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Released: 28-Mar-2014 8:40 AM EDT
Brain Scans Link Concern for Justice with Reason, Not Emotion
University of Chicago

People who care about justice are swayed more by reason than emotion, according to new brain scan research from the University of Chicago Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience.

Released: 24-Mar-2014 10:00 AM EDT
Vietnam Takes Steps to Minimize Transnational Wildlife Crime
Wildlife Conservation Society

The Vietnam CITES Management Authority of the Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development today hosted a meeting marking the nation’s first step toward minimizing transnational wildlife crime affecting this nation.

Released: 13-Mar-2014 4:00 PM EDT
Negative Effects of Joining a Gang Last Long After Gang Membership Ends
University of Washington

Joining a gang in adolescence has significant consequences in adulthood beyond criminal behavior, even after a person leaves the gang. Former gang members are more likely to be in poor health, receiving government assistance and struggling with drug abuse than someone who never joined a gang.

Released: 4-Mar-2014 2:00 PM EST
Research Connects Drug War Violence in Mexico with Desensitization in Social Media
Georgia Institute of Technology

Amid times of crisis, citizens often turn to social media as a method to share information, make observations and vent. But as a Georgia Tech professor’s research into social media use amid the Mexican drug war shows, posts can reveal growing numbness, or desensitization, during times of protracted violence and stress.

Released: 27-Feb-2014 2:15 PM EST
Is the Modern American Death Penalty a Fatal Lottery?
Dick Jones Communications

New research finds only 3-6% of death-eligible defendants in Texas are actually sentenced to death.

Released: 25-Feb-2014 8:00 AM EST
Fewer Incidents of Far-Right, Lone-Wolf Homicide Since Sept. 11, Study Shows
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Fatal incidents of far-right “lone-wolf” terrorism have been fewer in the past 10 years, according a new study by a terrorism researcher at the University of Arkansas.

Released: 18-Feb-2014 11:30 AM EST
Professor’s Book Details History of Cyber Crime and Provides Case Studies
Appalachian State University

Book provides a history of cyber crime and case studies related to individuals’ use of technology to commit a crime.

Released: 13-Feb-2014 8:00 AM EST
Could Obstacles to Lethal Injection Lead to an End to the Death Penalty?​​
Washington University in St. Louis

Access to required anesthetic agents for a lethal injection is quickly disappearing, leaving the future of the death penalty in the United States in question. “Because the European Union opposes the death penalty, it prohibits the export of goods for executions [and] requires a time-consuming preauthorization review for every shipment of a potential ‘dual use’ pharmaceutical,” says Rebecca Dresser, JD, biomedical ethics expert and professor of law and medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. “Capital cases are expensive, and state budgets are tight. High costs and concern about erroneous convictions have led a few states to abolish the death penalty in recent years. Barriers to obtaining lethal injection drugs could lead more states to do away with the death penalty altogether.”

Released: 11-Feb-2014 12:00 PM EST
Child Abuse Rises with Income Inequality, Study Shows
Cornell University

As the Great Recession deepened and income inequality became more pronounced, county-by-county rates of child maltreatment – from sexual, physical and emotional abuse to traumatic brain injuries and death – worsened, according to a nationwide study by Cornell University.

Released: 10-Feb-2014 8:00 AM EST
Uganda Develops Database For Wildlife Crime Offenders
Wildlife Conservation Society

WCS and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) announced today an online tool that will allow law enforcement officials to access a database that tracks offenders of wildlife crime in real-time and across the country.

Released: 7-Feb-2014 1:00 PM EST
Study Shows Drop in Crime Rates Are Less Where Wal-Mart Builds
University of South Carolina

Communities across the United States experienced an unprecedented decline in crime in the 1990s. But for counties where Wal-Mart built stores, the decline wasn’t nearly as dramatic. The study, titled “Rolling back prices and raising crime rates? The Wal-Mart effect on crime in the United States,” released last month in the British Journal of Criminology, was written by Scott Wolfe, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Carolina.

Released: 16-Jan-2014 2:10 PM EST
Urban Night Shift Police More Likely to Suffer Long-Term Job Injuries
University at Buffalo

Police officers working the night shift are significantly more likely to suffer long-term on-the-job injuries than officers on day and afternoon shifts, according to new research conducted at the University at Buffalo.

Released: 14-Jan-2014 9:00 AM EST
Predicting Crime with Big Data, Affordably
Rutgers University's Office for Research

Rutgers School of Criminal Justice app maps high-risk locations

Released: 7-Jan-2014 11:00 AM EST
Tiger Middlemen Arrested In Aceh, Indonesia
Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society congratulates the Aceh Police for smashing a major network of wildlife traffickers.

Released: 6-Jan-2014 8:00 AM EST
Half of Black Males, 40 Percent of White Males Arrested by Age 23
University of South Carolina

Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities. A new study released Monday (Jan. 6) in the journal Crime & Delinquency provides the first contemporary findings on how the risk of arrest varies across race and gender.

Released: 18-Dec-2013 10:00 AM EST
Major Poaching Arrest in China
Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) congratulates authorities in China’s Jilin Province for the recent arrests of five poachers – the largest ever for the province.

Released: 11-Dec-2013 8:45 AM EST
Incarceration Has No Effect on Nonresident Fathers’ Parenting
American Sociological Association (ASA)

A prison sentence may not always have negative consequences for children of the incarcerated, says University of California, Irvine sociologist Kristin Turney. In a new study, she finds that when an uninvolved dad spends time behind bars, there are no negative effects on his parenting.

5-Dec-2013 2:10 PM EST
Communities Across U.S. Reduce Teen Smoking, Drinking, Violence and Crime
University of Washington

Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care prevention system during the teens' middle school years. A University of Washington study found that the positive influence of this community-led system was sustained through high school.

Released: 22-Nov-2013 10:00 AM EST
College Students More Likely to Be Lawbreakers if Spanked as Children, New UNH Research Finds
University of New Hampshire

No matter where they live in the world, university students who were spanked as children are more likely to engage in criminal behavior, according to new research by Murray Straus, co-director of University of New Hampshire Family Research Lab. Even young adults whose parents were generally loving and helpful as they were growing up showed higher rates of criminal behavior.

Released: 12-Nov-2013 11:00 AM EST
Iowa State Professor Testifies to the Societal Costs of Cutting Costs in Federal Prison System
Iowa State University

Matt DeLisi says it would be a mistake to change federal sentencing guidelines to reduce prison overcrowding. The Iowa State University professor told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that cutting prison sentences would increase the crime rate.

Released: 4-Nov-2013 5:00 AM EST
Computer Model Anticipates Crime Hot Spots
University of California, Riverside

A unique collaboration between a University of California, Riverside sociologist and the Indio Police Department has produced a computer model that predicts, by census block group, where burglaries are likely to occur.

Released: 30-Oct-2013 9:00 AM EDT
Re-examination of JFK Assassination Medical Data Reviews Single Shooter Versus Conspiracy Theories
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the medical and scientific evidence may support the possibility of the "single shooter, three bullet theory" of the event. Yet new insights into the old medical data simultaneously suggest there may have been multiple shooters, according to a special article by Dr. Rod J. Rohrich, Editor-in-Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

Released: 30-Oct-2013 8:00 AM EDT
Wanted on Warrants Reveals Stories Behind Fugitive Safe Surrender Program
Case Western Reserve University

"Wanted on Warrants" by Daniel J. Flannery from Case Western Reserve University provides a history of the Fugitive Safe Surrender program that gave people with outstanding warrants a chance to surrender and build a new life.

24-Oct-2013 12:00 PM EDT
New Forensic Technique for Identifying Cloth Fibers
AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing

Analysis of chemical signatures on common fibers may help solve crimes; work to be presented at the AVS Meeting in Long Beach, Calif.

Released: 11-Sep-2013 9:00 AM EDT
Researchers Examine How Stress May Lead to False Confessions
Iowa State University

Imagine if you were wrongly accused of a crime. Would you be stressed? Iowa State University researchers found the innocent are often less stressed than the guilty. And that could put them at greater risk to admit to a crime they didn’t commit.

Released: 8-Aug-2013 4:00 PM EDT
Faith-Based Re-Entry Program for Prisoners Saves Money, Reduces Recidivism
Baylor University

A faith-based prisoner re-entry program in Minnesota has saved an estimated $3 million by reducing recidivism, according to a Baylor University study published in the International Journal of Criminology and Sociology.

Released: 6-Aug-2013 9:55 AM EDT
Online Predators Not Distinctively Dangerous Sex Offenders
University of New Hampshire

A new University of New Hampshire study challenges the view that online predators are a distinctly dangerous variety of sex offender, requiring special programs to protect youth.

30-Jul-2013 10:35 AM EDT
Threat of Arrest and Punishment May Not Deter Illegal Immigration
American Sociological Association (ASA)

Neither the threat of arrest nor punishment may significantly deter Mexicans from trying to enter the United States illegally, according to a new study.

Released: 30-Jul-2013 10:00 AM EDT
Lessons from Combat Care Helped Save Lives and Limbs after Boston Bombing, ReportsThe Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Collaboration across surgical specialties and lessons from combat casualty care—especially the use of tourniquets and other effective strategies to control bleeding—helped mount an effective surgical response to aid victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, according to a special editorial in the July issue of The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, which is led by Editor-in-Chief Mutaz B. Habal, MD, and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.



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