Author: Christopher Marier
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A World Without Email
Cal Newport’s book A World Without Email explores the inefficiencies and disruptions email creates in modern workplaces. Newport argues that the “hyperactive hive mind”—the constant checking, responding, and managing of emails—reduces productivity and creates stress by fragmenting focus. He advocates for systems that minimize email reliance, such as standardized workflows and clearer communication structures, which…
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The Impact of Suspect Race and Precipitating Incident on Community Members’ Assessments of Deadly Force Reasonableness
The contrast between many community members’ views about the extent to which force used by police is excessive and the criminal justice system’s determination of same suggests a “reasonableness divide.” Using survey data from 3600 nationally representative adults, this study assessed one possible reason for this divide—that community members evaluate the reasonableness of deadly force…
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NC Officer Health, Fitness, and Wellness
At the direction of the N.C. Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and the N.C. Sheriffs’ Education and Training Standards Commission, and in a joint effort with partners at the North Carolina Justice Academy, researchers from Appalachian State University conducted a study aimed at understanding what benefit, if any, there would be to requiring…
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Demonstrations, Demoralization, and De-policing
Research SummaryThis study examined relationships between public antipathy toward the police, demoralization, and de-policing using pooled time-series cross sections of 18,413 surveys from law enforcement officers in 87 U.S. agencies both before and after Ferguson and contemporaneous demonstrations. The results do not provide strong support for Ferguson Effects. Post-Ferguson changes to job satisfaction, burnout, and…
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Feeling Blue: Officer Perceptions of Public Antipathy Predict Police Occupational Norms
Is police culture influenced by public opinion?
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Victim Age and Capital Sentencing Outcomes in North Carolina (1977–2009)
Does victim age influence influence the death penalty?
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Rape, Race, and Capital Punishment: An Enduring Cultural Legacy of Lethal Vengeance?
Historical analyses of southern statutes (i.e., Slave Codes, Black Codes, “Jim Crow,” etc.) and their enforcement reveals evidence of an enduring cultural legacy prescribing lethal vengeance to Blacks who violate White sensibilities, especially for Black males accused of sexually assaulting White females. Using a population of official data on capital murder trials in North Carolina…