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...bookie, police traced a $30,000-per-day betting account back to an $11,000-a-year teller at the Union Dime Savings Bank and discovered that he had made off with $1.5 million by the computerized shuffling of funds among little-used accounts. Even if caught, a computer thief may not be prosecuted. Fearing embarrassing publicity, some firms merely fire the offender and absorb the losses...
Several other federal cases have nearly foundered because of insufficient laws. The conviction of one man, accused of stealing confidential information from a Federal Energy Administration computer in Maryland, was possible only because the thief had dialed into a system from his office a few miles away in Virginia. He was prosecuted under an interstate wire-fraud statute. In response, Senator Abraham Ribicoff has introduced a bill prohibiting misuse of federal computers or any data-processing machine affecting interstate commerce. The bill would impose stiff punishments: up to 15 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Says Justice Department...
...thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. It is the reward of their own deeds, an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is mighty, wise...
...North Yemen, a convicted thief is required to pick up his chopped-off hand and raise it to his forehead in a salute to the presiding judge. That sort of thing is not done in more liberalized Muslim societies like Libya. Although Strongman Muammar Gaddafi imposed Koranic law in 1973, thieves are usually jailed instead of having their hands amputated. "We want these people to work," says a Libyan police official. "How can they work if we cut off their hands...
Some juvenile courts make the punishment fit the crime precisely. The thief is forced to make restitution; he may go to work for the person whose property he has stolen or destroyed, or he may take some other job until the money is paid back. In Seattle, lesser offenders are put to work in hospitals, state and local agencies and community service projects. When restitution has been made, they are eligible for full-time jobs with social service programs. In Memphis, Judge Turner occasionally orders parents to subsidize their child in some correctional institution. Says he: "That puts more responsibility...