6216ba7521ae6f5eae198cc9818a72fa Facebook Syndication 2015-06-22T18:11:15-07:00 http://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xft1/t5.0-1/1075990_127501535616_1467661979_n.jpg def40fba5901064318b85814a2de151b 2015-06-23T02:11:15+01:00 2015-06-23T02:11:15+01:00 Critical Criminology
Refusal to Call Charleston Shootings “Terrorism” Again Shows It’s a Meaningless Propaganda Term
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From The Intercept/ By Glenn Greenwald In February 2010, a man named Joseph Stack deliberately flew his small airplane into the side of a building that housed a regional IRS office in Austin, Texas...]]> d8664222d1ff0485b9080667680e7117 2015-06-23T02:00:21+01:00 2015-06-23T02:00:21+01:00 Critical Criminology
Gender and Justice in America: A new blog series | Vera Institute of Justice
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This blog was created to advance discussion about issues related to Vera's work. Comments from readers are encouraged. However, those that are off topic, use profanity, promote products or services, or endorse candidates for public office are subject to removal without notification.]]> a541241709a592faa181e47ef55c9e9f 2015-06-23T01:33:16+01:00 2015-06-23T01:33:16+01:00 Critical Criminology

America's CEOs now make 303 times more than their workers
www.motherjones.com
A new report will make your blood boil.]]> a8576e0e13128e5e33045a2cff85f893 2015-06-22T23:54:28+01:00 2015-06-22T23:54:28+01:00 Critical Criminology
Colorado officials praise progress of restorative justice programs
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The Weld County juvenile was facing serious charges. He'd brought a knife to middle school and shown it to two girls, who felt threatened. Mothers of the victims wanted him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, likely a felony. But when they all sat down together, things changed, says Kirsta…]]> 050abdec35676c80bf44d23ec581eb1a 2015-06-22T23:53:32+01:00 2015-06-22T23:53:32+01:00 Critical Criminology
Spy Agency's Secret Plans to Foster Online "Conformity" and "Obedience" Exposed
www.commondreams.org
With never-before-seen documents accompanied by new reporting on Monday, The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman are offering a more in-depth look than ever into how a secretive unit of the UK's GCHQ surveillance agency used a host of psychological methods and online subterfuge in order t…]]> 7c4c5c95f822ab2a0741a7a4faf8e579 2015-06-22T23:51:42+01:00 2015-06-22T23:51:42+01:00 Critical Criminology
America’s Slave Empire
www.commondreams.org
Three prisoners—Melvin Ray, James Pleasant and Robert Earl Council—who led work stoppages in Alabama prisons in January 2014 as part of the Free Alabama Movement have spent the last 18 months in solitary confinement. Authorities, unnerved by the protests that engulfed three prisons in the state, as…]]> 160bbce2e80860bed58b5583cc0fc504 2015-06-22T23:48:32+01:00 2015-06-22T23:48:32+01:00 Critical Criminology
The Greatest Threats to American National Security Are Guns and the Police
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When toddler killings outpace terror killings in the United States, the biggest problem is not jihad.]]> b22c725cc73513c4bcee4008f2a68bb1 2015-06-22T23:46:55+01:00 2015-06-22T23:46:55+01:00 Critical Criminology
Domestic Abusers Have Gone Unpunished in Native American Country — Until Now
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The Flower

The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consum...]]> 983907258ad35b1d3bf11daa700dde89 2015-06-22T23:40:28+01:00 2015-06-22T23:40:28+01:00 Critical Criminology
WaPo: Don't Say 'Terrorist' About 'White People Like Ourselves'
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Generally, news outlets don't explain why they aren't calling Roof a terrorist suspect--they just rarely use the word. But the Washington Post's Philip Bump gave it a shot in a piece headlined "Why...]]> 1416a8957b92173eb6c84afbada09826 2015-06-22T23:23:11+01:00 2015-06-22T23:23:11+01:00 Critical Criminology
A Just Cause Radio - False Confessions & Tortured Confessions = Wrongful Convictions - 06.21.15
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The host talks with our guest Standish (Stan) Willis, Criminal Defense and Civil Rights Lawyer in Chicago, Illinois. He is currently advocating to stop false/tortured confessions being obtained by law enforcement, using unethical police tactics and force.]]> dcce90d7f0b2082fd65b3aec3acbb55b 2015-06-22T23:21:22+01:00 2015-06-22T23:21:22+01:00 Critical Criminology
License To Launder: Cash, Cops and the Cartels
pubsys.miamiherald.com
It began in a trailer in the shadows of one of Florida's most elegant malls, a brazen plan by two small police agencies to take on the hemisphere's most dangerous drug cartels. Forming their own task force, members of the Bal Harbour police and Glades County Sheriff's Office struck deals with crimin…]]> 6f86fb3b9ed20eb3a107673a7b0ebaaa 2015-06-22T20:00:03+01:00 2015-06-22T20:00:03+01:00 Critical Criminology
STUDY: "The Hidden Costs of Wrongful Capital Prosecutions in North Carolina" | Death Penalty...
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A new study by North Carolina's Center for Death Penalty Litigation examines the financial and human costs of cases in which, "prosecutors sought the death penalty despite a clear lack of evidence, resulting in acquittal or dismissal of charges." The report found 56 such cases in North Carolina sinc…]]> 08279c5b4d715005c20cfb01e560f58e 2015-06-22T19:02:17+01:00 2015-06-22T19:02:17+01:00 Critical Criminology
Malaysia: Court Convicts 9 Transgender Women
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(Bangkok) – A Sharia (Islamic law) court in Malaysia has sentenced nine transgender women to fines, and two to one-month jail terms under a discriminatory law that prohibits “a male person posing as a woman,” Human Rights Watch said today.]]> 256efa2584f93af2896318dcf2bb365c 2015-06-22T18:44:17+01:00 2015-06-22T18:44:17+01:00 Critical Criminology
Millionaires for wealthcare Present the Silver Spoon award to ...
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White Supremacists Without Borders
www.nytimes.com
Dylann Roof is not simply an aberrant individual. Behind him lies a vicious movement.]]> 46ba4eddff16cdecf50bf607f5aaaa51 2015-06-22T15:58:07+01:00 2015-06-22T15:58:07+01:00 Critical Criminology
Charleston and the Urgent Need for Racial Justice
www.opensocietyfoundations.org
The issue of race and racial justice must take center stage in this country.]]> 9175ba6afa61df38c7de78cb5d2433fa 2015-06-22T15:56:52+01:00 2015-06-22T15:56:52+01:00 Critical Criminology
The Hard Talk: White Parents Discussing Racism with White Children
uprootingcriminology.org
..Today I read a post on Urban Cusp’s Facebook page stating, “White parents there is work to be done and you have a critical role to play.” This was posted above a tweet that had been originally posted by Jessica Luther that said, “A 5yo black girl...]]> c091250dcb998221b02f7dfc41f97e9d 2015-06-22T15:54:41+01:00 2015-06-22T15:54:41+01:00 Critical Criminology
John Oliver's Internet Misogyny Rant is Satisfying As Hell
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Yesterday on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver devoted 16 full minutes to the topics of vicious, misogynist online harassment and revenge porn, the difficulties of stamping them out, and the absolutely unacceptable responses from authorities. The whole thing culminates in a parody of an early 90s AOL a…]]> 6843ee6f908ec6e4fe9bca42975bafcc 2015-06-22T15:53:35+01:00 2015-06-22T15:53:35+01:00 Critical Criminology
How Corporations Dump Their Toxic Sludge in Areas Filled With Poor People
www.alternet.org
Corporations still seek out the areas with the poorest people to dump toxic waste.]]> 9ca478d8f116e235661e8b9894a47e39 2015-06-22T15:52:55+01:00 2015-06-22T15:52:55+01:00 Critical Criminology
16 charts that show the massive cost of gun violence in America
www.motherjones.com
One gun murder alone? Nearly a half million dollars.]]> e76362497006b159daf83c0eb38f406d 2015-06-22T15:50:56+01:00 2015-06-22T15:50:56+01:00 Critical Criminology
Prison Born
www.theatlantic.com
What becomes of babies born to mothers behind bars? Research suggests that having nurseries in prisons leads to lower recidivism rates among incarcerated mothers and better outcomes for their children.]]> 8c7c02b87554b7c655501668f7f8c37b 2015-06-22T15:50:14+01:00 2015-06-22T15:50:14+01:00 Critical Criminology
The Stiff Competition to Work in German Prisons
www.themarshallproject.org
How Germany does prison, day five.]]> e3253da256d17866f49786ae32e4a842 2015-06-22T15:49:35+01:00 2015-06-22T15:49:35+01:00 Critical Criminology
Robert Reich: Mass incarceration is ruining us — and shackling the economy
www.salon.com
The former secretary of labor on our prison industrial complex and the need for smarter sentencing laws]]> 279e1e5652aba5b596c23e1728e7f3fe 2015-06-22T15:16:57+01:00 2015-06-22T15:16:57+01:00 Critical Criminology
Every White Person is Aiding and Abetting Terrorism Unless Naming Institutional and Cultural...
goodmenproject.com
Chris Crass explains the ways in which white folks nurture racism by refusing to call it by its name.]]> 363a2aff32d0b46e782e84d75d01f393 2015-06-22T15:14:47+01:00 2015-06-22T15:14:47+01:00 Critical Criminology
Timeline Photos
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Confederate statue at Charleston park vandalized
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Police are investigating vandalism to a statue at White Point Garden in Charleston's Battery.]]> 0031a3ebd1885f7b1d630ffb161a47f1 2015-06-21T21:38:40+01:00 2015-06-21T21:38:40+01:00 Critical Criminology
Racist US History Isn't Back to Haunt Us. It Never Left.
www.newrepublic.com
The murders of 9 people in Charleston last night was the latest episode in an ugly, ongoing chapter of our history.]]> 4a99ce0f5c9a40698a28725175e90a9b 2015-06-21T21:38:16+01:00 2015-06-21T21:38:16+01:00 Critical Criminology
Black Americans Are Killed At 12 Times The Rate Of People In Other Developed Countries
fivethirtyeight.com
“We as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” President Obama said earlier today, in reaction to the killing of ni...]]> 4c351a869880b77881760865c92aabff 2015-06-20T20:54:01+01:00 2015-06-20T20:54:01+01:00 Critical Criminology
Judge reverses 58 drug squad convictions
www.philly.com
A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge Friday reversed 58 convictions tied to an embattled ex-narcotics officer and his squad.<br/>The cases linked to Thomas Liciardello, one of six former Philadelphia narcotics officers acquitted of federal corruption charges in May, are the latest to be overturn…]]>