Ooh, I kind of like that honestly. I mean, it sounds like a brand of organic margarine, but still.

Wow, you’re a dick!

Not cool, man.

Are . . . are we not having more of a fit that she has said he is abusive?

It made me so fricking happy when the older ladies started dancing for it. One of them looks just like my late great-grandmother, who had an amazing fashion sense, and that also made me very happy.

I saw the article on Buzzfeed and was honestly pretty startled, because BLM in Vancouver is so often in the thick of things, and certainly are taking a lot of action. They’ve been attacked by white supremacists (we have these dickbags called Sons of Odin) during racial justice marches earlier this year. Just…

You just #notallmen-ed.

Coppola stated that she wanted to “focus on the gender dynamics” rather than “the racial ones

That’s awesome (The criminal defense part, not the inhumane sentences part)! And aaaaaaaamen. Honestly, I don’t see logic in jail time for offences that aren’t violent; jail should be for direct protection from violence. And we know spending time in prison increases the likelihood that people will commit MORE crime…

!!!!! Crime rates have been falling for the past several DECADES, but people keep building more prisons.

I suspect there’s the difference for us white people :/ I’d expect to perhaps be treated as an annoyance, but never as a suspicious person.

This is another case that shows why eyewitness testimony is sooo unreliable! The courts and law enforcement treat it as the gold standard, but memories are ridiculously easy to fool, and people will unconsciously make up the bits they don’t remember, as well as unconsciously (or consciously) trying to give the answer…

It sounds suspiciously like a Three Strikes law. In a number of US States, if you commit two felonies, then the third felony you commit will result in a disgustingly long sentence (usually life in prison). So let’s say you sell some drugs. Then you break into a car and steal a phone. Then, your third offense, you…

Just, seriously. So much. The criminology class I’m TA-ing this semester, our first lecture solely consisted of making the students watch We Were Children (an IFB movie based on two people’s experiences of Residential Schools). Because colonisation, its history and its present, is so blatantly, evidently behind so…

Evvvveryone argues about what causes it (some even argue that it doesn’t actually exist) in criminology and psychology. Some say you’re born with it due to genetics, some say you’re born with it due to factors while in the womb, some say you develop it due to environmental factors, some say you have a genetic risk…

AMEN.

As usual - hi, I’m a criminologist!

I’m a criminologist and actually have done research on police responses to complaints of sexual assault. It’s . . . it’s not good. It is not fucking good, at all. And that’s reality. We have to acknowledge reality in order to try to make it better. We can encourage people to report assaults while fully…

Holy shit that’s horrible. I’m so sorry, that is sickening.

The Washington Post quotes the police spokesperson as saying, “We don’t know if (the suspect) has mental-health issues or was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or all of the above.”