They include New Jersey and California (Bustamante 2016; Sorensen 2017; Cooke 2017).Footnote 21 The status quo exposes the weakness of the legal system which provides for a markedly different treatment of the same factual circumstances, sometimes as an offense, sometimes a crime (Najdowski 2017)...
�There hasn�t been necessarily crackdown; that idea probably stemmed from going 21 and up on Thursday, Friday and Saturday after 9 p.m. beginning last semester if not last summer,� Merino said. The punishment for possessing a fake ID ranges from community service to jail time, Hofman...
The severity of the punishment typically depends on the amount of money involved in the fraudulent action: the more money involved, the greater the criminal consequences. Smaller amounts of money are usually charged as a misdemeanor. Misdemeanors are typically crimes involving less than $1000. Large...
Cory Doctorow’s latest science fiction novel, THE LOST CAUSE, is a book about both the politics and the technics of responding to climate change. The novel is set in the near future, perhaps thirty years from now, in Burbank, California. Brooks, the narrator and protagonist, is a 19-yea...