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...turns out that since the passage of the Clery Act in 1986, schools are required to report annually to the U.S. Department of Education crimes on and near campus—including murder, assault, sexual offenses and robberies. The Daily Beast, using the data from the two most recent years, analyzed more than 4,000 schools, weighing more than 50 different criteria for crime. The methodology seems legit. But urbanite schools such as NYU, Columbia, UChicago, failed to make an appearance, which struck FlyBy as slightly...
...shoplifting and public urination. The law is also retroactive, meaning many had already finished their prison sentences and started rebuilding their lives in the U.S. before finding out that they would be deported. Sophea Heng, 28, who goes by his nickname Wicked, completed his yearlong prison sentence for assault with a deadly weapon in 2001, but was immediately transferred to an immigration detention center where he was held without a release date for two years. Wicked was only released after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a related case that Cambodian Kim Ho Ma could not be held indefinitely while...
...Despite past attempts to clamp down on the scourge - since 2001, all railway companies operating in Tokyo have offered "women-only" cars - men just can't seem to keep their hands to themselves. In fact, they continue to treat physical assault as a kind of sport. Police say there are more than 100 Japanese websites devoted to groping techniques, and the methods have become more heinous and sophisticated. For instance, men are now traveling in packs that prey on a single woman and are using cell phones to surreptitiously take video or photos. (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s...
...subjects built in the course of his work at the head of the his country's Truth Commission and, later, of the Hague tribunal for war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia. Nevertheless, his report is being read as a smear in the Israeli mainstream. (See pictures of Israel's assault on Gaza...
Shannon Cleary and Truc Doan are student alliance members of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response at Harvard...