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...Simpson defense team tried building a case for challenging the many DNA blood-test results expected to surface during the trial. His attorneys repeatedly prodded police criminologists on whether blood samples had been collected properly. One admission: criminologist Collin Yamauchi said he mislabeled one blood sample. Defense attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld also pressured the prosecution to release blood samples so they could conduct their own DNA tests...
...murderers, Long Island landscaper Joel Rifkin, who goes on trial this month for the death of 17 young women, is just a garden-variety killer. The man- eating Dahmer is the pick of the crop. "People are getting very morbidly involved in violence, especially violent sexual behavior," says criminologist Robert Ressler, who says he first coined the term serial killer 20 years ago when he worked in the FBI's behavioral-research branch. Americans now wallow in the horror and gore and take a guilty delight in killers' eluding capture. (Indeed, it is a chilling emulation of Gacy's reaction...
...MORE PREVALENT VIEW, though, is that the revolving door puts seasoned criminals back onto the streets to make room for nonviolent offenders, who make up half the prison population. "Prison systems are 'criminogenic': they create criminals," says University of Miami criminologist Paul Cromwell, who served as a commissioner on the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. The chronic beatings, stabbings, rapes and isolation ignite fury. "Just about everyone I talk to says that when they get out they will do something bad," says Larry Jobe, 32, who is imprisoned at a supermax facility in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota. "They...
...trend are considerable: unlike sworn officers, most security guards are not required to inform suspects of their Miranda rights or to obey the Fourth Amendment's restraint on searches. Moreover, the trend toward privatization raises important public-policy issues. "What ever happened to equal protection for all?" asks Harvard criminologist Mark Moore. "If public policing can be bought, then the rich will receive more than the poor. In the end, the public force will erode into a poor people's force." And unless the industry cleans up its own procedures, even rich clients may find themselves the victims of those...
...advertisement attacking TIME for its report ((July 17)) on 464 gun deaths that occurred in the U.S. in a single week, chosen at random. "Legally-owned firearms saved the lives of far more Americans than those lost during ((TIME's)) 'seven deadly days,' " the advertisement stated. "According to noted criminologist Dr. Gary Kleck of Florida State University, every year some 650,000 Americans use firearms to thwart criminal assault. That's 12,500 a week...