Tag: Science/Health/Law

Researchers have sought to identify the factors that promote or contribute to criminal persistence--that is, the likelihood that offenders will ...

Debates over gun regulations make headlines across the world, but there's an underground operation for weapons that has drawn very ...

A leading public health expert says the UK should learn lessons from systematic violence reduction work in Cali, Columbia to ...

Their goal is to create a policy and culture of collegiality and respect across field teamsCredit: Bill Cotton/Colorado State University ...

New app allows victims to report hate incidents beyond those captured by policeCredit: Hate Incident Reporting System Group The Federal ...

A color test developed at University of Technology Sydney that can accurately detect the presence of all cathinones has been ...

Credit: Sara Santiago For five decades, the U.S. government's mission to intercept or seize cocaine and other drugs entering the ...

The endemic reptiles are already proposed to be listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild ...

For decades, forensic scientists have tested strands of hair to reveal drug use or poisoning. But in recent years, reports ...

Research led by UC criminal justice professor identifies more than 1,000 victims of human trafficking in the state of Ohio ...

Police use of body-worn cameras is growing rapidly in the United States. New research that looked at 70 studies of ...

Credit: American Chemical Society Modern analytical tools like mass spectrometers can identify many unknown substances, allowing scientists to easily tell ...

For more than a century, forensic scientists have linked criminals to crime scenes through the distinctive loops and whorls on ...

Average rates 11 percent higher and growing in permissive states, shrinking in restrictive states States with more permissive gun laws ...

UMass Amherst researcher helps oversee innovative program in Western MassachusettsCredit: UMass Amherst In what could serve as a model for ...

In a first-ever study researchers found a 32 per cent seafood mislabelling rate with the rate compounding as the fish ...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy sessions are an effective treatment, Tel Aviv University researchers say A new Tel Aviv University study finds ...

Many inmates in state prison facilities want to quit smoking but lack resources and tobacco dependence education programs to help ...

Credit: Brainscape 17, by Susan Aldworth, 2006, etching and aquatint, 30 x 25 cms. Private collection/Bridgeman Images Should death be ...

Many prisons today use sanctions to discipline prisoners, including segregating them from other inmates, transferring them away from other inmates, ...