Law and Crime

It seems odd, but stable facial cues, such as the width-height ratio of a man's face, may be decent predictors of his trustworthiness. Less strange is that we apparently use face-width when intuitively judging a strangers' trustworthiness... Read More

In our culture, parents who are involved in the lives of their adolescents in college are called intrusive and overbearing. Yet more parental involvement might help prevent rapes on college campuses. Read More

Humans everywhere have an evolved finely-honed sense of justice. This protects the community against selfish individuals who harm others for their own benefit. Read More

A self-published graphic novel was apparently drawn and authored by the same Jed Waits of Ellensburg, Washington who was shot and killed by police this morning after having slain special-ed teacher Jennifer Paulson as she arrived for work at Birney Elementary School in Tacoma. Illustrated with highly detailed black-and-white drawings revealing a fascination with structure, the graphic novel entails ominous brick walls and enormous closed doors, sheer cliffs, Easter Island heads, endless-looking passageways, and robotic figures who never seem to move or turn. Read More

The statistical fact that most mass murderers are men, and that men commit the vast majority of violent crimes, doesn't necessarily mean that women don't have the capacity to kill. Women share with men the innate potentiality to violently rebel against reality. Read More

The Dignity Party would draw support from all segments of the Left-Right spectrum. It would attract those who, while insisting upon dignity for themselves, are willing, in return, to grant it to others. Read More

On February 12th 2010, Amy Bishop reportedly killed three university colleagues, while seriously wounding three others. She was an Assistant Professor of Biology at University of Alabama at Huntsville, and it is widely believed that her actions were motivated by anger caused due to being denied tenure at the university (AP, 2/13/2010). Read More

Maybe we should spend less time stressing over words like "retard," and all the letter-words (n-word, c-word, etc.) and more pondering the real meaning of words like "terrorism," "collateral damage," and "enhanced interrogation." Read More

Workplace shootings by women are extremely rare and, until now, seemingly non existent. Two unique factors are prominent in the situation that led to the University of Alabama-Huntsville mass slaughter. The first is the unique history of violent rage reportedly in the background of the assailant. The second is the structural violence that sometimes accrues to the university tenure process. The author who herself once experienced tenure denial helps us understand how these two factors came together to produce a situation of grief and horror.

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