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Hate communities often flourish online for years, raising the question of how they persist. My research team has found that…
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US violent crime is at its lowest in more than a century – but the funding that helped reduce it is disappearing
The United States is experiencing one of the steepest declines in violent crime in modern history, including a murder rate…
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Lessons from research on 150 historical cases
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