Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
Millennials are more likely to be arrested than their predecessor counterparts regardless of self-reported criminal activity, finds a new study by a Johns Hopkins University expert. Furthermore, black men who self-reported no offenses were 419% more likely to be arrested at the beginning of the 21st century than non-offending blacks of the previous generation, and 31.5% more likely to be arrested than whites of the same generation who did not self-report any crimes.
April 29, 2019 Tags: arrest, crime, disparities, generation, incarceration, Millennials, Political Science, sociology, Vesla Weaver
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
The more crime that occurs along a student’s way to school, the higher the likelihood that student will be absent, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, crime, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, school commute
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
Leaders representing about 45 U.S. cities and urban scholars will convene to discuss new research on critical issues for metro areas during the 21st Century Neighborhoods: Research. Leadership. Transformation symposium, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
December 1, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, Barbara Mikulski, cities, crime, Economic segregation, Johns Hopkins University, Lester K. Spence, nal Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color, Pat Sharkey, Racial wealth gap, urban issues, violence
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences, University-Related
A “Ferguson effect” likely decelerated arrests in Baltimore well before the April 2015 unrest related to the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, but there is little evidence to suggest it influenced the city’s crime rate, a new report concludes.
March 15, 2016 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, crime, Ferguson effect, Freddie Gray, Johns Hopkins University, Police, Stephen L. Morgan
| Category: Social Sciences
