There is evidence that immigrants are overrepresented in local prison systems in Arizona and elsewhere. But overall, violent crime is actually lower than you would expect along the U.S. border with Mexico, says Ramiro Martinez, who teaches criminology at Northeastern University. “In Texas, homicides are actually a little bit lower in border counties than they […]

In the typical hate crime, a group of bored and idle youngsters go out on a Saturday night to search for vulnerable victims to bash. They might, for example, look for someone who is gay or Asian. If they can’t locate their primary target, they might instead assault someone Latino, Muslim, Catholic, Jewish, disabled, homeless, […]

While banking was once characterized by quaint features such as the ability to stroll down to the neighborhood branch, where the tellers knew your name and might even give your child a lollypop, the combination of competition in the industry and advances in technology has fostered the simultaneous decline in face-to-face customer service and rise […]

Debate over remote working has erupted since the announcement that Yahoo! will be suspending it, with reactions ranging from Richard Branson’s assertion that it shows outdated thinking, to rebuttals arguing it is the right call for Yahoo!’s specific situation (and if employees don’t like it, they should quit). Companies, and the employees that comprise them, often fall in […]

Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard says that the country is due for another serious anti-smoking crusade to reduce levels of smoking below 10 percent. Snuffing out the habit is possible, he says, with a few easy steps. Smoking advocates, however, see it as a campaign that’s gone too far.

“If you look at state-by-state comparisons, you’ll see states … the Northeast region reports hundreds of hate crimes yearly,” said Jack Levin, a leading hate crime expert at Northeastern University in Boston. “Does that mean there are more hate crimes in Massachusetts than in Mississippi? Absolutely not.” Massachusetts reported 346 hate crimes in 2011. But […]

A complex system can, in principle, be observable – that is, the system’s complete internal state can be reconstructed from its outputs, which would ostensibly involve describing in complete quantitative detail all of its internal state variables at once. In an actual experiment, however, such measurement is typically beyond our reach, and so is limited […]

Wendy Parmet, associate dean at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, said in an e-mail she isn’t surprised by the Arkansas law because it is “the next step in a trend.” “What will be interesting is whether by going this far, anti-abortion opponents in Arkansas have overplayed their hand,” Parmet said in an e-mail.

It will always be extremely important to be able to communicate with diverse audiences, says Young. Not only must CSOs make complex security issues understandable to the enterprise at large, they must also make it clear how important security risk, particularly digital risk management, is to the executive suite’s agenda. David Luzzi, executive director of […]

“Their job is being able to sell a role or a message and to do that you have to be able to articulate yourself and capitalize on your personality,” says Alan Schroeder, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and author of Celebrity-in-Chief: How Show Business Took Over the White House. “Innately, [entertainers] have a […]

Of course, the benefits wouldn’t accrue to the wearer. Google would sell the data (suitably anonymised, of course). And your smartphone already provides a huge amount of detail about you. Song Chaoming, a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, has been analysing mobile phone records (including which base stations the phone connects to) and has […]

Dr. Peter Stokes is currently the executive director of postsecondary innovation in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University.  Many of you probably got to know Peter during his tenure (almost 14 years!) in various leadership roles at Eduventures. Why interview Peter when we can skip the middleman and read exactly what is on his […]