Category: Crime & punishment
“Baby-snatching for illegal adoption hits the headlines in Guatemala”
Read an Oct. 4, 2013, story by the Thomson Reuters Foundation about infants being stolen in Guatemala so they can be put up for illegal adoption or sold into child pornography or prostitution.
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women is an international network of nongovernmental organizations. Its website includes FAQs on trafficking and on victim assistance and prevention, as well as numerous reports and working papers on the issue. The alliance’s secretariat is based in Bangkok. Email through the website.
Kate Mogulescu
Kate Mogulescu is the founder and supervising attorney of the Trafficking Victims Advocacy Project at the Legal Aid Society in New York City. The project has won praise from the American Bar Association, and Mogulescu has trained public defenders and prosecutors throughout the nation, as well as locally, on how to identify victims of sex trafficking […]
“The Super Bowl and Sex Trafficking”
Read a Jan. 31, 2014, op-ed in The New York Times by Kate Mogulescu, founder and supervising attorney of the Trafficking Victims Advocacy Project at the Legal Aid Society. Mogulescu objects to what she calls the annual “Super Bowl sex-trafficking hype,” saying that it typically results in few if any prosecutions of traffickers and harms year-round efforts […]
“There Have Been More Mass Shootings Since Newtown Than You’ve Heard About”
A Sept. 17, 2013, infographic by The Huffington Post details 16 mass shootings that occurred nationwide during the first nine months of 2013.
Stan Walters
Stan Walters, a.k.a. “The Lie Guy,” is the author of The Truth About Lying: How to Spot a Lie and Protect Yourself From Deception (Sourcebooks Trade, 2000). He teaches courses in kinesic interviewing and interrogation to law enforcement officials throughout the country and has served as an expert on interview and interrogation for Johns Hopkins University. He […]
Kelly Collinsworth
Kelly Collinsworth is an assistant professor of legal studies at Morehead State University in Morehead, Ky. She has taught a course called “Harry Potter in the Law,” which uses the series as a context in which to discuss the role of government and legal institutions.