Vancouver Over the last couple of days while traveling about I read on my Kindle a new book called, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by budding sociologist, Alice Goffman, about a 6-year period of observation of a changing neighborhood in Philadelphia. As the title makes clear the criminalization of this lower …
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Is Demographics Destiny in a Democracy?
New Orleans On a radio interview I conducted on Friday discussing the impact of the DOMA and Prop 8 decisions, the young man poignantly spoke about the isolation of young homosexuals in rural areas, compared to the relative freedom in the cities, even conservative cities. I then noticed a map in the Wall Street Journal …
A Juror’s Duty to Acquit or Convict on a Lesser Charge to Reform Criminal Justice System
New Orleans Jury service is a citizen’s obligation in the United States. In the smaller City of New Orleans my fellow jurors and I are called to the jury pool every two years for a month of service in the criminal courts. The pool is broken in half each month so each juror draws between …