Women in Forensics Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Argentina y Guatemala a través de sus huesos: En “Still Life With Bones”, la antropóloga Alexa Hagerty describe cómo aprendió a ver a los muertos con ojos forenses y a escuchar a los vivos. https://t.co/T1ScSAqlQX #HagertyAlexa #ForensicScience #ArchaeologyandAnthropology https://t.co/uLQudyv06L

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Why Are Authorities in Rural Iowa Ignoring a Lynching?: If confirmed as a hate crime, Michael Williams’s murder would count as one of the nearly 2,900 anti-Black incidents reported in the U.S. in 2020, a 49 percent increase… https://t.co/dhogWmLi1E #JusticeDigest #RaceandEquity

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Glimpses of Prison Life, Through TikTok and TV: We see how glimpses of life behind bars go viral online, and talk with Piper Kerman about creating “Orange is the New Black.” https://t.co/eZX8kO6ls9 #LifeInside #SpecialHousingUnitSHU #SolitaryConfinement https://t.co/ITYzFgJ89Z

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In Thomas Dybdahl’s ‘When Innocence Is Not Enough,’ A System Hiding Evidence from Itself: Columnist James Doyle explores the history of a simple evidentiary rule (and the ways it is often violated) laid out in… https://t.co/IrP1K9CEKc #Books #Courts #NewsletterTop #Viewpoints https://t.co/YipvC7nVWx

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Florida Bans Journalist’s Prison Memoir as ‘Dangerously Inflammatory’ : Journalist Keri Blakinger’s new memoir, Corrections in Ink, about her time in prison was impounded (and effectively banned from all state-run prison and… https://t.co/rVh3qh7EgG #CorrectionsReentry #Media

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The Tragedy of Albert Woodfox: The death last month of Woodfox, a celebrated prison author who spent 42 years in solitary confinement for the murder of an Angola prison guard, evokes a painful … https://t.co/Q2BYQhMjrW #NewsletterTop #SolitaryConfinement #TCRSpecialReports https://t.co/8WKzjdFfbp

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Reform Solitary Confinement by Addressing the Impact On Staff: Angela Hattery, who, with her co-author Professor Earl Smith, recently tackled solitary confinement in 'Way Down in the Hole,' argues that conditions in… https://t.co/pTg2RwFvGr #CorrectionsReentry #NewsletterTop https://t.co/WTuS9dECIp

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Here come the indictments. When will the trials come? Not before summer 2024: Gregg Barak, author of "Criminology on Trump," responds to the grand jury indictment of Donald Trump in Manhattan and… https://t.co/vXdCJst4uI #Courts #Crime #FeaturedStory #NewsletterTop #Politics https://t.co/jNcDH8AHeC

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In Shielded, Joanna Schwartz Dissects Policing’s Legal Environment: TCR Columnist James Doyle discusses a freshly-released book that, if it were in his power, he'd assign as required reading… https://t.co/SDQbTCoz09 #Books #NewsletterTop #PoliceMisconduct #Policing #Viewpoints https://t.co/hgEYsok284

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Saul Kassin Probes Dangerous Practices in ‘Duped: Why Innocent People Confess—and Why We Believe Their Confessions’ (Book Review): Do innocent people really confess to horrific crimes they did not… https://t.co/sho28kwxYf #Books #ReformingtheSystem #Viewpoints #WorthARead https://t.co/2xjwtZQLYT