Recently the House passed the Community Safety and Security Act of 2018 (CSSA), which would amend the federal "crime of violence" (COV) definition found at 18 U.S.C. § 16. Many federal statutes incorporate that definition for various purposes, including describing elements of certain criminal...
felony- a serious crime (such as murder or arson) blackmail- extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information tribute,protection- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence; "every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection" ...
BJA,Bureau of Justice Assistance- the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse BJS,Bureau of Justice Statistics- the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice st...
VIOLENCE AGAINST PROPERTY: THE BREAKING POINT OF FEDERAL CRIME OF VIOLENCE CLASSIFICATIONSSunderman, ConnorColumbia Law Review
(2) the defendant did not use violence or credible threats of violence or possess a firearm or other dangerous weapon (or induce another participant to do so) in connection with the offense; (3) the offense did not result in death or serious bodily i...
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(e) Add 1 point for each prior sentence resulting from a conviction of a crime of violence that did not receive any points under (a), (b), or (c) above because such sentence was treated as a single sentence, up to a total of 3 points for this subsection. ...
The prevalence of mental illness was not significantly correlated with type of crime or the total number of instant charges. The main objective of the present study is to examine the prevalence rates of mental disorders among newly sentenced, male federal prisoners admitted to the intake assessment...
Government prosecutors primarily used the Act to target organized crime and criminal organizations when it was enacted. Before the law was in place, prosecutors were forced to try mob-related racketeering crimes individually, even though a large number of individuals may have been involved in the c...