#prag's studies

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Someone pick at this for me, I can't decide if it makes sense to me or not.

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Rereading Goffman's STIGMA and the first paragraph kicked me in the teeth.

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Send me an ask and I'll send you a quote from an academic work on or relevant to HANNIBAL/Thomas Harris' Novels

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The slasher film, not despite but exactly because of its crudity and compulsive repetitiveness, gives us a clearer picture of current sexual attitudes, at least among the segment of the population that forms its erstwhile audience, than do the legitimate products of the better studios

Carol J Clover, “Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film.”

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“Courts have repeatedly held that evidence relating to both future dangerousness and impaired volitional control is highly relevant to sentencing decisions. Because of this, commentators have pointed out that evidence of a biomechanism associated with antisocial behaviors such as psychopathy may present a double-edged sword. And, indeed, some judges have considered such evidence mitigating (i.e., decreasing sentence), whereas other judges have considered the evidence aggravating (i.e., increasing sentence). Both sides of the double-edged sword rely in part on hard biological determinism, or the idea that once we know something about an individual's genes or brain, we can predict or explain his or her behavior. Thus, under a retributive or “just desserts” theory of punishment, evidence of a biomechanism may reduce judgments of culpability because it identifies an internal and stable cause of behavior believed to be outside the individual's control. At the same time, under a utilitarian theory that seeks to promote social welfare, the biomechanism may increase punishment, as the immutable characteristic suggests that he or she will likely reoffend. Such determinist perceptions of immutability may be especially pronounced for biomechanisms involving DNA-based evidence.” - The Double-Edged Sword: Does Biomechanism Increase or Decrease Judges' Sentencing of Psychopaths? by Lisa G. Aspinwall, Teneille R. Brown and James Tabery.

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Anyway, America has never been great.

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