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Popular Mechanics February 18, 2010 Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
AskMen.com |
Crime Down In 2008: FBI Violent crime, property crime, murder and manslaughter all dropped in 2008. But there were some increases, too. |
InternetNews September 22, 2009 |
Canada Uses IBM BI Software to Fight Crime Edmonton police are the latest to use business intelligence apps to identify crime hot spots. |
Reason December 2007 Radley Balko |
Ganging Up Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff recently introduced legislation to combat gang violence. But a new study by the Justice Policy Institute concludes most efforts aren't working. |
Reason November 2002 Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
Searcher September 2003 Kenneth Fink |
Criminology Web Sites: An Annotated "Webliography" This list may serve as an introduction to the many Web sites devoted to both the prosaic and exotic in the field of criminology. |
Bank Technology News September 2010 Tom Leuchtner |
Patrolling the Neighborhood Cyber criminals are employing increasingly sophisticated methods to perpetrate financial crimes. |
Reason February 2003 |
Letters Gun Control Twists... True Patriots... |
Reason March 2001 Jib Fowles |
Missing Link The bum rap against TV violence... |
Reason February 2005 Town & O'Toole |
Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility." |
HBS Working Knowledge May 5, 2011 Maggie Starvish |
How 'Political Voice' Empowers the Powerless An increase in female political representation seems to be giving female crime victims in India a voice in the criminal justice system, according to new research by Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and colleagues. |
Fast Company March 2000 Rekha Balu |
Cyber Crime Report from the Futurist |
PC Magazine September 7, 2004 John Blazevic |
True Crime: Streets of LA True Crime is reminiscent of the Grand Theft Auto series, with its highly detailed cityscape and focus on driving, but here players stop crimes instead of committing them. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 James V. DeLong |
The Great Gun Fight More guns mean less crime. Or they don't. Which is it? Two respected authors, John R. Lott Jr. and Robert Ehrlich debate... |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Gene Callahan & William Anderson |
The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops? |
ifeminists December 30, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Criminals Owe Debt to Victims, Not Society I believe both civil and criminal court systems should aim at compensating the victim. What would a criminal system organized around restitution look like? |
Inc. August 2003 Robert X. Cringely |
They've Got Your Number Identity theft using a combination of computer technology and government information is a major crime just waiting to happen. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Sweet & Cass |
How to Fight Crime in Real Time New York City's Real Time Crime Center enables officers to extract information from integrated databases and send it immediately to investigators in the field. Displays are tailored to the situation at hand. |
ifeminists February 25, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Statistics from the Ministry of Truth The DOJ's recently declared that domestic violence has been cut in half over ten years. Men's advocates reply that the figures do not include violence against male victims. But larger issues are involved, like the manipulation of information (and us) by the government. |
CRM October 2010 Koa Beck |
To Predict and Serve Predictive analytics helps a police department make better use of limited resources. |
Salon.com June 28, 2000 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Race has everything to do with it In the wake of the Central Park assaults, it's time to pay attention to black violence against women -- and a murder rate that's still seven times that of whites. |
Reason July 2008 Kerry Howley |
Striking Distance Few states have enforced the "three strikes" law with as much zeal as California. But thanks to perverse incentives built into the legislation, the law may encourage some of those offenders to commit more-violent crimes in the future. |
Salon.com April 14, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath... |
Inc. August 2005 Michael S. Hopkins |
Data Is the World Steven Levitt's bestseller "Freakonomics" offers lessons to businesspeople about how to use analytical tools of economics to read the world more accurately. The controversial assertion that the legalization of abortion in the U.S. decreased crime serves as an example. |
Information Today December 15, 2015 |
Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice. |
AskMen.com Steve Richer |
How To: Cope With Robbery What you should do if you find that you've been robbed, and preventative measures you can take. |
Salon.com March 9, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
Deadly consequences "Zero tolerance" policies to stop youth violence may actually make schools less safe, an expert says... |
Bank Systems & Technology August 30, 2004 Ivan Schneider |
Who Was That Masked Man? MSU professor talks about the problem of fighting ID theft and the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act. |
Reason April 2004 Anderson & Jackson |
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution. |
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010 Susan Berfield |
Bill Bratton, Globocop He tamed crime in New York and Los Angeles. Next stop... Kabul? |
Wired October 2009 Vince Beiser |
Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons From the death penalty to "three strikes" laws, Americans love tough responses to crime, but not necessarily smart ones. Nils Christie has a better idea: Stop treating lawbreakers like criminals. |
Salon.com September 5, 2000 David Horowitz |
The civil rights movement is dead, RIP Black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson criticize racialing profiling in the legal system, but they espouse the same logic in their own politics. |
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
More Heat for Craigslist Over Erotic Services Ads After Boston murder, Craigslist vows continued partnership with law enforcement, but keeps mum on changes to the site. |
Chemistry World March 7, 2013 Paul Illing |
Is lead linked to violence? Recent articles are part of a spate of media interest in claims that a relationship exists between tetraethyl lead in petrol and violent crime. But is it true? |
ifeminists April 30, 2007 Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 |
Welcome to the Amazing Jobless Recovery It will take 340,000 new jobs a month to get back to near-full employment by late 2004. Sadly, there's little chance of that happening |
ifeminists April 14, 2009 Carey Roberts |
Abuse Excuse: How Liberalism Keeps Women in their Place Liberals have become the unapologetic predators of women, gleefully playing on their fears and psychological vulnerabilities, all in the name of curbing domestic violence. |
Salon.com July 9, 2001 David Horowitz |
Cops are not to blame Who is responsible for the recent killings of blacks in Cincinnati? Liberals and "civil rights" crusaders... |
Salon.com March 14, 2000 Foote Sweeney & Smith |
Sisterhood is powerless How feminism has made men's lives safer -- and women's more dangerous. |
InternetNews June 8, 2004 Roy Mark |
The Internet: 'A Dirty Mess' Cyberpunk pioneer and writer Bruce Sterling tells Gartner conference digital revolution has been replaced by digital terrorism. |
Bank Systems & Technology August 31, 2004 Ivan Schneider |
Hang 'Em High Representative John Carter (R-Texas), spoke with the editor about the new legislation, enforcement issues and its impact upon the banking industry. |
InternetNews April 10, 2009 Alex Goldman |
FBI Throws Data-Sharing Tech at Serial Killings The Internet allows law enforcement agencies to collaborate in tracking highly mobile criminals who have escaped detection for years - sometimes for decades. |
BusinessWeek March 31, 2011 Paul M. Barrett |
Book Review: Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories by Federico Varese In the age of globalization, is the gangster industry spreading, or just going on the lam? |
Insurance & Technology September 14, 2004 Ivan Schneider |
Penalties Upped for ID Theft Identity theft penalty enhancement act makes ID crimes more costly. |
U.S. Banker June 2011 Glen Fest |
Catch Me If You Can Two years in the making, a new crime database could help banks drastically improve robbery response and prevention. |
Wired May 2005 Noah Shachtman |
Spycam Force Chicago's street cops have a new kind of backup: a point-and-click surveillance network tied to a citywide crime-fighting database. |
Reason October 2001 Rhys Southan |
DNA on Demand Scotland's Strathclyde Police don't blink twice when it comes to slighting privacy for crime detection. In March, Scotland's largest police department announced that officers would take DNA samples from everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the crime... |
Reason June 2008 Radley Balko |
'30 Years of Failure' A conversation about the war on drugs with Ed Burns, co-creator of The Wire. |
PC World October 2002 Anne Kandra |
Don't Let Them Steal Your Good Name Identity theft is skyrocketing -- and it's even being used to fund terrorism. The Web can be a real boon for identity thieves, helping them find information about victims and profit from the crime. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Ceyda Oner |
Back to Basics: What Constitutes Unemployment? Earlier this year, the International Labor Office announced that global unemployment last year reached the highest level on record. More than 200 million people, 7 percent of the global workforce, were looking for jobs in 2009. |