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Video Links:

• 6.3 Juvenile Life Sentences
  Description: The United States is one of the very few countries in the world that allows children under 18 to be prosecuted as adults and sentenced to life without parole. Producer Ofra Bikel visits five young men in Colorado sentenced to life without parole to examine their crimes and punishment, the laws that sanctioned their convictions, and the prospect of never being free again.
   
• 6.4 Types of Crime: Rape
  Description: Following up on the award-winning collaboration that produced Rape in the Fields/Violación de un Sueño in 2013, FRONTLINE (PBS), Univision, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), the Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) at UC Berkeley, and KQED are teaming up to uncover the sexual abuse of immigrant women who clean the malls where you shop, the banks where you do business, and the offices where you work.

​Audio Links:

• 6.1 Crime Scenes
  Description: Every crime scene hides a story. This podcast examines how we hear about crime scenes and the stories they tell.
   
• 6.2 Types of Crime: Fraud
  Description: Stories about people who take the law into their own hands, even when the line between enforcing the rules and breaking them gets kind of hazy.
   
• 6.3 Confessions of a Convict
  Description: Two crime scenes, two murders. One crime is solved, the other case went cold. Both raise the question: What should a person suspected of murder say?

Web Resources:

• 6.1 Same-Sex Marriage
  Description: The Supreme Court overturned The Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and as a result for  the first time, same-sex marriage is legal for the majority of the U.S. population.
   
• 6.2 Types of Crimes: Murders
  Description: In this article from Contexts Magazine Michael Light and Jeffrey Ulmer analyze homicide deaths between 1989 and 2010 to examine the determinants of criminal violence trends among Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics.
   
• 6.3 Drug Legalization
  Description: Dr. Yifrah Kaminer is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at UConn Health who focuses on adolescent high-risk behaviors. He is a prolific author and renowned researcher on youth substance use disorders, and is frequently asked to speak on the topic to school and community groups. UConn Today asked Kaminer about the impact of marijuana on adolescents, and his views on legalization.
   
• 6.4 Sex Crimes
  Description: This article, from Pacific Standard Magazine, takes a look at the recidivism rate among those who commit sex crimes and what reasons account for this rate.