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Why Teens Confess to Crimes They Didn’t Commit by Lindsay Malloy
Lindsay Malloy presented Why Teens Confess to Crimes They Didn’t Commit as a TED Talk.
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Am I Not Human? A Call for Criminal Justice Reform by Marlon Peterson
Marlon Peterson presented Am I Not Human? A Call for Criminal Justice Reform as a TED Talk.
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Rape to Battery
This morning a saw the headline Man Charged With Two Rapes Gets One Day in Jail. My first thought was What the Hell (or something like that), wondering what’s going on that’s causing rapists to get such light punishment. In this case the punishment wasn’t for rape. It was instead for battery, which appears to […]
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How We Cut Youth Violence in Boston by 79 Percent by Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown presented How We Cut Youth Violence in Boston by 79 Percent as a TED Talk.
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Justice System
I received an email news alert the other day that threw me off. It was regarding James Holmes, the person convicted of killing 12, plus wounding 70 more, at an Aurora, CO movie theater a couple years ago. Holmes had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2012 shootings. He was convicted last […]
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Slate: Male Rape in America
Slate published When Men Are Raped, pointing out the number or men and women sexually assaulted is almost equal. This definition includes victims who were forced to penetrate someone else with their own body parts, either by physical force or coercion, or when the victim was drunk or high or otherwise unable to consent. When […]
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Everyday Cybercrime — and What You Can Do About It by James Lyne
James Lyne presented Everyday Cybercrime — and What You Can Do About It as a TED Talk.
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CNN: Egyptian General Admits ‘Virginity Checks’ Conducted on Protesters
CNN published Egyptian General Admits ‘Virginity Checks’ Conducted on Protesters. I’m not sure what else to say. A senior Egyptian general admits that “virginity checks” were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities.
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USA Today: Man Charged with Felony for Reading His Wife’s E-mail to Track an Affair
I’ll keep this in mind if I ever get married. Man Charged with Felony for Reading His Wife’s E-mail to Track an Affair