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Arweiniodd ymchwiliad Stephen Lawrence a’r adroddiad Macpherson at newidiadau yn y ffordd y mae'r heddlu'n delio â theuluoedd unigolion sydd wedi eu llofruddio.
Australia recorded the second-lowest number of homicides since the Australian Institute of Criminology began compiling national statistics in 1989.
CCTV is a popular form of digital evidence but it can be unreliable and problematic.
The US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. When it comes to violent offenders and the Black community, the system isn’t working, argue criminologists.
There are many different reasons why men and women commit these acts, but the small number of cases makes it difficult to track.
Whether crime is up or down depends on what kind of crime, what the comparison is to, and where you’re counting crimes.
Gun sales have risen in recent years. An expert explains who and what is driving this trend and how it’s affecting Americans.
Australia has recorded a small rise in the number of murders in 2019-20. We need to know more about these cases to make sure this does not become a trend.
Doctors and nurses fear arrests and being charged with culpable homicide even for minor mistakes.
School shootings are typically preceded by a series of warning signs. Are educators, police and policymakers paying enough attention?
FBI statistics recorded a 30% rise in homicides in 2020. A criminologist helps break down what was behind the spike.
Older adults’ experience of violent death is different to that of younger adults, our new research finds.
Gun violence as a whole is much more common, and much more deadly, than mass shootings are.
Certain crimes, such as robberies and sexual offences, have declined dramatically during the pandemic, while others, such as online fraud, domestic violence and homicides, have not.
Gun violence has killed hundreds of Americans, including kids, this summer. There are proven ways to bring peace to city streets, says an expert in violence prevention – but someone has to pay for it.
In a handful of cases, defendants in murder cases have said that they were defending themselves from a same-sex pass or attempted sexual assault.
The causes of injuries to children are often linked to the circumstances in which people live.
AMLO’s war against organised crime in Mexico isn’t stopping people dying.
The reasons the homicide rate is declining are complex, but a reduction in alcohol consumption and access to weapons are contributors.
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Criminology, University of South Wales
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Lecturer (Teaching) for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
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Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Crimniology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Leadership, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
