{"id":836,"date":"2009-02-19T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T01:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=836"},"modified":"2009-02-19T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T01:22:35","slug":"quick-crim-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2009\/02\/19\/quick-crim-news\/","title":{"rendered":"quick crim news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. i&#8217;ve long marveled at the false precision offered by scientific experts in courtroom testimony &#8212; you know, <em>our evidence confirms that there is a one in fourteen-gazillion chance that these prints came from someone other than the defendant, mr. uggen<\/em>. once again, the national academy of sciences is calling for reforms in this area. the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/05\/us\/05forensics.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1\">times<\/a> <\/em>calls a forthcoming NAS report &#8220;a sweeping critique of many forensic methods that the police and prosecutors rely on, including fingerprinting, firearms identification and analysis of bite marks, blood spatter, hair and handwriting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. a truly inspiring sociological criminologist wins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criminologyprize.com\/extra\/pod\/?module_instance=3\">the 2009 stockholm prize<\/a> &#8212; make that <em>two <\/em>truly inspiring sociological criminologists. <\/p>\n<p>3. a new <a href=\"http:\/\/pewhispanic.org\/reports\/report.php?ReportID=104\">pew center report<\/a> by mark hugo lopez and michael t. light documents some major shifts in the race, ethnicity, and national origin of u.s. federal prisoners. <\/p>\n<p>4. while michael phelps wasn&#8217;t taken into custody, his famous photo spurred arrest of seven fellow partiers. though mr. phelps lost a lucrative endorsement deal with kelloggs, he&#8217;ll surely pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/paulharveybong.ytmnd.com\/\">some exciting new sponsors<\/a>. apparently the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/years\/2009\/0213093scmugs1.html\">bonggate seven<\/a><em> <\/em>won&#8217;t be so lucky &#8212; they&#8217;re just stuck with a misdemeanor record and out of pocket $570. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. i&#8217;ve long marveled at the false precision offered by scientific experts in courtroom testimony &#8212; you know, our evidence confirms that there is a one in fourteen-gazillion chance that these prints came from someone other than the defendant, mr. uggen. once again, the national academy of sciences is calling for reforms in this area. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}