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ifeminists August 11, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Seeking Criminal Justice in Civil Court Feminist groups advocate civil proceedings for sexual abuse because "victims" will win more often and with less evidence. |
ifeminists June 9, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
How to Form an Informed Opinion Like it or not, personal opinion of court cases has become part of the process of justice in America. How to make a judgment based more on facts and less on rhetoric. |
ifeminists October 20, 2009 Michael Miles |
The Ugly Truth About the Roman Polanski Affair As I survey what is left of this case -- some civil suits against Nifong, Duke University, the City of Durham, and some police officers -- I realize more than ever that the United States has become a country that is run by political rogues |
American Family Physician July 15, 2002 John W. Thompson, Jr. |
A Pregnant Woman Victimized by Physical Abuse Domestic violence in the United States is a problem of enormous proportions and represents a significant health concern. Here's how a physician can respond. |
Reason April 2004 Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
ifeminists September 16, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care? |
Wired October 2009 Vince Beiser |
Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons From the death penalty to "three strikes" laws, Americans love tough responses to crime, but not necessarily smart ones. Nils Christie has a better idea: Stop treating lawbreakers like criminals. |
ifeminists April 10, 2009 Wendy McElroy |
The Return of Debtor's Prison H. Beatty Chadwick, a former corporate lawyer, has been imprisoned in a Pennsylvania county jail for over 13 years even though he has never been arrested, criminally accused or tried. |
ifeminists April 30, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
ifeminists March 31, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Supreme Court Ruling May Impact Domestic Violence Cases In the '80s and '90s, mainstream feminism sold a simplistic theory of domestic violence and of its victims -- specifically, women. According to this dogma, the woman should leave the relationship and press charges. |
ifeminists February 25, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Statistics from the Ministry of Truth The DOJ's recently declared that domestic violence has been cut in half over ten years. Men's advocates reply that the figures do not include violence against male victims. But larger issues are involved, like the manipulation of information (and us) by the government. |
ifeminists October 25, 2007 David Heleniak |
Manhattan Prosecutors Declare War on Families A new law in New York states that after an arrest for domestic violence, the marriage between the victim and the perpetrator is officially over. |
Salon.com May 8, 2002 Charles Taylor |
The ultimate violation Two writers -- a philosopher and a working-class Southern man -- describe the horror of violent rape and their long journeys back from darkness... |
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Public Knowledge Pans AG's Copyright Proposal Digital rights group Public Knowledge picks apart legislation that puts copyright theft in criminal code. |
Searcher September 2003 Kenneth Fink |
Criminology Web Sites: An Annotated "Webliography" This list may serve as an introduction to the many Web sites devoted to both the prosaic and exotic in the field of criminology. |
ifeminists June 24, 2003 George Rolph |
Reassembling the Truth While the Observer (UK) newspaper should be applauded for having the courage to publish a piece on husband abuse, they score no points for cutting edge and truthful journalism. I want to dismantle this article and report the real facts behind this facile piece. |
InternetNews September 17, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Bill Would Give ID Theft Victims More Weapons A bill containing provisions against cyber criminals that awaits the President's signature. Does it do enough? |
Reason November 2002 Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
ifeminists August 19, 2003 Jennifer Roback Morse |
Parents or Prisons For some people, prisons are a substitute for parents. This apparent overstatement is shorthand for two more precise points. |
Psychology Today Jan/Feb 2009 Chuck Hustmyre |
Marked for Mayhem Street criminals are selective about their victims. Unfortunately, many of us unwittingly give off signals that mark us as easy targets. |
Salon.com July 16, 2002 Arianna Huffington |
Send the bastards to jail! Unlike the majority of nonviolent drug cases, corporate wrongdoers rarely do any time behind bars. |
ifeminists February 16, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Spousal Rape Case Sparks Old Debate When indications of violence are absent, it is reasonable for the legal system to require a higher standard of evidence to convict a husband of rape. |
Reason July 2008 Kerry Howley |
Striking Distance Few states have enforced the "three strikes" law with as much zeal as California. But thanks to perverse incentives built into the legislation, the law may encourage some of those offenders to commit more-violent crimes in the future. |
InternetNews April 24, 2006 Roy Mark |
Feds Nab E-Rate Fraudsters A Houston-based networking company agreed Friday to pay more than $4.6 million in fines and restitution to settle E-Rate fraud charges. |
ifeminists January 14, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
When Is It Rape? On Jan. 6, the California Supreme Court ruled that if a woman rescinds consent during the sex act, the man is guilty of rape if he does not stop immediately. The prosecution of rape used to be skewed against women. Now it seems to be skewed against men. |
Fast Company March 2000 Rekha Balu |
Cyber Crime Report from the Futurist |
ifeminists October 7, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Collective Western Guilt Burdens Today's Children A "compensation culture" seems to be spreading through poor nations. This attitude toward the West draws upon Western guilt over its own prosperity and over historical wrongs, like slavery. This collective guilt is especially undeserved when placed on the blameless shoulders of children born today. |
Salon.com June 28, 2000 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Race has everything to do with it In the wake of the Central Park assaults, it's time to pay attention to black violence against women -- and a murder rate that's still seven times that of whites. |
Scientific American February 2009 Michael Moyer |
Will the Recession Spark a Crime Wave? The bad economy doesn't necessarily mean we're headed for armageddon, argue some researchers. But maybe they've been looking at the wrong data |
ifeminists April 7, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Lies of Faux Victims Cast Doubt on Real Ones Will you be willing to believe the next woman (or man) who claims to be a victim? |
ifeminists April 22, 2003 George Rolph |
Domestic Violence and the Male Victim Studies carried out on male and female bullies in schools and my own observations of abusers show a startling similarity between the two. This has led me to the conclusion that an abuser, whether male or female, is simply a bully who never grew out of it. |
Information Today February 11, 2008 |
National Criminal Justice Database Now Available From EBSCO The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts database is now available from EBSCO Publishing. |
ifeminists April 14, 2009 Carey Roberts |
Abuse Excuse: How Liberalism Keeps Women in their Place Liberals have become the unapologetic predators of women, gleefully playing on their fears and psychological vulnerabilities, all in the name of curbing domestic violence. |
Salon.com July 10, 2002 Karin Halperin |
Black-and-blue in ones and zeros Digital photography is revolutionizing the prosecution of domestic violence cases. |
Bank Technology News February 2005 Holly Sraeel |
Hot on the ID Theft Trail: Will the Real Jane Doe Stand Up? Welcome to the world of identity theft, where the snatch of an individual's social security number begins that unsuspecting individual's downward financial spiral. |
ifeminists April 26, 2007 Carey Roberts |
VAWA Casts a Long Shadow over the Duke Fiasco Here's the dirty little secret of D.A.s who prosecute sexual assault and domestic violence cases: many of the claims they pursue are as flaky as a pie crust and their chances of winning a jury conviction are slim. So why do they bother to go after the case? |
Reason January 2004 Cathy Young |
Kobe's Rights: Rape, justice, and double standards The case of Kobe Bryant's alleged sexual assault raises some serious issues about the way the justice system treats rape complainants and defendants. |
Reason May 2007 Cathy Young |
Assault Behind Bars How big a problem is prison rape in the U.S. -- and what can be done about it? |
BusinessWeek April 28, 2011 Karen Weise |
U.S. Courts Face Backlogs and Layoffs Prominent lawyers warn that court budget cuts will harm the economy. |
Reason February 2003 |
Letters Gun Control Twists... True Patriots... |
Chemistry World May 8, 2015 Phillip Broadwith |
Kolon and Dupont settle trade secrets case A long-running US trade secrets case has ended with South Korea's Kolon Industries pleading guilty to criminal charges and agreeing settlement of a civil suit with DuPont of the US. |
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Roy Mark |
Former CA Chief on The Hook For $52M Sanjay Kumar also must give up 20 percent of his annual income once he is out of prison. |
AskMen.com Steve Richer |
How To: Cope With Robbery What you should do if you find that you've been robbed, and preventative measures you can take. |
ifeminists June 8, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Privacy: Throwing Babies Out with Bath Water Privacy rights are under attack and cases are so legally tangled that analysis becomes blurred and bad law based on judicial activism becomes more possible. |
ifeminists November 26, 2007 Darrin Albert |
The Hazards of Duke The Duke rape case reveals some specific hazards that may prove pragmatic for society to exercise some restraint and/or caution: The Crying Wolf Effect... Herjury... Avoidance of Preventative Measures... etc. |
Salon.com January 2, 2002 Janelle Brown |
The impossible calculus of loss A windfall of public and private funds awaits the victims of Sept. 11. How can each grieving individual be treated fairly? Will their compensation change charity and disaster relief forever? |
ifeminists June 28, 2006 Leving & Sacks |
California Spousal Rape Bill Will Harm Innocent Men False accusations of violence or abuse are endemic in family law cases. The California Senate and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety recently approved a misguided bill which will make the problem worse by easing the way for spurious spousal rape allegations to be used against fathers. |
PC Magazine February 7, 2008 Isabelle Groc |
Payback for ID Theft Can a new bill in Congress stem the tide of online fraud? |
ifeminists August 5, 2003 Carey Roberts |
Promoting False Allegations of Rape False allegations of rape are far more common than most people imagine. |
Salon.com January 26, 2001 Daryl Lindsey |
Words held hostage The national media reported on every detail of the dramatic "Texas Seven" prison escape -- except the fugitives' harsh criticism of the state's criminal justice system when they surrendered... |