Criminal Justice
Using a grown-up version of the rock-paper-scissors game, Indiana University cognitive scientists offer a new theory of the group dynamics that arise in situations as varied as cycles of fashion, fluctuations of financial markets, eBay bidding wars and political campaign strategies.
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The economic costs of crime in the United States are staggering, running into the trillions of dollars. What can research on the costs of crime tell us about effective crime-reduction policies? A symposium organized by Indiana University criminologist William Alex Pridemore for this weekend's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will provide some answers.
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Indiana University faculty members and graduate students will take part in the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, taking place Feb. 14 to 18 in at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.
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Stephen Bright, a nationally prominent opponent of the death penalty and advocate for poor people accused of crimes, will speak at Indiana University Bloomington as part of the College of Arts and Sciences' Themester 2012 "Good Behavior, Bad Behavior: Molecules to Morality." Bright will speak at noon Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Moot Court Room of the IU Maurer School of Law
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Stephanie C. Kane, an associate professor of criminal justice at Indiana University Bloomington, writes about the struggle for access to clean water in the port cities of Brazil and Argentina in her new book "Where Rivers Meet the Sea: The Political Ecology of Water."
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Dozens of Indiana University researchers have participated in the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Denver. Here, they discuss findings involving housing foreclosures and crime, parenting styles and education, citizenship, and national education policy's view of parental and school responsibility -- and its dramatic shift.
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