But imagine a relatively sheltered 14-year-old, grabbed out of her room and subjected to extreme psychological coercion.
While we would expect this research to alter the standards for evaluating children's confessions, the law continues to set a high bar for the suppression of these confessions, requiring evidence of extreme duress, coercion, or physically or psychologically abusive interrogation techniques before throwing out statements that otherwise, conveniently wrap up a case.
Khelifa's study on the behavior, titled "Faking death to avoid male coercion" extreme sexual conflict resolution in a dragonfly," was published in the science journal Ecology this week.
But she expressed doubt that the claim of government misconduct would succeed, even on appeal, because nothing "short of extreme physical or psychological coercion" would be outrageous enough to warrant dismissing an indictment.
The concept of "regular rape", still involving violence but not of the most extreme kind, and "unlawful coercion", where for instance emotional pressure may have been applied, carry sentences of six and four years respectively.
(Psychologists generally understand "violent pornography" as depictions of rape, coercion or some extreme imbalance of power; the term doesn't specifically, or even necessarily, include B.D.S.M. porn).
That should help discourage future efforts to portray Miranda's sensible safeguards against coercion as an extreme and extraconstitutional "milestone of judicial overreaching," which is how Justice Antonin Scalia sought to depict them in a dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.
Judge Ruy Pinheiro said the decision to arrest Mr Dzodan had been "extreme" and called it "unlawful coercion".
A number of causes other than coercion can create extreme inducements to do harm to others; consider what some have done for fame, wealth, or love.
It can affect girls as young as 14, 15 and 16 years old and can involve emotional coercion, forced imprisonment, violence and in the extreme, murder.
Her aims are more urgent and extreme than those of the civil disobedient; she seeks rapid change through brutal strategies of coercion and intimidation, not through strategies of persuasion and moral appeal.
