The NY Times Magazine article entitled ‘The Juvenile Justice Revolution’ by James Forman Jr. (2 February 2025) examines aspects of the juvenile justice human service system in the US between 2000 and 2020. The article… Read More »‘The Juvenile Justice Revolution’
I am starting a week long visit to the Wolfensberger collection at the Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. I am looking through Dr. Wolfensberger’s book… Read More »Wolfensberger collection
The NY Times Magazine (7 July 2024) included a long essay by a daughter about her father who had developed dementia. One relatively brief section of the essay included a description of a human service… Read More »Easy Street and Town Square
A 29 June 2024 article in the Boston Globe entitled ‘A Massachusetts town is divided after a closed state prison reopened as an emergency shelter for migrant families’ by Madison Hahamy and Shannon Larson describes “the reopening… Read More »article ‘‘A Massachusetts town is divided after a closed state prison reopened as an emergency shelter for migrant families’article ‘
A 14 December 2023 article in The Times of London reported on a US study which found that “Murderers who look untrustworthy get harsher sentences … The results imply, the authors said, that facial stereotypes… Read More »article “Death penalty ‘more likely’ for dodgy looking men”
I am pleased to share that a number of really excellent videos by speakers at the May 2023 conference held at the McGoogan Health Sciences Library – University of Nebraska Medical Center are available online.… Read More »Available Videos