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The most searing and brilliant critique of society and the criminal justice system in decades, reminiscent of Thomas Sowell and James Q. Wilson.
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Earl Campbell montage will enrich your timeline.
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Personality features are importantly related to numerous behavioral dimensions including prosocial and antisocial behavior. The current chapter reviews the associations between Agreeableness/Antagonism and various forms of antisocial behavior as well as associations between Agreeableness/Antagonism and adjustment to the criminal justice system. Several hypotheses and avenues for future research are offered to evaluate the role of Agreeableness in relating to police officers, judicial officers, and correctional staff.
Although criminology has historically failed to incorporate personality factors into explanatory models of offender conduct and criminal justice system compliance, it is suggested that the use of personality features specifically Agreeableness is helpful for understanding differential adaptations to the justice system.
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Great moments in Prince history.
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The most prolific murderers kill during childhood but the crime is typically characterized as an accident, drowning, or fall. That Cole murdered at age 8 speaks to the intensity of his homicidal ideation even in the earliest years of life.
Carroll Cole confessed to 35 murders. All women. His killing spree ran for decades across multiple states before Nevada executed him in 1985. He claims his first kill was at age 8 - he said he drowned a boy who bullied him. The death was ruled an accident. When they finally caught him and offered him a chance to fight for his life - he told them he simply didn't care.
His mother forced him to watch her cheat on his father and threatened him into silence. He later told psychiatrists it was where his hatred of women began. He walked into those same psychiatrists' offices himself - voluntarily - described his violent impulses in detail, begged for help. They released him anyway. The bodies kept piling up.
In the video below, Carroll Cole sits down for his final interview less than 8 hours before his execution - and says something that stops the reporter cold.
Asked if he wanted to delay the execution, he said no.
Asked why he wouldn't fight for his life, he said he just didn't care to.
He showed remorse for only one victim. An 11-year-old girl from 1967. Said he thought about her for years. Condemned himself for it. Said he could imagine what her life might have been like.
The reporter asked if he deserved to die.
Cole paused. Then said yes. For what he did - yes.
He said he was a little concerned about pain. Nevada had never carried out this type of execution before. Nobody knew exactly what would happen. But it didn't change his decision.
A man who asked for help before the killing started. Who walked into a psychiatrist's office and said he was afraid of what he might do.
The system heard him. Then let him walk out the door.
Was Carroll Cole born a killer, or did everyone who could have stopped him simply look the other way?
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Dr. Matt DeLisi's book on Psychopathy is one of the best in the history of criminology. Those of us who were taught basic theories of crime always wondered why they explain so little variation. It's because they pool "common criminals" with psychopaths.
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Studies of the dark figure of sexual offending using federal correctional clients reported significant evidence of previously unknown or hidden sexual violence, often among clients with no official criminal history. Unfortunately, research has produced variable estimates of how large the dark figure is.
The current study sought to replicate recent studies of federal sexual offenders about the dark figure of sexual offending. We also extended the knowledge base by providing additional correlational analyses to see whether self‐reported and official sexual offending have shared or divergent correlates.
Overall, 73.8% of federal sexual offenders reported prior contact victims, which is higher than, but generally consistent with, prior prevalence estimates of 55–69% in studies of federal correctional clients. In the current data, clients convicted of child pornography possession or receipt and who had no official record of sexual abuse nevertheless reported contact sexual offenses in more than 59% of cases.
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Traditional incapacitation research assumes that collective imprisonment of all offenders will effectively reduce the number of rapes in society by a quantifiable amount. These estimates ignore the research on sex offender-specific risks for sexual offending.
This article recalculates traditional incapacitation estimates to measure the number of rapes prevented by selectively imprisoning men already convicted of sex crimes. The National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) data is used to show that imprisoning 431,632 felony contact sex offenders for an average of 4.3 years each between the years 2000 and 2019 may have prevented between 120,744 and 551,708 rapes in the United States. This study also considers how many sexual recidivism outcomes could be prevented if offenders had served longer sentences. @jlong_author
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Random excellent song
“More Than a Woman” was written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977, the song became one of the soundtrack's most memorable romantic tracks. Unusually, the soundtrack contains two official versions of the song: the Bee Gees' own recording and a cover by Tavares, with both versions also appearing in the film.
It was the Tavares version that became the commercial hit, reaching No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart. The Bee Gees' recording was not released as a single in the US or UK, although it was issued as a single in some other markets.
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My editorial about the substantive and statistical devastation caused by 5% of criminals.
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Cannot recommend this playlist enough, an R&B yacht waltz through the 70s and 80s.
New playlist just dropped!
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Superlative work by the Iowa Cold Case Unit!
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Musical sensibility, which is the tendency to be emotionally and aesthetically engaged by music is strongly heritable. Roughly half to two-thirds of variance in our musical sensibility is owed to generic factors. 🎶🎼🎵
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Individuals possessing a Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) demonstrate an exceptional ability to recall their own past, excelling most when dates from their lifetime are used as retrieval cues.
Predominantly due to the rareness of the phenomenon, existing HSAM literature is highly heterogenous in its methodologies used. This review of the 20 experimental studies revealed that HSAM is categorised by rapidly retrieved, detailed and accurate autobiographical memories, and appears to avoid the normal aging process.
Functional neuroimaging studies showed HSAM retrieval seems characterised by an intense overactivation of the usual autobiographical memory network, including posterior visual areas (e.g., the precuneus).
Structural neuroanatomical differences do not appear to characterise HSAM, but altered hippocampal resting-state connectivity was commonly observed.
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This miscarriage of justice was rectified when DNA evidence connected to two serial sexual homicide offenders who were the actual perpetrators. I explore this case in my recent book:
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Imagine entering a maximum-security prison as an 18-year-old kid, entirely innocent, and watching the best decades of your life slip away behind concrete and steel. For Robert DuBoise, that nightmare was his reality for an unimaginable 37 years.
Convicted in 1983 for a brutal crime he never committed, DuBoise’s life was stolen by a broken system fueled by junk science. Investigators and prosecutors relied on heavily flawed methods—including now-discredited bite-mark matching and fabricated jailhouse informant testimony—to secure a wrongful conviction. Year after year, behind heavy cell doors, DuBoise maintained his innocence, even as authorities falsely claimed the vital biological evidence had been destroyed.
The truth finally broke through in 2020 when advanced DNA testing re-examined the physical evidence, shattering the state's original case and exposing the tragic miscarriage of justice. Released into a world that had completely transformed during his absence, DuBoise pursued accountability, culminating in a historic $14 million civil settlement with the City of Tampa in 2024. Today, he channels his profound resilience into advocating for systemic reform, standing as a living reminder of the urgent need for humility and rigor in the pursuit of true justice.
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