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Years ago, social scientists introduced the broken-windows theory of crime control, which posited that if a neighborhood looked orderly and cared for - with no graffiti or broken windows - potential wrongdoers would be dissuaded from committing crimes there. Now psychologists have proposed a similar theory, which suggests that people can be induced to behave virtuously when their environment smells as clean as it looks...
Read "How to Clean Up a Crime Scene...
...earlier version of the Oct. 22 News article "Police Seek Suspects In Saturday Stabbing" in one instance referred to the crime reported Saturday night as a shooting. It was, in fact, a stabbing...
...ever remember if he said the word Somalia on the phone, but that's a problem because, like, lying to them in and of itself is a crime." - Regarding his 2008 arrest (Boston Globe...
Ironically, the overtures come as Michigan shrinks its own inmate population: since 2006, it has dropped from 51,700 to about 46,000. Officials here attribute the decline to several factors, including an overall drop in crime, the placement of more people on parole and a lower recidivism rate. But in June, as the state's budget crisis deepened, Michigan announced that it would close eight prison facilities by the end of the year, including Standish, which could save some $30 million annually. Standish is expected to be shut down by the end of October, and many...