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New Edited Volume: Social Networks and the Life Course
Editors: Duane Alwin, Diane Felmlee, Derek Kreager
Five Liberal Arts Courses Sending Students Abroad Over Spring Break
CRIM 412 students in an embedded course, Curacao: Crime, Social Control and the Legal System, will travel to Curacao, a Dutch Caribbean island, in order to gain a better understanding of how the Dutch legal system is implemented on the island.
NEW PROJECT TO IDENTIFY RISK FACTORS FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
Sarah Font, assistant professor of sociology, collaborates on a new research project that aims to examine the incident rates and risk factors for commercial sexual exploitation of children in Pennsylvania.
NEW PROJECT TO INVESTIGATE SOCIAL MEDIA AGGRESSION
The National Science Foundation recently awarded Diane Felmlee, professor of sociology, the Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant for an interdisciplinary project that will explore aggression in social media.
New Online Criminal Justice Master’s Degree Aimed at Professionals in Field
Penn State is offering a new master of professional studies in criminal justice policy and administration, a 30-credit program being offered online through Penn State World Campus and taught by faculty from Penn State’s College of Liberal Arts and the Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs. Courses will begin in fall 2018.
New Book: “Faithful Measures: New Methods in the Measurement of Religion” edited by Dr. Roger Finke
Faithful measures bring transparency to polls, deepen understanding of religion.
Puerto Rico Orders Review and Recount of Hurricane Deaths
Research from Dr. Alexis Santos featured in the New York Times.
Researchers Find One in Six U.K. Parents Allow Young Teens to Drink Alcohol
Penn State collaborators Jennifer Maggs, professor of human development, and Jeremy Staff, professor of criminology and sociology, identified characteristics of parents in the U.K. who allow their children to drink alcohol when they are 13 or 14 years old.
Researchers Raise New Questions About the Hurricane Death Toll in Puerto Rico
The analysis by Alexis Santos, director of graduate studies in applied demography at Pennsylvania State University, and Jeffrey Howard, a demographer and epidemiologist at the US Department of Defense, which has not been peer-reviewed, finds an estimated 518 more people died in Puerto Rico in September 2017, the month of Hurricane Maria, than died during previous Septembers on the island.