I just read a frightening and saddening article in which experts explain that parents have a reluctance to report the sexual abuse of children. The article started with a story about multiple families who had known that a karate instructor sexually abused children more than 10 years before one of his many future victims finally… Read More
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Psychological Treatment for Dangerously Wayward Kids
It costs a lot less to prevent violent crime and victimization in the first place than to try to rectify the problem afterwards. Once people have committed an act of violence or victimization, we already have a victim and a victimizer–two major problems. The people in society have many ways of preventing violence and victimization.… Read More
Removing Kids from Abusive Homes
I just read an interesting letter in which John Hemming urged the UK government to stop punishing women who are victims of domestic violence by taking their children away. A recent UK government report revealed that “51.1% of women who have had their children removed had it done so in part because they were victims… Read More
Does Aggressive Militarism Encourage Personal Violence?
I just read an interesting post on Joejolly’s blog. In the post, he speculates that using Violence to Solve Problems may be contagious. Basically, he speculates that the Bush Administration’s aggressive military endeavors–namely the occupation of Iraq–set an example of using offensive violence for the American people. As a result, American citizens may tend to… Read More
Education Prevents Violent Crime and Victimization
Many states spend more on prisons than they do on education. But prisons do not seem to do that much to prevent violent crime and victimization. For one, criminals only go to prison after having committed the crime. Additionally, the prisons do not reform the criminals, but just release most of them after a while.… Read More
United States Has Highest Incarceration Rate
Last week, I posted a link to a short article I wrote in which I argued that society does not need prisons. Shortly after that, I came across a Washington Post article that reports that now more than one in 100 adults in the United States is in jail or prison. According to the article,… Read More
My Number One Self-Defense Tip
Today, I want to give you my number one self-defense tip: Prevent attacks! Too many people think of self-defense as violently fighting off an attacker. In reality, self-defense starts long before that. Once attacked, you have already lost most of the battle. Once attacked, you have a very large likelihood of getting severely hurt or… Read More
Finding The Root Causes Of Rape
I have no doubt that our society could eliminate most rapes and sexual crimes if we would invest more resources and effort into it. When we finally do decide to invest more in the reduction of rape rates, we must find the root causes of rape. For one, when we find the root causes of… Read More
Credit Bureaus Scare Me
I never liked the idea of credit bureaus. They make money by keeping tabs on people without the permission of those people. The company lifelock works on behalf of consumers. They charge $10 per month to help you protect your identity. Obviously, the credit bureaus only care about making money. To make money, they will… Read More
Are Prisons Necessary?
I have come to the conclusion that we do not need prisons. I wrote an article about it: Does Society Need Prisons? Basically, my contention is that we can release anyone who does not have a psychological defect making them so dangerous to others as to warrant putting them in a medical asylum. What do… Read More
The Continued Subjugation of Women in Society
I just finished reading a great book, Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre-Feminist, Anarchist, Genius. I love Voltairine de Cleyre’s writing. Among other topics, her essays have me considering feminism and the treatment of women in society. In this blog, I often point out how much rapes and sexual victimization occur. I assume… Read More
Stand Up Against Genocide
Today, I will post the following video about the genocide that happened in Nazi Germany: What do you think of the video? If it interested you, then also check out a post I wrote about genocide: Lo taamod al dam reakha Basically, I explained that fear causes people to stop caring about the lives of… Read More