Questions tagged [crime]
Refers to activity that violates a society's or international body's established legal codes. Such activity typically violates the community's social mores, and is undertaken in both opportunistic and organized fashions. Crime is typically subdivided into property crime (robbery, theft, fencing, fraud), sexual crime (rape, sexual assault, harassment), violent crime (assault, battery, homicide), and war crimes (genocide, slavery, treaty violation).
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What was the role of the Court of Revision and Judicature in the Qing dynasty?
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The Court of Judicature and Revision, also known as the Court of Judicial Review, was a central government agency in several imperial Chinese. From the Chinese, the system was ...
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Why did/do they torture people to get fake "confessions"?
I've always wondered about why they would torture somebody to get a fake "confession", just so they can then execute the same person.
Why not just execute them from the beginning? Why go ...
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What anti-smuggling measures were implemented on the border between Ukraine and Hungary in the late 1990s and early 2000s?
Closely related cross-site: Why did Hungary joining the E.U. cause oil prices fall to be only marginally higher than they were in Ukraine?
Somewhat related cross-site: Were schoolteachers really paid ...
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(How) Did criminals in the middle ages get treatment for injuries?
Were criminals in the middle ages able to get treatment for injuries, and if so, how? I mean criminals such as bandits who wouldn't be able to seek whatever medical care was normally available, even ...
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What were the conditions in 17th century London prisons?
Does anyone have any information, or suggestions for sources, on conditions in Newgate or other London prisons in the mid-seventeenth century?
Would prisoners be confined to cells, or could they ...
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What legal instruments in the Russian Empire criminalised teaching peasants to read?
When he was 17 - and he was born in 1867 so this was after the 1861 abolition of serfdom - Boris Sidis was jailed in the Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire, for the crime of teaching peasants to read ...
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What would have been the process of arresting someone in the Middle Ages?
In the High Middle Ages (France, specifically), if someone was suspected of having committed a crime, would that person have been arrested? Would that person have been jailed somewhere until their ...
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Has a criminal organisation ever become a formal government?
There are plenty of examples of criminal syndicates attaining local, regional, or even national power through corruption, while still, at least formally, pursued by the judicial system: Mexico, Russia,...
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Why was Hannah Ocuish believed to have been mentally disabled?
Hannah Ocuish was a 12 year old Native American girl who had the dubious honor in 1786 of being the youngest female to be legally executed in the United States, allegedly for murdering another girl ...
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Can anyone help me find out about a historic Department of Water and Power building, seemingly built in 1923?
I was reading an old newspaper about a stick-up crew. It described an area in Los Angeles, California that I believe I have located. The article describes an "alley running north and south from ...
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What was the criminal charge of "pretending sodomy" in 1719 England?
In an old London, England newspaper called "The Post Boy", the edition of 19 May 1719, there is what I believe is an advertisement for a book that will be published the next day (it says).
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Can anyone find a copy of "Notes on secret societies" by C.T. Dobrée on the internet?
"Notes on secret societies, compiled by C.T. Dobrée, is a guide to Chinese triads or secret societies operating in Malaya in the post-war era, with information on the secret codes of language and ...
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Have any serial killers created puzzles that would free the victim if solved?
One of the most common movie tropes is that of the serial killer who creates some kind of puzzle, trials, or other challenge that would free the victim if completed. It makes for an instantly dramatic ...
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How did cannibals in Jamestown obtain bodies for food? [closed]
This article said that it was probably because of lack of food (In the Jamestown Colony), but if it was then why didn't the teenager be cared for or left alone instead of being eaten.
How did the ...
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How common was poisoning as tool of murder among common people in 19th and early 20th century Europe? [closed]
We all know famous people who were murdered by poisoning from ancient times till today. I am not interested in this, I am more interested in average people killing their spouses, relative (maybe ...
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