A new study out of Northeastern University finds that summer jobs programs for youth improve social skills and reduce violent crime. The study looked at participants in Boston’s summer jobs program and compared their outcome with a control group. The results showed a 35 percent reduction in violent crimes.

The New York Times (June 16)

The Los Angeles Times (June 16)

USA Today (June 28)

It seems somehow appropriate that on this, the 20th anniversary of the Muzzle Awards, assaults on freedom of expression are taking a technological turn. But there are still plenty of instances of old-fashioned suppression — such as a publicly funded charter school in Malden whose ban on hair extensions affects black female students almost exclusively; […]

“It has really brought into the national spotlight the hazards of interrogating juveniles,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s a good thing that people are talking about these issues.”

David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, has spent decades researching the effects that positive emotions have on decision making and his research suggests that simply feeling grateful can change how we act. In his Social Emotions Lab, DeSteno offered participants the choice between being given $30 immediately or $70 in […]

Cheer up: Despite the gloom, the world truly is becoming a better place. Indeed, 2017 is likely to be the best year in the history of humanity. To explain why, let me start with a story. I’m on my annual win-a-trip journey with a university student, who this year is Aneri Pattani, a newly minted […]

Darin Detwiler, director of the masters program in food regulation at Northeastern University in Boston, said conditions at the PCA plant were appalling. “There was rat infestations. There was bird droppings. They found holes in the roof, and water would gather and bird droppings would get into the water that would seep into this product. […]

Although the Duncan opinion did not say so, analysis by two scholarly experts has come to precisely this conclusion about the Mother Jones material. Grant Duwe, a criminologist for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, is author of “Mass Murder in the United States: A History” (2007), a leading scholarly book on the subject. He wrote […]

Hemanth Gundavaram, associate teaching professor at Northeastern University School of Law, supervises clinical projects with nonprofit organizations on a wide variety of immigration legal issues. “The best advice I think anyone can give right now is to apply early,” Gundavaram says, “because we don’t have any sense of how long the process might take.”

In a high-profile case such as this one, Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed explained, finding a completely unbiased jury is nearly impossible. “You’re not going to find a pool of people who don’t know about it,” Mr Medwed told The Independent. “The question is can you find people who can put side what they’ve […]