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Search results for "psychology" ...
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Locked up
A USA TODAY investigation found that the U.S. Justice Department was using its legal authority to decide who gets locked up for how long in ways that reward the guilty and punish the innocent. Our examination found that government lawyers were trying to keep dozens of men who they conceded were “legally innocent” imprisoned anyway. We found that the Justice Department had kept accused sexual predators locked up for years past the end of their prison sentences on the basis of faulty psychological assessments. And exposed a brazen pay-to-snitch enterprise that illustrated how the government rewards its informants — often hardened criminals — with shorter prison sentences.
Tags: U.S. Justice Department; lawyers; sexual predators; criminals; prison sentences
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In the Kennel-Uncovering a Navy's Unit's Culture of Abuse
In obtaining documents from a Navy investigation into the alleged abuse, it revealed a number of counts of abuse and hazing. Also, it uncovered a widespread psychological, sexual, and physical abuse across the Persian Gulf unit. The Navy investigation revealed all this abuse, but the case was later dropped and the unit's chief was promoted.
Tags: Navy; military; abuse; sailors; cruelty; mistreatment; violence; maltreatment; hazing
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VA's Cover Up Exposed
A four part series that highlights how the Department of Veterans Affairs purposely tried to conceal the suicide rate of military veterans. Government emails help expose the widespread problem.
Tags: post traumatic stress; depression; psychological effects; war; battle;
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Von Maur Shootings
In December 2007, a young man killed eight people then himself with an assault rifle at the Von Maur department store in Omaha. It was the largest mass murder in state history, a story that made national news. But when other media moved onto other stories, a team of World-Herald reporters spent much of 2008 digging into the issues surrounding such an astonishing act of violence. Some of their findings include: emergency responders were delayed getting to victims due to miscommunications by 911 dispatchers, a troubling suicide spike, and the depth of the gunman's psychological problems.
Tags: Von Maur murders; teen suicide; massacre; gunman; suicide rate; mental health problems; psychiatric records; treatment centers; shooter
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Academics and Athletics At Michigan
A psychology professor at the University of Michigan taught at least 294 independent study courses during a three-year period, 85 percent of his time was spent with athletes. Those athletes coming close to losing academic eligibility were sent to study with John Hagen.
Tags: GPA; grade point average; curriculum; transcripts; NCAA; professors; degree; studies;
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Talking Hands
Talking Hands introduces a little-known branch of cognitive science: the linguistic, psychological and neurological study of sign language. "In recent years, research in these areas has been vital in shedding new light on the ways in which all language works in the human mind." In the book, a group of linguists study and analyze the "signing village" of Al-Sayyid, a remote Bedouin community in Israel that, because of isolation and intermarriage, has a rate of deafness 40 times that of the general population.
Tags: science; language; hands; sign language; deaf; cognitive; learning; speaking; linguists; signing village of Al-Sayyid;
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The Concussion Crisis
An examination of "the growing problem of concussions in football, among high school through professional players, from a medical and psychological standpoint."
Tags: football; injuries; head; concussions; safety equipment; helmets; treatment; medical; public health
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The Other Walter Reed
"Wounded veterans of the war in Iraq were housed in substandard quarters at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and faced neglect and bureaucracy as they sought medical care." Priest and Hull penetrated the secretive world of the Army's premier medical facility, Walter Reed Hospital, to document in chilling detail the callous mistreatment and neglect of America's war-wounded. Their expose — fueled by immersion reporting and fine narrative storytelling — fired a shot heard around the world and led to decisive action at the Pentagon.
Tags: veteran; military; Walter Reed; wounded; outpatient; medical facility; medicine; health; psychological; Public Service Pulitzer winner
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A Hidden Shame: Danger and Death in Georgia's Mental Hospitals
This series exposed problems in Georgia's state psychiatric hospitals. At least 155 patients died under suspicious circumstances related to neglect, abuse and poor medical treatment. Furthermore, patients are often discharged to places where their continued treatment is doubtful, such as homeless shelters, bus stations and street corners.
Tags: hospitals; health; psychology; state government; mental illness
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Letters from an Arsonist
"This story chronicled the rampage of Thomas Sweatt, a serial arsonist who was arrested in April 2005 and later admitted to setting a string of fires that terrorized the Washington area for years...Jamieson not only nailed down a startling psychological profile of the man, but also uncovered the extent of Sweatt's destruction -- he had set hundreds of fires stretching over more than two decades."
Tags: crime; arson; murder; letters; psychological profile; plea bargain; fire