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Released: 26-Mar-2018 1:05 PM EDT
University of Utah Researchers Identify Link Between Chicago Homicide Spike and Decline in Stop-and-Frisk Policing
University of Utah

In a research paper to be presented April 4 at the University of Illinois College of Law and posted today on the Social Science Research Network, S.J. Quinney College of Law presidential professor Paul Cassell, and University of Utah economics professor Richard Fowles, used an econometric analysis to conclude that the 2016 spike in homicides in Chicago was caused by a reduction in the practice of stop-and-frisks by law enforcement in the wake of a settlement agreement obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) designed to limit stop-and-frisks.

Released: 26-Mar-2018 8:00 AM EDT
NYU’s Prison Education Program Receives $1 Million Grant from Mellon Foundation
New York University

NYU has received a $1 million, three-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its Prison Education Program, an initiative that brings a college education to incarcerated individuals at New York’s Wallkill Correctional Facility.

Released: 16-Mar-2018 12:05 PM EDT
URI Police Train Community to Respond to Active Shooter
University of Rhode Island

The "civilian" training sessions had been in the works long before the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in February. University police already provide active shooter training for a number of municipal police departments and other universities.

Released: 14-Mar-2018 9:10 AM EDT
New Research Shows What We Know (and Don't) About Serial Rapists
Case Western Reserve University

New research from Case Western Reserve University has experts re-thinking what was previously believed about the patterns of serial rapists—that they don’t stick with the same modus operandi.

Released: 8-Mar-2018 11:05 AM EST
IU Kelley School of Business and AnnieCannons Team Up to Help Victims of Human Trafficking
Indiana University

Among the first students in a new program about cybersecurity at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business are several women who have escaped a life of human trafficking through AnnieCannons, a nongovernmental organization that helps them learn how to support themselves through coding.

Released: 7-Mar-2018 11:05 AM EST
Proposition 47 Not Responsible for Recent Upticks in Crime Across California, UCI Study Says
University of California, Irvine

The implementation of Proposition 47 – which reduced the prison population by charging certain drug and property offenses as misdemeanors rather than felonies – is not responsible for the recent upticks in crime throughout California, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Irvine. This is the first systematic analysis to be conducted of the measure’s statewide impact since its 2014 implementation.

Released: 6-Mar-2018 1:05 PM EST
DHS S&T and HSI Collaborate on Technologies to Save Children from Abuse and Exploitation
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

S&T and HSI C3 are designing, developing, testing, and integrating new face recognition algorithms that will allow agents to sift through massive amounts of digital data much faster and efficiently than current manual processes.

   
Released: 28-Feb-2018 12:05 PM EST
Understanding Anxiety in the Flood of Mass Shooting, Gun Control News
Clemson University

The stress on survivors and the families of victims of mass shootings is obvious to anyone who listens to the many firsthand accounts that come to light in the days that follow these incidents.

Released: 23-Feb-2018 4:50 PM EST
Successful Anti-Poaching Operation Leads to 5-Year Conviction for Three Poachers in Republic of Congo
Wildlife Conservation Society

Three poachers responsible for slaughtering eleven elephants in and around Nouabale-Ndoki National Park in January were convicted to five years’ imprisonment by the local district court last week, according to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society). The poachers, who had ventured deep into the remote Ndoki forest and spent three weeks killing elephants for their ivory, walked into an ambush setup by park rangers as they exited the forest on February 2nd. Three of the six poachers were apprehended.

Released: 23-Feb-2018 10:05 AM EST
Study: Police Use of Force is Rare, as are Significant Injuries to Suspects
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Police officers rarely use force in apprehending suspects, and when they do they seldom cause significant injuries to those arrested, according to a multi-site study published in the March issue of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

16-Feb-2018 1:05 PM EST
AJPH April Issue: gun storage, LARCs and abortion, flu vaccine disparities, air pollution disparities, Brazil birthrate after Zika
American Public Health Association (APHA)

In this issue, find research on gun storage, LARCs and abortion, flu vaccine disparities, air pollution disparities, Brazil birthrate after Zika and more

Released: 22-Feb-2018 2:50 AM EST
New Training Fights Inmate Substance Use Disorders
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers trains correction officers to better understand substance use disorder as a treatable disease

Released: 20-Feb-2018 9:00 AM EST
Assassination of Political Leaders Connected to Increase in Social Conflict
Binghamton University, State University of New York

An increase in social conflict increases the likelihood of assassinations of political leaders, according to new research co-conducted by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York.



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