Ask residents in the San Francisco Bay Area what their most pressing regional concern is right now, and a large percentage of them will likely say crime. High-profile robberies, endless car and garage ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A University at Buffalo criminologist has introduced a new element into one of the field’s guiding frameworks that has implications for crime reduction and other fundamental areas ...

If you’re familiar with the Broken Windows theory of policing, you may have learned of it, perhaps indirectly, from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller “The Tipping Point,” published 25 years ago. In the ...

The new edition of CU Boulder Professor Jill Turanovic’s book explains how and why victimization happens, as well as what can be done about it Understanding why crime happens and how to prevent it ...

Criminology has evolved from eighteenth-century notions of free will and proportional punishment to multi-disciplinary frameworks incorporating biology, psychology and sociology. Classical theories ...

Criminal behavior has a negative impact on individuals, economies, and society at large. Beyond the physical and psychological harm inflicted on victims, there are also financial ramifications. For ...

It is the mystery that has America on the edge of its seat. Five weeks after she vanished from her $1 million home near Tucson, Arizona, we still do not know what happened to Nancy Guthrie. For her ...

There are, however, bigger conspiracies that lurk underneath the surface of society. While many of them involve the illegal transfer of money or drugs, others affect the public at large in strange, ...

Chicago’s mayoral primary, which cost Lori Lightfoot her job last month, has already been sanded down into an object lesson in how high crime will lose Democrats elections. But it was clear, even on ...

A trailer for HBO Max’s highly-anticipated dramatization of the hit Netflix series “The Staircase” was shown at CrimeCon 2022 in Las Vegas on Friday afternoon, as podcast co-hosts Sonia Pfeiffer and ...