Research has repeatedly shown that only a small fraction of rape cases lead to prosecution.
Whether future individual cases lead to meaningful deterrence also remains to be seen.
It's his job to pursue cases of missing persons; these cases lead him into the island's sordid underbelly.
If untreated, gonorrhoea can result in severe complications and in rare cases lead to infertility or septicaemia.
Which leads to Ms. Greenberg's second question: "It's whether these cases lead to information about a larger network.
If the current rape cases lead to prosecutions, some of the defendants may turn out not to be Brits.
Mr. Thornton said that sophisticated computer modeling could in many cases lead to engineering changes that guard against progressive collapse while adding only modestly to a building's cost.
When caught, criminals are handled by a slow and overburdened justice system: only 18% of murder cases lead to a conviction.
"The US is willing to participate, and in some cases lead, but we need our multi-national partners to help," he said.
The discovery comes just a month after warnings that daily use of aspirin could in some cases lead to complications such as internal bleeding and haemorrhagic stroke.
Water flooding with selective ions has in some cases lead to increased oil recovery.
