The Hedgehog’s Array: December 5, 2014
Noteworthy reads from last week.
The Chokehold That Is Prosecutorial Discretion
Every victim stands at the whim of the prosecutor to determine whether or not a case even starts down the path of seeking justice from a criminal court.
There Goes the Neighborhood
Posted on December 4, 2014
in THR Web Features
Image: Small Kansas town at evening; Wikimedia Commons.
For Marc J. Dunkelman, the verdict is clear: “The township, in essence, is dying.”
The City of Big Data—Is It Enough?
Reflections on Sexual Assault and Its Contemporary Cultural Context
Like everyone in this community, I read the Rolling Stone story about the violent gang rape at the University of Virginia’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity with profound sadness and indignation.
Law and Violence
Missouri’s flawed use-of-force law was in place long before the day Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown.
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