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Hera Research is pleased to present a sobering interview with Neil Barofsky, Senior Research Scholar, Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. From December 2008 until March 2011 Mr. Barofsky served as the Special Inspector General for the $700 billion U.S...
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Filed under: collateralized debt obligations, CDOs, mortgage fraud, Neil Barofsky, fraud, crime, waste, TARP, abuse, New York University School of Law, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, white collar crime, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bailout, securities fraud
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Well now it's official, existing contracts are changed by states if they wan to. You do not believe me? Well check what Greece does to it's private debtors. So how could you expect that this won't be done by every country if the debts are too heavy? You can't, so you better do not "invest"...
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So it would appear that lawmakers have already started making it illegal to point cameras at cops. According to this article it is already illegal in 3 states. At first glance the only reason they would do this seems to be that they want the police to be able to break the law and abuse it's power...
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China's spate of school violence: Lone madmen without guns Could it really be that gun control or lack there of is not what causes mad people to go on massacres in schools ... no way!
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(Originally posted at damienmanier.com) The way we punish criminals and restore justice is very important to our overall crime prevention strategy. It is important to establish a punitive system that will exact the right amount of punishment while also bringing about justice and restitution to the victim...
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You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. How much stimulus will go to the police state? Read More...
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C and P primer from NPR. More on the name game of crime. Rural folk even those from the state like guns more. Collateral damage from the war on drugs . Crime rise amongst older Japanese. Using criminals to fight crime. Read More...
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Alex Tabarrok has said that increased police on the streets serve as a good solution for temporary crime spikes. Here's Montesque's concern on the matter: 12. Of the Power of Punishments. Experience shows that in countries remarkable for the lenity...
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Back in September Phillip Johnson commented on the UK's economic position and the likely criminal trends in the near future: Most violence is caused by young men against young men, usually at night, when they are drunk. At a time of economic slowdown...
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Though I would expect that one of the benefits of economic freedom and prosperity was safety and security in person and property. There is little to no observable correlation between crime rates and economic freedom. If there was we could have an argument...
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Whenever I come across a website or online article worth reading I bookmark it. Doing some spring cleaning today and want to delete these from my sidebar but not loose track of them forever. They're obviously relevant here: 1. James Wilson at Volokh...
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Once again it's been a long while between posts. I'm off to Vegas tomorrow morning for this years APEE conference . The ominous dissertation defense is right around the corner, scheduled for April 22. Here are some interesting links to help pass...
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this is a response to one of my more moderate friends in a private message. I thought it to be worthy of general publication, so here is a short excerpt. One of the main tenants of my philosophy is that we do not have positive rights but only negative rights. Not the right to have food, medicine or shelter...
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As I'm bunkered down in the library this early evening plowing my way through back issues of Crime and Delinquency , I couldn't help but get sidetracked by reading this paper unrelated to my dissertation. Jill Leslie Rosenbaum and Lorrain Prinsky...