The DSM-5 and its Role in Social Work Assessment and Research

An editorial by NCRJ Advisor Dr. Susan Robbins. Dr, Robbins reviews the history of the DSM as psychiatry evolved from being psychoanalytically based towards a biomedical model. Robbins says “Each DSM revision attempted to add a patina of scientific discovery, …

Parole boards want remorse, but what if you’re innocent?

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The case of Robert Hill, convicted of murder in 1988 on the eyewitness accounts of some high crackheads, brings the Catch-22 of parole to the fore. Thinking it would get him paroled, Hill …

This American Life — The Struggles of Young Pedophiles

NPR’s “This American Life” airs an intelligent and compassionate story about a young pedophile who has never offended and is helping other young pedophiles not to offend.

This story was suggested to Luke Malone by NCRJ Board Member Debbie Nathan.…

Will New York follow Texas in reforming criminal trial rules?

City Limits reports on pressure in New York State to catch up with, yes, Texas, in preventing or remedying wrongful convictions. New York reformers want the state to broaden its very narrow requirements of the kinds of exculpatory evidence the …

New exonerations report: Child sex abuse is different

The new report from the National Registry of Exonerations, a joint project of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University law schools, contains some interesting data about exonerations for alleged child sexual abuse, many of which never occurred.…