Retail salesperson: Indecent Exposure, Possession of Counterfeit Goods
I consider myself a pretty open person, but when I heard about this project, I thought, how dare they say that? I purposefully don’t do anything wrong.
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Student: Sale and Possession of Controlled Substances
I’m not really in the demographic associated with dealers, and my customers were people I wouldn’t have interacted with normally: footballers and frat bros.
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Research scientist: Theft
I don’t really think of them as crimes, though.
I mean, really. Do people get convicted for stuff like this?
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Program developer: Theft, Indecent Exposure, Minor Consumption, False Identification, Possession of Marijuana
I’m having trouble remembering things that I did that were illegal, I just don’t think about it.
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Student: Aggravated Robbery
I just wish I had made a different decision.
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Federal officer: Aiding and Abetting Sale of Controlled Substances
Ironically – eighty percent of my caseload was drug dealers.
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Engineer: Open Bottle, Petty Theft
They were just too tempting
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Business owner: Sale of Controlled Substances
Very few of us have walked the perfect path. We all make errors in life. Hopefully, as we get older we make less
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Lifetime likelihood of imprisonment in the US
The lifetime likelihood of imprisonment for black men in America is one in three. For white women, it’s one in 111. These profound disparities cannot be explained by rates of offending.
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Youth Counselor: Criminal Damage to Property; Vandalism; Indecent Exposure; Sale and Possession of Controlled Substances
It wasn’t just the color of my skin – it was the neighborhood too.
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Attorney: Underage Drinking; Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor; Possession and Conspiracy to Sell Controlled Substances; Assault; Driving While Intoxicated; Child Endangerment
I still mind-trip over that: it’s just pure luck that I wasn’t stopped the night I’d been drinking.
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