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This poignant program deftly captures the hope and heartbreak of three men struggling to put drug addiction behind them and regain the lost trust of their loved ones. Completion of a closely monitored court-ordered drug treatment plan is their ticket back to life on the outside, and they are staking their futures on it.but only two succeed. Interviews with the recovering addicts and their family members movingly illustrate the damaging repercussions...
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This third edition is written in a clear, concise style and has been thoroughly revised and updated to include such new chapters as white-collar crime and the use of technology in crime control. Felson challenges the conventional wisdom and offers his perspective and solutions to reducing crime through such changes as physical environments and patterns of everyday life.
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How does America's juvenile justice system work? In what ways has it failed? And what would it take to improve it so that it routinely operates in the best interests of offenders, their victims, and society as a whole? These are not simple questions, as this Fred Friendly Seminar points out--and they become all the more complex when moderator Charles Ogletree, of Harvard Law School, casts 13 experts as figures in a hypothetical scenario involving...
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The forms of punishment a society chooses, and what exactly it deems a crime, tell a great deal about that society's values. How is justice pursued and punishment meted out? This program looks at the history of punishment, beginning with early compensatory forms of justice, Hammurabi's Code, and the Law of Moses. Socrates' execution and Roman and medieval forms of justice are analyzed in a historical context, underscoring the fact that punishment...
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This program, filmed at the Central Correctional Institution in South Carolina, examines the failure of current U.S. correctional methods, and the expense of that failure in human terms. Interviews with inmates and staff capture emotions ranging from rage to hopelessness, as they discuss the racism and violence indigenous to prison life. The overall picture is that a growing underclass is disproportionately punished under our current criminal justice...
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What is the cost to society for making certain personal choices-those considered by many to be immoral or ill-advised-a crime? And how is the concept of individual liberty affected when the force of public censure is replaced by the force of law? In this program, ABC News anchor John Stossel studies this extremely complex and volatile subject, searching for mid-ground between the left and the right. High-level policy makers, such as the president...
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Affinity frauds are perpetrated against people of particular social or ethnic groups - by those who seem to share the same background. This episode of Scammed profiles two criminals, David Spark and Andrew Lech, who prey upon such groups of trusting individuals - those who do not fear or would never suspect being taken advantage of by members of their own community. The victims here tell their stories about how they were easily duped by these criminals...
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Each year, an estimated 2 million people suffering from mental illness are booked into county jails. In Kansas City, Missouri, like other places around the country, officials are looking for a better way to get those people the help they need to get back on their feet. John Yang reports in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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The elderly are often preyed upon by fraudsters. What may be most shocking is how such crimes tend to happen at the hands of those they know and trust. This episode of Scammed follows the stories of several elderly victims whose retirement savings were plundered by trusted fiduciaries, new romantic interests, and even their own children. We learn how it was not only their savings stolen from them, but their faith in others as well.
13) Scammed
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Across the United States, approximately 80,000 inmates are locked down in solitary confinement. The practice has led to Congressional hearings, UN reports, and even prison hunger strikes. Is solitary inhumane-and even a form of torture? In this ABC News program, reporter Dan Harris volunteers to spend 48 hours "in the hole" at Denver County Jail in an effort to find out. Over the course of his brief but intense incarceration, Harris has to cope with...
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The infamous 18 are El Salvador's biggest gang. The members battle with the rival MS13 for control of the drug market. They charge rent to local businesses and kill those who don't pay. They are teenagers, the orphans of civil war, born in the heat of battle and unfazed by death. MS13 and the 18 together form the world's biggest multinational gang. Padre, a local priest says, "If Christ had been born here he'd have been high-risk ... born poor and...
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In 1994, voters sent a clear message to Congress: focus on punishment through harsher and longer sentences. But since even a life sentence does not necessarily translate into a life behind bars, society is expected to assimilate paroled ex-convicts who have had little or no rehabilitation. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel examines the case of James Pope III-sentenced on two counts of murder and armed robbery, but eligible for parole in...
18) Identity Theft
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Identity theft has become a major and common type of fraudulent crime worldwide. Whether it involves forging documents or stealing personal information, identity theft is not limited by borders and it affects people of all walks of life. In this episode of Scammed, we meet Detectives Glass and Staab as they each guide us through two separate, fascinating identity theft cases. In the first half, Officer Glass shares with us a crime of forgery, through...
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Accused of serial murder, rape, and perversion, Michel Fourniret was arrested in 2003. He was convicted of seven murders, and remains under investigation for many more. This disturbing documentary tells his terrifying story. What leads a man to spiral into manipulation, molestation, and a series of brutal murders? It is a story of obsession, of power, and of sex. This tragic, twisted case has seen families devastated by grief and anger and surviving...
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Obscenities, screaming matches, fistfights, shootings-these have become almost standard forms of public expression. Why? Can society's violent downward spiral be reversed? This program explores the emotional causes and social dangers of short fuses, linking the pressures of a hard-driving, high-tech world to the prevalence of an easily threatened, easily angered point of view. Breaking its analysis into three parts, the program examines road rage,...
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