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Knocking birds

Students on a Florida campus who strayed too close to a mockingbird nest found themselves under personal attack, according to a new study. A species of songbird has been shown to identify individual people in a crowd in order to target them aggressively if they pose a threat to their nests. In the new study, by Douglas Levey and colleagues at the University of Florida, Gainsville, in the Procee...

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Sanctions Compliance

Financial institutions need to meet rising sanctions compliance demands without disrupting customer service or incurring inordinate costs. While robust filtering technology is essential to managing compliance, the most cost-effective approach combines intelligent technology, people and processes while fostering self-learning and improvement in all three components. This white paper describes th...

Intermediate Sanctions

Most American jurisdictions have recently established new intermediate sanctions programs. Few such programs have diverted large numbers of offenders from prison, saved public monies or prison beds, or reduced recidivism rates. These findings recur in evaluations of community service, intensive supervision, house arrest, day reporting centers, and boot camps. The principal problems have been hi...