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...Patrick, “People come out more dangerous than when they went in.” Statistics show that nearly half of Massachusetts’ former prisoners commit another crime within a year of their release. Worse, since prisoners with minimum sentences cannot be released early for good behavior, the system provides no incentives for reform. Without hope of getting out early and with the law apparently against them even when they do return, many prisoners do not participate in rehabilitation programs which they regard as futile. Despite these flaws, mandatory minimums do play an important role in creating...
...most effective way for a woman to “take back the night” is to take control of her sexual behavior. This ranges from personal safety measures (like being sensible about drinking) to avoiding high-risk situations in which intentions are not made clear (so often, these scenarios are instances of common sense gone askew). Only when she has taken this responsibility will she be in a position to reflect clearly on how such sexual issues affect...
...nationwide furor began when Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty appeared together at an AIDS-awareness function in New Delhi last Sunday. The event was supposed to highlight the risky sexual behavior of truck drivers, who have some of the highest rates of HIV infection in India. At one point in the proceedings, Gere embraced Shetty, bent her back in an exaggerated kind of dance hold and kissed her on the cheek. If it looked slightly awkward, Shetty said later, that's because it was unexpected. "Richard does not understand Hindi," she told a press conference...
...appearance?" asked Sumit Mishra, of the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist BJP party in the state of Bhopal. As a foreigner, said Mishra, Gere could be excused. "We are not bothered about how many times he kisses how many women in Hollywood. We are troubled with Shilpa's behavior. When the man was being outrageously indecent before a large gathering, why did she keep giggling?" Mishra railed to the Times of India newspaper. "That encouraged him more. Why didn't she protest...
...black neighborhoods lack the necessary equipment and facilities--bats, gloves, green fields--to train children to play. In sociology, this is called deficit theory, the idea that one group does not do what another group does because it lacks the resources. Deficit theory is often used to explain the behavior of black Americans. But it is almost always wrong. If lack of green spaces and the cost of equipment explain why black Americans don't play baseball today, then how does one account for the fact that they played it and even organized their own leagues in the early 20th...