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Canadian Police Agencies Suppressing Data on Race, Says Criminology Study

By Guest PostFebruary 2, 2012Culture, General, Politicsaboriginal origin, aboriginals, akwasi owusu bempah, blacks, canada, centre for criminology, data on race, diana tyszko, halifax, jurisdiction, law, nipissing, over representation, paul millar, perpetrators, police force, police services, policy, public knowledge, race of victims, race statistics, racial background, racial discrimination, toronto, transparency, ucr, university of toronto, victims

*Data essential for creating fair policies*

While only 20 per cent of Canada’s police forces have an explicit policy against reporting the race of victims and accused persons, criminologists from the University of Toronto and Nipissing show that the majority of police departments do not report race in practice.

The study, by Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology, and Paul Millar, an associate professor at Nipissing University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, is entitled Whitewashing Criminal Justice in Canada: Preventing Research through Data Suppression and appears in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society. (more…)

Divorce Hurts Health More At Earlier Ages

By Guest PostJanuary 30, 2012Culture, Generalamerican, divorce, family support, hui liu, marital satisfaction, marriage, michigan state university, negative health impact, problems in relation, sociology, stress of divorce, unhappily married

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Divorce at a younger age hurts people’s health more than divorce later in life, according to a new study by a Michigan State University sociologist.

Hui Liu said the findings, which appear in the research journal Social Science & Medicine, suggest older people have more coping skills to deal with the stress of divorce. (more…)

Study: Off-Campus College Party Hosts Drink More Than Attendees

By Guest PostJanuary 25, 2012Culture, Generalalcohol, atika khurana, behavior, college gathering, cynthia buettner, drinks, emily caldwell, flashing, greek organization, information, mooning, natasha slesnick, off campus party, party, potential sanction, problem, public urination, random sample, students, vandalism

COLUMBUS, Ohio – On any given weekend, at least 10 percent of students at a single college could be hosting a party, and on average, party hosts who live off campus are drinking more and engaging in more alcohol-related problem behaviors than are the students attending their bashes, research suggests.

In contrast, hosts of parties held on campus tend to drink less than do the students attending their gatherings, according to the study. (more…)

Some Dating Websites Do Not Remove GPS Data From Photos, CU-Boulder Students Find

By Guest PostJanuary 17, 2012Culture, Technologyage of facebook, canadian company, catholicsingles, chips, dating websites, global positioning system, gps, gps coordinates, information, interactions, kai larsen, location data, match, metadata, pictures, plentyoffish, privacy, relationship, research project, successfulmatch, university of colorado boulder, users

While the majority of dating websites do a good job of managing the privacy of their users, a class research project at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business found that 21 of 90 dating websites the class examined did not properly remove location data from pictures uploaded by their users.

As a result of people taking more photographs with cameras and cell phones containing Global Positioning System chips, some dating website profile pictures contain GPS coordinates showing where a picture was taken, said Associate Professor Kai Larsen, who taught the class on Privacy in the Age of Facebook. When such information is not removed by the dating website, commonly available tools can be used to detect the location of a person’s residence or other locations frequented by the user. (more…)

Unlocking Cornwall’s Bronze Age past

By Guest PostJanuary 16, 2012Culturebronze age, bronze age boat, bronze age period, bronze axes, prehistoric boat, sewing technique, sewn plank boats

A modern day boat builder is being challenged to recreate the oldest boat ever found in western Europe, dating to around 2000 BC. (more…)

Sewing the Inner, Creative Mind

By Guest PostJanuary 14, 2012Culture, Environmentcreative mind, perfectionist, reformed perfectionist, sewing machine, solar power

UA alumnus Paul Nosa travels with his solar powered sewing machine, stitching patches of the thoughts people choose to share with him

Paul Nosa is a perfectionist – well, a reformed perfectionist. (more…)

A Scarcity of Women Leads Men to Spend More, Save Less

By Guest PostJanuary 13, 2012Cultureandrew delton, andrew e white, behavior, credit cards, economic decisions, Economics, engagement rings, expenditures, financial behavior, financial consequences, iceberg, impulsive, joshua m ackerman, joshua tybur, local population, men and women, news articles, perception, photo arrays, products, psychology, sex ratio, theresa robertson, twin cities of minneapolis, university of minnesota, us cities, valentine gifts, violence and survival, vladas griskevicius, women

*University of Minnesota Research Finds Sex Ratios Influence Financial Decisions*

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — The perception that women are scarce leads men to become impulsive, save less, and increase borrowing, according to new research from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

“What we see in other animals is that when females are scarce, males become more competitive. They compete more for access to mates,” says Vladas Griskevicius, an assistant professor of marketing at the Carlson School and lead author of the study. “How do humans compete for access to mates? What you find across cultures is that men often do it through money, through status and through products.” (more…)

‘Tiger Mothers’ Should Tame Parenting Approach

By Guest PostJanuary 11, 2012Cultureacculturation gap, adolescent development, amy chua, battle hymn of the tiger mother, best selling author, chinese immigrant parents, chinese mother, chinese students, chinese tiger mothers, desiree baolian qin, east and west, east lansing, eastern view of parenting, emotionally healthy kids, family, happiness, hardline parenting, harvard university, helena, maladjustment, michigan state university, native china, olivia, parents, piano, ridiculous, self-esteem, success, tiger mother, tiger mother philosophy, tom buffett, united states, violin, washington d c

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The Eastern view of parenting, as defined by best-selling author and self-described “tiger mother” Amy Chua, is that children should be pushed to excel at all costs. Parents needn’t worry about their happiness, she argues, only their success.

But now a Michigan State University scholar is refuting that theory. (more…)

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