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More sports viewing, less rape intervention

  Stacey Hust with graduate students Chunbo Ren, left, and Ming Lei. (Photo by Tim Marsh, WSU Today)     Sexualization of sports “People just think sports is sport,” Hust said. But once you start looking critically at how women athletes are portrayed in the media, she said, it begins to look like women’s sports is […]

Gender and shift work influence police depression

Depression and suicidal thoughts among police officers differ based on gender and work shift, according to a recent study co-authored by Bryan Vila, professor of criminal justice and member of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane. Results appear in the October 2008 edition of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.   A […]