Three-strikes Law Fails to Reduce Crime
California’s three-strikes law has not reduced violent crime, but has contributed significantly to the state’s financial woes by substantially increasing the prison population, according to a UC...
View ArticleLiving the Promise: Robert Nash Parker
The various links between alcohol consumption and violence are well established. However efforts aimed at reducing alcohol use among youths and gangs through education and other behavior modification...
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"As high school students change in how they're getting their information, it's important for us to make those changes as well… Students feel more comfortable in that environment." Emily Engelschall,...
View ArticleLimiting Access to Alcohol Reduces Violence
In a book published this month, “Alcohol and Violence: The Nature of the Relationship and the Promise of Prevention” (Lexington Books), University of California, Riverside sociologist Robert Nash...
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"The UCR Entomology Research Museum has extensive collections of parasitoid wasps from throughout the world, and I routinely discover new species among the collected material. I decided to name it...
View ArticleResearch and Scholarship
UCR researchers from the Bourns College of Engineering have redesigned the component materials of the battery that power electric cars in an environmentally friendly way. This will solve problems like...
View ArticleSociology Professor to Discuss Link Between Alcohol and Violence
Sociology professor Robert Nash Parker will discuss his research documenting the role alcohol plays in violence in a University Honors/Phi Beta Kappa lecture on Jan. 22 at 5 p.m. in HUB 355. Copies of...
View ArticlePopulation Health Seminar Series Continues in Winter and Spring Quarters
A special seminar series on population health research at UC Riverside, begun last fall, has been extended to the winter and spring quarters of 2014. The first seminar of the winter quarter will...
View ArticleSociologist to Discuss Model for Predicting Crime
Can we predict crime? UC Riverside sociologist Robert Nash Parker will discuss the results of a unique collaboration with the Indio Police Department that reduced the number of burglaries in the...
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Chasing down everybody (with Ebola) is extremely conservative and extremely expensive...It suggests to the population that they're at some significant risk of coming down with Ebola,and I don't think...
View ArticleEmployees Say Farewell to UC Riverside
Meet a few of the retirees who have spent decades working at UC Riverside.
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