Crime

National Academies Looks at How to Reduce Racial Inequality In Criminal Justice System
Reports
September 5, 2023

National Academies Looks at How to Reduce Racial Inequality In Criminal Justice System

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To Know a Society, Know Its Crime
Research
September 6, 2017

To Know a Society, Know Its Crime

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Too Much Crime Fiction at the Election: Politicians Warned Over Misleading manifesto Claims
News
April 29, 2015

Too Much Crime Fiction at the Election: Politicians Warned Over Misleading manifesto Claims

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Is There a Spike in Crime on NFL Game Days?
Business and Management INK
November 18, 2014

Is There a Spike in Crime on NFL Game Days?

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Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

The latest episode of Social Science Bites is an interview with Lawrence Sherman, professor of criminology at Cambridge University and a keen advocate of experimental criminology.

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Property Crime, Violence and Recession

Property Crime, Violence and Recession

There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.

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Making Sense of Crime Trends

Making Sense of Crime Trends

Much of the current confusion about crime trends is born of the tendency to bunch together a whole range of different harms and actions under the abstract category of ‘crime’. This blinds us to where the significant problems are.

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Undercover Pressures

Undercover Pressures

Some criminal investigations resonate over the years. Even if you’ve only had peripheral involvement with them, as in my case, they still […]

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The Myths of Offender Profiling

The Myths of Offender Profiling

Recent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to explain why I find the term ‘profiling’ so problematic yet get stuck with using it.

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Tough on Crime or Beating the System?

Tough on Crime or Beating the System?

An evaluation of Missouri Department of Mental Health’s Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Murder Acquittees.

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What Do We Mean when We Talk About Punishment?

What Do We Mean when We Talk About Punishment?

Why do we punish and to what ends?

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The Campaign for Eddie Gilfoyle’s Murder Conviction to be Squashed

The Campaign for Eddie Gilfoyle’s Murder Conviction to be Squashed

The ability of people to keep their most desperate, innermost thoughts hidden from those around them is surely something that juries ought to be reminded of in cases where a death could be suicide or murder…

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