Crime Spotlight
Exploring the debates and discussions around crime, criminal justice and punishment and the challenges faced by the criminal justice system in delivering appropriate and effective punishment for those who break the law.
Found guilty of manslaughter Michelle Carter encouraged Conrad Roy III to commit suicide via text messages. What are the implications of her guilty verdict?
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Facebook has a dark side. A side where it is used to share details of crimes, impersonate someone else for sinister intentions, stalk a victim, bully...
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From true crime and wrongful convictions to criminal psychology and investigative reporting, here are 51 of the best crime blogs and websites on the internet today.
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Should addiction be a mitigating factor that lessens the responsibility for crime? And should the issue of whether or not addiction is a disease make any...
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These are crimes which are most often picked up by the media due to their shock-factor and have everyone wondering just what makes a child kill.
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Of the current uses of psychiatry in legal settings, the claim that psychopaths can be identified through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is among the most...
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Modern brain imagining is being used to explore the criminal brain, looking for biological factors which could lead to criminal behavior.
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The rise of the Branch Davidians cult under the leadership of David Koresh led to a 51 day standoff in 1993 with his empire crashing down...
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The repeated naming of shooters by the media in their extensive coverage of mass shootings risks doing more harm than good.
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Research into the Columbine Effect has highlighted a contagious nature to mass school shootings with many shooters citing the Columbine High School shooting as their inspiration.
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Child criminals raise difficult questions for society and the juvenile justice system. The murder of James Bulger in 1993 being a case example.
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When a multiple murderer is discovered a serial killer nickname soon appears, an assigned name they will be known by forever more, propelling them into celebrity...
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