Crime

Suicide
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Will the New 988 Hotline Be a Game Changer for Mental Health or a Missed Opportunity?
Ryan K. McBain @ryankmcbain, Stephanie Brooks Holliday
Jun 20, 2022
Los Angeles Times
Someone dies from suicide in the United States every 11 minutes, a rate that has increased almost 30 percent since 2000. The 988 mental health hotline will launch on July 16, but states need to clear significant hurdles: funding the expanded crisis response system and making sure people know it's available.
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Crime and Violence Prevention
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States Have Leading Role to Play in Preventing Mass Shootings
Katya Migacheva, Jordan R. Reimer @Jordan_R_Reimer
Jun 13, 2022
Route Fifty
As the United States grapples with how to prevent mass shootings, state governments might be best positioned to take the lead on long-term, sustainable efforts that prevent targeted violence.
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Gun Policy
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The Gun Laws That Work, and the Gun Laws That Don't
Andrew R. Morral @AndrewMorral
May 27, 2022
The Washington Post
Are certain gun laws and regulations likely to improve or worsen public safety? At a time when many Americans are searching for solutions to the country's intolerably high rates of gun violence, social scientists can help provide answers.
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Violent Extremism
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Extremism Online, Russia's Military, Preventing Police Killings: RAND Weekly Recap
May 20, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on the internet's role in stoking extremism and hate, how Russia has failed its military personnel, a research roadmap to help prevent police killings in the United States, and more.
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Gun Policy
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Exploring the Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts
Mar 7, 2022
A survey asked gun policy researchers, advocates, and congressional staffers who work on gun issues for their views on policies ranging from weapon bans to stand-your-ground laws. Regardless of where they stood, they were not so dissimilar in what they thought gun policies should be trying to accomplish.
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International Diplomacy
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Responding to Russia, Sex Trafficking, Anti-Bias Education: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 25, 2022
This weekly recap focuses on the false choice between responding to Russia or deterring China, how substance use and sex trafficking are connected, providing anti-bias education in U.S. schools, and more.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021
Dec 21, 2021
Vaccine rollouts, an attack on the U.S. Capitol, massive ransomware attacks, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, record numbers of job openings and people quitting, and more. RAND researchers weighed in on all these topics and more.
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Nuclear Deterrence
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Nuclear Deterrence, COVID-19 and Infant Deaths, Criminal Justice Reform: RAND Weekly Recap
Oct 22, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on why the United States doesn’t need more nuclear weapons, increased infant deaths during the pandemic, preventing veteran suicide, and more.
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Media Literacy
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China-Pakistan Partnership, Media Literacy, Incarcerated Parents: RAND Weekly Recap
Sep 24, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on the China-Pakistan partnership in light of the Taliban's rise to power, media literacy education, parenting from prison, and more.
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Criminal Justice
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Criminal Justice in the Pandemic Era and Beyond
Sep 7, 2021
The pandemic forced the entire criminal justice system to adapt and innovate in ways it never had before. How can the lessons of COVID-19 improve the future of criminal justice?
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Prison Reform
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Defunding Prisons, Preventing Cyberattacks, Promoting COVID-19 Vaccinations: RAND Weekly Recap
Aug 13, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on defunding prisons, how to deter ransomware attacks, overcoming barriers to COVID-19 vaccination, and more.
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Cybercrime
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How the United States Can Deter Ransomware Attacks
Jonathan W. Welburn @jwwelburn, Quentin E. Hodgson @QHodgson
Aug 9, 2021
Los Angeles Times
To rein in ransomware attacks, the United States needs to upend the risk-reward ratio for hackers and for the countries that harbor or support them. Such a strategy would make networks harder to breach, hit back harder against hackers, and claw back gains from those who succeed.
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Postsecondary Education
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Paying College Athletes, Preventing Suicide, Planning for Heatwaves: RAND Weekly Recap
Jul 16, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on a potential step toward paying college athletes, helping college freshmen overcome COVID-19 learning loss, the effects of U.S. sanctions in Syria, more.
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Energy Security
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Is DarkSide Really Sorry? Is It Even DarkSide?
Anu Narayanan, Jonathan W. Welburn @jwwelburn
May 19, 2021
Defense One
The U.S. military relies heavily on commercial energy assets, making the implications of events like the Colonial Pipeline outage more serious than just higher prices at the gas pump. The origins and severity of an attack dictate what the United States might do in response.
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United States
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President Biden's First Address to Congress: Insights from RAND
Apr 29, 2021
President Joe Biden addressed a joint session of Congress, summarizing his administration's early COVID-19 response and outlining plans that aim to loosen the pandemic's year-long grip on a weary nation. The speech reflected the fact that the United States faces policy challenges across a wide range of domains.
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Domestic Violence
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Domestic Violence Support Staff Need More Help to Tackle Challenges of the 'Shadow Pandemic'
Lillian Flemons, Shann Hulme
Mar 15, 2021
Encompass
During the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, European Union states had a 60 percent increase in emergency calls about intimate-partner violence. Amid a protracted second wave that has led to further lockdowns, it may not be too late to provide the funding and legislative changes necessary to ensure domestic violence service providers can offer crucial support.
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Crime

Will the New 988 Hotline Be a Game Changer for Mental Health or a Missed Opportunity?

States Have Leading Role to Play in Preventing Mass Shootings

The Gun Laws That Work, and the Gun Laws That Don't

Extremism Online, Russia's Military, Preventing Police Killings: RAND Weekly Recap

Exploring the Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts

Responding to Russia, Sex Trafficking, Anti-Bias Education: RAND Weekly Recap

RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021

Nuclear Deterrence, COVID-19 and Infant Deaths, Criminal Justice Reform: RAND Weekly Recap

China-Pakistan Partnership, Media Literacy, Incarcerated Parents: RAND Weekly Recap

Criminal Justice in the Pandemic Era and Beyond

Defunding Prisons, Preventing Cyberattacks, Promoting COVID-19 Vaccinations: RAND Weekly Recap

How the United States Can Deter Ransomware Attacks

Paying College Athletes, Preventing Suicide, Planning for Heatwaves: RAND Weekly Recap

Is DarkSide Really Sorry? Is It Even DarkSide?

President Biden's First Address to Congress: Insights from RAND

Domestic Violence Support Staff Need More Help to Tackle Challenges of the 'Shadow Pandemic'

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