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.
Homicidal Sleepwalking: To Kill While Asleep
Imagine waking to discover you have killed someone while sound asleep? In these cases of alleged sleepwalking murder, that is...
Michelle Carter: Will guilty verdict in teen texting suicide case lead to new laws on end-of-life issues?
Found guilty of manslaughter Michelle Carter encouraged Conrad Roy III to commit suicide via text messages. What are the implications...
The Criminal Face of Facebook: When Murder Goes Viral
Facebook has a dark side. A side where it is used to share details of crimes, impersonate someone else for...
51 Best Crime Blogs & Websites
From true crime and wrongful convictions to criminal psychology and investigative reporting, here are 51 of the best crime blogs...
Why shouldn’t addiction be a defence to low-level crime?
Should addiction be a mitigating factor that lessens the responsibility for crime? And should the issue of whether or not...
Murderous Children: The Youthful Killer
These are crimes which are most often picked up by the media due to their shock-factor and have everyone wondering...
Looking For Psychopaths In All The Wrong Places: fMRI In Court
Of the current uses of psychiatry in legal settings, the claim that psychopaths can be identified through functional magnetic resonance...
Can Criminal Behavior Be Predicted Using Brain Scans?
Modern brain imagining is being used to explore the criminal brain, looking for biological factors which could lead to criminal...
David Koresh: The Rise and Fall Of The Branch Davidians
The rise of the Branch Davidians cult under the leadership of David Koresh led to a 51 day standoff in...
Media Coverage Of Mass Murders: Should A Shooter Be Named?
The repeated naming of shooters by the media in their extensive coverage of mass shootings risks doing more harm than...
The Columbine Effect and Mass School Shootings
Research into the Columbine Effect has highlighted a contagious nature to mass school shootings with many shooters citing the Columbine...
Child Criminals, Murder And The Juvenile Justice System
Child criminals raise difficult questions for society and the juvenile justice system. The murder of James Bulger in 1993 being...
