People, including the activist group Code Pink, hold signs at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia during a protest about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Oct. 10, 2018, in Washington, D.C.
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Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was no ordinary reporter. His contacts included the Royal Family as well as known terrorists.
There’s been a decline in many crimes in South Africa but the murder rate has increased for the sixth year.
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Data from victim and crime perception surveys help make sense of South Africa’s crime statistics.
Portrait of Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), whose name and writings gave us the term ‘sadism’
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In early 20th-century Australia, a series of highly publicised murders of women saw newspapers widely discuss sadism.
Stepfathers are less likely to kill their children than previous researchers have claimed.
South African police on patrol in Hout Bay, Cape Town, following requests for more intervention by locals.
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Increasing police patrols won’t solve South Africa’s high rates of violent crime. Underlying problems need to be addressed.
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A court has ruled that pre-existing mental health problems can be taken into account.
If a news report mentions a shooter’s tough childhood, chances are he’s white.
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White shooters are nearly 95 percent more likely to have their crimes attributed to mental illness than black shooters.
Police at the scene in Ellenbrook, Western Australia, where the bodies of a mother and her two children were found. Her 19-year-old son has since been charged with their murder.
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The murder of a parent by their child, known as parricide, is a relatively uncommon form of family violence. We need to know much more about it to better understand and prevent it.
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El Día Después is an important initiative led by the cultural and intellectual elite, for all Mexicans.
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Move over Netflix, here’s whodunnit by headphones.
Iwao Hakamada in 2014.
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Iwao Hakamada was tried for quadruple murder in 1966, but the evidence that convicted him is regarded with widespread scepticism.
South Africa’s police commissioner, Khehla Sitole, and police minister, Bheki Cele, unveil a new plan to combat violent crimes.
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More than 90% of violent crimes in South Africa fall outside the categories named in the police’s new anti-crime strategy.
Dating sites are fuelling a rise in the rape and sexual assault of older people.
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At least one in six older people experience some form of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse each year.
The murder of 22-year-old Melburnian Eurydice Dixon has provoked outrage and grief on social media, following police advice to “stay safe”.
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Advising women to “stay safe” is problematic because it transfers the responsibility for men’s violence onto women, and distracts us from more difficult conversations.
How long has this been here?
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From genes to wounds, science is making it easier to establish the order of events in criminal cases.
Tributes in Tottenham, London.
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The British government is not facing up to the serious challenges it faces.
Police at the scene of a fatal stabbing of a 20-year-old man in Hackney, London on April 4.
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There have been more than 50 murders in London already in 2018, and more in February and March than in New York.
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The murder of toddler James Bulger 25 years ago by two 10-year-old boys was a rare and shocking case that still impacts the criminal justice system today.
Serial killers are strategic and clever, usually choosing cities or towns in the midst of upheaval to commit their heinous crimes so they can fly under the radar.
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As Toronto reacts to the news that a killer was preying on victims in the city’s gay village, an expert on serial killers explains how violent offenders are more strategic than previously thought.
The most common reason for intimate partner homicide was jealousy, followed by gain, and then love.
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Intimate partner homicides where there is no known history of violence are not uncommon.