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All laws tell stories, says Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon—stories about who we are, where we came from, where we are going, and what we value. Can Americans learn something from the abortion and divorce laws of other countries? Glendon says we have a lot to learn, and that it may surprise us. Glendon, whose field is comparative law, found her own assumptions challenged when she started the research for her prize-winning book, Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, which contrasts the legal practices of Europe and America as they bear on the difficult choices of these controversial issues. In this program with Bill Moyers, Glendon talks about family issues on both sides of the Atlantic. (30 minutes)



 
    

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Forensic Science: A Shred of Evidence
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This fascinating documentary offers a behind-the-scenes look at the secret and secretive world of forensic science. Visiting Scotland Yard's laboratories-reputedly the finest such laboratories in the world-the program shows how modern technology can...(more details)
 
Domestic Violence: Behind Closed Doors
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Every 12 seconds, a woman is beaten in the U.S.-beaten by her lover, her husband, her partner in life. Year after year, the cycle of violence spins faster, spiraling down through the generations, father to son and mother to daughter. Only when commun...(more details)
 
Street Gangs of Los Angeles

Youth gangs are nothing new; youth gangs that control whole sections of the city, their brutality fueled and financed by drugs, their indifference to life a metaphor for the ease with which they murder-this is what has made Los Angeles' gangs so frig...(more details)
 
Locking Up Women

Holloway was once the most feared women's prison in Britain, where a hard-line regime kept women, from con artists to drug pushers and murderers, locked up for 23 hours out of the day. Now it's gone so soft, say some officers, that the inmates want t...(more details)
 
Attorney General Janet Reno

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, straight talking and controversial, has become one of the "stars" of the Clinton cabinet. In this program with Bill Moyers, she discusses gun control, the death penalty, preventive programs for young children, prison...(more details)
 


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