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Landmark Nepal Court Ruling Ends Impunity for Wealthy Wildlife Collectors
By Abhaya Raj Joshi Wildlife collectors in Nepal will have to declare their collections to the government, under a landmark ruling spurred by the perceived injustice of the country’s strict wildlife...
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Climate of Fear Persists Among Nepal’s Eco Defenders as Threats Rise
By Abhaya Raj Joshi Environmental human rights defenders in Nepal continue to fear for their safety and lives amid a lack of protection from the government, a new report shows. It found that despite...
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40 Years Ago, the US Started Sending More and More Kids to Prison Without...
By Julie Ellen McConnell, University of Richmond A South Carolina judge heard arguments in late May 2023 to reconsider the sentence for Jesse Osborne, who carried out a school shooting in 2016....
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Online Romance Scams: Research Reveals Scammers’ Tactics – And How To Defend...
By Fangzhou Wang, University of Texas at Arlington In the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” victims exposed notorious con artist Simon Leviev, who posed as a wealthy diamond mogul on the...
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Does Kansas City Overuse Jails? Commission Looks for Better Solutions
By Josh Merchant One of the most effective ways to make sure someone shows up at their trial is to send them a text reminder with their court date. But instead of texting criminal defendants, Kansas...
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Trump Should Be Disqualified
The way that America can prove it is done with Donald Trump and his decadent, hateful world is to vote against him in November 2024. Yet, Trump should not be allowed to run needless to say. He has...
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The Complicated Reality of Felony Murder: Unraveling Injustice
What makes a murder? Generally, murder involves the intent to harm someone. You have to mean to kill the victim. But a legal doctrine known as felony murder allows a murder charge against someone who...
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‘No Single Men Please, We’re Irish’: Why Crime and Security Matter in...
By Claire Hamilton Recent protests against the housing of single male asylum seekers in Ireland highlight the crucial role played by security in far-right discourse. Claire Hamilton argues that we...
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How a Population Ages or Grows Younger: Classic Ansley Coale Paper Finally...
People who teach demography love their classic articles. That methods paper that talks about microfilm and floppy disks, the incredibly intricate dissection of changes in Census data from 1970 to...
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Brazil’s Illegal Gold Trade Takes a Hammering, but Persists Underground
By Fernanda Wenzel Measures throughout 2023 to curb the illegal gold trade in Brazil led to a 20% drop in the country’s exports of the precious metal. In Itaituba, the hub of the Amazon illegal gold...
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New Homicide Statistics Show Surge in Intimate Partner Killings
By Rick Sarre The rate of women killed by their partners in Australia grew by 28% from 2021–22 to 2022–23, according to new statistics released today by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC)....
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‘American Hustle’ Is Available Now on 4K Ultra HD
‘American Hustle’ is out now on 4K Ultra HD I enjoy crime films sometimes. They can take audiences on a thrilling ride and may even be based on a true story. When I heard American Hustle was coming out...
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Undercover in a Shark Fin Trafficking Ring: Interview With Wildlife Crime...
By Philip Jacobson Worldwide, many of the key players in wildlife trafficking are also involved in other criminal enterprises, from drug smuggling to human trafficking and money laundering. In an...
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Should Oil Execs Be Charged With Crimes Against Humanity?
Our species, homosapiens, is losing the ability to survive on the planet slowly. This is according to multiple studies and extensive research. Oil companies, those fossil fuel extraction outfits, are...
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A Father’s Love Knows No Bars
With the recent celebration of Father’s Day, I’ve been thinking about a kind of love familiar to millions of men around the globe—including the nearly eight hundred thousand incarcerated men in...
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The Harsh, Dangerous Gig of Seizing Thousands of Illegal Cattle in the Amazon
By Fernanda Wenzel President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration has removed thousands of cattle from illegal areas in the Amazon, but the task is far from the end; only in Pará state, more...
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‘True Detective: Night Country’ Is Out Now on Blu-Ray
‘True Detective: Night Country’ is out now on Blu-Ray It can be fun to watch drama shows sometimes. When done right they can take viewers on a pretty thrilling journey. I will admit I haven’t watched...
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From Baby Bust to Ongoing Fertility Collapse (Just Kidding)
Elon Musk, sharing a post that said “humanity’s birthrate is collapsing,” added that America is “trending toward extinction!” Of course any decline in fertility rate is “trending toward extinction,”...
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Cohabitation Displacing Marriage
Updating a post from 2015. In the last 10 years in the US, the proportion of adults under age 45 who are single (not living with a partner) has increased only about 1 point, to about 46%. Most of the...
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Report Reveals Widespread Use of Smuggled Mercury in Amazon Gold Mining
By Fernanda Wenzel Enforcement against illegal gold mines in the Brazilian Amazon ramped up in 2023, but the contamination from the mercury used in mining will likely be felt for generations to come....
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