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Leadership & Policy

Penn State Black Caucus Calls School’s Response to Racism ‘Halfhearted’

Penn State Black Caucus Calls School’s Response to Racism ‘Halfhearted’STATE COLLEGE, Pa. The Penn State Black Caucus called on students, administrators and university President Graham Spanier to assure the safety of minorities on campus and claimed the school takes a halfhearted approach to racial tensions.“This is about students’ rights, students’ welfare,” caucus President Ed Smith […]

March 23, 2005

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Dialogue, Personal Example Work Best For Parents in Drug Talks With Teens

Dialogue, Personal Example Work Best For Parents in Drug Talks With TeensUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Parents can more effectively advise teens about alcohol and drug use if they try dialogue before lecture and they set an everyday example, rather than give a one-time drug sermon, according to a Penn State University researcher.Drug talks can work best […]

February 23, 2005

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Returning Home

Returning HomeScholars say more research is needed on the societal re-entry of the formerly incarceratedBy Ronald RoachSince the late 1960s, politicians and policy-makers have talked tough on crime and have passed tough laws to build prisons and to prescribe lengthy sentences for the criminally convicted. In the past five years, however, public attention has focused […]

February 23, 2005

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Education Behind Bars

Education Behind BarsMarymount Manhattan College teams with volunteers to keep college hopes alive for incarcerated womenBy Kendra HamiltonBEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. The first hint comes when you read the titles of the books on Aileen Baumgartner’s desk: Reporting Vietnam, Democracy in America, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. Baumgartner’s eyes sparkle as she describes her work. “This […]

February 23, 2005

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Cosby Urges Parents to Stand Up Against ‘Forces of Evil’

Cosby Urges Parents to Stand Up Against ‘Forces of Evil’DETROIT Entertainer Bill Cosby urged members of a primarily Black audience to protect their children from the crime and promiscuity attacking poor urban neighborhoods, and to use their collective voice to stand up to what he called “the forces of evil.”“Detroit, you’re 87 percent (Black)! Get […]

February 9, 2005

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Rome University Introduces Mafia Studies

Rome University Introduces Mafia StudiesROMEThe Mafia has been the subject of countless films, books and even museums in Italy. Now it is also the subject of a university course. The class, which opened last month at the Faculty of Law of the Roma Tre University, looks at the birth and development of organized crime in […]

December 1, 2004

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Federal Ruling Says Colleges and Universities Can’t Silence Rape Victims

Federal Ruling Says Colleges and Universities Can’t Silence Rape VictimsKING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.As millions of college students prepare to go back to school in the next few weeks, campus crime victim advocates are hailing a landmark federal ruling that will help improve safety on college and university campuses across the country. In last month’s ruling […]

August 25, 2004

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Crime Jumps on Tennessee College Campuses

Crime Jumps on Tennessee College CampusesCHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Violent crime on the state’s college campuses increased significantly last year, according to a recent report from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. In 2003, crime like rape, assaults and kidnappings was up 21.3 percent from the previous year. The largest jump was in kidnapping, going from just one […]

August 11, 2004

Faculty & Staff

UPenn’s Criminology Department Is a First For an Ivy League

UPenn’s Criminology Department Is a First For an Ivy LeaguePHILADELPHIAThe University of Pennsylvania has become the first Ivy League institution to establish a criminology department. Dr. Lawrence W. Sherman, director of Penn’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, will chair the new department in the School of […]

July 16, 2004

Faculty & Staff

New Answers to Old Questions

New Answers to Old QuestionsUnderground Codes: Race, Crime and Related FiresBy Katheryn Russell-Brown, New York University Press, 2004, 175 pp., $18.00 paperback, ISBN 0814775411; $55.00, cloth, ISBN 0814775403In Underground Codes, Katheryn Russell-Brown tackles a range of race and crime issues. From outdated research methods that perpetuate stereotypes about African Americans, women and crime to the […]

June 30, 2004

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How Long? Cosby, Brown And Racial Progress

How Long? Cosby, Brown And Racial ProgressBill Cosby ruffled feathers, raised eyebrows and said a mouthful when, at a Howard University black-tie celebration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, he launched into a riff about “the lower economic people” not holding up their end of the bargain in the wake of […]

June 16, 2004

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Racial Stereotypes Influence Readers’ Memories of Crime Stories, Study Finds

Racial Stereotypes Influence Readers’ Memories of Crime Stories, Study FindsUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.If asked to imagine a criminal suspect, certain mental pictures come to mind for most people. According to a recent Penn State study concerning people’s memory of news photographs, images that accentuate African American facial features would be common, particularly if the crime is […]

June 16, 2004