Cybercriminals are using social networking websites like Facebook to gain backdoor access to business computer networks, reports USA Today. The intrusions can expose a company to theft of its most sensitive data. Such attacks illustrate a dramatic shift underway in the Internet underground. Cybercriminals are moving aggressively to take advantage of social networks in workplace settings, an unanticipated chink in corporate defenses. (more…)
More than 100,000 people disappear every year in the U.S. But there are few national tools to help anxious relatives locate their loved ones.
Casey King, 30, was juggling a newborn baby and two older children when her husband Jody went missing last April. She had no doubt something was wrong. Jody, 28, adored his children—and it was hard to believe he would disappear voluntarily a few weeks after the birth of their third daughter.
But convincing law enforcement, public officials, and others was a different matter.
A reporter looks at day-to-day practices in American courtrooms, and finds them wanting.
Last year in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., two juvenile judges were indicted on charges of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks in exchange for sending children to a private prison. But this shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone who had studied the daily procedures in their courtrooms.
Time Magazine reports that dozens of prisoners in Britain have found a sinister use for Facebook: after being locked up for offenses such as murder and assault, inmates are taunting and terrorizing their victims through status updates and group wall posts. Barry Mizen, whose 16-year-old son Jimmy was murdered in 2008, says his family endured months of personal attacks on a Facebook page that was created after Jimmy’s killer, Jake Fahri, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last March. (more…)
In a series called “True Crime,” published between September 27 and December 18, 2009, the paper sought to depict the truth about crime in their city through an innovative mapping project.
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Some of America’s noted criminologists examine some of the most common explanations for the country’s falling violent crime rates—and find them lacking.
During the 1990s, the favorite solution to reducing crime was incarceration. That is, mass incarceration: mandatory minimums and 25-to-life three-strikes sentences for stealing a slice of pizza. The consequence today is more than two million people behind bars, the world’s largest per capita incarceration rate. No one among the experts I spoke with, however, suggested that as a factor in 2009’s crime drop.
A reporter looks at day-to-day practices in American courtrooms, and finds them wanting.