Rafael González
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5 days ago · In the face of rising crime, booming commerce, and unreliable law enforcement, property owners and merchants turned to extralegal arbitrators and protectors. These extralegal protectors eventually organized themselves into the first Mafia clans.
4 days ago · On a cold February night in 1970, 20-year-old Mary Petry and her boyfriend, 22-year-old Bill Sproat, were discovered murdered in Bill's off-campus apartment on West 8th Avenue in Columbus.
4 days ago · If there was a crime, a judge must define the penalty allowing the crime to be annulled by compensating it. This is how pecuniary compensation appeared for criminals the least recalcitrant and whose rehabilitation is deemed possible.
5 days ago · Broadly speaking, Chattanoogans are concerned about crime: 76% of respondents agreed that crime and public safety are “major issues” in Chattanooga, including majorities of both sexes and all age groups, races, and political affiliations.
4 days ago · Capital punishment, execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. The term ‘death penalty’ is sometimes used interchangeably with ‘capital punishment,’ though imposition of the penalty is not always followed by execution. Learn more about capital punishment.
4 days ago · Disorder is not measured like crime—there is no system for aggregating measures of disorder across cities. But if you look for the signs, they are there. Retail theft, though hard to measure , has grown bad enough that major retailers now lock up their wares in many cities.
3 days ago · Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Novelist, Philosopher, Russia: Written at the same time as The Gambler, Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (1866; Crime and Punishment) describes a young intellectual, Raskolnikov, willing to gamble on ideas. He decides to solve all his problems at a stroke by murdering an old pawnbroker woman.
