Watching the Detectives

Watching the detectives: crime programming, fear of crime, and attitudes about the criminal justice system.

Research demonstrates a complex relationship between television viewing and fear of crime. Social critics assert that media depictions perpetuate the dominant cultural ideology about crime and criminal justice. This article examines whether program type differentially affects fear of crime and perceptions of the crime rate. Next, it tests whether such programming differentially affects viewers'...

The Design Detectives

Isaac Asimov once wrote, “An exoheresy may cause scientists to bestir themselves for the purposes of reexamining the bases of their beliefs, even if only to gather firm and logical reasons for the rejection of the exoheresy-and that is good.” By an exoheresy Asimov meant a challenge to scientific orthodoxy that arises from outside the scientific community. He was writing specifically about Imma...

Phrase Detectives

In this Chapter we discuss Phrase Detectives, a Game-With-A-Purpose (GWAP) for anaphoric annotation that has been one of the first GWAPs for corpus annotation and one of the most successful. We discuss the architecture of the game, evaluate its results in terms of quantity and quality of data, and explain how the data were used to create a publically available corpus that can be used to study a...

Innovations. DNA detectives.

To understand the many potential causes and resulting consequences of DNA damage, scientists first need methods to detect it. Canadian scientists X. Chris Le and Michael Weinfeld, with help from U.S. molecular biologist Steven Leadon, developed a selective, sensitive technique for measuring DNA damage. The scientists combined a thymine glycol antibody with thymine glycol to selectively tag a sp...

What Did the Savage Detectives Find?