2023-12-14 16:41
‘A Crazy System’: How Arbitration Returns Abusive Guards to New York Prisons
By Alysia Santo and Joseph Neff
This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprof… Read More
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Critical reflections on forensic psychology, criminology and the law of unintended consequences
2023-06-11 19:23
Does working for a government agency give a forensic psychologist license to do or say pretty much anything without legal consequence, even if it violates a subject’s Constitutional ri… Read More
2020-02-16 00:15
There’s this forensic psychologist, we’ll call him Dr. Harms, who is infamous for his unorthodox approach. He scampers around the country deploying a bizarre admixture of obscure… Read More
2020-01-14 18:53
Back in the 1980s, southern Alameda County in the East Bay was the hellmouth for serial murder. As a newspaper reporter covering the crime beat, I was reporting on at least three separate fi… Read More
2019-06-10 18:58
A new government report reinforces harmful misconceptions about people convicted of sex offenses. Here's our take on how to parse the data.Guest post by Wendy Sawyer, Prison Policy Initiat… Read More
2019-03-07 00:51
"For years, a group of outcasts in Beatrice, Neb., were convinced they had brutally raped and murdered an elderly woman named Helen Wilson one night in February 1985, even though they couldn… Read More
2018-09-26 03:17
And the answer to the oft-asked question, "If it was so bad, why didn't she report it?"Calvin Klein ad glorifying group rapeHe unzipped his pants, whipped out his penis and thrust it in her… Read More
2018-02-22 23:51
As voracious corporations suck the lifeblood out of print newspapers, a golden age of creative online journalism is also blooming. The art of podcasting is one example, with diverse content… Read More
2018-02-18 20:46
As voracious corporations suck the lifeblood out of print newspapers, a golden age of creative online journalism is also blooming. The art of podcasting is one example, with diverse content… Read More
2017-08-22 04:43
Housing unit at Vacaville Prisons are not known as bastions of healing energy. One of the challenges faced by prison clinicians in the violent and hypermasculine culture of prison is how to… Read More
2017-05-21 16:00
… And how much risk do they pose to a fearful public?Teachers. Businessmen. Politicians. Every week there’s another headline about a seemingly upstanding citizen caught with chi… Read More
2017-01-02 18:02
As the penalty-phase trial of young white supremacist Dylann Roof gets underway this week, reporters have asked me to explain the psychological dynamics that trigger deadly rampages like Roo… Read More
2016-10-22 16:27
Long-dormant case spawned today's sex offender registries. But would these laws have made a difference? Twenty-seven years ago, a perfect storm struck a small town in central Minnesota… Read More
2016-08-15 03:30
In a strongly worded rejection of hebephilia, a New York judge has ruled that the controversial diagnosis cannot be used in legal proceedings because of “overwhelming opposition”… Read More
2016-07-06 00:44
The Trauma Myth may be one of the most misunderstood books of the past decade. Based on its regrettable title, pedophiles erroneously believe it minimizes the harm of child sexual abuse; in… Read More
2016-06-01 18:52
Is the work product of an expert who is retained only as a consultant -- not as a testifying witness -- confidential under the doctrine of attorney-client privilege? With courts around the U… Read More
2016-04-18 02:55
Each year, about 60,000 bushfires rage across Australia, wreaking environmental devastation and costing lives and economic losses. An estimated half or more are deliberately set. Considering… Read More
2016-02-03 16:27
Making A Murderer is generating huge buzz on social media; dual petitions calling for Steven Avery’s exoneration have garnered more than 600,000 signatures to date. But after slogging… Read More
2016-01-04 16:46
The Suspicion System: How the social world shapes delusions Not so long ago, any decent-sized psychiatric hospital had at least two or three Jesus Christs in residence, and plenty of other… Read More
2015-10-25 21:10
Thirty-one years ago, when Patrick Carnes walked onto the Phil Donahue television show to promote his new book on sexual compulsivity as an addiction, his notion was – in his own word… Read More
2015-10-01 23:18
New research casts doubt on practical meaningfulness of emergent category If you ask John Q. Public about the public safety risk posed by a juvenile who has been arrested for a sex offense… Read More
2015-09-24 14:51
By Brian Abbott, PhD and Karen Franklin, PhD* The Static-99 is the most widely used instrument for assessing sex offenders’ future risk to the public. Indeed, some state governmen… Read More
2015-09-15 14:44
Guest commentary by David S. Prescott, LICSW* David S. Prescott. Photo by J. Lloyd.Last week, a federal judge ruled that Missouri's civil commitment program is unconstitutional, the second s… Read More
2015-09-04 14:20
A colleague recently commented on how favorably impressed he was about the open-mindedness of two other forensic examiners, who had had the courage to change their opinions in the face of ne… Read More
2015-08-13 16:06
Among a bumper crop of engaging new books, here are a few that stand out as especially relevant to forensic psychologists interested in popular culture: Murder as public spectacleIf you… Read More
2015-05-04 18:02
Wayne Hicks and Hersey Lelaind. Illustration by Jenny Chang."Hersey Lelaind knew he was in trouble -- just not how much trouble. He and a housemate had been on a drive, and Lelaind had been… Read More
2015-03-09 22:39
The pace of social change is sometimes mind-boggling. The cover of next week's issue of Time magazine features actress Laverne Cox on the "transgender tipping point," with transgender rights… Read More
2014-09-30 14:01
I will be traveling to Australia next month to give a series of trainings, seminars and keynote addresses at Bond University on the Gold Coast (where I am a visiting research scholar), in Br… Read More
2014-09-17 15:01
I get many emails and phone calls from students interested in pursuing forensic psychology as a career. There is surprisingly little information available online to answer these students' qu… Read More
2014-09-04 21:05
I've been reporting for quite some time about problems with the reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R), a popular instrument for measuring psychopathy in forensic sett… Read More
2014-08-26 22:34
A federal judge seems willing to give the state more time. There's scant evidence it will be used well. Guest essay by D. J. Tice, Minnesota Star Tribune* For many years, critics of the Minn… Read More
2014-08-15 03:14
Dear Blog Subscribers and Readers, If you have detected a decline in blog frequency of late, it's not your imagination. After more than seven years, I have made the difficult decision to tak… Read More
2014-07-07 05:46
Try your hand at answering these questions: When evaluating Aboriginal offenders, how valid are standard risk assessment protocols? Among Canadian men, how well does the Danger Assessme… Read More
2014-06-24 17:39
Lawrence "Mikey" Partida's injuriesIt was a tragic end to his 32nd birthday celebration. As Lawrence “Mikey” Partida left his cousin’s house, a young neighbor confronted hi… Read More
2014-06-20 03:27
The International Journal of Forensic Mental Health has just published a special issue on the HCR-20 Version 3, an update to the most widely used structured professional judgment method for… Read More
2014-05-11 16:55
From time to time, publishers alert me to articles and collections that they have made freely available online (sometimes for limited periods of time). Here are a few such offerings that I… Read More
2014-05-07 19:44
Who of my generation can forget Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme, the first woman to attempt to assassinate a U.S. president? Today, almost 40 years after Fromme donned a flowing red robe, strapped… Read More
2014-05-02 19:40
No one actually knows what percentage of Internet use is sexually oriented, or how much money the porn industry is making. Many commonly cited figures are widely exaggerated, and the true st… Read More
2014-05-02 03:02
Judge slams defense lawyer as inept, dishonest Four years ago, I presented a reader participation exercise, "On Killing and Culpability," featuring the case of a young working-class man who… Read More
2014-04-22 15:23
Training by Keely Kolmes and Karen FranklinDo you ever stop and think about your professional use of social media -- whether Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, email listservs, or even your own we… Read More
2014-04-13 18:04
I remember the first time I ever saw a child locked up in a men's prison. I was walking down the corridor of a maximum-security prison, visiting a prisoner who had been transferred there f… Read More
2014-04-05 16:56
It can be fortunate for the world when a middle-class person with a social conscience gets hauled off to prison.After spending a year in a women's prison, Piper Kerman wrote the bestselling… Read More
2014-03-26 14:44
The detective pulled his chair closer to Joe, the mentally ill suspect sitting alongside him in the small, windowless room. Joe kept denying that he had killed his mother, but the detectiv… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Taylor Schilling plays Piper Kerman in the TV seriesHollywood prison scenes are so revolting. Most revolting are the depictions of women’s prisons. They superimpose onto female prisone… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
State lawmakers remain in paralysis as judge threatens actionThis is one in a series of on-the-ground reports from clinician Jon Brandt of Minnesota on the high-profile legal battle over t… Read More
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