Content tagged with “crime”

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ACAB
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Stuff I Looked Up
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Date
December 20, 2024
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49

“ This is an anti-police slang/acronym for ‘All Cops Are Bastards.’ It originated in the UK in the 1920s. It’s sometimes represented by the number ‘1312,’ referring to the numeric position of each letter. ”

Camorra
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Date
October 23, 2024
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219

“This is one of the organized crime groups in Italy. In the United States, we speak of ‘the mafia’ to refer to organized crime, but this is very general term for a branch of organized crime in this country. The ‘American Mafia’ has its roots in a crime organization in historical Sicily. In…”

Carceral
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Stuff I Looked Up
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Date
November 1, 2021
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117

“ Apparently the Latin word for prison is ‘carcer.’ This is where we get the word ‘incarcerated.’ ”

Dacoity
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Date
December 13, 2023
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109

“ This refers to ‘banditry’ or ‘theft,’ mainly in Asia. It’s an anglicized form of the Hindi word meaning ‘armed robbery.’ ‘Dacoit’ is the noun form. ”

Deicide
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Date
August 21, 2024
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135

“More specifically, this is a term often used for the killing of Jesus Christ. It can be used as a antisemitic pejorative. From an article entitled ‘ The origins of anti-Semitism ’: Some important thinkers in early Christianity offered a dangerous allegation: that Judean Jews had handed Christ over…”

The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
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Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 31, 2024
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633

“This is a detailed and wildly frustrating book about the history of drugs in Mexico. To be technically correct, it’s about the industry of drugs in Mexico, but the one truth that shines through: not a lot of drugs get used in Mexico. The country’s drug trade is a big factory to supply it’s addicted…”

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
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Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
April 11, 2025
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621

“This is an anthology of 10 stories of people who were wrongly convicted of crimes. Some of them eventually got out of jail, while some of them are still there. The book is a collaboration between famed legal writer John Grisham and another guy who runs a ministry which tries to exonerate people in…”

House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed
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Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 20, 2022
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264

“Fascinating history of the Gucci family and company, from the patriarch and his humble origins as a leatherworker in rural Italy, down through the generations, including the sensational murder which was the focus of the 2021 movie, and then the current disposition of all the players and the destiny…”

Lynch
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Stuff I Looked Up
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Date
March 8, 2022
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588

“A ‘lynching,’ or ‘to lynch someone,’ is an illegal killing by a group. So when a mob executes someone, that’s called a lynching, regardless of the method. We often associate lynching with hanging, as that’s very common, but it’s not required. It’s also not technically required to be related to…”