FIFA, the World Cup and Social Harm: Examining the Cost of Football Fever
With the FIFA World Cup starting this week, hundreds of thousands of people will be attending matches in Brazil, watching games at bars, pubs, and at home, celebrating and commiserating as teams make...
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The Corporate Court
source: www.newscorpse.com “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” – Benito Mussolini. In the past week many people were outraged by...
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Bringing Back the Plantation: Kiawah Island Golf Resort
The Kiawah Island Golf Resort located just outside of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most lavish, expensive and elite vacation destinations on the east coast of the United States. The...
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Unknown Justice: Crime and Social Harm
Social harm. Let’s talk about social harm and criminal justice. In the United States, we have a “cops and robbers” image that is circulated throughout our culture. When people think about criminal...
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Geeks, Gamers, and Child Slavery
Every day, for 14 to 16 hours, an estimated 2 million children are enslaved in underground mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and other African states. They dig on their hands and...
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Tough on Corporate Crime?
A group of individuals — “flesh-and-blood human beings” as they are called by Attorney General Eric Holder — working for large banks and Wall Street investment firms, wrecked the US economy in 2008...
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Flint, Poisoned Water and Systemic Criminality
On January 16, 2016 Michigan Governor Rick Snyder delivered his annual “State of the State” address. In that speech the Governor struck an almost apologetic tone over the water crisis in Flint. He...
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The Koch Epidemic
The criminal justice system is at a critical juncture. With the untimely passing of arguably one of the most influential conservative Supreme Court justices in United States history, and the potential...
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Sanctuary Cities and Sacrifice Zones: Thoughts on Water, Politics, and...
On Tuesday, February 22, 2017 U.S. government officials threatened hundreds of water protectors with criminal charges, should they continue their long-standing peaceful work protecting the Missouri...
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Dangerous Liaisons: Conflicts of Interest & Sponsored Research
Photo Credit: Rita Faria Big Data, Drugs, and Economic Crisis The most recent Cambridge Analytica scandal has raised many red flags including the dangers associated with the uses of big data and the...
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Tied to the Panama Papers and Iran-Contra, Farhad Azima Stays Behind the...
Farhad Azima Source: AP On June 28, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein faced allegations made by Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee that Justice Department handling of its...
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