Crime
- Nick Berg (undergrad 1996–98, transferred) – Businessman beheaded by Islamic militants on May 7, 2004 during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq
- Leo Frank (B.S. 1906 Engineering) – Factory owner whose 1915 lynching for rape and murder sparked the reforming of the Ku Klux Klan; subject of the musical Parade
- Mark Gerard, (D.V.M., 1962) Perpetuated horse racing fraud, switching horses identities
- Katrina Leung (B.S. 1976) – Accused spy, case dismissed then later sentenced to terms of plea agreement
- Robert Tappan Morris (graduate study 1988–89, suspended) – Author of the Morris Worm, which crippled the Internet in 1988
- Michael Ross (B.S. 1981 Agricultural Economics) – Convicted serial killer executed in Connecticut on May 13, 2005
- Michael Schwerner (B.A. 1961 Sociology) – Murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1964 Mississippi civil rights worker murders
- Mark Whitacre (Ph.D. 1983 Nutritional Biochemistry) – Highest ranked executive in U.S. history of a Fortune 500 company to turn whistleblower and FBI informant; he pled guilty to fraud
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)