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Seven years ago a coalition of concerned Clevelanders came together to try an unusual idea: Rather than have fugitives turn themselves in at police stations or courthouses, how about asking them to come to church? This month, researchers at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Weste...

More than 250,000 children go into foster care each year to leave unsafe home situations. But, asks researcher David Crampton, is removing children from their homes always the best solution? Crampton, associate professor of social work at Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, contributed to a r...

Art, like bones of ancient hominids, provides clues to the past—particularly cultural life. From this artwork, certain roles for women—wives, mothers, mourners, midwives and even sex goddesses—emerge from the images sculpted from stone, engraved on wood or molded out of various earthen and metal mat...

People with mental illness have gotten a bad rap in past research studies, being labeled the group of people with the highest return rates to prison. But a researcher from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at �Ӱ���Ƶ counters those findings in a new study—demonstra...

Bingo, a popular activity in nursing homes, senior centers and assisted-living facilities, has benefits that extend well beyond socializing. Researchers found high-contrast, large bingo cards boost thinking and playing skills for people with cognitive difficulties and visual perception problems prod...

How useful would it be to anticipate how well someone will control their emotions? To predict how well they might be able to stay calm during stress? To accept critical feedback stoically? Heath A. Demaree, professor of psychology at �Ӱ���Ƶ, finds clues in what psychologist...