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laws intended to keep repeat criminal offenders behind bars. These laws sometimes come under the rubric of "three strikes and you're out."
hacker
a person who views and uses computers as objects for exploration and exploitation.
hedonistic calculus or utilitarianism
the belief, first proposed by Jeremy Bentham, that behavior holds value to any individual undertaking it according to the amount of pleasure or pain that it can be expected to produce for that person.
heroin signature program
a DEA program that identifies the geographic source area of a heroin sample through the detection of specific chemical characteristics in the sample peculiar to the source area.
homicide.
See Criminal homicide.
hypoglycemia
a condition characterized by low blood sugar.
hypothesis
1. [a]n explanation that accounts for a set of facts and that can be tested by further investigation... , 2. [s]omething that is taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
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