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Criminal Justice, Politics & Government, Race & Gender

Contemporary hate crimes, law enforcement and the legacy of racial violence

by Margaret Weigel | March 26, 2012

2009 paper published in the American Sociological Association on links between historical lynching and contemporary hate crimes.

Expert Commentary

Criminal Justice, Politics & Government, Race & Gender

Neighborhood racial context and perceptions of police-based discrimination

by John Wihbey | March 26, 2012

2009 study in the journal Criminology on the racial makeup of neighborhoods and trends in racial profiling.

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Media

Tweeting Is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions

by Margaret Weigel | March 21, 2012

2012 paper from Microsoft Research on assessing the credibility of tweets.

Expert Commentary

Health, Politics & Government

One vote out of step? The effects of salient roll-call votes in the 2010 election

by John Wihbey | March 21, 2012

2012 study published in American Politics Research on how the health care reform roll-call vote may have hurt Democrats.

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Criminal Justice, Economics, Media, Politics & Government

Social media and participation in political protest: Observations from Tahrir Square

by Alex Remington | March 20, 2012

2012 study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the effects of social networks in the 2011 uprising in Egypt.

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Economics, Politics & Government

Cities, skills and wages in the United States

by Alex Remington | March 20, 2012

2012 study by the University of Toronto on the relationship between the skills used in a job and the salary for that job in a city of a given size.

Expert Commentary

Peru family (World Bank)
Economics, Politics & Government

World Bank: Poverty levels in the developing world

by Pratibha Joshi | March 19, 2012

2012 report based on 850 surveys from 130 countries, covering 1.23 million households and providing a statistical snapshot of some 90% of the population of the developing world.

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Economics

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

by Christopher Olver | March 19, 2012

2012 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on wealth levels and unethical behavior.

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Cycle track (iStock)
Economics, Politics & Government

Risk of injury for bicycling on cycle tracks versus in the street

by Leighton Walter Kille | March 16, 2012

2010 study from the Harvard School of Public Health on the relative safety of on-street bicycle lanes and physically separated cycle tracks.

Expert Commentary

Criminal Justice, Race & Gender

U.S. incarceration and correctional population levels: U.S. Justice Department

by John Wihbey | March 16, 2012

2011 reports from the U.S. Department of Justice with census of imprisoned and paroled persons.

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