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Special Announcements
NEW!!! Social Justice web sites -
Click on links on left side of page
NEW!!!!
"Kids for Cash" follow up on Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/4/kids_for_cash_inside_one_of
Girls, Delinquency, and
Juvenile Justice (4th edition) - Click on "books" on left side
Veterans in the
Criminal Justice System - new research (click on "Veterans & Crime"
on left side) and see my commentary
A must see - Why Washington is corrupt.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/07/opinion/lessig-washington-corruption/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Crime Mapping in Los
Angeles:
http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/crime/
Within South
L.A.'s killing zone, a haven from violence
See also this interactive map of homicides:
http://projects.latimes.com/homicide-report/blog/page/1/
Update: LA Homicide:
South Vermont Avenue:
L.A. County’s ‘death alley’
In the News
NEW!!
Commentary on the Supreme Court Case continues
(see my latest commentary):
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/04
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/04/john-roberts-campaign-finance_n_5086235.html
http://www.demos.org/publication/mccutcheon-money-projected-impact-striking-aggregate-contribution-limits
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/mccutcheon_opens_floodgates_for_1_percent_to_spend_millions_20140403
NEW!!
Studies
Confirm the Dehumanization of Black Children and the
‘Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline’
NEW!!
Christian School
Targets 8-Year Old Girl for Not Being Feminine Enough'
NEW!!
Merging schools with rival gangs creates problems in East LA
NEW!!
NRA opposition may
sink Obama's surgeon general nominee
NEW!! A rather
shocking video!
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/26/no-charges-for-michigan-cops-who-fatally-shot-homeless-man-11-times-over-stolen-coffee/
Two new commentaries
by Mike Males addresses myths about kids:
Only Certain Young Victims Matter;
Millions of
new dollars to fight Chicago "youth violence" -- but no new ideas
6 Companies That
Make Their Money Ensnaring People In Our Prison System
An Update:
Remains of 55 bodies found near former Florida
reform school (for previous stories about this click on
"Delinquency and Juvenile Justice" (above left corner of page) and
scroll down.
How Private
Probation Companies Make Money From the Americans They Trap in the
Criminal Justice System
Excellent piece
my Mike Males:
CNN, “Experts”
Reiterate the Press’s Ethic: It’s OK to Lie about Kids
Study shows
increase in religious-related violence
Walking While Black -
Basketball
players again!
Half of all black men
arrested, study shows:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/half-of-blacks-arrested-23_n_4549620.html
Standing While Black:
3 Black Students
Arrested for Waiting for School Bus
16-Year-Old Jailed
at Rikers for 3 Years Without Trial
Two Poverty Related Items addresses big myths about the Poor
Paul Krugman:
A War on the Poor
Dave Johnson:
Six Myths About
Food Stamps
The Public Health Cost of Gun Violence
Use of tough
federal sentencing laws varies widely nationwide
New study reveals that rich kids make huge progress in
educational attainment which poor kids fall further behind:
No Rich Child Left
Behind
Registry
tallies over 2,000 wrongful convictions since 1989
Mentally challenged man freed 14 years after false confession
To all who watch CSI programs,
read this:
The Real CSI: How America's Patchwork System of
Death Investigations Puts the Living At Risk
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Commentaries:
Court Rules that Plutocracy is
OK
(4/33/14)
Eight year Old Girl
Not “Feminine” Enough for Christian School
(3/29/14)
What Goes Around, Comes Around
(1/30/14)
Being a Young Black Basketball Player is
Dangerous to Your Health
(1/19/14)
Standing While black
(12/3/13)
The Storm Has Arrived:
Veterans in the Criminal Justice System
(11/15/13)
Profits
Over Kids
(10/31/13)
Easing CA
Prison Crisis via Private Prisons a Bad Idea
(9/4/13)
Guns: A Reign of Terror, Part II
(8/26/13)
Guns: a Reign of Terror
(8/15/13)
War on Drugs and Race
(6/10/13)
America is Ranked 29th in Child
Well-Being
(4/24/13)
The
Boston Bombings
(4/23/13)
Meanness and Violence
(4/18/13)
The rich get richer while
everyone else struggles
(3/4/13)
Debtor's Prisons Alive and Well
(2/4/13)
Archives
Research Articles:
The American Legislative Exchange Council
(11/16/11)
Punishment for Sale
(11/7/10)
From Poorhouses to Jails: Same Function, Different Time
(4/27/10)
Our Punitive Society
(11/11/09)
Exit Exams, the Prison Pipeline and
Getting Tough Anyway
(11/9/09)
Conservative, Liberal and Radical Views of Crime
(9/17/09) - revised and updated on 2/20/11
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