She studies school shootings, murder-suicides, and homicide trends
By Khalida Sarwari Emma Fridel’s research has uncovered that school shootings have been declining since the 1990s. She has also discovered that people who live …
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Domestic violence homicides appear to be on the rise. Are guns the reason?
By Khalida Sarwari Since the early 1990s, the number of murders had been steadily dropping. Then in 2015, it jumped up, and it continued escalating …
They’ve helped free hundreds of innocent people and capture dozens of criminals
By Khalida Sarwari Because of the Innocence Project, nearly 400 innocent people who were serving long sentences now walk free, including 20 inmates on death …
What he found when he peered into the minds of mass murderers
By Khalida Sarwari Northeastern professor emeritus Jack Levin has spent his career studying murder and violence. In the early 1980s, he was among the first to conduct …
Can data help make racial profiling by police a thing of the past?
By Khalida Sarwari When Jack McDevitt was asked to lead a study to determine whether police officers in Kansas engage in racial profiling, he didn’t have to think …