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New Airport Body Scans Don’t Detect All Weapons

Jan 15, 2010

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in Crime, Public Policy, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet)

NPR: New Airport Body Scans Don't Detect All Weapons (HT: Victor Claar) The Obama administration's plan to protect air travelers from terrorists is counting on a technology that is powerful but imperfect, experts say. The plan will place hundreds of full-body scanners in airports around the country. These scanners use a technology called backscatter X-ray…

Teen survey shows drops in meth use, smoking

Dec 15, 2009

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in Crime, Demography, Health and Medicine, Sociology, Trends: Social

Reuters: Teen survey shows drops in meth use, smoking WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Methamphetamine use and smoking among U.S. teens has dropped significantly in recent years, but declines in marijuana use have stalled, according to an annual government survey released on Monday. Only 1.2 percent of high school seniors say they used meth, as it is…

Nightmare on Ware Street

Jul 23, 2009

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in Crime, Culture, Race, Sociology

The Reality-Based Community: Nightmare on Ware Street A couple of years ago, my neighbor locked herself out and figured she could save the locksmith charge if she could get to an unlocked door on her second floor porch. A Cambridge police officer happened by and helped us carry an extension ladder across the street from…

Decline in blacks in prison for drug crimes reverses 25-year trend

Apr 15, 2009

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in Crime, Race, Trends: Social

Christian Science Monitor: Decline in blacks in prison for drug crimes reverses 25-year trend New York – For the first time in a quarter century, the number of African-Americans incarcerated for drug offenses in state prisons has declined more than 20 percent while the number of white imprisoned drug offenders has increased more than 40…

U.S. murders involving young black males soaring

Dec 31, 2008

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in Crime, Demography, Health and Medicine, Public Policy, Race, Sociology, Trends: Social

Reuters: U.S. murders involving young black males soaring DALLAS (Reuters) – Murders involving young black males — as victims and killers — have soared in the past few years, bucking national trends and underscoring the need for more spending on at-risk youth programs, according to a U.S. study released this week. The study by researchers…

Locked up in a Kenyan jail

May 21, 2008

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in Africa, Christian Life, Crime

Ben Byerly’s Blog: Locked up in a Kenyan jail Friday 3:45 pm: my phone beeped with a new text: “Ben, can u get in touch with Kivanguli [NEGST’s Dean of Community Life]. I am being held at Karen Police station as an excess passenger.” Samy Samy Tioye, one of my closest friends, is from Burkina…

Mennonites and Mammonites…in Paraguay

Apr 16, 2008

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in Crime, Culture, Ecclesia, Economic Development, Politics, Religion, South America

The Weekly Standard: Mennonites and Mammonites…in Paraguay …This progressive Mennonite congregation has departed in more ways than these from the customs of their forebears. Mennonites have lived in Paraguay since the 1920s, mostly in the miserably hot Chaco, a region that was barely inhabited before they arrived, and indeed barely inhabited today. For the first…

Ethnicity

Feb 19, 2008

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in Crime, Demography, Education, Health and Medicine, Poverty, Race, Series: Social Indicators 2007, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

SOCIAL INDICATORS 2007 I've avoided giving an extensive analysis of subgroups within American culture during this series on social indicators. I've been focused on trends at the aggregate level. However, one measure of the quality of life for the whole society is the degree to which each person has an opportunity for a quality of…

Crime (Part 2)

Feb 6, 2008

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in Crime, Demography, Health and Medicine, Series: Social Indicators 2007, Sociology, Trends: Social

SOCIAL INDICATORS 2007 Crime (Part 2) The Columbine High School tragedy in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999, has come to symbolize a culture of pervasive youth violence. There is no question that the Columbine episode was well beyond the ordinary expression of youth violence, but was it truly symbolic of trends in youth culture? Historical statistics…

Crime (Part 1)

Feb 5, 2008

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in Crime, Demography, Health and Medicine, Race, Series: Social Indicators 2007, Trends: Social

SOCIAL INDICATORS 2007 A fundamental indicator of a deteriorating society is increased criminal behavior. Crime analysis in the United States has focused on two primary measures over the last few decades. One measure is based on crimes reported to law enforcement officers. These are compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and presented in the…

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