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Plan to stop child sex abuse deemed unworkable
Brussels :: Belgium | 13 minutes ago
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Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf says a plan to abolish the statute of limitations for paedophile crimes will not protect children from abuse. A pressure group has collected enough signatures for a nationwide vote on the issue, due to take place...
Tags: Belgium, Brussels, Statute of limitations, Child pornography, Sex and the law, Swiss People's Party, Swiss referendum November, Social Issues, Sex crimes, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Violent crime, Law Crime
ATF agents discuss Eastern Washington's illegal gun trade
Yakima :: WA :: USA | 22 days ago
Credibility ATF agent Jessie Summers tried to deal with misconceptions before he talked about the illegal gun trade in Central and Eastern Washington. "We're not here to take anybody's guns," he told a group of city and law enforcement officials from across the state...
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Crime in the United States
Crime in the United States has steadily decreased from 1993 to 2008; even though, the human population in the US has steadily increased. The major crimes included in this U.S. Department of Justice census are violent crime, murder and non-negligent...
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Violence rises with temperature
Christchurch :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
Credibility Violence soars on warm summer days, but decreases when it rains, a new study shows. Research by Canterbury University economics honours student James Horrocks found significant correlations between weather and crime. Violent-crime rates on a summer day...
Tags: violent crime, degrees celsius
Tel Aviv beach killing rocks Israel
Tel Aviv :: Israel | 3 months ago
Credibility Tel Aviv — Reuters News Agency Last updated on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009 11:56AM EDT I sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Sunday to fight what he termed domestic terrorism after authorities said young thugs beat to death a man who was strolling...
Tags: Tel Aviv beach, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tel Aviv Magistrates' Court, prime minister, Israel Police, old girl, police force, Leonard Karp, violent crime, domestic terrorism
Crime rate falls across N.C. in '08
Raleigh :: NC :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Reports of crime across North Carolina fell by 2.2 percent in 2008 while violent crime dropped by 1.3 percent, Attorney General Roy Cooper said Wednesday. In Greensboro, the overall crime index in 2008 increased by 5 percent compared to 2007, though violent...
Tags: North Carolina, violent crime, crime rate, Roy Cooper, Raleigh-Durham, N.C
Police reveal nation divided in war against violent crime
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility Central Belt has surged in the past year, with police witnessing increases in assaults of up to 15 per cent in parts of the country. While violent crime in Scotland's main centre of population is falling, Tayside, Grampian, Fife and Northern constabularies...
Tags: violent crime
Federal stats show crime down in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Both violent crime and property crime were down in Pittsburgh last year, mirroring a national trend, according to statistics released by the FBI today -- although the city's murder rate jumped 38 percent. Nationwide, violent crime -- which includes murder,...
Tags: Pittsburgh, FBI, violent crime
Medical News Today: Substance Abuse Appears To Be An Important Factor In Increased Risk Of Violent Crime By Persons With Schizophrenia
Stockholm :: Sweden | 6 months ago
Credibility Many studies have reported on the association between major mental disorder and violence, including some that specifically have examined the relationship with schizophrenia. "These reports typically find that schizophrenia is related to a 4- to 6-fold...
Tags: violent crime
Crime declines in Durham
Durham :: NC :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Crime was down in Durham in the first two months of 2009, compared with the same period a year ago...Property crime was down 1 percent despite a 9 percent increase in burglaries: from 443 in 2008 to 483 this year...A spate of robberies in early 2008 had...
Tags: violent crime, crime rate
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