A public summer jobs program for high school students from disadvantaged neighborhoods in Chicago reduced violent crime arrests by 43...

Responding to the large number of people with serious mental illnesses in the criminal justice system will require more than...

Soul singer Betty Everett once proclaimed, “If you want to know if he loves you so, it’s in his kiss.”...

Examining factors such as how much children gesture at an early age may make it possible to identify and intervene...

Would you sacrifice one person to save five? Such moral choices could depend on whether you are using a foreign...

Death is not distributed equally around the world. In high-income countries, people typically die in old age of chronic diseases...

Feeling extreme loneliness can increase an older person's chances of premature death by 14 percent, according to research by John...

More than a third of marriages between 2005 and 2012 began online, according to new research at the University of...

As a bird sings, some neurons in its brain prepare to make the next sounds while others are synchronized with...

Moving from a high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhood spurs long-term gains in the physical and mental health of low-income adults, as...

A new study by the University of Chicago Crime Lab, in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools and local nonprofits...

The MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP), under the direction of co-principal investigators University of Chicago political...

In a discovery that could help instructors better teach deaf children, a team of University of Chicago researchers has found...