Last week, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts narrowed the application of the state felony-murder doctrine, a controversial rule that has “perplexedgenerations of law students, commentators and jurists.” Up until that decision, a person could be found guilty of felony murder in its purest form when he or she commits a felony that causes another person’s […]

We feel quant is used too narrowly in marketing research, especially in light of today’s fast computers and rich array of statistical methods for analyzing data. Owing to small sample sizes and the high measurement error associated with coding verbatim comments, qualitative research can suggest hypotheses but cannot explore them beyond a certain point. Quantitative methods […]

But Dan Lebowitz of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, said the players’ stand could win some over. “The NFL is still America’s game, people love the game and find commonality in the game,” Lebowitz said. “While visceral reactions may happen, more people will understand the scourge of racism […]

“Two years are not a reliable trend,” said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University. “In the backdrop, homicide rates in this country are at a half-century low.” For an increase to be considered a “trend” rather than an aberration, according to Fox, it would have to be observed over a period […]

Northeastern University’s James Alan Fox wrote for Boston.com in 2011 that, locally, “the evening violent crime count on October 31 is about 50 percent higher than on any other date during the year, and twice the daily average.”

“Because those steroids were sent through the mail out of state, it became a federal crime,” said Daniel Medwed, WGBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University professor. “The two biggest fish in this enterprise were Barry Cadden and Glenn Chin.”

Boston has a car problem. Too many people commute by car. And because of air pollution regulations, we have run up against parking limits. A recent Boston Globe article suggests Boston should follow the lead of Amsterdam and Copenhagen in building underwater parking garages as part of the solution. But we need to think bigger, especially if […]

And even though its finances are now largely in the hands of the federal task force, the island’s track record could make it harder to officials to ask for more money. “With a Republican majority, they could attack [too large a package] as part of a bailout,” says Amilcar Barreto, an associate professor at Northeastern […]

Max Abrahms, assistant professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, said that Iran’s announcement of its new missile will likely lead to more escalation.

Consider the chatbot developed by researchers at the Boston Medical Center and Northeastern University, which was recently presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents in Stockholm. According to the researchers’ paper, the chatbot is explicitly meant to replicate conversing with a “palliative care coach” that answers questions about things like preparing a will […]

Consider the chatbot developed by researchers at the Boston Medical Center and Northeastern University, which was recently presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents in Stockholm. According to the researchers’ paper, the chatbot is explicitly meant to replicate conversing with a “palliative care coach” that answers questions about things like preparing a will […]

But do these programs really work? For years, no one measured whether summer jobs programs actually achieved what city halls simply presumed they did. Rigorous examination of those claims was hampered by the time it would take to dig through the records from the nonprofits and private companies that provided the jobs, says Alicia Modestino, […]