Internet crimes are becoming more sophisticated and persistent in Florida and several of America’s other most populous states, including California, New York, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina.
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The one-of-a-kind course saw 12 criminal justice students work through the Nutshells during the week, before culminating in an interactive recreation of one of the Nutshells by the UW-Parkside theater department.
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Researchers have measured the extent to which mass shootings are committed by domestic violence perpetrators, suggesting how firearm restrictions may prevent these tragedies.
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A veteran detective for the Carlisle, Pennsylvania Police Department, who was also a task force officer with the FBI and a member of the Cumberland County Drug Task Force, was indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, drug distribution, fraud and making false statements.
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New research is one of the first to identify common attributes of cybercrime networks, revealing how these groups function and work together to cause an estimated $445-600 billion of harm globally per year.
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The Department of Justice held a Summit on Combating Human Trafficking last week at which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unveiled a first-of-its-kind long-term strategy for what the United States has declared a national priority.
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Coming from a disadvantaged background, experiencing violence within the family, having a negative school environment or consuming violent media have little or no direct influence on potential criminal behavior among adolescents, but do result in young people regarding violent acts as harmless.
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A new study found that 6-to-12 months after traumatic injury, rates of chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other poor physical and mental health outcomes were alarmingly high among survivors of firearm violence—even higher than among survivors who had sustained similar injuries in motor vehicle crashes.
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As the drug epidemic began to unfold in the United States, deaths classified as drug-related for 15- to 64-year-olds hit 9% in 2016, up from about 4% seven years prior. But new research suggests drug-associated mortality in this country is actually more than double that.
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Due to the prevalence of feral cats across the United States, understanding the patterns and behaviors of scavenging cats is important to distinguishing between perimortem and postmortem tissue damage in corpses exposed to outdoor settings.
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