Posts Tagged ‘legal system’
In juvenile crime, race may affect sentence
STANFORD (US) — If people imagine a juvenile offender to be black, they are more willing to hand down harsher sentences to all juvenile offenders, a new study reports. Continue…
Thursday, May 24, 2012 17:13 - 3 Comments
Society & Culture - May 15, 2012 13:05 - 3 Comments
For kids of unwed, informal child support better
RUTGERS (US) — Young children of unmarried parents who live with their mother show better cognitive skills if the father provides cash support without being legally required to do so. (more…)
Society & Culture - Apr 27, 2012 13:22 - 4 Comments
Merit hiring may omit top candidates
STANFORD (US) — Sometimes it is only by taking race and gender into account that schools and employers can admit and hire the best candidates, a new report argues. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 1, 2011 12:28 - 3 Comments
9/11 Effect: 10 years of counter-terrorism
U. TORONTO (CAN) —As the world marks the upcoming 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the US, a new book scrutinizes the far-reaching impact of Resolution 1373, passed by the UN Security Council shortly after 9/11. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 3, 2011 11:59 - 0 Comments
Ghostwriting tarnishes medical ethics
U. TORONTO (CAN) — Academics who lend their names to medical journal articles penned by industry ghostwriters should be charged with professional and academic misconduct and fraud, according to a report by two law professors. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 19, 2011 11:09 - 2 Comments
Should DNA be a trade secret?
UNC-CHAPEL HILL/DUKE (US) — Healthy people who contribute DNA samples see their relationship with researchers as sharing a trade secret, rather than participating in traditional medical research. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 26, 2010 18:32 - 6 Comments
Courts send kids back to abusive dads
U. MINNESOTA (US) — When battered women living abroad left their abusive partners and returned to the United States with their children, in half the cases U.S. courts sent the children back to live with their fathers. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 19, 2010 19:27 - 0 Comments
A tax break for leather pants?
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — A new website (thediscography.org) takes a look at the music industry from the courts’ point of view—everything from copyright disputes to tax write-offs for black leather pants. (more…)
