Category: abuse
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Thoughts on Kourtney Aumen’s Trial Process
OK, so, this one was REALLY long…I’m sorry, but I never promised brevity here. On December 19 or 20, 2020, 4-year old Jessica Mast was murdered by being beaten, dunked in a lake in near-freezing temperatures, and then left outside for an unknown period of time. (Although her date of death is typically listed as…
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Thoughts On The Cases I’m Covering in Forensic Psychology
This blog post deals with several criminal court cases occurring over the last year. They involve murder, rape, and child abuse. So, I am teaching a class in forensic psychology this semester, and I’ve told my students they must have put something out in the ether when they signed up for this class, because it…
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Thoughts on Silence
When those in power remain silent about abuse and those who commit and enable it, they become part of that abuse.
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Thoughts on Hierarchies of Abuse
CW: abuse, interpersonal violence (IPV) I started this blog because I occasionally had a tendency to write novel-length Twitter threads in response to some ill-advised tweet from someone. It seemed better to create a blog instead of expect people to read a 20-tweet-long thread. That hasn’t happened in the time since I started this blog,…
