A recent Labor Department memo urges agencies to avoid releasing press releases accusing companies of violating laws, to protect the companies' reputations. People are denied the same protections.
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Whether or not someone is eventually convicted, an arrest alone is enough to significantly impair a Black man's job and earning prospects.
As a former NZ Police sergeant, I know firsthand how police fatalities shape one's behaviour. The recent shooting of two officers in Auckland cuts to the heart of NZ's trust-based policing policies.
Laws enabling citizens to apprehend suspects, which date back to medieval England, were historically used in the US to suppress slave revolts.
With officers being hit by illness, arrests have dropped during the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile crime rates have remained static, or even fallen. Is it time to rethink policing?
Harvey Weinstein's conviction isn't the norm for perpetrators of sexual violence.
State governments are leading the charge against opioid makers over their role in the epidemic. A team of researchers at Penn State examined just how much the crisis has cost them.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University - Newark
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Eberly Fellow, Professor Education and Demography, and Director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State
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Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry, Penn State
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Managing Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center, Penn State
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Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Emmanuel College
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Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Saint Louis University
