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Race and Poverty Often Unjustifiably Tied to School Security Measures
August 20, 2011 — Elementary, middle, and high schools with large minority populations -- but not necessarily higher crime rates -- are far more likely than others to require students and visitors to pass through ... > full story -
Jailhouse Phone Calls Reveal Why Domestic Violence Victims Recant
August 15, 2011 — A new study uses -- for the first time -- recorded jailhouse telephone conversations between men charged with felony domestic violence and their victims to help reveal why some victims decide not to ... > full story -
Tracking Crime in Real Time
August 8, 2011 — Professors have developed a high-powered context-based search algorithm to analyze digital data on-the-fly to support ongoing criminal investigations. The research not only gives crime-fighters a new ... > full story -
Right to Remain Silent Not Understood by Many Suspects; Confusion About Constitutional Rights Can Lead to Self-Incrimination, Psychologist Reports
August 5, 2011 — Almost 1 million criminal cases may be compromised each year in the United States because suspects don't understand their constitutional rights, according to new ... > full story -
Widespread Mistaken Beliefs About Memory, U.S. National Survey Reveals
August 3, 2011 — A new survey reveals that many people in the US -- in some cases a substantial majority -- think that memory is more powerful, objective and reliable than it actually is. Their ideas are at odds with ... > full story -
Academics 'Guest Authoring' Ghostwritten Medical Journal Articles Should Be Charged With Fraud, Legal Experts Argue
August 2, 2011 — Two law professors argue that academics who "lend" their names, and receive substantial credit, as guest authors of medical and scientific articles ghostwritten by industry writers, should be charged ... > full story -
Pain Persists: Financial, Domestic Woes Worsen After Settlements for Back Injuries
August 1, 2011 — Researchers have found that financial and domestic problems escalate for those who settle claims for work-related back injuries, striking African-Americans, the poor and the young ... > full story -
Pioneering Fingermark Technology Uses Mass Spectrometry Imaging to Provide Crime Scene Investigators With Key Extra Details
July 29, 2011 — A pioneering technology to detect fingermarks at crime scenes, which provides additional information about a suspect, is a step closer to being incorporated into traditional forensic investigations ... > full story -
Organized Crime Is Wiping out Wildlife, Report Finds
July 27, 2011 — An immense and increasingly sophisticated illegal trade in wildlife parts conducted by organized crime, coupled with antiquated enforcement methods, are decimating the world's most beloved species ... > full story -
College-Educated Undocumented Young Adults Face Same Narrow Range of Jobs as Their Parents
July 26, 2011 — Parents who move to the United States without legal status generally seek better opportunities for their young children. But a new survey of life trajectories of undocumented young adults raised and ... > full story -
Test for Classifying Force Used in Bottle Stabbings: New Study Aids Understanding of Force Required for Creating Injury
July 20, 2011 — Engineers in the UK have for the first time created a way of measuring how much force is used during a stabbing using a broken bottle. The advance is expected to have significant implications for ... > full story -
Damaging Influence of Media on Public Perceptions of Chimpanzees
July 13, 2011 — How influential are mass media portrayals of chimpanzees in television, movies, advertisements and greeting cards on public perceptions of this endangered species? That is what researchers sought to ... > full story
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