Crime Research

Studying psychology online is an attractive option. No campus to attend, no travelling is needed and study can be fitted in around existing work and family commitments.

Sociologist researcher Anna Gjika discusses how social media and cell phone video played a central role in national media coverage of three high school sexual assaults.

In San Pedro Sula’s jailhouse, chaos reigns. The inmates, trapped in their collective misery, battle for control over every inch of their tight quarters.

An excellent summary of academic research studies on capital punishment to help ground coverage and better understand this complex issue.

Psychology Professor Christopher J. Ferguson clears up four common misconceptions about mass homicides and who commits them, based on the current state of research.

A good denial is direct, simple and succinct. A poor denial helps keep the allegation alive. Learn how to tell the difference from forensic linguist expert Joe Koenig.

Adolescence is a time of dramatic psychosocial change and relative to adults, adolescent psychopathy scores are not as stable.

Changing biology to change behavior, new research indicates direct brain stimulation with low electric current can decrease intent towards violence, but how much do we really know about this method?

If you commit a crime while involuntarily intoxicated through legally prescribed drugs, can you and should you be held criminally responsible for your actions? In relevant cases, these are the questions a defense of involuntary intoxication is posing to a...

Is there really a relationship between prescribed antidepressants and a higher risk of committing murder? A research study from Finland studied 959 offenders to find out.

According to research, through false memories it can take as little as a few hours for you to be convinced you are guilty of a crime you didn’t commit.

Research from the University of Missouri suggests that genetic explanations for criminal behavior have no mitigating effect on a jury. Environmental explanations they say, show an offender as a victim who has suffered harm which results in society assigning less...