Websites such as Facebook and Twitter will receive greater protection from lawsuits if they identify internet "trolls" accused of defaming others under a bill being debated in Britain's House of Commons on Tuesday.
Internet
Jun 12, 2012
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A 28-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hacking into corporate computer networks and carrying out what US officials have described as the largest credit card theft in US history.
Internet
Dec 29, 2009
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Most women leaving prison face profound disadvantages and rarely have access to the resources needed to settle back into the community. Seemingly simple tasks such as obtaining replacement identification documents or opening ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2024
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The UK government is taking a harsher approach to tackle criminal activity which is blighting local neighborhoods. And recently, government ministers have been talking tough about repeat shoplifting, including the possibility ...
Social Sciences
Aug 14, 2023
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Algorithms were supposed to remake the American justice system. Championed as dispassionate, computer-driven calculations about risk, crime, and recidivism, their deployment in everything from policing to bail and sentencing ...
Other
Feb 24, 2023
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Prosecutors exert considerable power in the criminal justice system, and while defendants are predominantly Black and Latinx, prosecutors are overwhelmingly White. Despite calls for addressing racial disparities in this field, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2022
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People who violate their supervised release—a period of community supervision after release from prison—by committing new crimes are punished not only for their crimes, but also for violating their supervision. In a new ...
Social Sciences
May 3, 2022
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Taking away the rights of terrorists to automatic early release from prison threatens their human rights, new analysis argues.
Social Sciences
Mar 18, 2022
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A new study has examined whether specific elements of individuals' prior criminal records—current supervision status of probation or parole—affected receiving a new prison sentence in Michigan in the mid-2000s. The study ...
Social Sciences
Aug 9, 2021
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The BBC drama, Time, offered a rare and unusually realistic insight into the significant pains of imprisonment in England and Wales. It challenged the assumption that prison is too soft, and that prison sentences ought to ...
Social Sciences
Aug 6, 2021
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