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Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly explores the common mistakes we make in interpreting statistics, and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials. Statistical uncertainty and randomness, he says, confound many of our assumptions about the world. He shares the case of a British woman wrongly convicted of murdering her two infants -- a verdict reached, in part, by the misuse of statistics.

The Urban Institute has published an analysis of the impact of the hurricane on the criminal justice system in New Orleans, which can be downloaded in full (PDF) here.

Preliminary Semiannual UCR FBI preliminary figures indicate law enforcement agencies reported an increase of 3.7 percent in the number of violent crimes in the first half of 2006 compared to the first six months of 2005. The violent crime category includes murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes from January to June of 2006 decreased 2.6 percent compared to 2005. Property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Data for arson are not included in property crime. 2006 figures indicate arson increased 6.8 percent in the first half of the year compared to 2005.

Madeleine McCann and Ben Needham have both vanished whilst on holiday. Ben went missing in 1991 on the Greek island of Cos and Madeleine in Portugal just a matter of days ago.

The Best True Crime Books!

Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse Steve Bogira takes us into the heart of America;s criminal justice system in in Chicago;s Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. We see it through the eyes of those who have experienced it, in the courtroom, lockup, jury room, judge;s chambers, and the spectators; gallery. When the judge goes to the scene of the crime during a trial, we are with them. We witness the high-profile cases: the son of a reputed mobster, charged with the racially motivated beating of a thirteen-year-old boy. And the middle-aged man whose crack addiction brings him before the judge repeatedly. Bogira shows how the war on drugs is choking the system. Fast-paced, and gripping, Courtroom 302 is an illumination of our criminal court system that raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice.

Twilight Of Innocence: The Disappearance Of Beverly Potts by James Jessen Badal -- One of the nation’s first highly publicized missing child cases was ten-year-old Beverly Potts, last seen at 9:00 p.m., August 24, 1951, at Halloran Park on Cleveland’s West Side. She and her neighbor friend Patricia Swing had gone to see the Showagon troupe of performers that traveled around Cleveland's' parks giving free performances. Patricia had to be home before dark, but Beverly could stay until the show was over. Beverly disappeared without a trace. Badal reexamines the events leading to Beverly's disappearance, the police investigation, and examination of police records provide a chronology of false leads and hoaxes.

While She Slept by Marion Collins --When Jill Cahill was leaving to return home after visiting with her family, she turned to her sister and said: "If Jeff kills me, you can have all my things." A few days later, she was in a coma in a hospital, her skull shattered by a savage beating inflicted by her 37-year-old husband. Six months later, she was dead. Jeff and Jill Cahill seemed to have it all. Two kids, a dog, a nice house of the picket fence variety. But on April 21, 1996 Jeff and Jill had a torrid argument while their kids were upstairs sleeping. She lay in a coma for nearly six months, and just as she started to show signs of coming out of it.. she received a visitor. Other books by Marion Collins

Burned Alive: A Shocking True Story of Betrayal, Kidnapping, and Murder by Kieran Crowley Kim Antonakos.  a 20-year-old business major, was returning to her New York City apartment after a night of clubbing with a friend. But on her way home, Kim was abducted. Kim's father, Tommy Antonakos, a wealthy computer executive launched a search for his daughter. A mastermind ordered Kim bound, gagged and left in the freezing basement of an abandoned house, hoping to extract ransom from her father. When the plans fell through, he and his henchman doused a near-frozen Kim with gasoline, setting her on fire.

A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior by Charles Bowden -- Joey O'Shay is not the real name of the narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country. The nearly three hundred drug busts he orchestrated over two decades are real, too. Bowden follows O'Shay as he sets in motion a $50 million heroin deal in Colombia as federal agents sit at attention from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to New York City. O'Shay reveals the instinct and ceaseless vigilance that brought down kingpins.

Cold Case Files - The Most Infamous Cases -- DVD -- Bill Kurtis gathers ten of the most fascinating true crimes ever known. Combining the latest forensic techniques with old-fashioned police work; a step-by-step look at how a mystery is solved and the culprit is apprehended. Ten cases: One Night on the Bayou, Killer in the County, Frozen in Time, A Map to Murder, The Zodiac Killer, The Green River Killer, Weepy-Voiced Killer, The Lady Killer, Kidnapped, Love Triangle.

A Wife's Revenge by Eric Francis -- Susan Wright was a victim ... who admitted to killing her husband Jeffrey in their Harris County home in 2003, by stabbing him to death in self-defense. She recounted a harrowing tale of domestic abuse-one that the raging mother of two finally brought to an end-her way. But prosecutors had a story of their own... Susan was a seductress ... who set the mood for kinky sex with her unsuspecting husband. After tying Jeffrey to the bed, Susan straddled him, stabbed him 193 times with a butcher knife, then buried his body in a makeshift grave in their backyard. Justice would not come easy.

Other books by Eric Francis

Marked For Death by Brian J. Karem -- Larry McNabney, a respected California attorney was seduced and murdered with a lethal dose of horse tranquilizer by his deeply disturbed wife, Elisa McNabney, aka Laren Renee Sims, an ex-convict from Florida and her female lover, Sarah Dutra, a Sacramento California State University student. Includes an 8-page photo insert. Other books by Brian J. Karem

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September 11, 2007