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	Mayhem (crime) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mayhem, under the common law of crimes, consisted of the intentional and wanton removal of a body part that would handicap a person's ability to defend themselves in combat.
		Later the meaning of the crime expanded to encompass any mutilation, disfigurement, or crippling act that was effected through the use of any instrument.
		The term "mayhem" is now often used to refer more generally to havoc and disorder, often in a jocular sense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mayhem_(crime) (195 words)

	Mayhem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mayhem, a common law crime, consisting of the act of maiming.
		Mayhem, a term used to mean "havoc and disorder" (often with humorous overtones); this meaning arose from the public while reading newspapers, misunderstanding the common journalese phrase "rioting and mayhem".
		MAYHEM, the former administrator for GamerPlug, the unofficial homepage for the Tribes:AA community.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mayhem (305 words)

	Should the Coverage Fit the Crime? \| Handout
		Crime and violence - what the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Media Watch calls "mayhem" - are as ubiquitous on local news shows as the winsome male-female anchor team and the happy chat between bite-sized bits of coverage.
		Critics argue that this mayhem not only crowds out more legitimate news but skews reality: that local TV newscasts must share responsibility for the fact that, at a time when crime rates across the country are going down, public anxiety about crime continues to rise.
		A crime story typically concluded with a graphic of the new guidelines, with big red check marks on which guidelines the story was deemed to have met.
	www.media-awareness.ca /english/resources/educational/handouts/crime/coverage_crime.cfm (4201 words)

	The Networker - Studies criticize TV news for preoccupation with crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Crime stories took up twice as much time on local news as reports on politics, health, education or any other topic, according to one study coordinated by the University of Miami's communications school.
		One station high on its mayhem index, WSOC in Charlotte, N.C., reported on two ambulance accidents, a robbery at an ATM machine, two sex offenders, a shooting, a truck being hit by a bullet, the trial of a negligent mother and a father holding his daughter at knife-point.
		Crime news is tempting to news directors because it's often packed with good visuals and easy to do, conceded Barbara Cochran, president of the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Washington.
	www.meandmymouse.com /web_site_networker/archive/0597/051897tvnews.html (515 words)

	Crime & Psychiatry by L. Ron Hubbard - Humanitarian - Road to Self-Respect
		The soaring crime statistics which the police are battling began to rise when the psychiatrist and psychologist moved into the field of education and law.
		Crimes of extortion, mayhem and murder are done daily by these men in the name of "practice" and "treatment." There is not one institutional psychiatrist alive who, by ordinary criminal law, could not be arraigned and convicted of extortion, mayhem and murder.
		Crime statistics, ever since these men have taken over in courts, prisons, education and social welfare, have soared to a point where the honest policeman is near despair.
	humanitarian.lronhubbard.org /psych2.htm (493 words)

	Grade the News
		Some journalists say the higher television crime coverage is a reaction to a troubling increase in the rare, though grave, crime of murder, particularly in Oakland.
		For the first half of 2003, those crimes declined by 3% from the same period in 2000, in the largest jurisdictions where statistics were available.
		Good crime is what's important to our readership in the nine-county Bay Area, which would be a crime that has sufficient interest to the greatest number of people or communities.
	www.gradethenews.org /pages/crimewave.htm (2631 words)

	AllRefer.com - mayhem (Crime And Law Enforcement) - Encyclopedia
		mayhem[mA´hem, mA´um] Pronunciation Key, in common law, the crime of willfully injuring a person so as to diminish his or her capacity for self-defense.
		Cutting off an arm or leg would thus be mayhem, while such a battery as cutting off an ear would not.
		Under modern statutes, however, mayhem (or maiming) is a form of aggravated battery that leads to mutilation (such as loss of an ear), disfigurement, or serious permanent injury; jurisdictions vary in requiring specific intent to cause the injury or, more broadly, wanton behavior leading to it.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/mayhem.html (203 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age
		When Savas Pastras arrived at the door of crime patriarch Lewis Moran's house, he was "mortified" to be greeted by a detective conducting a raid.
		A Victorian judge said today a lawyer should be appointed to represent the estate of slain underworld figure Lewis Moran at a hearing seeking to have his assets forfeited.
		High-profile crime figure Carl Williams will today seek permission to flee overseas, fearing that he is next to be killed in Melbourne's gangland war.
	www.theage.com.au /issues/gangland (2108 words)

	People v. Foster (1934) 3 CA2d 35
		Thompson, J. The defendant was convicted of the crime of mayhem under the provisions of section 203 of the Penal Code, and of a prior conviction of robbery perpetrated in the state of Louisiana in 1928.
		He was first tried and convicted by a jury of the crime of mayhem and also of the prior conviction of the felony alleged to have been committed in Louisiana.
		It is also claimed the court erred in admitting evidence of the prior conviction, and in separately trying the issue of the defendant's sanity before the same jury which passed upon his guilt of the crime of mayhem, without first permitting an examination of the jurors with respect to the issue of sanity.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/CA2/3CA2d35.htm (1910 words)

	Plandome Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The dictionary defines crime as an act committed in violence, which punishment is imposed upon conviction.
		Crime isn’t just stealing a pack of gum from a drugstore, or not paying taxes, it goes much further.
		Crime is not the only problem in Manhasset these days, security has also become an issue for the safety and security of Saint Mary’s High School.
	www.smgaels.org /criminal.htm (645 words)

	Crime Stories
		When the nation watches the mayhem and violence reported on these programs, people receive confirmation that society has gone amok and rejoice that these terrible events did not visit them personally, at least not this time.
		Although there seems to be a regular audience for crime news, this proves to be one instance when the success of a program is not determined by audience size alone.
		At the same time, the crime programs are criticized heavily by government officials, cultural critics and academic researchers for promoting violence and mayhem.
	www.zonalatina.com /Zldata36.htm (444 words)

	Mayhem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Under traditional English law, mayhem is "an assault whereby the injured person is deprived of a member proper for his defense in fight," e.g.
		To commit mayhem against a subject of the king was to deprive the king of a potential soldier of war, and thus destruction of his personal property.
		In the eighteenth century, the punishment for mayhem was the most severe penalty of death, but since 1828 the penalty has lessened.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/bonifield/mayhem2.html (309 words)

	RMMW Texts & Press Releases
		You may feel that their obsession with violence and crime lacks the elements of quality journalism which seek to orient the audience, not just arouse them.
		Mayhem, in our analysis, consists of war and terrorism, natural or man-made disaster, and crime.
		Mayhem is a precious commodity for the news show's formula.
	www.bigmedia.org /texts.html (3431 words)

	Murder and Rape On The Rise; A Look At Nightclub Mayhem (Gotham Gazette. May, 2003)
		Crime (shorthand for Crime, Police and the Courts) refers to relationships among criminal activity, the police, the courts and community life.
		The decline in New York City’s crime was the great unanticipated and controversial story of the 1990s.
		Other major crimes have declined: felonious assault is down 9.8 percent through mid-April, and burglary and grand larceny auto are both down 15.2 percent. The rise in murder is particularly worrisome to analysts, however, because it is the one crime that everyone agrees to be recorded accurately.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/crime/20030507/4/380 (1363 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Crime coverage: what does it mean?
		The spate of front-page crime stories follows what seemed a run of local violence coverage, prominently displayed: the arrest of Drew Planten in the Bennett killing, the 100-year sentence of child pornographer Brian Tod Schellenberger, the N.C. State fraternity fire that killed two students, the murder/suicide of a Sanford family.
		Obviously, the volume of crime coverage is determined by the amount and nature of crime that occurs in a given period.
		I think a paper has to be careful, though, to keep the crime stuff in a broader perspective of informing and educating readers toward a higher purpose, like participating in democracy.
	www.newsobserver.com /576/story/366266.html (930 words)

	CNN.com - Actor's beating raises hate crime issues - Aug. 29, 2003
		Cooley's office initially accepted the case under the assumption that it was a hate crime, and in fact assigned it to the hate crimes unit, said district attorney spokesperson Jane Robison.
		Weeks after prosecutors decided not to file hate crime charges against Broudy's suspected attackers, two other men arrested in a similar attack were quickly hit with the allegations even though the district attorney's office did not know the sexual orientation of the 46-year-old victim.
		While Duran believes that aggravated mayhem convictions would be a "just outcome" he and others are disappointed that hate crime charges were not filed because of the message it sends to the community.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/08/29/ctv.hate.crime (1798 words)

	Gun Control And Justice In Canada
		Rock, is guaranteed to terminate murder, suicide and violent crime, so then we better get busy and register all the other items of mayhem.
		When guns are used in crime they are referred to (right from Dad's custom built engraved shot gun, down to Juniors'.22 CAL gopher gun) as heinous, nefarious instruments of death.
		If all you have to do to prevent crime is to pass a law against it, then obviously there wouldn't be any crime now.
	www.hackcanada.com /canadian/freedom/guncontrol/page4.html (813 words)

	Mystery Readers Journal: Cool Canadian Crime
		Skene-Melvin believes Canadian crime writing is "more subtle, more psychological, more caring" than in the US, "where the gun is forged into the collective soul, where the gunslingers of the wild west became the hardboiled private eyes in the cities." Canada never had a wild west because the Mounties got there first.
		Since the Crime Writers of Canada was born in 1983 -- in a Toronto bar called Dooley's -- membership has grown from the 6 conspirators who were present to 150, books published annually from 6 to 60.
		Surrendering to the hypocrisy of the times, the author, Mary Leslie, used a male pseudonym, then had to withdrew all copies because of an uproar in the Ontario town where her story seemed (too accurately) to be set.
	www.mysteryreaders.org /Issues/canada.html (5798 words)

	Serial Killers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		His frenzied nighttime murder spree of random targets was as senseless and pointless as his life.
		During the mayhem of the killings, a ninth student nurse wedged herself under a bed and went undetected.
		Her description of the intruder with the "Born to Raise Hell" tattoo on his arm, led to Speck's capture.
	www.crimemagazine.com /serial.htm (666 words)

	Overcompensating: Actual Things That Happen to Jeffrey Rowland: The World of Crime Part II
		Y'know when I read that list of crimes I was like, "Mayhem is a crime?!?!?" Then I went and looked it up.
		Mayhem is when you actually remove a part of someone's body.
		to commit mayhem is to cause gross harm in an uncontrolled fashion.
	wigu.com /overcompensating/2005/06/world-of-crime-part-ii.html (993 words)

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		As the previous "Media Clips" noted, local television news broadcasts around the nation spend a disproportionate amount of time covering crime, violence, disasters, death, and other mayhem, regardless of whether the story is actually relevant to the lives of the viewers.
		One has to be willing to have one's intelligence insulted, to wade through a bunch of inane sensationalism before getting to any useful news (which in some cases never arrives), and to endure sloppy reporting which often fails to tell the whole story.
		Given that almost all of us will probably have to dial for emergency help at some time in our lives, this is useful stuff - it makes viewers aware of a problem that may impact their lives, and may lead people to look for solutions, either directly or through their political representatives.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol17/issue24/pols.media.html (2292 words)

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		More violent, exceedingly cold-blooded, and less remorseful, a new breed of juvenile offenders was predicted to bring mayhem to both the streets of America and to an already overcrowded justice system.
		Many Americans consistently claim that crime is “worse than ever” when, in fact, the crime rate is lower now than it has been in three decades.
		Crime and criminals grab headlines, making interesting copy and, as a result of their newsworthiness, some readers develop a distorted perception of the facts.
	www.dushkin.com /text-data/weekly/cr12-10-01.mhtml (976 words)

	Crime, politics and disorder in Mexico
		It is a sad fact that crime, crimes against women, kidnappings, violence and murder — especially drug gang related warfare, contract killings and mayhem, are raging out of control in far too many parts of Mexico.
		As of the final week in May, for the year 2005, there have been 526 “organized crime” related killings reported in northern Mexico (“organized crime” is most often a Mexican euphemism for drug cartels, narcotics traffickers and their associates), with most of the carnage in Sinaloa and states along the U.S.-Mexico border.
		But crime and violence were shown to be so serious the president had to acknowledge the situation.
	www.mexidata.info /id500.html (756 words)

	chicagocrime.org: Chicago crime database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Now that we're storing crime data (i.e., not deleting it any more after 90 days), we'll be making some changes to the site to make it easier to view older crime reports.
		The new blotter page lists all crimes that have synopses, and each crime that has a synopsis will display it on its crime page (example).
		This site uses crime data obtained from the CPD's Citizen ICAM Web site, which is a publicly available database of reported crime.
	www.chicagocrime.org (338 words)

	New York Daily News - Crime File - Night of mayhem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The weekend mayhem in East Flatbush comes as gun violence in the 67th Precinct has skyrocketed this year - making it the No.1 precinct for shootings and shooting victims citywide.
		Despite the overnight violence, the number of major crimes in the 67th Precinct - including murder, rape and robbery - have either dropped or remained the same compared with last year, according to NYPD statistics.
		The bullets began to fly just after midnight at 275 Martense St., when two partygoers were shot at the end of a family barbecue, cops said.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/crime_file/story/427859p-360810c.html (470 words)

	Crime rate is out of control. - Indymedia Ireland
		We haven't got any of the real measures we need to tackle serious crime, just wave after wave of rhetoric and stunts to crack down on minor loutishness, especially in areas where people are more likely to vote.
		The facts are: (a) the crime rate has fallen in Ireland each year since 1996 with the exception of the years 2001 and 2002 (in these two years the Gardai introduced a new computerised system for recording crime, which may or may not explain the increase in these years).
		There was a 25 per cent fall in the crime rate between 1996 and 2000, this was then totally reversed between 2000 and 2002 (possibly or possibly not because of the new computerised recording system), but the falling trend resumed in 2003 and 2004.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=70027&condense_comments=false (3298 words)

	CrimeLibrary.com/Serial Killers/Sexual Predators/"Hog Trail Murders": Mayhem and Murder on the Gulf Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		All this said, no one in northern Charlotte County were prepared for the terror and dread that was about to clutch the city of Punta Gorda.
		Through an unusual physics experiment, police determine whether a woman was hunted or a victim of a hunting accident.
		Tragic story of a man jailed for 15 years for crimes he didn't commit.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial7/hogtrail (884 words)

	MURDER AND MAYHEM AT THE NEWSEUM
		ARLINGTON, Va. (APBnews.com) -- It was an evening of murder and mayhem at the Newseum as that unique institution hosted a special celebration of crime news reporting for more than three dozen members of the Criminal Justice Journalists (CJJ) association.
		It is a report of a robbery at the tomb of the sons of Ramses the Great.
		Establishing a whole new approach to crime writing in the 1830s, Bennett investigated the killing of a young prostitute named Ellen Jewitt.
	www.levins.com /cjj05.html (799 words)

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