A Sun article uses killer Corey McMillon, killer of young father-to-be Jamel St. Clair, (right) as a jump-off point to ask some experts from whence cometh the "killer impulse." If you're interested in neurolaw, the NYT Magazine article from March, "The Brain on the Stand," covers the issue in much greater depth.
There's also a bit in Scientific American about an experiment by Ernst Fehr ("ultimatum game" guy), this one about punishment aversion.
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With a fresh body lying in the street in CHM, no one's asking what this Federal Hill resident asks:
"Can you imagine being an 11-year-old seeing a bleeding man laying in the middle of the alley behind your home?”
But then again, it's life in Baltimore B, not Baltimore A.
On punishment aversion, I think the answer in Baltimore is to understand what is the perceived effective sanction as seen through the eyes of one of our hoodie boyz. I'd hypothesize that it's quite weak, particularly when you consider the data censoring which accompanies the vanishing of violent males via murder. That is, many of our bad boys never get punished (by the Court) because they've been murdered in the ordinary course of business.
That attempted murder of a cop article that Galt posted leaves me seething with anger. Eight years (meaning he'll probably be out in about three) for one suspect, and the rest all avoid jail time? WTF! They tried to run down a police officer! All four of those subhuman scum should rot in prison for the rest of their worthless lives (there's another sentence that I would prefer even more, but sadly attempted murder is not a death penalty offense).
Here are some more details about the basketball court shooting. Three others were injured, and all four shooting victims had criminal records.
And don't double-park in a mugging zone.
The boy killed in CHM has been identified.
There was another shooting in the area as well.
And we had a fatal quadruple shooting in East Baltimore at a basketball court.
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