Crimes stories:
90-Year-Old Charged in Germany for Nazi-Era Crimes
Nov 17th, 2009 - ABC News
A former SS sergeant who worked unnoticed for decades as a train-station manager was charged with 58 counts of murder Tuesday after a student doing undergraduate research uncovered his alleged involvement in a massacre of Jewish forced laborers.
Obama Administration Said to Ready Push Against Financial Fraud
Nov 17th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration plans toannounce today an effort by multiple government agencies tocombat financial fraud, according to a person familiar with thematter who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Prisoners allowed up to 100 days 'holiday' from cells
Nov 16th, 2009 - Telegraph
Some prisoners can even spend up to a month at a time doing community service outside their prisons. The number of prisoners offered so-called "resettlement overnight release" (ROR) in the final years of their sentence has trebled in just two years...
Clinton says Karzai ‘must do better’
Nov 15th, 2009 - MSNBC
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday Afghan President Hamid Karzai "must do better" if he wanted U.S. support and that included creating a major crimes tribunal and anti-corruption commission.Obama Meets with Japanese Leader
Nov 13th, 2009 - VOA News
U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in Tokyo for the start of his eight-day tour of Asia.
Mr. Obama will hold talks with new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama aimed at improving ties with the longtime U.S...
Crimes from WikiPedia:
Societies define crime as the breach of one or more rules or laws for which some governing authority via mechanisms such as "police power" may ultimately prescribe a conviction. While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example: breaches of contract and of other civil law may rank as "offences" or as "infractions".
When society deems informal relationships and sanctions insufficient to establish and maintain a desired social order, there may result more formalized or stricter systems of social control imposed by a government, or by a sovereign state. With institutional and legal machinery at their disposal, agents of the State can compel populations to conform to codes, and can opt to punish or to attempt to reform those who do not conform.
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