Tim Worstall

Jeffrey Landrigan is awaiting execution: Landrigan’s father died of natural causes while awaiting execution for murder in Arkansas five years ago.

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Via, this: There are an estimated 100,000 uncaught killers in the United States. Cops are overworked, departments underfunded, and as many as one in three murders goes unsolved. But the Vidocq Society — named after Eugene Francois Vidocq of Paris, the world’s first detective and founder of France’s Brigade de la Sûreté police force — [...]

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The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, a nongovernmental organization, created after the Chavez government stopped publishing murder rates around 2003, is considered to have the most reliable data on crime and violence. When Chavez took office in 1999 there were 4,550 homicides, while last year there were at least 16,000 homicides, the group said.said that in [...]

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German prosecutors, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal in April, are looking into the possibility that H-P executives paid about €8 million ($10.9 million) in bribes to win a €35 million contract under which the U.S. company sold computer gear, through a German subsidiary, to the office of the prosecutor general of the [...]

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A system of first and second degree murder could be introduced after it was revealed Kenneth Clarke, the Justice Secretary, is “sympathetic” to proposals first raised four years ago. Just as we distinguish between manslaughter and murder. It would also be a useful precedent for those shouting about low conviction rates for rape. Part of [...]

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The government is to unveil radical proposals that would give football fans first option to buy their clubs when they were put up for sale and require clubs to hand over a stake of up to 25% to supporters’ groups. This is, quite simply, theft. Liverpool, Arsenal, Man U, they’re worth around the £400 million [...]

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James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables proves vengeance does not work. Now it’s time for mercy Mary Riddell. Look at what actually happened to Jon Venables. Horrific crime, trial, sentence, yes. Was he then thrown in a cell and the key chucked away? No, actually, he wasn’t. He had the best education and upbringing the State [...]

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Burglary victims attacked in their own home once every 30 minutes So how does this work then? Is there a queue outside? A rota system? You sign in on a clipboard? “‘Ere, Darren, can I swap my 10:30 slot wiv’ you for the 9:30? Only it’s me Jobcentre time see an’ I ca’n miss out [...]

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The murder rate has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years but police admit that the main reason may be the skills of paramedics and advances in medicine rather than a decline in violent attacks. Murder is used as an indicative measure for overall crime. Because it’s one of the very few that are [...]

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The perils of life as a sporting Wag loom large this week. Tiger Woods appears to be in the doghouse after claims – malicious, I’m sure – of an extra-marital dalliance with a pillow-lipped birdie. But if it had been true, and wife Elin took revenge on him and his 4×4 with a handy five [...]

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Police spend £800,000 a year on music rights Police forces are paying hundreds of thousands of pounds a year to allow officers to listen to music at their desks, in canteens and even in cell blocks. Well, yes, I suppose it is news that police forces obey the law these days……

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An IT expert who produced fake train tickets worth more than £12,000 has been spared jail. Jonathan Moore, 27, used his laptop to create near-perfect copies of season tickets that allowed him to travel free for two years. His fraud was discovered only when a ticket inspector on a train to Brighton noticed a variation [...]

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Interesting point being made: Since 1999 the Home Office has known that its methods for calculating rape convictions are wrong. The real conviction rate is not the publicly broadcast 10 per cent but closer to 50 per cent (it varies slightly from year to year). In a Minority Report (1) which I wrote for a [...]

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Two in three days. A woman who falsely accused her ex-boyfriend of rape when he broke off their relationship was jailed yesterday for her ‘vile lies’. Incidence of false rape claims seems to be 60 times higher than previously estimated…..if one every 6 months were to be taken as our previous estimate.

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In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a “wedding” ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard – essentially raped by her “husband.”

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They really are desperate, aren’t they? There was something sensible-ish about the Criminal Compensation Board. If you had a criminal record then any compensation you got under the scheme was reduced. Now they’re extending this scheme of discounts: Under the new rules, a deduction must be made for any unspent convictions, including motoring offences, ‘unless [...]

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Cameron’s “Broken Britain” trope never refers to the fact that the risk of being a victim of any kind of crime was 40% in 1995 and is now 23%. Risk? Percentage? Does Polly mean that 23% of the population are victims of crime in any one year? What?

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Woman who cried rape after date with man she met in internet chatroom is jailed for a year Hmmm… A MOTHER of two who falsely accused her estranged husband of rape because she wanted him out of her life was jailed for four months yesterday. Six months just seems to fly by these days.

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Civil servants have refused to name inmates who have fled prison even though individual police forces will often identify them if they pose a risk to the public. They say releasing their names would breach obligations under the Data Protection Act.

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A MOTHER of two who falsely accused her estranged husband of rape because she wanted him out of her life was jailed for four months yesterday. Surprising really, given how rare we’re told such cases are.

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