Sep 26 2009
Comic Books in the Courtroom
Here’s an amusing excerpt from a Washington Post article…
“We are at a point where no one could have even imagined 15 years ago,” said Albert J. Lurigio, a professor of psychology and criminal justice at Loyola University who has written about electronic monitoring and privacy since a New Mexico judge, inspired by Spider-Man comics, became the first to sentence a defendant to home confinement with an electronic monitor.
Does this mean we’re on the verge of surgically implanting explosive nanites in dangerous parolees? In your face, recidivism!
