Why a Drunk Brain Thinks it Can Drive

Why a Drunk Brain Thinks it Can Drive

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 792 , Segment 4

Episode: The Injustice of Bail, Drunk Driving Brain, Your Ticket to the Sun

  • Apr 17, 2018 11:00 pm
  • 9:50 mins

Guest: Ksenija Marinkovic, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology, and the Director of the Spatio-Temporal Brain Imaging Laboratory at San Diego State University Crashes caused by drunk driving kill more than 10,000 people a year in the United States. Why do so many people who’ve been drinking still get behind the wheel and think they’re fine to drive? Neuroscientists at San Diego State University may have found the answer.

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Bail is Not Just

21 MINS

Guest: Shima Baradaran Baughman, JD, Professor of Law at the University of Utah, Author of “The Bail Book: A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America’s Criminal Justice System” Nearly two-thirds of the people sitting in jail around the country right now have not been convicted of a crime. So why are they behind bars? Mostly because they either couldn’t come up with the money to make bail or a judge deemed them too risky to go free while they wait for trial. "And so what?" you may be thinking. These people obviously did something to get themselves arrested. But what about “innocent until proven guilty”? As legal scholar Shima Baradaran Baughman sees it, America’s bail system is racist, unfair to people who are poor, unnecessarily expensive to tax payers and maybe even unconstitutional.

Guest: Shima Baradaran Baughman, JD, Professor of Law at the University of Utah, Author of “The Bail Book: A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America’s Criminal Justice System” Nearly two-thirds of the people sitting in jail around the country right now have not been convicted of a crime. So why are they behind bars? Mostly because they either couldn’t come up with the money to make bail or a judge deemed them too risky to go free while they wait for trial. "And so what?" you may be thinking. These people obviously did something to get themselves arrested. But what about “innocent until proven guilty”? As legal scholar Shima Baradaran Baughman sees it, America’s bail system is racist, unfair to people who are poor, unnecessarily expensive to tax payers and maybe even unconstitutional.