Dr. Mozelle Martin
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Behavioral analyst and investigative writer examining how people, institutions, and narratives behave under pressure—and what remains when systems fail.
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475 Years for Dog Fighting
Dog fighting has never been a fringe issue. It has functioned for decades as an organized subculture built on pain, secrecy, and profit. The 2023 sentencing of Vincent Lemark Burrell in Georgia forced that reality into daylight in a way courts rarely achieve. He received 475 years, a number that looks theatrical until the details are examined one by one.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin2 months ago in Criminal
The Christmas Card Study That Stunned Psychology
In the winter of 1974 a sociologist named Philip Kunz dropped hundreds of Christmas cards into the mail. He sent them to people he had never met. The names and addresses were pulled from directories. The cards looked personal. They included a photograph of his family, a handwritten signature, and all the small cues that signal genuine warmth. He waited to see what would happen.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin2 months ago in Humans
Why Highway Stops Feel Harsher
I have taught law-enforcement classes since 1987. In classrooms and ride-alongs, a pattern kept showing up in story after story. Drivers say highway patrol feels brusque, sheriffs’ deputies feel more human, and city police land somewhere in the middle. The truth isn’t personality. It is structure. Change the mission, the boss, and the metric, and you change the roadside script.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin3 months ago in Humans
The Month Everyone Gets Wrong About Suicide
The public conversation around suicide repeats a mistake every year. As soon as December hits, social media fills with somber graphics, dramatic pleas, and emotional declarations insisting that the holidays are the most dangerous time for suicidal behavior. The message is well-intended, but it is wrong. The data has been stable for decades.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin3 months ago in Psyche
The Scrutiny of Ordinary Women
There is a strange shift happening in public spaces that most professionals have avoided naming because everyone seems afraid to speak plainly. Regular women—the ones who do not treat cosmetics as daily armor or make their clothing choices a performance—are now being scanned as if they are something other than women. Many of them are being silently classified as trans or gay before a single word leaves their mouth. This judgment arrives in split-second glances, pacing, and the quiet hesitation of strangers trying to decide what category they think they are looking at.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin3 months ago in Humans
The Animals Who Watch Us Sleep:
Most people think it’s cute when their dog wanders into the bedroom at night and silently stares at them. Most people laugh when a cat sits inches from their face and watches them breathe. It feels quirky, maybe a little weird, and usually harmless.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin3 months ago in Petlife
Digital Hunting Grounds of Roblox and Discord:
Watching interviews on the Shawn Ryan Show reminded me to write this article as a follow-up to a previous one. You see, there is a moment in every digital-exploitation case where the denial dies. It usually happens when a predator stops pretending to be a decent human and speaks plainly. A Discord user once admitted, without hesitation, that he “has little children because it’s all fun,” then listed the things he tells them to do.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin3 months ago in Criminal
Animals Are Warning Us
Wildlife is not getting meaner. Animals are not “turning on us.” What is changing is something larger and far less comfortable for people to admit: the energetic field we share with them. For months now I’ve been hearing real accounts from the field and reading incident logs that all point in the same direction.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin3 months ago in Earth
The Man With the Walker:
I was walking into a retirement home for routine business when I saw a man who stopped every part of my attention. His back folded into a shape the spine never willingly chooses. Every step depended on the stability of a metal walker that had already lived long years of compensating for uneven ground and vulnerable joints. Two worn grocery bags hung from each of his hands on both sides of the frame. They pulled downward in a way that made the entire structure feel compromised before he even moved. He wasn’t taking them inside the building for himself. He was working.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin3 months ago in Humans
