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Starbucks: The Place of Holy Matrimony
Today was something else. I met up at Starbucks with my girlfriend and my mother to welcome the taste of Fall by indulging in an overpriced pumpkin spice latte. The smell of pungent coffee, the...
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Making Nature Against the Law
In my third-year Criminology course, Law and Society, we are asked a “Food for Thought” question each week. Two weeks ago, the question, “Is there a law or legal regime that you consider to be...
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Status Quo: Is It a Myth?
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2012) defines “status quo” as the “existing condition or state of affairs.” Objectively, law and society is in continuous change. The degree of change, however, is...
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Wasted Resources: Implications of the NYPD’s Stop-And-Frisk Program
A new documentary on the New York City Police Department’s controversial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rWtDMPaRD8) stop-and-frisk program has prompted nearly 800,000 viewers on YouTube to gain an...
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Missiles Fall on Gaza Strip
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. Yesterday, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) killed Ahmed Jaabari, a Palestinian political activist and second-in-command of Hamas. The...
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Looking Ahead: Deconstruction and Justice
This week in my course “Law and Society”, the class responded to a thought provoking question. “Explain, in your own words, the meaning of Derrida’s claim ‘Deconstruction is Justice’. Do you agree or...
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Hackers and State Sentencing: Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz was a 26-year-old American Internet activist, writer and software developer. On January 6, 2011, Swartz allegedly entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Building 16 to...
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Hamed Al-Khabaz vs. Dawson College
Durkheim had a social-historical approach to crime. From his perspective, crime was a normal occurrence in any social system and sometimes it served as a positive function for society in its entirety....
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Behold #Twitter Trading Card
Trading cards are nothing new. Since 1887, baseball cards have been manufactured and shared across the world. The beginning of trading cards was commonly found in retail products such as candy and...
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Barrett Brown, Third Indictment
Yesterday, Barrett Brown was hit with a third indictment. The first indictment that Brown faces is from 2012 when he shared a link to a private Internet Relay Chat (IRC) that provided 5,000 credit card...
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CISPA is back.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) is back. The bill was introduced and passed before the US house last spring but was defeated by the majority in Senate. The purpose of the bill...
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Sentencing “Anonymous”: Exacerbating the civil divide between online citizens...
The rise of the hacktivist collective “Anonymous” and its activities have led to a number of high profile arrests and sentences around the world. To date, criminologists have remained relatively […]
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