Jascha Hoffman

Israel from the Inside

“Sometimes life is too much, you have to tone it down to make art,” says the Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan. Her own work has evolved over the past fifteen years from rather strange and grotesque fables into some of the strongest graphic fiction on the planet... [full text]

Posted by Jascha on October 3, 2008 5:32 PM

Criminal Element

Has the Clean Air Act done more to fight crime than any other policy in American history? That is the claim of a new environmental theory of criminal behavior... [full text] [pdf]

Posted by Jascha on October 21, 2007 4:50 PM

Suspect Memories

Taking into account decades of scientific research, New Jersey is reforming its lineup procedures to reduce the number of false identifications. As our reporter discovered the hard way, however, it's never easy to pick a perpetrator out of a crowd...

Posted by Jascha on January 10, 2005 5:01 AM

The Virtual Sketch Artist

For years, crime witnesses have been asked to come down to the police station and describe crime suspects to sketch artists. Recently, though, psychologists have found that when witnesses try to describe a face, they often distort their memory of...

Posted by Jascha on December 11, 2004 1:04 AM

Picking Up the Pieces

WHEN RICHARD GOULD, an archaeologist at Brown University, took a walk in Lower Manhattan in October 2001, his trained eye fixed on a gravelly dust strewn on dumpsters and fire escapes that cleanup crews had missed. Looking closer, he saw that the coating contained bone fragments and other human remains mixed in with concrete dust and ash.

Posted by Jascha on April 18, 2004 4:32 AM

Insider Trading: A Good Thing?

ALREADY FACING UP to 20 years in prison following her conviction last Friday on four charges stemming from a 2001 sale of ImClone stock, Martha Stewart may still have to run another legal gauntlet as the Securities and Exchange...

Posted by Jascha on March 14, 2004 1:29 AM