Showing posts with label causes of crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label causes of crime. Show all posts
Saturday, January 10, 2026

The Panopticon Overrules Active Fire

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The death of Renee Good in Minneapolis on 7 January 2026 was unnecessary. As the subsequent news stories show, we live in the Panopticon, a ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Lightbulb Does Not Need to be Changed.

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Q: How many sociologists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: The lightbulb does not need changing. It is society that must be changed.   ...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Crimes of Conscience: Antigone and Stealing from the Public Library

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The libraries at the University of Texas at Austin shelve 83 volumes by Ayn Rand. Of them, 30 have been stolen. Of those, eight are marked ...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Alternatives to Prison (Part 1 of 3)

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Introduction:   For almost 200 years, the treatment and punishment of convicted criminals was defined by blending the Pennsylvania System a...

Alternatives to Prison (Part 2 of 3)

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Reintegrative Shaming was developed by John Braithwaite based on his experience as an administrative regulator of pharmaceutical firms in ...

Alternatives to Prison (Part 3 of 3)

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Laissez-faire Criminology  is my assertion ( on this blog ) that you do not need to react to every wrong or harm, either against yourself o...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Minimizing the Likelihood of Bad Cops

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Recent stories touted by Glenn Beck and flashing across the patriotic blogosphere tell of egregious transgressions by city police officers. ...
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Roots of Poverty

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In The Economy of Cities , Jane Jacobs wrote: “To seek 'causes' of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because ...
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