Showing posts with label
history
.
Show all posts
Showing posts with label
history
.
Show all posts
October 22, 2016
“In the Dark” shines brilliant light on bungled Jacob Wetterling case
›
L ong- dormant case spawned today's sex offender registries. B ut w ould these laws have made a difference? Twenty-seven years...
May 2, 2013
Spring reading recommendations -- forensic and beyond
›
Marauding bands of juvenile killers . Gang rapist-kidnappers . Wife beaters. We’re talking elephants , dolphins and parrots, respectiv...
1 comment:
March 29, 2012
Damning reconstruction of notorious false confession case
›
Here's one from the annals of outrageous true crime cases: On April 17, 1989, a woman was practicing tai chi in New York's Central...
8 comments:
January 14, 2012
Martin Luther King Jr. on maladjustment
›
Last year, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, I excerpted a large portion of a keynote speech the visionary civil rights leader delivered ...
November 11, 2011
Predicting behavior: The case of the missing militant
›
There is an oft-repeated axiom in our field that the most reliable predictor of future behavior is what a person has done in the past. But...
3 comments:
January 17, 2011
MLK to psychologists: We need creative maladjustment
›
In honor of today's holiday, I am excerpting portions of a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. to psychologists, which remains propheticall...
1 comment:
August 20, 2010
Blast from the past: "Sex offender myths"
›
Amidst all the hysteria over sex offending these days, stumbling across this list from 1955 gave me an eerie sense of deja vu . The author, ...
4 comments:
›
Home
View web version