- The penalties are so harsh that they may be wildly out of proportion to the severity of the crime. Critics have likened the use of RICO to using a sledgehammer to squash a gnat. The law provides for 20-year prison terms for each racketeering count, and forces the defendant to forfeit...
As also the sampling of activity groups was biased regarding sex (i.e., working reindeer consisted only males), we handled sexes separately in the following analyses on activity effects. The effect of subspecies on the observed variation was negligible most cases (similar range and distribution ...