Friday, May 11, 2012

From Civil Rights Confrontation to Crime Commission: Nick Katzenbach's 60s

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If you agree with me that 40 to 50 year spans are an important generational break point for social trends (see my previous post this month) ...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Hope and Change Election?

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It's more than just an echo of the Obama's 2008 campaign. The California ballot in 2012 will carry two measures aimed directly at t...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Are US Prisons Degrading and Inhuman? European Court of Human Rights takes a Pass

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A group of British terrorism suspects were a step closer to extradition to the United States today after a panel of the European Court of Hu...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Whose Public Safety? Trayvon Martin and Neighborhood Watch

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The killing of teenager Trayvon Martin earlier this month, in Sanford Florida, has inflamed classic concerns about racism and criminal justi...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Women and Children First: It's how liberals govern through crime

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Jonathan Weisman's March 14 article in the NYTimes on the partisan battle over the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act of ...
Friday, March 2, 2012

By By "Bad Beds"! Hello Dignity?

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California's Secretary of Corrections, Matthew Cate, held a press conference today to announce that as of the end of February, the last ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

It's not yesterday any more

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But getting people around my age, late boomers who grew up in the "fear years" of the 1970s, to rethink their assumptions about pr...