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...Vladimir Solovyev, the criminologist in the Prosecutor General's Office who led the forensic research for identification on the Romanov remains for the 1998 re-burial, stated at the time that Russian geneticists could say only that they had a father, a mother, and three daughters...
...accept the new offer. Inside prison, Palestinian inmates are separated according to their allegiance to Hamas or Fatah, since otherwise they would clash, a mirror of their rivalry inside the Palestinian territories. Hamas prisoners are better organized and more disciplined than Fatah inmates, according to Anat Berko, a criminologist at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, who frequently speaks with the Palestinian inmates. She says that Hamas' efforts to free as many Palestinian prisoners as possible, and not just those belonging to Hamas, has earned the Islamic militants greater support among the 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli...
...Associate Professor Greg Newbold, a New Zealand criminologist, believes the situation is now beyond control: "They might manage to suppress it in one area temporarily, and it will just crop up again somewhere else. The problem is generated by the cultural milieu and the economic conditions in that area." Newbold speaks with the authority of a man who has done jail time himself for drug dealing and written a book on crime in New Zealand. "This is their excitement. This is their entertainment. This is what they live for. They live for their patch, for their gang and for their...
...world's lowest homicide rates. Murders plummeted from 102 in 1997 to just 34 last year, in part perhaps because the city's gangs have shifted some of their focus to southern China. "Occasionally you have a case that's quite grim," says Roderic Broadhurst, a criminologist at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, who studies Hong Kong homicides, but "the rate is still pretty low." Most of Hong Kong's murders, it seems, still only happen in the movies...
...turns out that John Mark Karr didn't kill JonBenet Ramsey, he won't be the first to confess voluntarily to a crime he didn't commit. The motivation for these phony admissions, says criminologist Jim Fisher, author of Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, can be "mental illness or extreme guilt over another crime, or they're just yearning for the attention a big case brings, the chance to be in the history books...