Criminology professor James Alan Fox, who has studied violence around the country for several decades, said the District is largely following the same patterns as many other cities. Fox, of Northeastern University, said that the District in past years has seen “some ups and downs” in its homicide numbers but that if “you look at […]

Police had not received any prior calls to the family’s home, which suggests that Joseph Zaccardi either kept his turmoil hidden from the outside world, like many do, or that he “snapped” without warning. The latter is unlikely, says Jack McDevitt, a Northeastern University criminology professor. McDevitt chaired the Gun Violence Prevention Committee that led […]

A database compiled by the Associated Press (AP), USA Today and Northeastern University recorded 41 incidents and a total of 211 deaths.

Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University journalism professor, said that the judge is probably reviewing recent US Supreme Court decisions that have narrowed the scope of public corruption cases that federal prosecutors can pursue.

A person with $30,000 in student debt is more than 10% less likely to start a business than a person who graduated debt-free, according to calculations by Karthik Krishnan, an associate professor of finance at Northeastern University who researches student debt.

A database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University shows that there were more mass killings in 2019 than any year dating back to at least the 1970s, punctuated by a chilling succession of deadly rampages during the summer.

The report’s authors, Ronald Sandler and John Basl, both with Northeastern University’s philosophy department, and Steven Tiell of Accenture, state that a well-organized data ethics capacity can help organizations manage risks and liabilities associated with such data misuse and negligence.

“The findings suggest that the mother-in-law’s restrictive behaviour is ultimately driven by her preferences and attitudes about fertility and family planning… Women who have fewer close outside peers are less likely to visit health facilities to receive reproductive health, fertility, or family planning services, and are less likely to use modern contraceptive methods,” the researchers […]

Alan Schroeder is a professor in the school of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston.

There could be more work like this in the future, according to Rupal Patel, a professor of computer and information sciences at Northeastern University who runs her own text-to-speech startup. 

“I wish I had thought of this,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist and psychologist at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s a very, very well-reasoned, clever approach.”

Most Jews are hard for would-be attackers to identify as Jewish, says Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University.