The Massachusetts House and Senate are currently debating legislation that would improve many of the problems with our state’s criminal justice system. The measure is controversial, which is no surprise. Reducing unnecessary prosecutions and prison time while ensuring public safety poses challenges.

Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston, said the statistics reflected the “cumulative effect” of an increase in hate crimes directed at Muslims, immigrants, gay people and others since 9/11. President Trump’s 2016 campaign fed into the trend, he said.

A Massachusetts courthouse has been renamed in honor of the first African American to sit on the state’s highest court. The Hamden County Hall of Justice in Springfield will now be called the Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse. A renaming ceremony was held on Friday. Ireland is now a professor of criminology and criminal justice at […]

“Members of law enforcement and sheriffs seem to be more comfortable articulating controversial, pro-incarceration views than in recent years,” said Daniel Medwed, a law and criminal justice professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “When you have a president who feels comfortable saying things that people would not have said in previous regimes, it emboldens other […]

James Alan Fox, a researcher at Northeastern University, said most mass killings are not preceded by a history of domestic violence. “Let’s just say hypothetically that domestic violence was present in a majority of those cases,” he said. “There are 10 million cases of domestic violence every year. There are 24 mass shootings every year. […]

As the threat from a common enemy “has imploded, tensions between these historic adversaries have escalated,” said Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston.

As students went to and from class Friday on Northeastern’s campus, a red, white and blue wreath decorated the university’s veterans memorial. It was placed there after the school’s annual Veteran’s Day ceremony, during which more than 100 students, veterans, alumni, family and community members gathered to celebrate those who serve their country.

Northeastern professor Cammy Brothers discusses the Met’s new exhibition on Michelangelo, which shows how the master used drawing to experiment, refine and expand his work—both on and off the page.

Sometimes, business school applicants with a military background qualify for more than enough service-related scholarship money to attend graduate school for free. If you want reassurance that it is possible, consider the story of John Healy, a first-year MBA student at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business who received a full ride by capitalizing on service-related scholarship programs. Healy, a husband […]

The criminal justice reforms recently passed by the Massachusetts Senate and released by the House Committee on Ways and Means provide sensible reform to failed criminal justice approaches, including doing away with some mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug offenses. These reforms are both pragmatic and just. By shifting the focus away from laws and prosecutorial […]

Only 3 percent to 5 percent of violent acts can be attributed to a person living with a severe mental illness, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, while people linked to those illnesses are actually 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population. Of 88 mass […]

Magy Seif El-Nasr, director of the Game Design Program at Northeastern University, said parents should make an effort to learn about the games their kids are playing and to join them for a match or two.