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Youth Cybercrime Linked to Friends’ Influence

By Guest PostJune 26, 2011Culture, Generaladam bossler, american journal of criminal justice, computer hacking, criminologist, cyber-trespassing, cybercrime, david may, digital piracy, eastern kentucky university, georgia southern university, juvenile cybercrime, michigan state university, online and offline, online bullying, online bullying and harassment, online pornography, peer influence, scientific survey, sexual messages, thomas holt, youth cybercrime

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Peer influence and low self-control appear to be the major factors fueling juvenile cybercrime such as computer hacking and online bullying, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University criminologist.

Thomas Holt, assistant professor of criminal justice, said the findings reinforce the need for parents to be more aware of their children’s friends and Internet activities.

“It’s important to know what your kids are doing when they’re online and who they are associating with both online and offline,” Holt said. (more…)

Red Light Cameras Critical to Public Safety, MU Traffic Researcher Finds

By Guest PostJune 20, 2011Generalautomated traffic monitoring systems, carlos sun, drivers, legal system, national highway traffic safety administration, panacea, potential for abuse, red light cameras, traffic fatalities, traffic problems, troy rule, university of missouri

*Evaluation of numerous automated traffic studies indicate safety benefits outweigh drawbacks*

COLUMBIA, Mo. — As automated traffic monitoring systems such as red light cameras keep a law enforcement “eye” on the streets across the country, many drivers accuse city governments of installing the monitors as a way to generate revenue. New research from the University of Missouri says the safety benefits of automated traffic monitoring systems far outweigh the potential for abuse. (more…)

Bin Laden’s Attacks Among the Most Lethal: UMD Study

By Guest PostMay 2, 20111 commentGeneral, Politicsal qaida, gary lafree, gtd, karl rethemeyer, lethal terrorist organization, osama bin laden, qaida global terrorism database, start, terrorist attacks, terrorist organization, university of maryland, us department of homeland security, victor asal

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Under Osama bin Laden’s leadership, al Qa’ida has been one of the most lethal terrorist organization in the world, responsible for more than 10,000 deaths and injuries in a dozen years – finds a new analysis by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland (START).

“Al-Qa’ida, the terrorist organization Osama bin Laden founded, was responsible for fomenting more mass casualty attacks than any other group in recent history,” says START Director Gary LaFree, a University of Maryland professor responsible for assembling the world’s most comprehensive unclassified terrorism database. (more…)

Taking Safety Personally

By Guest PostApril 30, 2011Environment, Generalbp disaster, bp explosion, culture, culture of safety, deepwater horizon oil rig, disaster, geller, individual freedom, message, oil spill, psychologists, safety personally, scott geller, video, virginia tech

A year after the BP explosion and oil spill, those trying to find someone to blame are misguided, says psychological scientist E. Scott Geller, Alumni Distinguished professor at Virginia Tech, and author of a new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Geller has spent much of his 42-year career developing interventions to keep people safe, particularly helping companies develop a culture that promotes occupational safety. (more…)

Q&A: Creating a Safe Haven For Children

By Guest PostApril 28, 2011General, Healthandrea asnes, assessment, bridging program, child abuse, child abuse program, children, dart, detection, john leventhal, leventhal, new haven, pediatrics, physical abuse, referral and treatment, sexual abuse, yale daily bulletin

For over 25 years, Dr. John M. Leventhal has been fighting a battle to protect the lives of hundreds of children who come through one of the child abuse programs at Yale.

He has won many struggles along the way, but to win the war, he says, the program needs to be armed with more state and federal support, as well as support from individuals and foundations.

“Finding ways to protect children who can’t defend themselves is part of what wakes me up in the morning and motivates me to continue this tough, but important work,” says Leventhal, professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Child Abuse Programs at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. (more…)

Crossing the Line: What Constitutes Torture?

By Guest PostApril 16, 2011Generalbush administration’s, interrogation techniques, loewenstein, psychological science, psychologically untenable, rarified situation, room-temperature water, torture, waterboarding

Torture. The United Nations defines it as the “infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering.” But how severe is severe? That judgment determines whether or not the law classifies an interrogation practice as torture.

Now, a study published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, condemns this method of classification as essentially flawed. The reason: The people estimating the severity of pain aren’t experiencing that pain—so they underestimate it.

As a result, many acts of torture are not classified—or prohibited—as torture, say authors, Loran F. Nordgren of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Mary-Hunter Morris of Harvard Law School, and George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University. (more…)

Got Up On The Wrong Side of the Bed? Your Work Will Show It

By Guest PostApril 13, 2011Generalemployee moods, good mood, insurance company, nancy rothbard, positive customers, steffanie wilk, telephone customer service representatives, workday

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study of telephone customer service representatives shows just how important it is for employees to start the workday in a good mood.

Researchers found that employees’ moods when they clocked in tended to affect how they felt the rest of the day. Early mood was linked to their perceptions of customers and to how they reacted to customers’ moods. (more…)

Tsunami Waves Crash Into Japan’s North-east After Powerful Quake

By PravdaMarch 11, 2011Environment, Generalcoastal parts, earthquake, epicenter, friday, fukushima prefecture, highways, iwate prefecture, Japan, magnitude of the earthquake, mariana islands, miyagi, north east, onahama city, plumes of smoke, quake, richter scale, tokyo, tsunami warning, tsunami wave

The government of Japan has provided a report about the damage caused by a strong earthquake which rocked the north-east of the country on Friday, March 11. The Associated Press reports with reference to Japanese television that the tsunami wave, triggered by the quake, caused significant destruction in the northern part of the country.

The magnitude of the earthquake, which took place in Japan on Friday, was measured 8.8 on Richter scale. Quakes still continue in the capital, Tokyo. The epicenter of the quake was located 382 kilometers to the north-east off Tokyo, at the depth of 10 kilometers. (more…)

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