…about a released sex offender. http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2011/10/06/20939/banks-skin/
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Sentencing Shift Gives New Leverage to Prosecutors
Sentencing Shift Gives New Leverage to Prosecutors From the New York Times
Baltimore Conference Takes a New Look at Pedophilia
As reported by Salon.
Pseudo Science Imprisons the Innocent as Child Murderers
The continuing menace of junk science in the courtroom.
California Custody Battle Sparks Overseas Outrage
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/15/us/AP-US-Serbian-Family-Custody-Fight.html
Katha Pollitt Suggests Donations to the NCRJ
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/156991/spread-joy
Criminally Innocent
Traditional Innocence Projects are great, but what happens if there’s no DNA? Fresh off the presses, Austin Chronicle reports on an imaginary crime–and on Innocence Projects’ new concern for people falsely convicted of child sex abuse.
Mark Pendergrast’s Review of My Lie
Review of My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, by Meredith Maran. Jossey-Bass, 2010. by Mark Pendergrast It’s about time someone such as Meredith Maran wrote a book like this. Her book explains how in 1988 she came to accuse her father of incest, when he did not sexually abuse her – and how… Continue reading Mark Pendergrast’s Review of My Lie
Daycare worker to have day in court October 18
While most daycare and preschool workers who were falsely accused of “satanic ritual abuse” in the panic-ridden 1980s and 1990s had their convictions overturned on appeal years ago, daycare workers continue to be falsely convicted in more recent cases that seem less bizarre but which, unfortunately, are equally irrational. NCRJ sponsors one such case, of… Continue reading Daycare worker to have day in court October 18
A New Memoir About False Memory
NCRJ Director Mark Pendergrast was interviewed for the newly released book My Lie: A True Story about a False Memory. Here is of the book.