The Philosophy of Crime

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When a new serial killer is caught, police have the tendency to try to blame them for every other murder in the vicinity. Why is it easier for us to believe in one Boogeyman rather than several?

Covered topics: Sam Little, Arie Kruglanski, Donna Webster, Edward Wayne Edwards, Rex Heuermann, Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius

Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism

https://www.orionphilosophy.com/stoic-blog/4-stoic-life-lessons-to-manage-fear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Edwards_(serial_killer)

https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2016/01/26/avery-case-great-falls-ties/79376778/

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/why-we-need-answers

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/btk-daughter-dennis-rader-kerri-rawson.html

https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/the-read/articles/in-the-shadows

https://www.cleveland19.com/2019/10/11/akron-mother-murdered-was-victim-serial-killer-samuel-little/

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/05/29/texas-ranger-serial-killer-samuel-little

https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/how-serial-killer-samuel-little-was-caught.html

https://www.oxygen.com/catching-a-serial-killer-sam-little/crime-news/worst-serial-killer-history-samuel-little-confessions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Little

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/samuel-little-most-prolific-serial-killer-in-us-history-100619

https://www.dps.texas.gov/coldCase/Home/Details/197

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Why are some drugs illegal and others are not? Learn the sordid history of the War on Drugs and why it doesn't work.

Covered topics: Allen Russell, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914, War on Drugs, Magic mushrooms, John Stuart Mill, Rick Doblin

Further Reading:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2023_drugs.html

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-0e463c390bedc7f6b25fb7e54b955b74

https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/07/03/the-travesty-of-it-all-court-upholds-mississippi-mans-life-sentence-for-1-5-ounce-of-marijuana-possession-and-his-case-is-not-an-anomaly/

https://lawliberty.org/the-simple-truth-about-j-s-mills-simple-truth/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs

https://www.aclu.org/report/report-war-marijuana-black-and-white

https://www.cato.org/commentary/us-prisons-thriving-jim-crow-marijuana-arrests#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrbUwNGoWc

https://fee.org/articles/how-15-ounces-of-marijuana-landed-this-man-a-life-long-prison-sentence/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haT4FrOYPtk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Truth_and_Lies_in_a_Nonmoral_Sense

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What causes an innocent person to confess to a crime they didn't commit? Learn how prosecutors use false confessions to inflate their victories.

Covered topics: confessions, Stephanie Crowe, the Reid technique, Great Fire of London, John Mark Karr, Brendan Dassey, Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Kevin Young

Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephanie_Crowe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_confession

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_technique

https://www.injusticeanywhere.net/exonerated-michael-crowe/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwi6PBUPO8

https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/03/26/nietzsche-on-truth-and-lies-in-a-nonmoral-sense/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ZeaaWX79c

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A new theory on consciousness may explain why psychopaths hear voices telling them to kill.

Covered topics: Son of Sam, the bicameral mind, Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Jared Lee Loughner, Herbert Mullin

Further Reading:

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/roger-sperrys-split-brain-experiments-1959-1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F30Jykk8z0E

https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/resources/dangerous-minds-criminal-mental-illness

https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/evidence-and-research/learn-more-about/3627

https://www.ranker.com/list/people-driven-insane-by-voices-in-their-heads/jacob-shelton

https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Jaynes

http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/psyc%20405/serial%20killers/berkowitz,%20david.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qU1sDBU9Cs

https://nypost.com/2016/07/17/i-survived-son-of-sams-murder-spree/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y50nsmUVeVU

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In the United States, cash bail keeps hundreds of thousands of people behind bars, even when they are presumed to be innocent.

Covered topics: Maurice Jimmerson, bail, bonds, Kalief Browder, liberty, Isaiah Berlin, positive liberty, negative liberty, Pretrial Fairness Act,

Further Reading:

https://www.walb.com/2021/01/04/murder-warrants-issued-albany-october-homicide/

https://www.walb.com/story/33773305/kennedy-sentenced-in-connection-with-drive-by-shooting/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hung-jury-means-georgia-man-jailed-10-years-101651291

https://www.walb.com/2023/07/28/albany-shooting-victims-family-still-looking-justice-10-years-later/

https://wfxl.com/news/local/indictments-in-fatal-drive-by-shooting-involving-a-baby

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/04/26/georgia-man-behind-bars-10-years-still-waiting-his-day-court/

https://www.acluohio.org/en/news/brief-history-cash-bail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder

https://www.nyclu.org/en/campaigns/facts-bail-reform

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2021/10/01/money-bail-is-unjust-and-should-end/?sh=2dfa900b6f06

https://www.vera.org/news/new-yorkers-have-known-bail-doesnt-work-for-60-years-why-are-we-still-debating-it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCsfT2WsitE

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/18/1188349005/illinois-ends-cash-bail-system-state-supreme-court

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/the-illinois-supreme-court-cash-bail-ruling-explained

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Diplomatic immunity keeps our government agents safe while working in foreign countries. But is it fair?

Covered topics: Diplomatic immunity, Harry Dunn, Anne Sacoolas, Terrence Karamba, Erick Bairnals, egalitarianism, John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Murray Rothbard

Further Reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ12rs5vVWU

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-63130660

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-62648162

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11520135/Harry-Dunns-cowardly-killer-Anne-Sacoolas-refuses-answer-questions-refusing-fly-UK.html

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR3pGFKo/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard#cite_note-Boettke_Nomos-103

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuDC7YOj4_w

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The most difficult case to bring to trial is a no-body homicide, which is why it so rarely happens. We dive deep into the history of such cases and the very nature of doubt.

Covered topics: Alissa Turney, Michael Turney, Sarah Turney, Archibald Fisher, No-Body Homicide, Pyrrho, Pyrrhonism

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Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3917&context=flr

https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/no-body-homicide-cases-a-practical-approach

https://www.nobodycases.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_murder_convictions_without_a_body#United_States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Y3utIeTPg

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/alissa-turney-sarah-turney-voices-for-justice-podcast-phoenix-paradise-valley-tik-tok-11482721

https://thehueandcry.com/alissa-turney

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/sister-alissa-turney-who-disappeared-last-day-school-phoenix-arizona-n1231014

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/567418/time-abraham-lincoln-stopped-murder-trial-its-tracks

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/#PyrrSkep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTWlKgXniw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_SAocFtlio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhonism

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The most difficult case to bring to trial is a no-body homicide, which is why it so rarely happens. We dive deep into the history of such cases and the very nature of doubt.

Covered topics: Alissa Turney, Michael Turney, Sarah Turney, Archibald Fisher, No-Body Homicide, Pyrrho, Pyrrhonism

Further Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3917&context=flr

https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/no-body-homicide-cases-a-practical-approach

https://www.nobodycases.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_murder_convictions_without_a_body#United_States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Y3utIeTPg

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/alissa-turney-sarah-turney-voices-for-justice-podcast-phoenix-paradise-valley-tik-tok-11482721

https://thehueandcry.com/alissa-turney

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/sister-alissa-turney-who-disappeared-last-day-school-phoenix-arizona-n1231014

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/567418/time-abraham-lincoln-stopped-murder-trial-its-tracks

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/#PyrrSkep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTWlKgXniw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_SAocFtlio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhonism

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