On average, three people per year are "attacked" (that means bitten or scratched) by coyotes across Canada. In comparison, an average of 180 Canadians per year are reportedly struck by lightening. Critically, 100 percent ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2022
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A sociologist who has spent the past seven years researching how people with criminal convictions, including prison sentences, have worked with an employment and training charity says important lessons can be learned to improve ...
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2021
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The languages of the world are all unique, but also share important similarities. These mostly lie in the grammatical elements each of the approximately 7000 human languages contain, the word parts and rules that speakers ...
Other
Sep 13, 2021
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Sentenced or not, a politician prosecuted for statements made does not risk electoral loss due to a criminal case. However, the trust in politics drops, reveals international Vidi research from Professor of Political Science ...
Political science
Sep 10, 2020
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Although U.S. crime rates have dropped significantly since the mid-1990s, rates of incarceration peaked in 2008, and still remain high. The standard explanation for this pattern is that all people exposed to the criminal ...
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2020
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Greater use of non-custodial sentences could aid in reducing the rate of re-offending, new UCD research has found.
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2020
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New research by social scientists at Birmingham City University offers insights into the challenges that incarcerated individuals face as they try to rebuild their lives on the outside—with 81 percent stating they received ...
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2020
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Addicted offenders are more likely to receive harsher criminal sentences than those with similar brain conditions, even when those conditions result from the use of drugs, according to a team led by University of Sussex psychologists.
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2020
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America's prison populations are disproportionately filled with people of color, but prosecutors' biases toward defendants' race and class may not be the primary cause for those disparities, new research from the University ...
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2020
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Researchers have found people on the brink of release from a prison sentence have lost any sense of being connected to the outside world and, as a result, become prejudiced towards wider society.
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2020
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