It contains the only direct summary of the Board's recommendations as well as an analysis and critique. In this, we explore the practices of editors in assigning stories and the knowledge and attitudes displayed by them. In a second piece in this issue, psychologist Ed Dunbar writes about the pitfalls of assessing hate crimes perpetrator's risk for future violence. The 14 lessons learned from the Columbine High School shootings. This is a terse and tense review of how critical events are transformed into spectacles and the social consequences of this transformation.
Special emphasis is given to the meaning of violence.
This issue focuses on the police. It discusses the research on excessive force and police abuse, racial profiling of black motorists, the problems of maintaining police statistics, public perceptions of the police, increased surveillance techniques and the militarization of police, and more. Also presented is a case study of the impact of affirmative action focused on native Hawaiians. A state of the field report on the basic findings of 40 research studies dealing with campus ethnoviolence. Includes the issues of victimization and revictimization, the traumatic effects of ethnoviolence, what we know about campus perpetrators.