Professor Annique Un, from Northeastern University in Boston, for example, did a pointy study.
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Poverty cannot be the primary reason, says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
Barry Bluestone, a dean at Northeastern University in Boston, is the son of a former vice-president of the United Auto Workers (UAW).
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Jack Levin, a criminology professor at Northeastern University in Boston, acknowledges the success of policing strategies, but notes that an ageing society like the United States should expect to experience less violent crime.
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But background checks would not have stopped most school shootings, in which the gunmen took legally obtained weapons from parents with spotless backgrounds, says Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston.
Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, pointed to several factors behind the strength of white supremacist groups, including a flagging economy and the election of the country's first black president.
He has been an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University in Boston since 1995 and also teaches a partnership tax class in the master's in taxation degree program at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, his LinkedIn page states.
On the other side of the Charles river, in Boston itself, Northeastern University is helping to build the country's first housing project for both students and city residents.
"Kobe Bryant, Joakim Noah and Roger McDowell are not any different from many people in our society who use offensive language like that on a daily basis, " said Jarrod Chin of the Society for the Study of Sport in Society at Boston's Northeastern University.
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