Arrest numbers reflect a nearly 40% decline from 2019, but the statistics come with some caveats.
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In the past year, black people were seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people.
Possessing heroin, cocaine, meth and other drugs for personal use is no longer a criminal offense in Oregon. The idea is to get people with problem drug use help, not punishment.
Muslims make up 9% of France’s population and half of all its prisoners – many convicted on drug charges. But social justice isn’t part of the country’s growing debate on legalization.
Singapore claims to have nearly eliminated drug use and crime thanks to capital punishment - but the data tells a very different story.
West Australian Labor leader Mark McGowan said his state has the “worst rate of methamphetamine usage in the country”. We asked the experts to check the evidence.
Our panel of experts examines whether immigration leads to more crime using data from across 200 metropolitan areas and 20 years of research.
South Africa has stubbornly high rates of violent crime. More concerning, though, is that the latest crime stats suggest the recent increase in murders is not slowing - it may even continue.
Why does suburban drug dealing tend to skirt the rampant violence of inner-city drug dealing?
Should cyberbullies be isolated and shamed? Or should they be helped ? Victims of cyberbullying could take to being cyberbullies themselves.
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Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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Assistant Professor of Health Studies, Texas Woman's University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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Regents' Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine
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Professor and Chair of Sociology, William & Mary
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Associate Professor and Department Chair of Sociology, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Interim Dean of the School of Social Work, University of Alabama
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NHMRC Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Human Rights, Swansea University
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Research Fellow, Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER); PhD Candidate, Flinders University, Anglia Ruskin University
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Assistant Professor of History, Bard Early College Baltimore
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Professor, Sociology Department, Oregon State University
