Crime wave

On Monday, newspapers looking for an angle reported imaginary crime waves (how could the criminals find their way ), but no one seemed to pay much attention to the rising toll of illness and death. 

Rosenberg, A.L. Comment, Passive Millimeter Wave Imaging A New Weapon in the Fight Against Crime or a Fourth Amendment Violation , 9 Alb. L.J. Sci. Tech. 135 (1998). 

Would those safeguards have been observed in the most egregious crime Venice had known in centuries Surely any lead at all would have been followed up. If the inquisitors suddenly and unanimously decided that they should lock up the prime suspect for a few days and nights and post witnesses to listen to his snoring, no one would ask what had given them such brilliant simultaneous brain waves. 

In the late 19th century successive waves of immigrants flooded into U.S. cities from Italy, Ireland, Germany, and other countries. The neighborhoods in which they settled were often perceived to be crime ridden, and an increasing number of gun control measures were passed in response. Finally, in 1911, New York State enacted the Sullivan Law, which was the first state law that created a strict permit system for handgun ownership. 

A second change has been a great emphasis on treatment aimed at crime reduction, with expansion of services in the UK and elsewhere which can really be seen as another wave , following the major one in the 1990s after the recognition of the HIV threat (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs 1989). Many schemes have been set up to enable diversion ... 

Opium and morphine, in the early days of the mob, were not illegal drags heroin only came into circulation at the turn of the century and was not made illegal as a prescription drag until 1924. But the British dope-runners had a direct hand in the infiltration of narcotics into the United States, through the third wave of crime-tainted immigration, from China. 

E. Tucker (1995) And Defeat Goes On An Assessment of Third-Wave Health and Safety Regulation in F. Pearce and L. Snider (eds.) Corporate Crime Contemporary Debates (Toronto, ON University of Toronto Press), pp. 245-267. 

Combustion is an exothermic reaction in which reactants are converted to principally gaseous products. Because the reaction is exothermic, the product gases heat up and expand. In a fire, such as arson, this expansion generates plumes with predictable behaviors that leave distinctive markings at the crime scene. In contrast, propellants rely on expansion of hot gases to drive a projectile forward, while explosives confine the expansion as long as possible to generate a destructive shock wave. Because of this confinement, a detonation is a... 

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