Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Jake Ellison-U. Washington
A new conceptual model depicts the complex relationship between policing and population health.
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- Written by: Laurel Thomas, University of Michigan
Most participants in a recent study had no idea that their email addresses and other personal information had been compromised in an average of five data breaches each.
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- Written by: Victoria Yu, University of Texas at Austin
The best way to reduce crime in the future is probably what caused it to drop in the first place: helping our families, neighborhoods, and schools raise kids who are respectful of others and don't need to steal to get by
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- Written by: Galia Cohen, Tarleton State University
Police academies provide little training in the kinds of skills necessary to meet officers’ growing public service role, according to my research.
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- Written by: Bill Kovarik
In 1915, Gabrielle Darley killed a New Orleans man who had tricked her into a life of prostitution. She was tried, acquitted of murder and within a few years was living a new life under her married name, Melvin.
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- Written by: Paul Haskell-Dowland and Brianna O'Shea
Passwords have been used for thousands of years as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers.
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- Written by: Suranga Seneviratne
As survey results pile, it’s becoming clear Australians are sceptical about how their online data is tracked and used. But one question worth asking is: are our fears founded?
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- Written by: Jennifer Earl et al
Calls to reform, defund or even outright abolish police in the U.S. are coming from many corners of American society.
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- Written by: U. Chicago
Police use-of-force policies in the nation’s 20 largest cities fail to meet international human rights standards, according to a new report.
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- Written by: Morgan Marietta
In a 5-to-4 decision that came as a major blow to President Trump, the justices ruled that the administration could not proceed with plans to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
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- Written by: Anna L. Peterson
Two days after the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Mark Seitz, knelt with a dozen other priests in a silent prayer for George Floyd holding a “Black Lives Matter” sign, he received a phone call from Pope Francis.
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- Written by: Michelle Samuels
The problem of police brutality against black Americans isn’t caused by “a few bad apples” on police forces, a new paper argues.
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- Written by: Tom Nolan
The unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd after being pinned to the ground by the knee of a Minneapolis police officer has left parts of U.S. cities looking like a battle zone.
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- Written by: Bonnie Stewart
Ring promises to keep more neighbourhoods safe, but will smart surveillance systems really make you safer?
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- Written by: Constantine Gidaris
A 2019 surge of gang-related shootings in Toronto motivated the Ontario government to commit $3 million to double the number of Toronto Police surveillance cameras in the city.
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- Written by: NBC News
Researchers discovered that Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Home can be hacked by laser pointers and flashlights.
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- Written by: NBC News
We give out our cell phone numbers all the time, but those 10 digits also give companies a ton of information about us and how we live our lives.
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- Written by: Kevin O'Neal Cokley
Sentencing a person to die is the ultimate punishment. There is no coming back from the permanence of the death penalty.
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- Written by: Kyle J.D. Mulrooney and Jenny Wise
Public attitudes towards punishment have been a key area of research in criminology. Criminologists are interested in the attitudes of the general public towards the punishment of those who have committed crime.
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- Written by: Kean Birch
My recent research increasingly focuses on how individuals can and do manipulate, or “game,” contemporary capitalism. It involves what social scientists call reflexivity and physicists call the observer effect.
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- Written by: Ari Trachtenberg, Gianluca Stringhini, and Ran Canetti
Individuals and businesses unknowingly expose themselves to security and privacy threats, as experts explain here.
