There’s been a growing effort to enact meaningful and long-lasting police reform and Emily Owens tells VOA that’s no easy task

Respected psychologists and scientists Candice Odgers and stephen Schueller identify gaps and opportunities for supporting adolescents in today’s digitally-focused world

María Rendón's award-winning book, "Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of Second-Generation Latinos," is reveiwed in The American Interest.

“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.”

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. 

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Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology, law and society, is interviewed for NPR's “Hidden Brain” podcast. Kubrin speaks about the troubling rise in prosecutions that use rap lyrics to bolster claims that a defendant is violent. 

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Emily Owens, professor of criminology, law and society, offers her expertise in a New York Times article. An excerpt:

The reality is that most Americans don’t believe that crime declined at all. In surveys, they have repeatedly told pollsters that they think crime in America has gone up.

Surveys gauge remote learning experience during pandemic

“Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of Second Generation Latinos" garners best book honors from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association