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By Omeleto . . A group of shoplifters orchestrates a complex series of pickups and dropoffs between multiple stores, moving bags full of clothes quickly between dressing rooms and store floors. At...
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Kerrin Mccadden –‘Weeks After My Brother Overdoses’ [Video]
By Button Poetry . . A poem from Kerrin McCadden’s book, Keep This To Yourself. Transcript provided by YouTube: 00:03 weeks after my brother overdoses I 00:06 searched Craigslist for sadness a...
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Chicago Is Not a Punch Line (Or Alibi)
It never fails. Whenever a story breaks about a police officer shooting an unarmed Black male, or a white supremacist committing a vicious hate crime, you’ll hear it. Literally every time. “But what...
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Targeting Journalists Takes a Toll on ‘Societies as a Whole’ – UN Chief
When journalists are targeted, “societies as a whole pay a price”, the UN chief said on Monday, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. “If we do not protect...
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Santa’s Magic, Children’s Wisdom, and Inequality (a Timeless Holiday Classic...
This is a preprint version of an essay in Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families Great and Terrible, by Philip N. Cohen. Oakland, California:...
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COVID-19 Baby Bust Update and Data
Joe Pinsker at the Atlantic has a piece out on the coming (probable) baby bust. In it he reviews existing evidence for a coming decline in births as a result of the pandemic, especially including...
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Sociologist, Scientist? Toward Transparency, Accountability, and a Sharing...
With the help of the designer Brigid Barrett, I have a new website at philipncohen.com, and a redesigned blog to match (which you’re looking at now). We decided on the tagline, “Sociologist /...
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Policing Isn’t Broken
I had an old statistics professor who liked to say that a computer was a “dumb beast.” It was very powerful and could do many things, but it only did what it was told. It couldn’t think for itself....
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Defund, Reform, or Abolish
In the middle of all the protests in 2020, there was a lot of energy devoted to analyzing the messages of the protestors. Defund the police. Reform the police. Abolish the police. Fuck the police....
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Companies Accused of Crimes Get More Digital Privacy Rights Than People Under...
By Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University – Newark and Elizabeth Chiarello, Saint Louis University Corporations increasingly receive the same rights as people. Now, it seems, they have privileges...
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Our Occupying Force
I was recently sent a news story about Harvard University canceling a class that focused on a policing strategy. The class was an evaluation of a policing technique called C3 Policing; a technique...
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United States Immigration Laws and the Exclusion of Asian Pacific Islanders
Since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic and former President Trump’s insistence on calling it the so-called “China virus,” anti-Asian Pacific Island hate crimes in the U.S. have spiked sharply....
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Us Has a Long History of Violence Against Asian Women
By Karen Leong, Arizona State University and Karen Kuo, Arizona State University Asian American women understand that the alleged murderer of eight people in Atlanta was acting in keeping with a...
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Mass Shootings and the Failure of Empathy
We can divide criminal or antisocial actions into two broad categories: failures of empathy and means to an end. Doing so allows us to better see how our everyday actions affect others. Classifying...
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No, Demonising Boys Won’t Turn Them Into Angels
I was recently surprised by an article written by Dr John Barry a prominent figure in psychology and the Chair of the Male Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. This was...
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A Long Island Serial Killer Used Craigslist To Murder Prostitutes
After middle school, I grew up on Long Island. It was always my parents’ dream to have the prototypical suburban life. Moving from Queens, New York to Long Island, we finally had a house we owned. I...
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The Making of Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem [Video]
. . Here’s a special look at how we at Brave New Films made “Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem.” Racially Charged, featuring voice over from Mahershala Ali, exposes how our country’s...
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How I Got Stung in the Growing Problem of Romance Scams
There’s a dirty little secret that most people either don’t know about or aren’t discussing. It is the number of fake profiles that clog up our social media accounts. It’s happening everywhere. HBO...
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Stalking: It’s Not Always the Stranger in the Bushes
Simon* was a 40-year-old man. He was referred to our service** to be assessed for stalking related risk. He had been stalking a prominent doctor in his local community, for over 15 years. He first...
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Righting Historical Wrongs: The Tulsa Race Massacre
June 1st marked a century from a wrong that some of us would like to excavate from the memory hole, but the R-word often impedes even a frank discussion. A discussion about whether there was law in...
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