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To: E who wrote (17978)	7/21/2002 3:22:06 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Fantastic article (fantastically depressing as well). This in particular: There's virtually no research on the inadequacies of the criminal justice system because there is no financial support for such research, according to Professor Lawrence Sherman, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Most of the money for this kind of research comes for an agency called the National Institute of Justice modeled after the National Institutes of Health. But the NIJ has less than one percent of the budget of the NIH, and the government spends more on meat and poultry research than on justice. Wells says this all comes about because the legal system doesn't understand science and mistrusts it. In fact, the article cites a case where a prosecutor went to court to stop research. In Broward County, Florida, researchers started a study to see whether counseling for convicted wife-beaters reduced violence. Prosecutors actually went to court to stop the study. But before the study was shut down, the researchers found that counseling actually increased violence (because it made the wives more prone to again see the husband who had been beating them).