Research on developing brains has helped bring about a sea change in attitudes toward juvenile life without parole. But many people who committed crimes as minors are still serving such sentences.
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Ghana is a signatory to several international conventions that oblige it to guarantee the right to life.
The short answer: It’s complicated – and depends, in part, where you live.
The scandal and its aftermath point to a systemic failure of police accountability. Such failure is fertile soil for police corruption and makes a repeat of the scandal entirely possible.
AI could allow cybercriminals to operate with greater efficiency, targeting more people at once.
The promise of pardons to offer criminal sanctuary likely undermines the rule of law and increases the risks of political violence.
Check fraud is one of history’s oldest financial crimes and criminals are finding new ways to use it to steal billions from banks.
The story of Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s cult The Family has been told in a non-fiction book and documentary, a novel, In the Clearing, and now a Disney+ series. What can stories like this teach us?
The stories of women who escape the mafia need to be told but we also need to learn more about the women who stay and reinforce the structures of crime families.
Similar techniques used to identify criminals have been employed to unmask anonymous authors. But they aren’t foolproof.
Any law that protects threatened wildlife should be welcomed – but a ban alone will not prevent illegal activity.
Crime is spiking and you’re scared. Here are strategies to get past the fear and diminish the threat of crime in your community.
A new study finds sample episodes of the recently cancelled Police Ten 7 TV show disproportionately featured Māori and Pasifika suspects or offenders. It also under-represented Polynesian officers.
Research highlights at least six different motivations for perpetrators that commit arson.
A 25-year old sex offender was given a 10% discount on his sentence due to his age, and ended up getting home detention. But is 25 really too young to understand the gravity of sexual assault?
Fear has important consequences for how people vote, what they spend their money on, who they consider to be part of their communities, and who they treat as outsiders.
From Tupac to Jay-Z, many a rap artist has set pen to paper to pay homage to the women who gave them birth.
Crimestoppers was originally founded in 1988 and now receives more than half a million reports each year.
A threshold has been crossed, with a pessimistic outlook becoming more dominant than an optimistic one.
A pipe in the hand could end or save a life.
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