Scams Series
New Film Features Victims of a Book to Film Scam Telling Their Stories
Once they had dreams of Hollywood fame. They believed they had a once-in-a-lifetime dream of having a big studio produce their film. They imagined red carpet introductions and film audiences worldwide seeing a dramatic film made from their book. Then, their fantasy...
Videos
I Was Scammed Series Released
If you, like the rest of America, watched The Tinder Swindler, then you have probably come to the same terrifying reaction: is this how easy it is to be scammed? Gini Graham Scott, America’s scam expert, was watching too, but she wasn’t surprised because she knows all about common scams just like Simon Leviev’s.
Media & Press Releases
Life Is Like a Card Game: How to Become a Better Player
Since I began creating card games about everyday life experiences, such as scams in Scamalot, and life in prison in Life Behind Bars and Love in Prison for ALB Games, I began thinking about how life is like a card game. We are dealt different hands to begin with, but...
Immigration Reform
The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant?
Liberals are trying to do virtually anything to show that immigrants do not increase crime, and that cities are really safer when immigrants move there. They even trotted out a new study from the Marshall Project, to prove this contention. The study was featured on an...
The Opioid Crisis
My Own Suggestions For Dealing With the Opioid Crisis
Some recommendations of how to overcome the current problems with opioids and other drugs. Some of these suggestions include creating a drug sales court, setting up separate wings in the prisons for drug traffickers, and publicizing the names of individuals sentenced under drug laws.
The Citizen-Police Divide
When Films Glorify Criminals and What to Do About It
Unfortunately, there has been a spate of recent films and TV series which glorify criminals and put cops, prison officials, and other law enforcement professionals as either background characters, or worse, corrupt and otherwise unsympathetic characters.
Author Paul Brakke is a scientist based in Central Arkansas. He became interested in studying the criminal justice system when his life was turned upside down after his wife was falsely accused of aggravated assault