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After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules

28 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]

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Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t

21 January 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Unequal Before the Law

18 January 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Matthew Clair The Nation This spring, graphic images of a white police officer digging his knee into George Floyd’s neck served as a catalyst to renew the mass social […]

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The Little Cards That Tell Police ‘Let’s Forget This Ever Happened’

4 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Katie Way Vice Mike, a white man in his 50s, was in a bad spot: He was stuck idling in traffic on New York City’s Riverside Drive, running late […]

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This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call

27 July 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Christie Thompson The Marshall Project On a rainy June day, the manager of a Motel 6 outside Olympia decided one guest had to leave. The woman had been smoking […]

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LAW

The Brain, the Criminal, and the Courts

17 January 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Eryn Brown Knowable Magazine On March 30, 1981, 25-year-old John W. Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan and three other people. The following year, he went on trial for […]

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LAW

Spot the Psychopath

21 August 2019by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Sally Davies Aeon Psychopath. The word conjures up the image of a cold-blooded killer, or perhaps a fiendishly clever but heartless egoist. There’s Ted Bundy, who in the 1970s […]

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Defending Kevin Davis’s “The Brain Defense”

6 July 2017by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Andreas Kuersten TheThresh.com The drafting of a book is an intense undertaking, requiring a significant devotion of time and effort. Accordingly, book reviewers have an obligation to apply themselves […]

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LAW, ORIGINAL CONTENT

Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport

6 July 2016by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Eli Hager & Alysia Santo The Marshall Project Every year, tens of thousands of fugitives and suspects — many of whom have not been convicted of a crime — […]

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The Role of Apologies in Criminal Justice

7 March 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Jessica Pishko Aeon What is ‘I’m sorry’ worth? The idea that apologies heal wounds and restore justice in the community isn’t exactly a new idea. Apologies are an ancient […]

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