March 17, 2018
A federal court has blocked nearly all of the Los Angeles Police Department's gang injunctions because of concerns that they have violated due process rights. George Tita, professor of criminology, law and society, told KPCC that the LAPD's gang injunctions worked when cops were stopping drug deals on the streets or drive-by shootings.
March 14, 2018
Gang borders are often invisible to passerby, but for residents of a particular neighborhood, knowing where the lines are can make the difference between life or death, according to George Tita, a professor of criminology, law and society and urban planning and public policy. Tita was recently interviewed by KCRW.
February 21, 2018
The water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa offer three main lessons for water planners, writes David Feldman, professor of planning, policy and design: governments must plan ahead of time, solutions cost money and public trust is crucial.
February 15, 2018
February 1, 2018
Saying that illegal immigrants have caused the loss of "many" innocent lives, as President Trump has done, doesn't really say much, according to Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology, law and society.
January 25, 2018
Just because local police in Milwaukee, Wis. identified several criminal suspects with the help of a youtube rap video they appeared in, doesn't mean anything else in the video should be used as evidence in their prosecution, Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology, law and society, told CBS 58, a local news station in Milwaukee.
December 16, 2017
Hip hop artist Russell Simmons has been accused by 12 women of sexual misconduct. He says the claims are "an insane pile on."
Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology, law and society, spoke with KCRW about the story.
December 16, 2017
California's sanctuary cities bill, which limits cooperation between federal immigration authorities and local police, is good for communities, writes Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology, law and society.
"Greater policing of immigrants by local law enforcement, it turns out, has not enhanced public safety and has resulted in significant human costs," Kubrin writes in The Hill.
December 14, 2017
When a Mercedes-Benz official suggested last year that it would be better for a driverless car to save its driver even if that meant sacrificing multiple other people, the ensuing media coverage and public indignation quickly prompted the company to do damage control.
The episode highlighted some of the difficulties of gauging how the public will react to and accept driverless cars, Azim Shariff, assistant professor of psychology and social behavior, told Science Magazine.
December 12, 2017
Parents, research has found, encourage less diversity of emotions in boys than they do in girls, a trend that has far-reaching consequences into adulthood, writes Jessica Borelli, associate professor of psychology and social behavior, in an article for Scientific American.
"Boys grow up in a world inhabited by a narrower range of emotions, one in which their experiences of anger are noticed, inferred, and potentially even cultivated. This leaves other emotions — particularly the more vulnerable emotions — sorely ignored or missing in their growing minds," Borellli writes.