An experiment examined the extent to which viewers’ emotional discomfort with a crime story and perceptions and memorability of a perpetrator and victim could be influenced by the race and skin tone of the perpetrator portrayed in a newscast. Participants were exposed either to a White, light-skinned Black, medium-skinned Black, or dark-skinned Black perpetrator. In addition, participants provi...

The act of sexual violence is a crime that classified as violation human rights (HAM). increase in cases the world, including Indonesia, shows this existing justice system unable to guarantee for victims, and most importantly recovery victims. For reason, restoration approach needed an alternative law enforcement against crimes. In practice, marriage used way restoration. This article uses norm...

... Professor Seipp's Paper transports us to the Middle Ages to discover a society that views crime and tort quite differently from the way we view these categories today. ... In Professor Seipp's world the victim of a wrong had a choice: demand revenge by determining how the wrongdoer would be punished, or demand monetary compensation. ... I believe that the decline of the victim's right to re...

The prevalence of computer and the internet has brought forth the increasing spate of cybercrime activities; hence the need for evidence to attribute a crime to a suspect. The research therefore, centres on evidence, the legal standards applied to digital evidence presented in court and the main sources of evidence in the Windows OS, such as the Registry, slack space and the Windows event log. ...

Despite the widespread attention given to identity theft, there is much confusion on how best to define and measure it. Recent attempts to measure its extent through victimization surveys or law enforcement files have varied considerably in the types of crimes included as identity theft. Some studies include credit card fraud, while others exclude it. This inconsistency in data collection has m...

The present study was carried out during the period 2009 to 2012. A total 29 cases gunshot Suicides were studied. Males dominated the Victim group with the Male to Female ratio of 13.5:1. Majority of the Victims belonged to the age group 2140yrs.In 93.1% of cases the Head was the most preferred region and Temple was the preferred Anatomical site .All the weapons used were Handguns and were Lega...

This paper extends findings on implicit racial bias to public opinion concerning natural disasters. Using an online experiment, we show that racial cues embedded in news coverage of Hurricane Katrina influenced public support for governmental disaster assistance. First, exposure to a white rather than African-American hurricane victim made participants more likely to cite the federal government...