Crime Spotlight

Facebook has a dark side. A side where it is used to share details of crimes, impersonate someone else for...

From true crime and wrongful convictions to criminal psychology and investigative reporting, here are 45 of the best crime blogs...

Should addiction be a mitigating factor that lessens the responsibility for crime? And should the issue of whether or not...

These are crimes which are most often picked up by the media due to their shock-factor and have everyone wondering...

Of the current uses of psychiatry in legal settings, the claim that psychopaths can be identified through functional magnetic resonance...

Modern brain imagining is being used to explore the criminal brain, looking for biological factors which could lead to criminal...

The rise of the Branch Davidians cult under the leadership of David Koresh led to a 51 day standoff in...

The repeated naming of shooters by the media in their extensive coverage of mass shootings risks doing more harm than...

Research into the Columbine Effect has highlighted a contagious nature to mass school shootings with many shooters citing the Columbine...

Child criminals raise difficult questions for society and the juvenile justice system. The murder of James Bulger in 1993 being...

When a multiple murderer is discovered a serial killer nickname soon appears, an assigned name they will be known by...

Research and understanding into teenage brain development is impacting how adolescents are dealt with in criminal cases.