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'Question: Prosecutors of domestic violence case often do not understand the cultural intricacies that complicate cases. How should we train assistant DA’s?

Cy Vance Jr.: Repeat misdemeanors should be treated as a felony. Manhattan needs a Family Justice Center like Brooklyn and Queens do.

Leslie Cocker Snyder: Every domestic violence case is a homicide waiting to happen. Prosecutors need to be trained in evidence-based prosecution, so that the case can go forth if the victim is unwilling to testify.

Richard Aborn: Training needs to be evidence based. For prevention, women need financial support, transitional housing, and psychological help. Children need early intervention, too.'

Article here. I gave the author, Stephanie R. Murphy a very positive e-mail in agreement with her opinions. stephaniemurphy4-at-gmail.com. Excerpt:

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'ST. LOUIS — A boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute nearly two years ago has turned up alive, hiding with his mother in a small, specially built secret room at his grandmother's Illinois home, investigators said.

Richard "Ricky" Chekevdia, who turns 7 on Sept. 14, was in good spirits and physically fit after being found Friday by investigators with a court order to search the two-story rural home in southern Illinois' Franklin County, about 120 miles southeast of St. Louis.

The boy's mother, 30-year-old Shannon Wilfong, is charged with felony child abduction. The grandmother, 51-year-old Diane Dobbs, is charged with aiding and abetting. Wilfong remained jailed Saturday on $42,500 bond in Benton, Ill., where Dobbs was being held on $1,000 bond.'

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'"It's worse than we're willing to admit," said Carl Taylor, a Michigan State University sociology professor and principal investigator for the Michigan Gang Research Project.

In Wayne County, 16-year-old Ciara Hill is awaiting trial on charges that she ordered a cousin to shoot a carjacking victim with an AK47 because he'd seen her face.
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Taylor said the age and gender don't surprise him. He said more females seem willing to become physically aggressive.

"We have girls jumping guys -- something you really didn't see before," he said.

It is part of "a total breakdown" of accepted rules of conduct and behavior, Taylor said.
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Veteran Detroit criminal lawyer David Cripps said he sees female youths as a part of "the absolutely tremendous surge" of youngsters charged with armed violence. "It's more than murders. It's armed robberies, carjackings, assaults. You see it in court every day," he said.'

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'State lawmakers and prison workers said Thursday that policy changes are needed to lower Oklahoma's incarceration rate for women — the highest in the nation — and do a better job returning women to their communities and families after they have served their sentence.
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Sen. Constance Johnson, D-Oklahoma City, said Oklahoma's criminal justice policies have resulted in incarceration rates for women that are almost twice the national average. The state's incarceration rate for women is 131 per 100,000 residents while the national average is 69 per 100,000.
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"We have an almost warehousing of women in Oklahoma," said Fields, who has six felony convictions for nonviolent offenses and is a University of Oklahoma student working toward a degree in petroleum engineering.'

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'Men: 99 percent of gender violence and domestic abuse incidents are perpetrated by men. Therefore, this is a man's issue, not an issue where women put themselves into harm's way. Men need to change their attitude toward women so that violence and abuse is not ever seen as an alternative action.

Clearly, the vast majority of men are not perpetrators of violence but we are part of a culture that accepts violence as inevitable and that some men abuse women. In violence prevention the focus must be on men because it is men that teach other men and boys how to be men in ways that do not involve abusing and degrading women.'

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Sounds like the author and the paper need some eduction on this matter. As always, be polite, stick to facts.
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'A 17-year-old woman has been arrested after a man in his 30s was stabbed and died in hospital in Wells, Somerset.

Police were called to a property in Charter Way in the early hours of Friday following reports of a disturbance there.

The victim was taken to Bath's Royal United Hospital but died later.

"A woman aged 17 has been arrested on suspicion of murder and continues to be questioned by detectives," an Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said.

The house has been cordoned off and forensic examiners are looking at the scene.'

Police are appealing for witnesses.'

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'DOUGLAS COUNTY - A Castle Rock woman has been arrested on charges of false reporting, forgery, and attempting to influence a public servant. 22-year-old Emily J. Petersen faces charges in connection with an incident that happened at a bar back in June.

On June 13, 2009, at around 1:30 am Petersen and several friends were at the Tailgate Tavern in Parker. Petersen was asked to leave because the bar was closing; she became uncooperative because she didn't want to leave, police said.

The staff asked for assistance from the Parker Police Department in removing Petersen from the premises. Petersen was escorted out of the bar by two uniformed Parker Police Officers.'

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'Oakhurst, CA (KFSN) -- An Oakhurst woman accused of French kissing a 6-year-old boy is in jail.

Deputies arrested Krista Arceneaux Wednesday night in Bass Lake. They say she grabbed the little boy, kissed him, and said he was sexy ... then disappeared into a bar.

She's charged with lewd and lascivious acts with a child, interfering with a deputy who tried to arrest her. The deputy also says she had marijuana in her purse, and is also facing a drug charge.'

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Article here. Excerpt:

'The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are weighing a proposal to recommend routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to curb the spread of HIV and other infections. The CDC should ignore the cries of outrage from so-called "intactivists" and recommend the procedure. The evidence shows that the benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks.
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Well, the problem centers on the hysterical intactivists, who believe that: A. circumcision is "mutilation"; and that B. baby boys should be able to "decide for themselves," as though families have no right to make decisions about their children's health, treatment and culture. (Not to mention the health and safety of the larger society.)

The CDC should recommend routine circumcision.'

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'Engberg has also tried to make feminist porn before, which has resulted in a lesbian porn film and a film of women's' facial expressions at the point of orgasm. Her vision is to get make the porn industry more appealing to women, all in the name of feminism. She also claims that women's sexuality is more multi-faceted than men's.

But to argue that girls having sex with girls and women masturbating is somehow a good alternative to mainstream porn feels like a completely alien concept to me, and to many other women. Furthermore, most people would agree that the state should not fund pornography. And when it does, should it really only benefit women, all in the name of equality? If a man had sought and received similar funding for ‘regular’ porn, it wouldn’t have taken long before there was an outcry from supporters of equality between the sexes.

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'A Delhi court today ordered criminal prosecution of a woman and her minor daughter, taking strong exception to their acts of implicating a man with rape charge and then retracting from their statements.

Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma acquitted Sunil of the charge of rape under Section 376 and molestion under Section 354 of the IPC, finding no evidence against him.

The court said those who file false cases should not be spared as they abuse the process of law and waste the time of courts and the police machinery.

"Such type of litigants who without any justified reason drag the matter for several years or file false cases/FIRs should not be pardoned as it has not only caused unnecessary harrassment to the accused but also caused wastage of the time of the police," the court said, adding they also undermined the authority of law.'

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'A WOMAN has been charged with three counts of perverting the course of justice after police investigated rape allegations.

Amanda Ruth Ossitt, 44, of Avenue Close, Harrogate, appeared before the town's magistrates on Tuesday and was sent for trial at York Crown Court, where she will make an initial appearance on Monday.

Ossitt, who did not enter any pleas, is accused of making a false report of rape on November 8, 2006, on April 4 this year and on May 16.'