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		<title>Study Links Suicide Risk with Rates of Gun Ownership, Political Conservatism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bettye Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents of states with the highest rates of gun ownership and political conservatism are at greater risk of suicide than those in states with less gun ownership and less politically conservative leanings, according to a study by University of California, Riverside sociology professor Augustine J. Kposowa.]]></description>
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		<title>Limiting Access to Alcohol Reduces Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bettye Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a book published this month, “Alcohol and Violence: The Nature of the Relationship and the Promise of Prevention” (Lexington Books), University of California, Riverside sociologist Robert Nash Parker says that amending existing laws or adopting additional regulations to limit the availability of alcohol — a practice known as environmental prevention — would reduce community violence. ]]></description>
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		<title>Living the Promise: Robert Nash Parker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Lovekin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The various links between alcohol consumption and violence are well established. However efforts aimed at reducing alcohol use among youths and gangs through education and other behavior modification has met with mixed results. Parker's work has empowered communities to reduce access to and limit sales of alcohol leading to lower crime rates and improved public safety.]]></description>
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		<title>Study Posits a Theory of Moral Behavior</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bettye Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do some people behave morally while others do not? Sociologists at the University of California, Riverside and California State University, Northridge have developed a theory of the moral self that may help explain the ethical lapses in the banking, investment and mortgage-lending industries that nearly ruined the U.S. economy.
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		<title>Perils Facing Higher Education Focus of Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Nealon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neil Smelser, one of the most distinguished professors in the University of California system, gave a lecture Feb. 14 at UC Riverside about perils facing higher education.]]></description>
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		<title>Liquor Store Density Linked to Youth Homicides</title>
		<link>http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/1163</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bettye Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Violent crime could be reduced significantly if policymakers at the local level limit the number of neighborhood liquor stores and ban the sale of single-serve containers of alcoholic beverages, according to separate studies led by University of California, Riverside researchers.

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