New research has indicated that jurors who see colour photographs of a crime scene are more likely to convict of murder than jurors who see black and white...
Category - Crime Research
A new research study has found sleepy adolescents were more likely to be antisocial during adolescence and were 4.5 times more likely to commit crime by age 29.
A lower resting heart rate partially explains why men commit more crime than women, according to a new study by the University of Pennsylvania.
Research from the University of Chicago has revealed that when juries are shown CCTV footage of a crime taking place in slow motion, they are three times more...
Juvenile crime, gangs and anti-social behaviour by youngsters has been debated almost daily with the age of criminal responsibility being at the center.
Research from the Netherlands studied the self-reports of victims who had experienced abuse and criminal victimisation because of their mental illness.
In a number of studies carried out with prison inmates, the rate of head injury has been seen up to seven to eight times higher than the rates found in the...
Crime recording within police forces has dramatically changed over the last 30 years. With the development and implementation of computerized systems and...
The criminal profiling technique of geographic profiling has been used in an academic research study to determine the real identity of the elusive street...
Examining the research on the warrior gene and its impact in criminology regarding the origins of violence and aggression in criminal behaviour.
Meet Guardian Crime, an innovative project transforming FBI crime statistics into friendly graphics, accessible through a simple Twitter tweet.
In death penalty cases, how trustworthy a person looks may play a part in a jury’s decision to condemn them to death.