The Verge Bad influence “I can see how this is incredibly infuriating and frustrating, but also really hard to combat, because most of what an influencer is doing in terms of content creation is not protectable,” says Alexandra Roberts, professor of law and media at Northeastern University.
GBH Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy On Criminal Law GBH News host Henry Santoro spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about Justice Ginsburg’s legacy and her influence on criminal law.
Does the secret to social networking lie in the remote jungle? THE HIGHLANDS OF Honduras’s Copán region, on the country’s Western border with Guatemala, remain nearly as socially isolated today as when the Mayans built one of their greatest civilizations there thousands of years ago. Far from Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, however, researchers here are studying social networks, trying to map the true extent to which […]
Face Up to the Violence of Jim Crow The U.S. civil rights movement was one of our country’s most important democratizing efforts. But the United States continues to grapple with how to acknowledge and understand the uglier aspects of its undemocratic past. Scholarship has mostly analyzed Jim Crow’s undemocratic nature by focusing on black disenfranchisement. The coercion and violence that enforced political disenfranchisement […]
ABC News Scientist Related to Killers Learns He Has a Psychopath’s Brain Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin agrees environmental influences determine whether a psychopath will go on to be violent, but discredits Fallon’s theory The author of a book about mass murderers, “Extreme Killing,” Levin said most serial killers are in their 30s and 40s. “You can determine the biological roots of psychopathy, including the lack of […]