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A&S in the News: April 11-17, 2021
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A&S in the News: April 4-10, 2021
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A&S in the News: March 28 – April 3, 2021
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A&S in the News: March 21-27, 2021
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Criminal Justice Professor Raising Awareness of Human Trafficking
From the January 2021 Desktop News | Dr. Brittany Gilmer and students from her class on human trafficking are hoping to make a difference in their communities by raising awareness throughout Tuscaloosa about human trafficking. Gilmer, an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, first became interested in and started studying the issue of trafficking through her research on Somali pirates. Because of her expertise in the area, Gilmer was asked to create and teach a class […]
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A&S in the News: January 17-23, 2021
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A&S in the News: December 13, 2020 – January 9, 2021
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A&S in the News: September 13-19, 2020
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Media and the Public Opinion of Torture
From the September 2020 Desktop News | According to Dr. Erin Kearns, an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of Alabama, recent polls say that about half of adults in the United States think torture is acceptable in counterterrorism. The academic understanding is that torture is not effective, so why does the American public think this way? In her new book Tortured Logic, Kearns and her coauthor, American University professor Joseph Young, explore […]