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When to Punish, and When to Rehabilitate
The New York Times: The Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on when, if ever, it is appropriate to sentence juvenile offenders to life without parole. The arguments this spring showed the complexity
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When Do Kids Become Adults?
The New York Times: It’s that time of year: “senioritis” has set in. All that remains between childhood and adulthood is the prom and graduation. Many of these high school students have been driving since
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How To Improve Eyewitness Testimony
Wired: My latest Head Case column in the WSJ explores a forthcoming Psychological Science paper by Neil Brewer (not online yet) that shows how the flawed memories of eyewitnesses might be improved: The biggest lie
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Context for Fla. shooting? Study finds holding gun makes you likely to think others have guns
The Washington Post: No one knows what led a Florida neighborhood watch captain to shoot Trayvon Martin, a teenager carrying no weapon. But a new study raises an intriguing question: Could the watch captain have
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Identification de suspects : comment améliorer l’efficacité de la traditionnelle line-up?
Express: Avec l’avènement des tests ADN, on s’est rendu compte que les séances d’identification de suspects potentiels de délit par des témoins d’une scène de délit aboutissaient fréquemment à des mises en accusation de personnes innocentes.
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Unusual suspects: How to make witnesses more reliable
The Economist: To identify a suspect, police typically ask eyewitnesses to pick him out of a line-up of similar-looking folk. Alas, this method is often inaccurate. DNA testing has shown that witnesses often fail to
