By Michele Goodwin This post is the first in a three part series on the use of criminal law to police teen sex. A recent study by Human Rights Watch suggests that statutory rape law is a poor tool for reducing teen sexuality. Their study and my forthcoming article, Law’s Limits: Regulating Statutory Rape Law,…
By Adam Kolber A new study has found a relationship between cortisol levels in our hair and prevalence of metabolic syndrome (a cluster of abnormalities that increase the likelihood of developing diabetes and heart disease). Here’s how the New York Times describes the study: High levels of cortisol — the so-called stress hormone — have been associated…
By Dov Fox Willie Jerome Manning, a 44-year-old black man, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday for the 1992 kidnapping and murder of white college students Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller in Mississippi. No physical evidence has ever linked Manning to the crime. And the Justice Department has just come clean that…
By Abby Moncrieff I grew up in a family of gun hobbyists. One of my older brother’s most treasured Christmas presents from childhood is a rifle that was used in WWII; my dad had a collection of several dozen handguns, shotguns, and rifles, including a semi-automatic AR-15 “assault rifle” and a pearl-plated revolver and holster…
By Michele Goodwin Across the country, children under the age of fourteen are being convicted of rape for engaging in consensual sex with children of similar age. In Utah, a child who commits “more than five ‘separate acts’ of sexual touching,” can be prosecuted for “aggravated sexual abuse of a child.” In South Dakota, a…
