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Hostile architecture
Hostile architecture, also called defensive or exclusionary design, shapes public space to deter sleeping, sitting, or skateboarding; known for anti-homeless spikes, divided benches, the 2014 London spikes controversy, and the first US ban in Connecticut (2025).
House arrest
House arrest, also called home confinement or home incarceration, is confinement of an offender to their residence instead of jail or prison, usually enforced with electronic monitoring such as ankle tags. It emerged from 1960s prototypes and was first used judicially in Albuquerque in 1983.
Howard Ault
Howard Steven Ault (born 1966) is a Florida death row inmate sentenced three times for the 1996 rape and murders of sisters Deanne Mu'min, 11, and Alicia Jones, 7; distinct from ex-Helotes police chief Morton Howard Ault.
Howard League for Penal Reform
The Howard League for Penal Reform, founded in 1866 as the Howard Association and formed by the 1921 merger with the Penal Reform League, is the world's oldest penal reform charity, an independent UK membership organisation campaigning for fewer people in prison.
Howard Marks
Howard Marks (1945-2016), alias Mr Nice, Welsh Oxford-educated cannabis smuggler, later author and legalization campaigner; 43 aliases, 30-ton shipments, seven years in a US prison, bestselling autobiography.
Howard Unruh
Howard Barton Unruh (1921–2009) was an American World War II veteran who shot thirteen people dead in twelve minutes in Camden, New Jersey, on September 6, 1949.
Hubba Shyamal
Hubba Shyamal (Shyamal Das, 1966–2011) was a Hooghly district gangster called the 'Dawood Ibrahim of Hooghly'; arrested at a Salt Lake multiplex in 2005, found dead in the Baidyabati canal in 2011, subject of the 2024 film Hubba.
Hudud (حدود)
Hudud (حدود) are the fixed Islamic criminal punishments for zina, theft, intoxicants, and related offenses, treated as a right of God, with near-unattainable evidentiary requirements and varied modern state implementation.
Hugh Glass
Hugh Glass (c. 1775–1833) was an American fur trapper of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, mauled by a grizzly in 1823, left for dead by John Fitzgerald and possibly Jim Bridger, who crawled about 200 miles to Fort Kiowa; killed by the Arikara in 1833.
Human branding
Human branding is burning a permanent mark into human skin with a heated iron, historically used to mark enslaved people, punish and identify offenders, and cauterize wounds; today legally restricted and still seen in faith-healer abuse.
Human trafficking
Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons, is recruiting or moving people by coercion, deception, or abuse of vulnerability for exploitation, defined by the 2000 Palermo Protocol. An estimated 27.6 million people were in forced labour in 2021, generating $236 billion in annual illegal profits.
Human trafficking in the United States
Human trafficking in the United States, defined under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 as sex trafficking or forced labor, covering federal legislation, prevalence estimates, enforcement, task forces, and victim services.
Hung jury
Hung jury, or deadlocked jury: a jury unable to reach the required voting margin for a verdict, causing a mistrial. Key facts: retrial allowed despite double jeopardy, US unanimity rule, roughly 2.5% federal hung rate.
Hunt family murders
Hunt family murders covers two unrelated cases: the 2014 Lockhart, NSW murder-suicide by Geoff Hunt of his wife and three children, and the 2024 Bushey, England crossbow murders of John Hunt's family by Kyle Clifford.
Hunter Moore
Hunter Edward Moore is an American convicted criminal from Sacramento, California, who ran the revenge porn site Is Anyone Up? and was sentenced to federal prison in 2015.
Huntsville Unit
Huntsville Unit (Walls Unit) is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison in Huntsville, Texas, opened in 1849 as the state's first penitentiary and the site where Texas executions are carried out.
Hushpuppi
Hushpuppi is the online alias of Ramon Olorunwa Abbas (born 1982), a Nigerian Instagram influencer sentenced in 2022 to 135 months in US federal prison for money laundering.
Hutch–Kinahan feud
The Hutch–Kinahan feud is a violent conflict between two Dublin-based crime gangs that began with the murder of Gary Hutch in Spain in 2015, leaving 18 dead.
Huyton Firm
The Huyton Firm, also known as the Cantril Farm Cartel, was an organized crime group in Merseyside, England. It was run by brothers Vincent and Francis Coggins.
Hyman Roth
Hyman Roth is the fictional Jewish mobster in The Godfather Part II (1974), played by Lee Strasberg in his film debut and based on gangster Meyer Lansky; Roth draws Michael Corleone into Havana casino schemes before betraying him, earning Strasberg a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
Hymie Weiss
Hymie Weiss (Earl Weiss, born Wojciechowski/Wajciechowski), Polish-American Chicago bootlegger who led the North Side Gang, Capone's chief rival; machine-gunned outside Holy Name Cathedral October 11, 1926; indicted June 1926, charges dismissed after death.
I-70 killer
The I-70 Killer, also called the I-70/I-35 serial killer, is an unidentified gunman who shot six store clerks in Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas over 29 days in spring 1992, linked by .22 caliber ballistics; possible Texas and 2001 follow-ups; still unsolved.
Ida Straus
Rosalie Ida Straus (née Blun, 1849–1912), wife of Macy's co-owner Isidor Straus, died on the Titanic after refusing Lifeboat 8 to stay with her husband; her body was never recovered.
Identity theft
Identity theft: wrongful obtaining and use of another person's personal data for fraud or deception, typically economic gain. Also called identity fraud; defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1028(a)(7), measured by FTC complaints and NCVS surveys.
Ignacio Coronel Villarreal
Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villarreal (1954–2010), Sinaloa Cartel leader and "King of Crystal" meth trafficker, killed by the Mexican army in Zapopan, Jalisco on 29 July 2010; his death spurred CJNG's rise.
Ignorantia juris non excusat
Ignorantia juris non excusat, also ignorantia legis non excusat, is the Latin maxim that ignorance of the law does not excuse, rooted in Roman law and expressed in codes such as Spain's Civil Code Article 6.1, with limited mistake-of-law exceptions.
Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade is the global underground economy of producing, trafficking, and selling prohibited psychoactive substances, governed by the 1912, 1961, 1971, and 1988 UN drug conventions; UNODC estimates continued expansion of cocaine and methamphetamine markets alongside declining opiate supply.
Illegal drug trade in Colombia
Illegal drug trade in Colombia: the cocaine-centered illicit economy making Colombia the world's leading cocaine producer, with 253,000 hectares of coca in 2023, Medellín and Cali cartel history, Plan Colombia, and record seizures.
Illinois Department of Corrections
Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), the Illinois state prison agency, established January 1, 1970; headquartered in Springfield, led by Director Latoya Hughes; runs adult facilities, parole, and reentry programs distinct from Indiana's IDOC.
ImClone stock trading case
ImClone stock trading case: December 2001 insider selling after the FDA refused Erbitux's application. Samuel Waksal tipped family who sold $10M+, was sentenced to 87 months; Martha Stewart was convicted of obstruction, not insider trading.