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A study by a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School with Brigham and Women’s hospital found that the firearm injury incidence rate was 62 percent higher in neighborhoods that had gentrified... Read more »
A recent study of criminal cases in Philadelphia over ten years found that privately retained or court-appointed private lawyers failed to appear in court at least once in 36 percent of their... Read more »
A Connecticut business owner is accused of lying to several women about a fake medical study in order to physically violate and photograph them for money, Angela Fortuna reports for NBC Connecticut.... Read more »
Findings published in the American Journal of Criminal Justice, based on an analysis of research studies on the effects of prison education in the U.S., discovered that incarcerated people who get an... Read more »
A new study analyzing 911 calls, summonses and other city data revealed that the areas surrounding New York City’s two overdose prevention centers in Upper Manhattan did not experience a disproportionate rise... Read more »
Authors of a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine are warning that there is insufficient awareness that an animal tranquilizer is now being widely mixed in with the United State’s... Read more »
It is a special kind of suck to discover that the law school you spent hours pouring yourself into a personal statement for has rejected you. And while it would sting either... Read more »
The majority of law firms use just five or fewer unique software products, according to a legal industry study published today by the law practice management company Smokeball. The study, How Technology... Read more »
CCJ Senior Fellow Thomas Abt, director of the Violence Reduction Center at the University of Maryland, says that the results just show that more needs to be done. “The mid-year findings are... Read more »