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  Nowhere to Hide: Tigers Threatened by Human Destruction of Groundcover

  February 28, 2012 — A new study is the first of its kind to systematically investigate the use of different land cover types for tiger ... > full story
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  Underage Drinking Laws Reduce Future Criminal Behavior

  February 23, 2012 — Do strict underage drinking laws really have a positive impact on society? A recent study finds that strictly enforcing possession of alcohol under the legal age or PULA (also known as PAULA) laws on ... > full story
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  Illegal Orangutan Trader Prosecuted

  February 23, 2012 — Sumatra has made its first ever successful sentence of an illegal orangutan owner and trader in Medan, North Sumatra, ... > full story
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  Conservation Risk Highest Off Coasts of Canada, Mexico, Peru and New Zealand

  February 20, 2012 — Researchers have identified conservation "hot spots" around the world where the temptation to profit from overfishing outweighs the appetite for ... > full story
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  Potential for Incorrect Relationship Identification in New Forensic Familial Searching Techniques

  February 9, 2012 — New research suggests that unrelated individuals may be mistakenly identified as genetic family members due to inaccurate genetic assumptions. This is particularly relevant when considering familial ... > full story
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  Barriers to the Use of Fingerprint Evidence in Court Is Unlocked by Statistical Model

  February 9, 2012 — Fingerprints that are potential key pieces of evidence in court currently are not being considered due to shortcomings in the way this evidence is reported. Now, a statistical model has been ... > full story
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  Genes Influence Criminal Behavior, Research Suggests

  January 25, 2012 — Your genes could be a strong predictor of whether you stray into a life of crime, according to a new research paper. The study focused on whether genes are likely to cause a person to become a ... > full story
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  More on Legal Remedies for Ghostwriting

  January 24, 2012 — In an essay that expands on a previous proposal to use the courts to prosecute those involved in ghostwriting on the basis of it being legal fraud, Xavier Bosch from the University of Barcelona, ... > full story
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  Monogamy Reduces Major Social Problems of Polygamist Cultures

  January 24, 2012 — In cultures that permit men to take multiple wives, the intra-sexual competition that occurs causes greater levels of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality than in societies that ... > full story
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  Unilateral Divorce Laws Caused Temporary Spike in Violent Crime

  January 23, 2012 — US states that enacted unilateral divorce laws saw substantial increases in violent crime in the years following the reform, according to new research. But the ill-effects of the new laws appear to ... > full story

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