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dealing with personality disorders.242 However, for many, quiet one-on-one personal counseling is simply not grand enough. They crave extravagant attention. Those fitting this category should face the consequences for such a choice.
Available charges in this classification are somewhat limited since no actual crime ensued, but those used include false reporting, making false statements, identity deception. Since there is no underlying crime, prosecutors should rely on the falseness of the claims by the vipers to find a chargeable offense. This can mean that punishments are less severe and the vipers are not adequately penalized for the harm they cause. As with Wisconsin, some state laws do not allow for government entities to recover costs, even when those monies were intentionally wasted through the detailed and believable fabrication of a wild goose chase. This is what should change. As public monies are always tight, and budgets are never enough, taxpayers deserve better than to have their tax dollars deliberately exhausted so that a person feeling forlorn can get some attention.
Laws should provide for a charge of perpetrating a hoax in addition to making a false statement or whatever other options might exist. This will give the prosecutor more sanctions, and provide a broader range of penalties appropriate to the offense. Also, to best serve the taxpaying public, full restitution must be not only allowable under the law but a requirement for anyone convicted of perpetrating a hoax, no exceptions.243
242 Personality disorders discussed above in Chapter 3, in discussion of Donna Walker case which begins on page 63.
243 Anyone determined mentally ill would not stand trial, nor be convicted and therefore would not be liable for repayment of wasted public monies – the only exception that should be allowed in any anti-hoax law.
Object Description
| Title | An argument for the criminal hoax |
| Author | Pellegrini, Laura A. |
| Author email | user1963@yahoo.com; teachpolsci@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Political Science |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-20 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-10-13 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Renteln, Alison Dundes |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wong, Janelle S. Newland, Chester A. |
| Abstract | Hoaxes are part of the fabric of history. While many provide humor and lighthearted joy, the criminal hoax does not. To date, researchers have included aspects of the criminal hoax in larger academic works. This is an original typology that sets forth the criminal hoax as a distinct part of the larger field of law and public policy. This work provides newly created definitions including four distinct categories of hoaxes: the monetary hoax, the attention getter hoax, the hate crime hoax and the racial hoax. It further illustrates these types with actual detailed accounts of hoaxes and provides insights to each one. It makes policy recommendations concerning the four categories of needs: 1. legislative action, 2. a nationwide statistical database of hoax events, 3. media involvement, and 4. law enforcement training and action to deal with criminal hoaxes. Finally, it recommends further research to identify the causes and motivations of vipers. The ultimate goal of this project is to find ways to eliminate criminal hoaxes. |
| Keyword | criminal hoax; hoax categories |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1659 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Pellegrini, Laura A. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Pellegrini-2397 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Pellegrini-2397.pdf |
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| Title | Page 90 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 84 dealing with personality disorders.242 However, for many, quiet one-on-one personal counseling is simply not grand enough. They crave extravagant attention. Those fitting this category should face the consequences for such a choice. Available charges in this classification are somewhat limited since no actual crime ensued, but those used include false reporting, making false statements, identity deception. Since there is no underlying crime, prosecutors should rely on the falseness of the claims by the vipers to find a chargeable offense. This can mean that punishments are less severe and the vipers are not adequately penalized for the harm they cause. As with Wisconsin, some state laws do not allow for government entities to recover costs, even when those monies were intentionally wasted through the detailed and believable fabrication of a wild goose chase. This is what should change. As public monies are always tight, and budgets are never enough, taxpayers deserve better than to have their tax dollars deliberately exhausted so that a person feeling forlorn can get some attention. Laws should provide for a charge of perpetrating a hoax in addition to making a false statement or whatever other options might exist. This will give the prosecutor more sanctions, and provide a broader range of penalties appropriate to the offense. Also, to best serve the taxpaying public, full restitution must be not only allowable under the law but a requirement for anyone convicted of perpetrating a hoax, no exceptions.243 242 Personality disorders discussed above in Chapter 3, in discussion of Donna Walker case which begins on page 63. 243 Anyone determined mentally ill would not stand trial, nor be convicted and therefore would not be liable for repayment of wasted public monies – the only exception that should be allowed in any anti-hoax law. |
