News tagged with prison sentence

UAE court jails five Internet activists

A United Arab Emirates court on Sunday sentenced a blogger and four other Internet activists to prison terms after finding them guilty of charges including insulting the Gulf state's leaders.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Finland runs checks on 750 doctors after bogus scandal

Finnish authorities will review the credentials of up to 750 doctors trained outside the EU after a recent scandal over bogus medics, the health watchdog said Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New technology pinpoints anomalies in complex financial data

Identifying atypical information in financial data early could help identify problematic financial trends such as the systemic risk that recently put the U.S. and global financial systems in a downward fall. ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

5 years in US prison for Cisco counterfeiter

The US representative of a Chinese company was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for importing counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment, money laundering and other offenses, the Justice ...

Technology / Other

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Japan's brash Livedoor tycoon heads to jail

Sporting a mohican haircut and a protest T-shirt, Japan's maverick Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie on Monday started a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for accounting fraud.

Technology / Business

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Juror faces jail for Facebook chat with defendant

(AP) -- A British juror will be sent to jail for discussing a drug and corruption trial with a defendant on Facebook, a judge said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pirate Bay financier takes case to Supreme Court

A key financier of the Swedish filesharing site, The Pirate Bay, appealed to the country's highest court on Monday to overturn his four-month prison sentence and fines to the music and movie industry, court ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What do the punished think of punishment?

A new study from The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research gives an insight into what offenders really think about their punishment.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case

A 28-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to hacking into corporate computer networks and carrying out what US officials have described as the largest credit card theft in US history.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

fMRI scans used in murder trial sentencing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 15 weblog

Study: Potential criminals deterred by longer sentences

Deterrence is often a stated goal of criminal sentencing guidelines, but there is debate about whether the threat of punishment actually discourages people from committing crimes. A new study published in the Journal of Po ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2