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 […]

Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and member at Council on Foreign Relations, says the video demonstrates the desire of women within conservative Muslim societies to prove that they have a contribution to make. “What I got out of the video, is that this is an effort for women to assert themselves […]

In some ways, the cameraman’s actions fall into a gray area, said Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and a former producer at WBZ. Cusanelli, who has worked at WHDH for 16 years, testified that he intended only to scout the location where jurors are picked up and dropped off so that Channel […]

According to Carole Bell, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who has done extensive research on gay representation in pop culture, simply seeing gay characters on the small screen can foster acceptance. In an interview with HuffPost, she explained research which substantiates this impact: “For people who didn’t have a lot of exposure previously, who […]

Sing It On, produced by John Legend, will follow five college a cappella teams on the road to the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) Finals. The groups include the AcaBelles (Florida State University), All Night Yahtzee (Florida State University), No Comment (University of Illinois), Nor’easters (Northeastern University), and Pitch, Please! (Northeastern University).

Fortunately, the Massachusetts economy is doing very well. Companies are growing, the workforce is increasing, and people want to live near public transit. The Metropolitan Area Planning Council projects that there will be 75,000 new residential units and commercial space and 130,000 new jobs located near MBTA transit and commuter stations by 2035. The South […]

If the opinion of more than 200 Bostonians, as per a poll conducted by WBUR in late March, is fairly representative of Boston’s preferred sentence for Tsarnaev in general (as well as the jurors’) the domestic terrorist could very well receive life in prison. But the jury’s relatively quick deliberation of Tsarnaev’s conviction could be […]