a pilot program was instituted to hopefully deter ex-gang members from committing

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• Britney Spears Could Face Criminal Charges

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:56 pm

  Tags: Celebrities, Britney Spears, Britney Spears, Cesar Julio Camera, Crazy, Criminal Charges, Las Vegas, Mad, Steve Wynn, Wynn

  It only continues to get worse for Britney Spears. Reports out of Las Vegas are saying that Spears could possibly face criminal charges for ordering her security guard to attack a cameraman. There are rumblings that Spears directed her bodyguard to go after the photographer, who suffered minor injuries during the fracas Thursday near the spa [...]

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• Mod chip raid victim details the experience

  Published: August 4, 2007, 2:42 am

  Tags: Casualty, Crime, Criminal, Customs, Dcma, Hacker, Ice, Investigation, Legal, Massachusetts, Modchip, Modder, Police, Raided, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox360

  Filed under: GamingWhile US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement are remaining tight-lipped about what exactly they have seized thus far, a certain modder has come forward to depict his story and explain the experience of getting raided by the fuzz. After agents woke up his grandmother and perused her domicile with a warrant in hand, they

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• How Life Imitates the World Series

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:58 am

  Tags: Criminal Justice, Sports

  to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure can be dispensed with for the sake of some greater good, who knows where that thinking can lead? Maybe even warrantless surveillance of American citizens. Of course, these rules don't apply to our everyday judgments about people, which perhaps is why these judgments are often wrong -- grounded in

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• Cruel & Unusual Punishment

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:35 pm

  Tags: Criminal Justice

  Apparently, the Bangkok police have a discipline problem: officers parking in the wrong place, showing up late for work, littering, etc. According to "Pongpat Chayaphan, acting chief of the Crime Suppression Division,"  warnings and reprimands aren't getting the job done. So, he's resorting to drastic measures: "No matter

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• Romans 13

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:38 pm

  Tags: Apologetics Theology, Criminal Justice

  I think it's high time we discuss Romans 13. In the midst of a big commenter hoo-hah about Regis' post yesterday, labrialumn declared:Gina, Paul affirms the death penalty in Romans 13. And God Himself has not changed.Back in May, Anne posted Who Would Jesus Kill? Let's Find Out... which resulted in another commenter dust-up of sorts. During that

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• More on the Dancing Inmates

  Published: August 8, 2007, 11:28 am

  Tags: Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice

  Once Filipino prisoners participated in the cleanup of the worst oil spill in the Philippines by shaving off their hair, and now, as Zoe wrote a while back, they are participating in reenacting musical acts from Michael Jackson, Queen, Sister Act and Black Eyed Peas. The production is performed by over 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial

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• Rwanda prohibits death penalty for perpetrators of genocide

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:52 pm

  Tags: Politics, Current Events, Death Sentences, Genocide In Rwanda, International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, Irony, Joseph Farah, Life Imprisonment, Mass Murderers, Self Immolation

  U.N.’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and every other blessed thing at the U.N. About 600 murderers, including many mass murderers, will see their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment as a result of this act of beneficence. Really, that’s how it is being touted by the internationalists the very people

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• One Red Paperclip, for acting

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:48 pm

  Tags: Podcasting, Acting, The, Iphone, Spoksorship, Audience, Land, Audition, Fluke, Springboard, House, Criminal, Minds, Red, Paperclip, Sponsored, Jaffe, Huge, Shows, Csi, Tim, Coyne

  Tim Coyne just launched the One Red Paperclip of acting… taking the iPhone spoksorship ‘fluke’ as a springboard, he has sponsored Jaffe’s Across the Sound, hoping to use the podcast’s audience to help him land an audition for one of four huge TV shows– CSI, House, Criminal Minds, or Shark.

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• Chris Ivery Getting Married?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:08 pm

  Tags: Adsense, Chris Ivery, Chris Ivery Photo, Chris Ivery Video, Cocaine, Criminal Convictions, Ellen Pompeo, Jail Sentences, Lengthy Jail, Meredith Grey, Record Producer, Youtube

  chris ivery video, cocaine, criminal convictions, ellen pompeo, jail sentences, lengthy jail, meredith grey, record producer, youtubeDid you enjoy reading this post? Buy me a nice cup of coffee to fuel my late night writing sessions and keep the content

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• Senkewicz reviews Mullen, Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000

  Published: August 2, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: Scholarship Books, Crime Criminal Law

  Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) is reviewed for H-Urban by Robert M. Senkewicz, Department of History, Santa Clara University. Hat tip. Senkewicz writes: Over the past decade and a half, a number of historians have been writing about violence in the West, especially in

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• Even the Obvious Needs to Be Stated

  Published: July 24, 2007, 5:45 am

  Tags: Criminal, Chomesh, Olmert

  by MK By Arieh EldadThe State Comptroller's report on the Home Front does not tell the public anything it did not know.Can words be mightier than the sights hundreds of thousands of refugees saw in the North? Can data and conclusions and recommendations be more deafening than the sounds of sirens and explosions? Can the governmental vacuum

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