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Quantum Computing:
Encryption will no longer guarantee privacy as quantum computers can crack ciphers in seconds. What will that do to the price of Bitcoin?
Quantum computing can enhance artificial intelligence by speeding up information retrieval.
Quantum computers may advance climate change research by improving weather modeling.
In 2022, there were nearly 6 million police-reported crashes, more than 90% due to human error. Will self-driving technology help?
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December 2024 will see a rare "black moon," a term for the second new moon in a calendar month.
December's second new moon will occur at 5:27 p.m. ET (2227 GMT) on Dec. 30, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory.
A second new moon is sometimes called a "black moon," just as two full moons in a month is sometimes called a "blue moon."
New moons happen when the sun and the moon share the same celestial longitude, a position also called conjunction. You can't see the moon during this phase from Earth because the illuminated side is facing away from us; new moons are visible only during eclipses.
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Sat/Stats
In a TV interview, Jordan Peterson said a small percentage of criminals were responsible for 55% of crimes...
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William Kelly, director of the University of Texas Center for Criminology and Criminal Justice Research, noted that according to the U.S. Sentencing Project, as many as 100 million U.S. residents, which in 2014 would have been equal to 41 percent of the adult population, had a criminal conviction. That sounds hard to believe. Is it simply convictions divided by population?
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According to the 2014 National Crime Victimization Survey, only 37 percent of U.S. property victimizations and only 46 percent of violent victimizations were reported to police.
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In 2014, Swedish researchers drawing on records accounting for the experiences of 2.5 million people born in that country from 1958 to 1980 reported that from 1973 to 2004, some 1 percent of the population accounted for 63 percent of all violent crime convictions.
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A study found that a "small proportion of the study males (7%) were defined as ‘chronic offenders’ because they accounted for about half of all officially recorded offenses"
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Wolfgang found that 6 percent of juvenile boys accounted for about half of alleged juvenile crimes.
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A routine finding in the criminological literature is that about half of the crime is committed by a very small fraction of the population, around 5-8 percent depending on the sample and methodology used.
The rearrest rate (for the first eight years after release) is about 49 percent. The re-conviction rate is 32 percent. The re-incarceration rate is 25 percent.
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Inmates who didn’t finish high school are 10 points more likely to be arrested again than those who got a high school diploma – and 40 points more likely than those who finished college.
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Prisoners released before turning 21 had a rearrest rate of about 68 percent; those released at age 60 or older had a rate of 16 percent.
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William Kelly, director of the University of Texas Center for Criminology and Criminal Justice Research, noted that according to the U.S. Sentencing Project, as many as 100 million U.S. residents, which in 2014 would have been equal to 41 percent of the adult population, had a criminal conviction. That sounds hard to believe. Is it simply convictions divided by population?
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According to the 2014 National Crime Victimization Survey, only 37 percent of U.S. property victimizations and only 46 percent of violent victimizations were reported to police.
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In 2014, Swedish researchers drawing on records accounting for the experiences of 2.5 million people born in that country from 1958 to 1980 reported that from 1973 to 2004, some 1 percent of the population accounted for 63 percent of all violent crime convictions.
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A study found that a "small proportion of the study males (7%) were defined as ‘chronic offenders’ because they accounted for about half of all officially recorded offenses"
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Wolfgang found that 6 percent of juvenile boys accounted for about half of alleged juvenile crimes.
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A routine finding in the criminological literature is that about half of the crime is committed by a very small fraction of the population, around 5-8 percent depending on the sample and methodology used.
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The rearrest rate (for the first eight years after release) is about 49 percent. The re-conviction rate is 32 percent. The re-incarceration rate is 25 percent.
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Inmates who didn’t finish high school are 10 points more likely to be arrested again than those who got a high school diploma – and 40 points more likely than those who finished college.
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Prisoners released before turning 21 had a rearrest rate of about 68 percent; those released at age 60 or older had a rate of 16 percent.
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Offenders convicted of crimes involving guns are far more likely (68 percent) to end up being arrested again.
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