Posted on Monday, 04.22.13
Fred Grimm: The error was small, the damage immense
"Andrew Flaherty, new to Florida, could not escape the feeling he had moved to a unwelcoming place. He was often treated with a dismissive brusqueness, particularly at businesses where he was asked to produce an ID.
Occasionally., clerks looked at his newly issued Florida identification card and, with no explanation, told him they couldn’t help him. “I had to go to three pharmacies before I could find someone to fill my prescriptions,” Flaherty recalled. Not an inconsequential problem for the Jacksonville resident, who suffers from chronic heart problems and debilitating health complications from his Type I diabetes.
Flaherty, 48, who moved to Florida last year from Louisiana, found himself beset by a vague paranoia. “I [was] having problem after problem. Goodness gracious. It was happening every time I walked into a place.”
It happened again on March 9. Flaherty and his brother stopped at the guardhouse outside the Jacksonville naval base and presented their identification cards.
The guard studied Flaherty’s ID and ordered the brothers to park the car. Thirty-five minutes later, two police cars drove up. Flaherty was told that his state ID card included a designation that he was registered sexual offender. Which made his attempt to enter the navy base a crime.
“I said, ‘You’re kidding.’ I kind of freaked out.”
But there it was, in print barely discernible to Flaherty, who is legally blind, on the bottom right corner of the Florida ID card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles back on Oct. 31 — “943.0435, F.S,” the statute number designating a convicted sex offender."
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/22/3358877/fred-grimm-the-error-was-small.html
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Thursday, 4 April 2013
... And Ex-Offenders, Please
Published 04 April 2013 15:48
Are attacks on goths, heavy metal fans and other "subcultures" hate crimes?
"A legal and bureaucratic scheme that privileges some types of hate crime as special while ignoring others is dangerous in itself, says Nelson Jones.
Goths at the annual Wave-Gotik-Treffen music festival in Leipzig
Greater Manchester Police is to start recording violent assaults on goths as hate crimes.
For some people, the announcement that Greater Manchester Police is to start recording violent assaults on goths, heavy metal fans and members of other easily-identifiable subcultures as "hate crimes" is evidence that the concept of hate crime has Gone Too Far.
Ken Macdonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, said on Radio 4's Today this morning that the legally recognised categories of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation and transgender identity represented "lines in the sand", because these were "crimes that threaten social cohesion as a whole and therefore national life." He was worried that extending the notion to members of other groups represented a "watering down" of the concept."
http://www.newstatesman.com/nelson-jones/2013/04/are-attacks-goths-heavy-metal-fans-and-other-subcultures-hate-crimes
Comment:
Oh, that's OK then, Ken (idiot).
All, or no one - no middle ground, against hate ...
"Whatever characteristic provokes a hate crime, whether it is genetic like skin colour, innate like sexual identity, deeply felt like religious belief or more freely chosen such as membership of a subculture, the target of hate is the same: difference. Hate crimes are crimes against diversity. They are crimes of othering, of scapegoating and stereotyping, in which the perpetrator blames others for their own inadequacy, failure or frustration. It really doesn't matter, or should not, whether the criminal in question is offended by a person's race, their dress or their perceived sexuality. Or, for that matter, by their appearance, their assumed politics or their membership of a social class or occupational group." - Nelson Jones, 2013.
The OSC
Are attacks on goths, heavy metal fans and other "subcultures" hate crimes?
"A legal and bureaucratic scheme that privileges some types of hate crime as special while ignoring others is dangerous in itself, says Nelson Jones.
Goths at the annual Wave-Gotik-Treffen music festival in Leipzig
Greater Manchester Police is to start recording violent assaults on goths as hate crimes.
For some people, the announcement that Greater Manchester Police is to start recording violent assaults on goths, heavy metal fans and members of other easily-identifiable subcultures as "hate crimes" is evidence that the concept of hate crime has Gone Too Far.
Ken Macdonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, said on Radio 4's Today this morning that the legally recognised categories of race, religion, disability, sexual orientation and transgender identity represented "lines in the sand", because these were "crimes that threaten social cohesion as a whole and therefore national life." He was worried that extending the notion to members of other groups represented a "watering down" of the concept."
http://www.newstatesman.com/nelson-jones/2013/04/are-attacks-goths-heavy-metal-fans-and-other-subcultures-hate-crimes
Comment:
Oh, that's OK then, Ken (idiot).
All, or no one - no middle ground, against hate ...
"Whatever characteristic provokes a hate crime, whether it is genetic like skin colour, innate like sexual identity, deeply felt like religious belief or more freely chosen such as membership of a subculture, the target of hate is the same: difference. Hate crimes are crimes against diversity. They are crimes of othering, of scapegoating and stereotyping, in which the perpetrator blames others for their own inadequacy, failure or frustration. It really doesn't matter, or should not, whether the criminal in question is offended by a person's race, their dress or their perceived sexuality. Or, for that matter, by their appearance, their assumed politics or their membership of a social class or occupational group." - Nelson Jones, 2013.
The OSC
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Reinforces Social Group Divisions And Perpetuates Essentialist Stereotypes
13 March, 2013
SpotOn NYC: Communication and the brain – Don’t Worry, It’s Science: There’s A Brain Scan
"When writing about anything pertaining to psychology or human nature, people love nothing more than a brain image lit up like a Christmas tree. These omnipresent images have been mockingly termed “brain porn”, defined by journalist Alissa Quart as a “willingness to accept seemingly neuroscientific explanations for nearly everything.”
According to a team of British scientists led by Cliodhna O’Connor, many popular science articles will include “logically irrelevant neuroscience information” intended to “imbue an argument with authoritative, scientific credibility” (McCabe & Castel, 2008; O’Connor et al., 2012). You might see scientists or science writers displaying neuroimaging data as proof that their claims are objective or real."
http://www.nature.com/spoton/2013/03/spoton-nyc-communication-and-the-brain-dont-worry-its-science-theres-a-brain-scan/
The Brain Scan Image and the Dangers of Brain Porn
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/the-brain-scan-image-and-the-dangers-of-brain-porn
25 March 2013
Brain scans predict which criminals are more likely to reoffend
"Neuroimaging 'biomarker' linked to rearrest after incarceration
Activity in a particular region of the cortex could tell whether a convict is likely to get in trouble again.
In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to predict whether convicted felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. Convicts showing low activity in a brain region associated with decision-making and action are more likely to be arrested again, and sooner."
http://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-predict-which-criminals-are-more-likely-to-reoffend-1.12672
03.26.13 3:40 PM
Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are Most Likely to Reoffend
"Brain scans of convicted felons can predict which ones are most likely to get arrested after they get out of prison, scientists have found in a study of 96 male offenders.
“It’s the first time brain scans have been used to predict recidivism,” said neuroscientist Kent Kiehl of the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who led the new study. Even so, Kiehl and others caution that the method is nowhere near ready to be used in real-life decisions about sentencing or parole."
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/brain-scans-predict-which-criminals-will-reoffend/
SpotOn NYC: Communication and the brain – Don’t Worry, It’s Science: There’s A Brain Scan
"When writing about anything pertaining to psychology or human nature, people love nothing more than a brain image lit up like a Christmas tree. These omnipresent images have been mockingly termed “brain porn”, defined by journalist Alissa Quart as a “willingness to accept seemingly neuroscientific explanations for nearly everything.”
According to a team of British scientists led by Cliodhna O’Connor, many popular science articles will include “logically irrelevant neuroscience information” intended to “imbue an argument with authoritative, scientific credibility” (McCabe & Castel, 2008; O’Connor et al., 2012). You might see scientists or science writers displaying neuroimaging data as proof that their claims are objective or real."
http://www.nature.com/spoton/2013/03/spoton-nyc-communication-and-the-brain-dont-worry-its-science-theres-a-brain-scan/
The Brain Scan Image and the Dangers of Brain Porn
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/the-brain-scan-image-and-the-dangers-of-brain-porn
25 March 2013
Brain scans predict which criminals are more likely to reoffend
"Neuroimaging 'biomarker' linked to rearrest after incarceration
Activity in a particular region of the cortex could tell whether a convict is likely to get in trouble again.
In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to predict whether convicted felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. Convicts showing low activity in a brain region associated with decision-making and action are more likely to be arrested again, and sooner."
http://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-predict-which-criminals-are-more-likely-to-reoffend-1.12672
03.26.13 3:40 PM
Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are Most Likely to Reoffend
"Brain scans of convicted felons can predict which ones are most likely to get arrested after they get out of prison, scientists have found in a study of 96 male offenders.
“It’s the first time brain scans have been used to predict recidivism,” said neuroscientist Kent Kiehl of the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who led the new study. Even so, Kiehl and others caution that the method is nowhere near ready to be used in real-life decisions about sentencing or parole."
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/brain-scans-predict-which-criminals-will-reoffend/
Friday, 17 August 2012
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