In the Media
Orange County’s ‘Young Adult Court’ celebrates its first graduate
Elizabeth Cauffman, professor of psychological science, talks about the Orange County Young Adult Court and its first graduation in the Orange County Register. An excerpt:
UCI’s Elizabeth Cauffman, professor of psychological science, helped launch the program in 2018 after receiving a $780,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice. Now she hopes to keep it going with another cash infusion.
Here's how to stop the virus from winning
“When there's an absence of consistent messaging from authorities, many rumors and conspiracy theories can fill the void, and that makes it very difficult for people to figure out what it is that they should do,” says Roxane Cohen Silver, a UC Irvine professor of psychological science in National Geographic.
Do officers belong in schools? Districts cut ties, debate best path to safety.
“I don’t know that the marginal costs of [school] policing have changed,” Emily Owens, professor of criminology, law and society, who studies school police programs, tells The Christian Science Monitor. What’s changed, she says, is that “the marginal costs [are now seen as] so much higher than the perceived marginal benefits that people are finally demanding government leaders do something.”
Commentary: UCI professor asks whether our political polarity could lead to the kind of discord seen abroad
Scott A. Bollens, professor of urban planning and public policy, wrote an op-ed about political conflict in the Daily Pilot. An excerpt:
For nearly 30 years, I have studied the dynamics of political conflict, fragmentation and division in Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, and former Yugoslavia.