Crime throughout Maine hit a 40-year low last year, according tothe Maine Department of Public...Burns, Christopher
"Me and my brother, we would always try to take shifts to make sure my mom doesn't go out to the market or Costco by herself." Recognizing the fear within her community, Lim researched the process of how to report a hate crime and eventually created free booklets in six languages (...
1. They don't want anyone to know:Emotional distress has a major influence on the behavior of crime victims, including whether the victim reports the crime at all. Emotions such as anxiety, shame and depression can prompt people to keep the crime hidden or to refuse to seek help from othe...
Freda Adler once said, “Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.” Women should not have to go thru so much pain and agony, and our voices should be heard and expressed throughout the countries. After watching India’s Daughter, a young college student that just ...
Costly initiatives can also lead to non-participation (Landry and Amara 1998; Pigford et al., 2018), and pose potential challenges to public safety (e.g. if illicit cannabis farmers violently defend property or crimes go unreported for fear of engagement with authorities). Farms and farming ...
Police do not use deadly force because of the crime the suspect is alleged to have committed, but only due to the threat posed. This police officer made a heroic call. He risked his own life to preserve another’s, even when he was the suspect in a horrendous act that took so many...
don't seek help afterwards for many reasons such as fear of retaliation or believing the police wouldn't help. According to anti-sexual violence organization RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), overtwo out of every three assaults go unreported.LGBTQ people experience sexual violenceat...
The effect of antidepressants is relatively small [12] and they have important adverse effects that, however, to a large extent have been hidden. Adverse events of suicidal thoughts and behavior, and even suicide attempts, in patients taking antidepressant drugs have gone unreported by the events ...
In a nutshell, Clery Act training can help the campus security receive complaints that otherwise go unreported. That said, making students aware of how to report a crime should be the only purpose of your Clery Act training. The Act covers much more ground than publishing crime statistics. Bef...
He had amassed $11 million in unreported income, the IRS said, and he hadn’t paid his taxes for many, many years. He was looking at some serious prison time. He pleaded guilty in 2013 on corruption charges and became a wire-wearing informant for the feds. He provided documents and...