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Positive policing changes after cannabis legalization: Clearance rates improve for burglaries, vehicle thefts

07-26-2018 James Health News

Washington State University researchers have found that marijuana legalization in

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Stricter gun control could stop violent men killing their partners and themselves: Researchers draw on 10 years of data on intimate partner homicide to determine the role guns play in murder-suicides

04-24-2018 James Health News

Men who use guns to kill their partner are also

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Judges as susceptible to gender bias as laypeople — and sometimes more so

04-22-2018 James Health News

A new study of trial court judges suggests these arbiters

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Scientists decry lack of science in ‘forensic science’: Many forensic methods have never been scientifically validated

04-14-2018 James Health News

Many of the “forensic science” methods commonly used in criminal

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Gender roles highlight gender bias in judicial decisions

04-05-2018 James Health News

Judges may be just as biased or even more biased

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