“No Longer the Messiah”: Us Federal Law Enforcement Views of Religion in Connection with the 1993 Siege of Mount Carmel Near Waco, Texas

Numen ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
States Department ◽  
Federal Law Enforcement

AbstractAt the request of the United States Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury, the author reviewed the actions of Federal law enforcement agencies in Waco, Texas during the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian religious community led by David Koresh, during which dozens of people died, including both federal officers and civilians. This article analyzes the views of religion which predominate among Federal law enforcement agents and which came to light during his review of the Waco incident.

Examining the Clearance Rates of Violent and Non-Violent Offences in the United States: A Trend Analysis, 2011–2018

2020 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2094468
Author(s):  
Avdi S. Avdija ◽  
Arif Akgul
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Trend Analysis ◽  
Clearance Rate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local State ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Clearance Rates ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Violent Offenses

The main objective of this study was to examine the clearance rates of violent and non-violent offenses in the United States for the years 2011 to 2018. This study focused specifically on the differences in clearance rates of incidents involving crimes against persons, crimes against property, and crimes against society. The analyses are based on the FBI’s NIBRS data that have been reported by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies for 8 years combined. The analyses focused on the characteristics of the distribution of clearance rates by the types of incidents. The clearance rates were calculated based on the number of incidents that were cleared by arrest or exceptional means. The results show that the average clearance rate for incidents involving crimes against persons is 48.6%, for incidents involving property crimes is 18%, and for incidents involving crimes against society is 78%. The trend analyses show that the clearance rates are gradually decreasing for all three types of offense categories.

“Great Surface Appeal”

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Paul M. Renfro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
States Department ◽  
Child Abduction ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Great Surface

Chapter 4 recounts how the United States Department of Justice obstructed missing child legislation in the early eighties but eventually buckled under pressure from activists, who deployed an affective politics of child safety to paint the DOJ as cruel and obstinate. The DOJ subsequently transformed into the federal entity most committed to the child safety cause, working to publicize and combat the problems of child abduction, exploitation, sexual abuse, and pornography. The Department’s “conversion” proved vital to the making of a punitive child safety regime in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The Sword of Damocles: who controls HSBC in the aftermath of its deferred prosecution agreement with the United States Department of Justice?

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-550
Author(s):  
Justin O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
States Department ◽  
Libor Manipulation

HSBC has entered into a $1.92bn deferred prosecution with the Department of Justice in the United States to settle charges that the bank’s compliance systems and corporate governance controls had failed to prevent money laundering and sanctions violations on an industrial scale. The violations spanned the globe and demonstrated fundamental flaws with the bank’s business model. The article evaluates the terms of the settlement and explores the national and extra-territorial implications. It argues that the settlement, the largest ever imposed on a financial institution, marks a significant turning point in the use of criminal prosecution precisely because it occurred just as the still burgeoning London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) manipulation scandal reaches a denouement.

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