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...impulse to commit infanticide is indeed part of our genetic legacy, can it be forgiven? Or does such a crime remain a crime no matter how strong the primal drives behind it? Anthropologists take the long view--at least when the crime is abandonment and not murder. "I think we have to re-examine the harsh penalties we place on young, uneducated women who abandon infants," says anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University. "They were dancing to primitive, natural rhythms, and they got out of synch...
...stance that giving apparel producers a greater say does not entail giving them a seat on the administrative board. However, since the Nike events transpired, the FLA has merely taken another opportunity to demonstrate its corporate servitude and resistance to change, reiterating on April 26 that it could not commit to a policy of full disclosure and independent monitoring...
When prior reports have shown racial discrepancies in incarceration rates, critics have rushed to counter that minorities commit a disproportionate amount of crime. However, this response cannot explain the disparities at each stage in the process documented by the national and state data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal agencies. Blacks under the age of 18 make up 15 percent of their age group and 26 percent of those arrested. But they also represent 46 percent of all juveniles referred to adult criminal courts, 40 percent of those sent to juvenile prisons and 58 percent...
Though he acknowledged the horrors of gender-based violence and the need for severe punishment of criminals who commit it, Fried saw VAWA more as politics than jurisprudence...
...never have known, since Dale didn't have much contact with them from college. But on July 8, 1990, the Newark daily newspaper ran an earnest article about the plight of "homosexual teenagers," of whom Dale was still one. He had spoken at a conference on why gay teens commit suicide at high rates, and his picture appeared, showing him gesticulating next to a lesbian fellow student...