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Playing Dirty: A Tale of False Charges

November 8, 2013

“When pigs fly, wrongful convictions will be dust in the wind.” Too cynical? Perhaps. The story I’m about to tell you will shock some, but not those who follow wrongful convictions. Hopefully, it will shed some light on the precarious dance between a media who wants “its dirt” and law enforcement who wants “its perp.” […]

Media Abuse and the Wrongful Conviction of Nyki Kish

November 3, 2013

Crime myths are falsehoods that grow into public ‘truisms’, told and retold over time, or sensationalised to create “moral” mythologies surrounding a crime. This type of mythmaking is usually aimed at specific groups (i.e. femme fatale, black youth, the homeless, etc.) or behaviours (i.e. panhandling or fatal attractions) that are flagged as potential threats to […]

The Ghomeshi Effect

A documentary dance-theatre performance on sexual violence and the legal system in Canada

Crime Website

Dr. Kathleen Young: Treating Trauma in Tucson

Clinical Psychologist Specializing in the Treatment of Trauma and its Aftermath

"And from those roots the rest of us move up, somehow, and on."

thoughts on sex and life

WordPress.com News

The latest news on WordPress.com and the WordPress community.

Justice for Willie Manning

Social Action 2014

http://www.scoop.it/t/one-child-at-a-time

The Honest Courtesan

Frank commentary from a semi-retired call girl

Creative Exploration in Words and Pictures

Spotlight on law

The Jodi Arias Murder Trial (The other side of the story)

The Creation of Anne Boleyn

Susan Bordo discusses her book, The Creation of Anne Boleyn

Back to Basics

Brad Cooper Case

Discussion of the official misconduct

Laura McNaughton

Joy, Meaning, Beauty

JAMES KING BLOG

Arts and Humanities, Travel and Photography

Reflections on the flotsam and jetsam of modern life. And other stuff.

Lawyers on Strike

Because the System is Broken

Dancing With The Red String

Random confessions, musings, ramblings and rants