A recent study by former Yale Law School Professor Donohue has shown that the death penalty is given in Connecticut far more based on race and location of the victim than any other factor.
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Posted 01.26.2012
Congratulations! You have succeeded in creating a terrible relationship! Now you can miserably and righteously leave your partner and do the whole thing again!
Nathalie Rothschild | Posted 01.18.2012
This week marked the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. With the Zuccotti Park encampment in lower Manhattan cleared and hundreds being arrested in demonstrations in the financial district, it appears protesters have adopted an unflattering victim mentality.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 12.21.2011
There is nothing funny about bullying, nothing funny about child suicide. And yet it's not merely humor but pretty full recognition of our less than friendly impulses, that can save us from the pent up kind.
Hani Hazaimeh | Posted 12.20.2011
As a journalist, I immediately put myself in her shoes and wondered whether I would take this opportunity if I had been offered? Of course I would!
AP | Posted 12.03.2011
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A judge denied a defense motion for a mistrial Monday after a supporter of the victims...
Hayley Rose Horzepa | Posted 12.01.2011
So there I was in the middle of a heavy text conversation -- as heavy as a text conversation can get -- when I looked down at my phone and noticed that one of the words read "r****" in place of "raped." "R****?" Really?
AP | EVA VERGARA | Posted 10.18.2011
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile officially recognized 9,800 more victims of its dictatorship on Thursday, increasing the total number of people killed, ...
Posted 10.11.2011
The Mexican drug war that has taken thousands of lives over the past four years isn’t just on the other side of the border. It’s now online. C...
AP | JOHN FLESHER and TOM COYNE | Posted 09.06.2011
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — When Rodrick Shonte Dantzler raised a gun to his head after going on a deadly shooting spree, the bullet ended what those ...
Joe Trippi | Posted 08.30.2011
It's no coincidence that the most insulting ad I've ever seen in politics was made in support of Craig Huey.
Pat Nolan | Posted 06.14.2011
Crime harms people, and it should be our goal to repair that damage. The needs of victims of crime are often ignored in our justice system. Most offen...
Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011
The documentary Concrete, Steel and Paint informs us with piercing eloquence that, through art and honesty, salvation and transcendent understanding are possible.
Chris Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011
Politicians in Pakistan agree on little these days, but in the last two weeks I have seen consensus around at least one issue: the need to address civilian losses from armed conflict and terrorism in Pakistan.
Posted 05.25.2011
To coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Google and Yad Vashem, an Israeli museum established in the 1950s to preserve t...
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011
In many developing Asian countries, including Sri Lanka, the failure to pass and enforce victim and witness protection laws remains one of the major obstacles to the rule of law.
Judith Acosta | Posted 11.17.2011
Does it matter that a person was seduced into evil? Does it excuse them? How far back do we take the issue of victimization as a defense for our own behavior?
Morty Lefkoe | Posted 11.17.2011
If you have a victim mentality -- in other words, if you feel powerless to affect your circumstances -- you are likely to feel that the world is "doing it" to you and that there is nothing you can do about it.
Rachel Lloyd | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm acutely aware that as I've had the opportunity to heal and grow, I've been able to experience a freedom that was denied me when I was in the commercial sex industry. Sara Kruzan has never experienced that freedom.
Kellee Terrell | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of anything substantial, eye-opening or educational, Winfrey decided to focus on issues that distort the epidemic.
Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011
Elected officials must consider the awesome responsibility of the jobs they've been entrusted to do. Talk to victims, survivors, and law enforcement about the all too pervasive and underreported tragedy of gun violence. And then do something to halt it.
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011
Self-imposed victimization, begins after the fact, when you continue to blame or bemoan the circumstances and therefore give up doing what you can to improve.
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011
The vital question moving forward has less to do with what happened and whom you can find to blame, and more to do with what you can do now that something has happened to you.
Lovisa Stannow | Posted 05.25.2011
In an important step toward implementing the U.S. Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), the Department of Justice is now soliciting public comments on t...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The U.S. military hospital ship Comfort has completed its relief mission in Haiti and is heading home. The Comfort has ...
Andrea Lyon | Posted 04.10.2012