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Summary: If you're a robber, how do you choose your victims? As a police officer, how afraid are you of the young man you're about to arrest? As a judge, do you think the suspect in front of you will show up in court if released from pretrial detention? As a juror, does the defendant seem guilty to you? Your answers may depend on the stereotypes you hold, and the stereotypes you believe others hold. In this provocative, pioneering book, economists Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi explore how stereotypes can shape the ways crimes unfold and how they contaminate the justice system through far more insidious, pervasive, and surprising paths than we have previously imagined. Crime and punishment occur under extreme uncertainty. Offenders, victims, police officers, judges, and jurors make high-stakes decisions with limited information, under severe time pressure. With compelling stories and extensive data on how people act as they try to commit, prevent, or punish crimes, O'Flaherty and Sethi reveal the extent to which we rely on stereotypes as shortcuts in our decision making. Sometimes it's simple: Robbers tend to target those they stereotype as being more compliant. Other interactions display a complex and sometimes tragic interplay of assumptions: "If he thinks I'm dangerous, he might shoot. I'll shoot first." Shadows of Doubt shows how deeply stereotypes are implicated in the most controversial criminal justice issues of our time, and how a clearer understanding of their effects can guide us toward a more just society

Summary: ""Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" explores the topic of mental illness in the military"

De fleste kan indse, at det er skadeligt, når Trump angriber de statslige institutioner, fordi det undergraver demokratiet. Men kritikken af bureaukratiet er også så heftig i Danmark, at der er brug for at mane til besindelse

På listen over de mest instagrammede museer i verden ligger et lille amerikansk museum nummer ti - kun overgået af giganter som Louvre og Moma. Det hedder Museum of Ice Cream og er et kommercielt koncept skabt til "millenials", som udfordrer traditionelle kunstmuseer og hele vores måde at opleve kunst på. Det bliver styret af en lyserød hær, og billetterne bliver revet væk

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De amerikanske sundhedsmyndigheder FDA er på vej med en ny regulering, som vil gøre det dyrt og vanskeligt at få nye cigarer på markedet

Summary: The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world, at rates nearly ten times higher than other liberal democracies. Indeed, while the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world's population, it contains nearly 25 percent of its prisoners. But the extent of American cruelty goes beyond simply locking people up. At every stage of the criminal justice process-plea bargaining, sentencing, prison conditions, rehabilitation, parole, and societal reentry-the US is harsher and more punitive than other comparable countries. In Unusually Cruel, Marc Morjé Howard argues that