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...and better, earlier support for victims."We've taken the home out of homicide," said James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University criminologist who studies murder data.Some also credit better police work and public health programs aimed...

http://brainerddispatch.com/atlanta/2012-01-17
War on drugs increases number of women in prison

...behaviors,'' the Sentencing Project's report said. James Alan Fox, professor of criminal justice at Boston's Northeastern University, said the study shows a strong impact of the drug war on both men and women. ''This does not suggest that...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/111899/new_1118990025.shtml
News
Stumbling in New Hampshire

...long on photo ops and endorsements and short on substance and energy. Bill Mayer, a political scientist at Northeastern University who has written extensively about the presidential nominating process, said Bush's New Hampshire campaign...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/020400/opi_0204000007.shtml
Opinion
CITIZENSHIP THROUGH SPORTS

...they turn out to be more of a problem than they're worth." Dr. Richard Lapchick, executive director of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sports in Society, thinks players need programs to help them control their anger...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/022600/nsp_0226000080.shtml
Sports
Serious crime drops again

...smaller cities, 12 percent in suburbs and 17 percent in rural areas. Like Blumstein, Professor James Alan Fox of Northeastern University in Boston noted smaller crime declines in the largest cities. ''They will be the first to reach the bottom...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/050800/nne_0508000004.shtml
News
The debates' real winner

...of stunt on Clinton. In his informative new book, "Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High-Risk TV," Northeastern University journalism professor Alan Schroeder argues that the sponsor of the debates almost inevitably is elbowed to the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/092000/opi_0920000071.shtml
Opinion
Homicide-suicides incidents increase

...rarely involves strangers, and the victim is usually shot. James A. Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, said many people who kill themselves after a homicide are overwhelmed by guilt and don't want to...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/092500/new_0925000038.shtml
News
Violence in youth sports spreading

...grew up in recent years with violence in their childhood being the norm," said Richard Lapchick, who runs Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sports and Society. "It would be unrealistic to think all of them have matured...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/060201/nsp_0602010121.shtml
Sports
Big Tobacco will continue to face courtroom challenges

...sip of sherry, rather than breaking open a case of champagne," remarked Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University and head of the Tobacco Products Liability Project, which promotes suits against the industry. A tobacco industry...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/062101/nne_0621010003.shtml
News
Signing on with the stars

...difference and share their experiences to help others and Jennifer has done exactly that." Marshall, who chairs Northeastern University's communications department, noted that it is a change that fans such as Medina are reacting positively to...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/081801/tec_0818010054.shtml
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