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Kathryn Farr | Professor Emerita of Sociology College of Liberal Arts and...

Hanan Al-Zubaidy '15, MS '18 never met her maternal grandfather, but says...

A commission of researchers released a timely report late last month that...

Mass incarceration is as much an environmental problem as it is a social...

A number of juvenile school shooters in the U.S, including those suffering from serious mental illness, have been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Regardless of their age- and mental-health- related competencies, these...

Ezequiel is a different person from the troubled teenager who entered prison...

"Orange is the New Black," the hit Netflix prison comedy-drama, has drawn both praise and criticism for its depiction of women inmates at a fictional federal prison. A new book from a Portland State University professor uses the popular series as a starting point to offer a more realistic...

A recent experiment conducted by a Portland State University psychologist with college students at UCLA confirms and expands upon existing research on racial stereotypes and their influence on “shooter bias.” The results show that not just race but also the clothes a victim wears and...