Hernandez claimed he’d been nurtured by “the Patriot Way.” But Wednesday’s verdict raises new troubling questions for the NFL about violence on and off the field, including domestic violence — and now, murder — by it players. So, what does this mean for the Patriots? What does it say about “the Patriot way” and the NFL?

In short, game designers create rules. For example, the player can open this door, but not that one; can attack one country, but not another; and a rule-based game can be a powerful tool for persuasion. In game design theory, this is called “procedural rhetoric,” and designers (especially journalists new to game design) should be […]

It’s not fair to blame police for the uptick, said James Allan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. By the same token, police shouldn’t get undue credit when homicide numbers are lower. “It’s no consolation to the victims’ families to say this is an aberration, but it is,” he said of the rash […]

Northeastern University’s Venture Accelerator IDEA recently reached a monumental milestone in their mission to coach, fund, and launch ventures: in February, IDEA completed its largest round of Gap Funding that provided six ventures with $10,000 to overcome a specific gap in each of their businesses. The bi-monthly Gap Fund IDEA provides ventures the opportunity to […]

Northeastern University-Charlotte is expanding its educational offerings with new programs ranging from health care to homeland security. The Boston-based university’s has received approval from the N.C. General Administration and Board of Governors to offer an additional five master’s programs, one baccalaureate degree for second-degree students and one certificate for advanced graduate study at its Charlotte […]

Northeastern University-Charlotte is adding programs slated to launch in May and in 2016. The new offerings, approved by the UNC Board of Governors, include five master’s degree programs and one certificate for advanced graduate study. The campus now offers 25 graduate degree programs and 10 certificate programs in six sectors: business, education, government and civic […]

Researchers say banning hawalas could just push terror financing even further from sight. “Hawala operates in a part of the world that has no other means of finance. Because they are the only available means, criminals use them, too,” said Nikos Passas, a professor at Northeastern University and a criminologist who advised U.S. authorities on […]

While the trial will resume less than 24 hours after the start of the marathon next week, the two-week delay will likely sap some of the emotion from the trial – at least at first, says Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. “I think the delay could help neutralize much of the emotional […]

Two sociologists at Northeastern University have tested the claim that people are more upset by news stories of animal abuse than they are about attacks directed toward humans. The researchers, Arnold Arluke, an authority on human-animal relationships, and Jack Levin, an expert on serial killers and mass murders, had college students read fake news accounts […]

The suits were filed by the Center for Public Health Litigation, a small endeavor started last year by the Public Health Advocacy Institute , a nonprofit research group based at the Northeastern University School of Law. The center’s purpose, says its founder, law professor Richard A. Daynard, “is to bring litigation that will begin to […]

Most of the discussion about our broken immigration system centers on those who enter the country illegally over the porous 2,000-mile southwest land border that stretches over four states. But that is only a partial picture of illegal immigration in the United States. Overlooked in the discussion are the security risks presented by the estimated […]

Criminologists have long known and indeed cared about the black homicide problem, a concern shared and skillfully illuminated by Jill Leovy in “Ghettoside” within the context of homicide in South Los Angeles. Over half the murders in this country are committed by blacks, a rate nearly eight times higher than that among whites, when compared […]