In the Media

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.

“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.

“Anxiety is contagious, but so is compassion,” says Roxane Cohen Silver, professor of psychological science 

Candice Odgers, professor of psychological, and Steven Schueller, associate professor of psychological science, are mentioned in this article by University Business for their report, "Social Media and Youth Wellbeing"

Comparing fingerprints lifted from crime scenes with prints in law enforcement databases has helped to exonerate wrongly convicted people. But only four states currently give defendants the right to have this done.

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

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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