Disbanding city police departments and shifting law enforcement responsibilities to county governments appears to have no effect on overall crime rates and leads to fewer police-related deaths, according to new Rice University ...
Social Sciences
Jun 1, 2022
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This week's tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, marked the 213th mass shooting and the 27th school shooting thus far this year. That's just seven fewer school shootings than in all of 2021 and more than in 2018, 2019 or 2020.
Social Sciences
May 27, 2022
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UK and international representatives from civil society and beyond are calling on the UK Government to better support refugees coming from Ukraine, in a report by UCL experts for the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner ...
Social Sciences
Apr 29, 2022
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An international team of researchers has evaluated the cost-effectiveness of orangutan conservation spending over the past 20 years and has found that some methods are better than others. In their paper published in the journal ...
The United States on Thursday returned a cache of smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya as the oil-rich Mediterranean country struggles to protect its heritage against the backdrop of years of war, turmoil and unrest.
Archaeology
Mar 31, 2022
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Camille Ingham, who recently graduated from Penn State Harrisburg with a master of arts in criminal justice, for her master's thesis partnered with the college's Center for Survey Research to assess how the publication of ...
Social Sciences
Mar 25, 2022
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Traffic stops, which happen approximately 50,000 times each day in the United States, are the most common interaction between law enforcement and the public, according to data from the Stanford Open Policing Project. These ...
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2022
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Gun sales have risen in recent years, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Feb. 28, 2022, SciLine interviewed Garen Wintemute—an emergency medicine physician at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center ...
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2022
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As more police agencies transition to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System for crime reporting, a study of one state's data found that a design flaw in NIBRS, the timings of arrests and human factors can lead ...
Social Sciences
Feb 18, 2022
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Surgical masks have been part of essential personal protection during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the inappropriate disposal of surgical masks can cause serious microplastic pollution, equivalent to seriously polluting ...
Environment
Feb 8, 2022
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