Psykiateren som politimand. Jon Venables: how attitudes towards criminality have changed and hardened. On the matter of Jon Venables' release from prison, there isn't much to discuss – he served his sentence for the murder of the toddler James Bulger, and he has now cleared the parole board hearing for release from his second, two-year sentence, for accessing and distributing child pornography.
Whatever you think of child pornography, the sentence for it can't be indefinite. The distress of the Bulger parents is understandable, but Ralph Bulger's proposition – that it is too dangerous to let Venables out, in case some other, innocent third party were to be mistaken for him, and harmed or even killed by a vigilante – isn't a sound reason to keep someone jailed indefinitely, either. Stand Your Ground? Black Woman Fires Shot Gets 20 Years - White Man Kills And Goes Free - WTF. In light of the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case, let's take a look at how the Stand Your Ground law has been working for Florida these days: If you're an older white man and you catch your wife cheating on you with another man, you get to kill him, then go free.
If you're a black woman and you fire a warning shot to scare off a physically abusive husband who's aggressively coming at you, after saying, "If I can't have you, no one will," then you get to go to prison for 20 years. Full Access to The New Republic. 6 Weird Things That Influence Bad Behavior More Than Laws. Diligent readers of Cracked already know that our brains can be tricked by just about anything: manipulated images, our birth order and shiny things.
But we can also be tricked into being generous, good people by our surroundings. Of course, it goes the other way, too. Your morality at any given moment can be influenced by ... Obviously, we are more honest when someone (or a security camera) is watching us, but studies have actually shown that if any depiction of an eye is in view, even if it is cartoonish or nonhuman, it makes people less likely to cheat or to behave immorally. Put the bong down until the article is over. In one experiment, all a professor had to do to drastically influence the actions of her colleagues was change the clip art on a piece of paper. A picture of a cartoon eye was placed at the top of the reminder notice, and the amount of money left in the honesty box tripled. Man in Prison for a Murder He Had No Connection to Will Go Free After 23 Years. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com March 21, 2013 | Like this article?
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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. A prominent housing activist and Occupy organizer was found innocent last week on charges of assaulting a police officer. Premo is an organizer who helped start Occupy Sandy, the grassroots relief effort that provided immense help to struggling city residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Premo was arrested on December 17, 2011, when Occupy Wall Street attempted to start a new site of occupation by breaking into a vacant lot in lower Manhattan.
Premo fell down in the commotion. Premo's colleague, Rachel Falcone, told Free Speech Radio News that the police were "trying to make something out of nothing and they're trying to charge him with something that didn't actually occur. " Video evidence showed the truth. The 5 Most Popular Safety Laws (That Don't Work) Really, is it ever possible to be too safe?
Especially when it's our children at stake? Actually, yes. Especially when the rule or law intended to make us safe is so poorly thought-out that it either does nothing but suck up public money, or creates a ripple effect of unintended side effects. We're talking about things like... The Idea: Speeding is a major cause behind many fatal accidents, so it must also be true that mandating lower speed limits will make us all safer, right?
It was back in 1974 that the federal government passed the National Maximum Speed Limit Law in the USA, slowing America down to a creeping 55 miles per hour. 5 Staples of the Legal System That Statistics Say Don't Work. #2.
Lie Detection Training Trains Police to Be Worse at Detecting Lies Getty. 5 Common Crime Fighting Tactics (Statistics Say Don't Work) #2.
Jails Are Turning Nonviolent Offenders Into Repeat Offenders Take two guys convicted of a nonviolent crime, like smoking a bong in a parking lot. Now, as a society, you have to make a choice. The 6 Weirdest Things That Statistically Lower Crime. You might not have noticed this in the middle of all of the bad news that floods the daily headlines, but crime in the U.S. is at its lowest point in pretty much ... well, ever.
It's been steadily falling since the early '90s. Why Police Officers Lie Under Oath. Answers to questions about the age of consent, statutory rape laws and sexual assault and other family protection laws.