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Crime Report

Don’t Look Back: Why the Innocent Sometimes Stay in Prison

Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed, provides a remarkably clear and readable analysis in his new book Barred: Why The Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison.  Medwed compiles a comprehensive catalog of components and lays out the diagram.
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North Carolina shooting: 15-year-old suspect to be charged as an adult

Thursday’s violence was the 25th mass killing in 2022, according to the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Killings database. A mass killing is defined as when four or more people are killed, excluding the perpetrator.
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The Halloween ‘rainbow fentanyl’ scare is mostly a get out the vote effort by politicians

Fentanyl’s takeover is in line with “Prohibition’s Iron Law” in drug policy, as described by Northeastern University’s Leo Beletsky, which predicts that criminalizing an addictive substance will lead to it inevitably invading the illegal market in evermore potent and easier-to-smuggle form, just as bathtub gin replaced beer during Prohibition.
San Francisco Chronicle

Is San Francisco’s ‘war on fentanyl’ a drug war by another name?

To Leo Beletsky, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law, these approaches hearken back to the late 1870s, when the city used opium laws to target Chinese immigrants.
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Healey has touted her record on opioid settlements. What does that mean for how she’d govern?

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, said that Healey’s work reflects the tendency of law enforcement leaders to become “myopically focused on attacking the drug supply while there’s all kinds of very bad actors in these other areas not being held to account.”
Marketplace

Is a growing middle class the real key to economic growth?

Some experts have raised concerns about our preoccupation with economic growth, like Madhavi Venkatesan, an associate teaching professor of economics at Northeastern University. 
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Why did he suspect a COVID surge was coming? He followed the digital breadcrumbs

Nick Beauchamp is an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University and first caught wind of the Yankee Candle theory late last year.
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Will Putin Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine? Local Experts Explain

“There still hasn’t been any sort of concrete move to to get the nuclear weapons ready in Russia, so I think that’s at least a sign of hope,” Northeastern University Scholar Mai’a Cross said
Inside Higher Ed

A Surge in Young Undergrads, Fully Online

A 2021 study by Northeastern University, for example, found that nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of employers perceive online educational credentials as on par with or of a higher quality than those completed in person.
WCNC

Is South Carolina politically engaged? This study says no

“State-by-state differences in political engagement are driven by some factors, including the political culture of the state, barriers to political participation, and recent political events,” Daniel Aldrich, professor and director of the security and resilience studies program at Northeastern University, said.
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Doctor Suggests Bad Yankee Candle Reviews Could Mean COVID is Coming Back

Based on @drewtoothpaste’s tweet, assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, Nicholas Beauchamp set to work. He wrote a paper on the phenomenon seemingly confirming that there is in fact a clear link. It appears that an upturn in negative reviews has become a predictive indicator in signaling that a COVID surge is coming.
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN)

Semiconductor Chip Sequences Single Proteins

“The authors report an interesting approach to sequencing peptides based on optical detection of proteins that recognize N-terminal amino acids,” said Nikolai Slavov, PhD, director of the single-cell proteomics center at the Northeastern University College of Engineering.