James Alan Fox is the Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and co-author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.” 

A report jointly released by researchers at Northeastern University and the City of Boston last year says the cameras yield “small but meaningful benefits” in encounters between residents and police.

A neuroscientist at Northeastern University is calling for medical testing not just to include female subjects, but to design experiments that better account for both biological sexes.

The institute, located at Northeastern, is the successor to the Tobacco Products Liability Project whose founder, Richard Daynard, played a major role in litigation that led to the historic 1998 master settlement.

“If you’re an adviser at a firm that takes revenue sharing, it’s not an overt ‘You must sell these funds,’” says Nicole Boyson, a finance professor at Northeastern University who studies financial advisers. “It’s an influence. And it’s definitely a conflict.”

The argument comes courtesy of Rebecca Shansky, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston.

The Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University analyzed more than 200 drug-induced homicide cases.

However, according to Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University, in Boston, it is entirely unjustified by scientific evidence, which shows that, if anything, the hormones and behaviour of male rodents are less stable than those of females.

Say you are prescribed medication for depression, anxiety or even just to sleep. Would you want to take it if you knew that the drug had only been tested on men and male animals? Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston, thinks you might not. When she tells nonscientific audiences that researchers “for […]

In a perspective published Thursday in Science, Northeastern University neurobiologist Rebecca Shansky said that one of the biggest misconceptions among her colleagues and many male and female scientists is that female hormones — and the estrous cycle in mice, which corresponds to the menstrual cycle in women — are “messy” and complicate matters for research.

Until recently, most neuroscience labs have conducted their experiments on males only, said essay author Rebecca Shanksy, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston. 

Claudia Haupt, a Northeastern University law professor, said licensing laws would be most legally defensible in fields where there’s real potential danger people could be hurt.