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differences in incarceration rates and marriage and divorce rates.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7
William Thorndike • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
The PCC’s founders were influenced by the Mini-Manual of Urban Guerrillas written by Carlos Marighella, the Marxist-Leninist who founded the National Action for Liberation guerrilla group in the late 1960s. During the 1990s and early 2000s the PCC started to dominate drugs distribution and sank deep roots in prisons and poor communities. Members we
... See moreRichard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro
La véritable réforme consisterait en la légalisation internationale, dans tous les pays, des drogues illégales, qui seraient dès lors vendues en pharmacie. La prohibition favorise en effet les mafias, isole les « addicts », transforme certains en délinquants ou en criminels pour se procurer leur drogue. La libéralisation supprimerait le pouvoir fin
... See moreEdgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
a new mass media programmed not by editors, artists, or educators but by algorithms.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
An entire chapter, “Crime Side Retailing,” could be written because that’s how I spent half of my time: dealing with crime with before-the-fact controls, and after-the-fact with detection and action.
Patty Civalleri • Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
most violence attributed to marijuana is a result of the ban that Anslinger spearheaded. This prohibition leads to secret grow operations and surreptitious exchanges of cash among the type of people who are willing to work in the black market, who are also the type of people willing to defend their cash and merchandise with violence.