May 2013
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“… [T]his condition is congenital. It is inborn and exists in the...”
– Re: Sexual Psychopaths, 1946. People v. Barnett , 27 Cal.2d 649
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“As it drew closer to 1:30 p.m. and the verdict, people in the crowd urged others...”
– VERDICT IN JODI ARIAS MURDER TRIAL IS IN… and the mob gathers for the feast.
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April 2013
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“In the empirical sciences, almost everything is a matter of weighing evidence;...”
– People. Gary Marcus, has a tumblr you should know about. He’s an NYU professor, writes books and spicy little posts for the New Yorker, like this one: CAN SCIENCE LEAD TO FAITH? Hey, I appreciate a good critique as much as the next guy, I’ve been finding flaws in since 1982… and I like where these...
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“The least interesting sound in the universe, probably, is the sine wave. It’s...”
– Brian Eno, H/T s33light
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“1. Future neuropsychological and brain imaging studies should consider subgroups...”
– I gotchu, suggestions from a 2007 & 2013 study, respectively.
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Temporarily insane: pathologising cultural... →
Medicalising culture
In recent years, American criminal courts have seen the rise of the culture defence strategy or the argument that the defendant’s cultural background should excuse crime, mitigate responsibility or reduce the penalty for criminal behaviour. This paper argues that the rise and success of this strategy in practice reflects not just multiculturalism – as earlier studies...
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March 2013
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February 2013
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Watchaatombomb:
theonion:
Nostalgic Warden Has Seen 3 Generations Of Family Come Through Prison: Full Report
I was watching a CNBC show about the prison-industrial complex and how it’s a massive profit engine for middle America now, and there was a whole segment about a prison built on the back of a town that couldn’t afford it that had no prisoners (quelle horreur!), and how tragic that was for...
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Classifying Serial Sexual Murder/Murderers. →
Keppel and Walter designed a typology system to classify serial sexual murder/murderers back in 1999 that amounted to 4 types:
power-assertive
power-reassurance
anger-retaliation
anger-excitation
They based this made this profiling system up by rating the degree of “anger and power exhibited by the offender in their criminal and noncriminal lives”, but this system was never...
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“The idea of fMRI’s “seductive allure” is supported by two widely cited studies....”
– The Seductive Allure of “Seductive Allure”. Just so we don’t start autolumping widely held notions about using fMRI in the courtroom, here’s this. Okay, you’re right. Maybe I should start a blog where I mention if we do studies involving mock jurors, it’s important to...
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The Brain is Not Computable →
emergentfutures:
A leading neuroscientist says Kurzweil’s Singularity isn’t going to happen. Instead, humans will assimilate machines.
It’s always me disagreeing with the naysayers, I know, but hasn’t someone said that all we need to compute these “nonlinear interactions among billions of cells” is new math? That’s all. Looking at you, computational scientists....
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You might think that your brain is the most...
jtotheizzoe:
… but that’s just what it wants you to think.
Great Minds trick alike.
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Yep: officially filed the first papers to start a... →
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