Department of Justice: Capital punishment, 2010 statistical tables
2011 report on prisoner demographics, manner of execution, pardons or sentence commutations and capital punishment trends over time.
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Global senior executives’ perceptions of the role of the firm in society
2011 study in the Socio-Economic Review on the attitudes of senior executives about corporate social responsibility.
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Myths and realities of correctional severity: Evidence from the National Corrections Reporting Program
2011 study from Fordham Law School on the influences fueling prison population growth in the United States since 1980.
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Association between violent video game play and aggression among adolescents
2011 longitudinal study published in the journal Developmental Psychology on the relationship between sustained violent video game play, aggression and youth.
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Exploring the role of political discussion for online political participation
2011 study in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research on the factors that spur online political discussion and participation.
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Children’s “theory of mind” and adolescent involvement with bullying
2011 study from Duke University and King’s College London in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry on the cognitive origins of bullying.
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Attacks, acclaims and rebuttals on political blogs during the 2008 presidential election
2011 study from the University of Arkansas and Louisiana State University in American Behavioral Scientist on political blogs and partisan content.
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Impact of juvenile curfew laws on arrests of youth and adults
2011 paper in The American Law and Economics Review on youth curfews and crime rates.
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Global shift in the social relationships of networked individuals: Meeting and dating online comes of age
2011 study by University of Oxford on global online dating practices, focusing on how the couples met, how they communicate, and the role of the Internet in their daily lives.
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Energy and economic value of plastics and municipal solid wastes
2011 study by Columbia University’s Earth Engineering Center on the energy contained in discarded plastics and its economic value.
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