Taxi Cab Safety Advice for the Customer

The article contains some advice for you if you are ever a customer of a taxi service so that you do NOT get ripped off by a crooked taxi cab driver.

Vehicle Security

Crimes against motor vehicles include motor vehicle theft, theft from a motor vehicle, and vandalism to a motor vehicle. In the United states, a motor vehicle is stolen every 20 seconds. How can one guard himself from this type of crime?

Scholarship Fraud

More than 340,000 people are duped by scholarship fraud every year. Private scholarships are usually awarded to very specific applicants, such as students with a particular career interest, or members of a certain religious organization or church. These institutions have created funds for students.

MLM Plan on the Outside, Pyramid Scam on the Inside

Many of today's multi-level marketing programs involve some degree of deception. Either they promise unrealistic sales and incomes or they are nothing more than pyramid schemes disguised as MLM programs. A pyramid scheme is when you earn money by recruiting other people into the program with no real product or service sold.

Procedures of a SAFE Exam Following a Sexual Assault

A sexual assault forensic evidence (SAFE) exam should be done as soon as possible after the crime of rape was committed.

Guarding Yourself Against Check Fraud

There are new laws enacted to help combat check fraud. A good example of this is Check 21. Check 21 allows banks to provide consumers with electronic images of checks rather than mailing them back to you in your monthly bank account statement. This helps cut down on paper as well as curb some check fraud.

Productivity Shifts - From Police Officer to Reporter

The introduction of mobile phones changes our lives. A mobile phone makes it possible to shorten the distance and the time to communicate. More recent versions of mobile phones are enhanced with cameras. These features make new changes possible in society. By using a camera someone is able to record and later to report an incident that otherwise would never have been possible on such a large scale.

Procedures Involved in Investigating a Death

In a nutshell, the reason that a person died is what defines the cause of death. Some possibilities that lead to a death are blunt force trauma, a gunshot wound, or a heart attack. These are pathologies or injuries that lead to death.

Discovering Physical Forensic Science

In a science called physical forensic science, there are four aspects involved. In this article, I will define the four aspects of physical forensic science so that the next time you watch CSI, you will have a better understanding of what police scientists talk about.

Jail and Prison Ministry - Facets Open for Volunteer Service

There are many facets open for volunteer service in prison ministry. A quick inventory of your interests, concerns, and spiritual gifts will help to determine how you can best serve.

Title Washing - Before You Buy a Car - Is There a Hidden Skeleton in the Trunk?

Washing a title allows dealers and private individuals to remove the salvaged branding from car titles to minimize their losses. Titles are washed by transferring a salvaged vehicle to a state that does not recognize the salvage. When the state issues a new title, it may no longer reflect the fact that it had been salvaged.

The Legal Price of Drunk Driving

It's always so much better not to get in that predicament in the first place. Bear in mind that if you are convicted in a DUI case, you may lose your license, or get your license and car impounded. You may have to pay a heavy fine or you may land in prison.

Don't Punish Vermont for the Myopic Rulings of Men in Robes

Two Vermont judges went easy on pedophiles and the state became a pariah. But don't stay away from a scenic and beautiful state because of the stupidity of two men in robes. You're missing the magic and wonder that is Vermont.

An Insane Criminal Justice System

To this day, the definition of insanity comes from the M'Naghten Rules [1843]. To prove legal insanity it is necessary to show that, 'the accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not to know he was doing what was wrong.'

Imprisonment - What is the Point?

Imprisonment in modern society is on the increase, therefore certainly a topic worth writing about. Punishment is depicted as an intense collective phenomenon driven by irrational forces. It was seen as rituals expressing the furious moral outrage of the group against those who had violated its sacred moral order.