News articles tagged with 'crime'
Demographics cloud optimism on black violent crime decrease
— 29 Mar 2011 16:25 | HealthOptimism about studies that show a drop in the black percentage of crime may be dampened by demographic trends and statistical aberrations, according to a group of criminologists…
Building trust with cooperative witnesses in a crime investigation
— 2 Mar 2011 12:43 | HealthImagine that you witness a crime. The police investigator brings you to the police station to obtain an official statement, but between the crime and your official witness statement,…
Current violent juvenile treatment methods costly, ineffective, MU researcher finds
— 28 Jan 2011 16:42 | HealthIn a time of shrinking budgets, one University of Missouri professor believes that the current approach to juvenile crime is much too expensive to continue - and he has the numbers…
Some city trees may discourage 'shady' behaviour
— 2 Nov 2010 13:30 | EnvironmentAlong with energy conservation and storm-water reduction, scientists may soon be adding crime-fighting to the list of benefits that urban trees provide. Researchers with the U.S. Forest…
Bipolar disorder does not increase risk of violent crime
— 8 Sep 2010 11:42 | HealthA new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet suggests that bipolar disorder - or manic-depressive disorder - does not increase the risk of committing violent crime. Instead, the…
Fast forensic test can match suspects' DNA with crime samples in 4 hours
— 5 Aug 2010 07:58 | ChemistryA newly developed test could make checking DNA from people arrested for crimes with DNA samples from crime scenes stored in forensic databases almost as easy as matching fingerprints.…
Rise in immigration may help explain drop in violent crimes
— 15 May 2010 12:58 | HealthDuring the 1990s, immigration reached record highs and crime rates fell more precipitously than at any time in U.S. history. And cities with the largest increases in immigration between…
Civic engagement imperative for reduction of violence and improved public health
— 29 Apr 2010 11:07 | HealthIn a set of papers just published in two leading scholarly journals, LSU sociology professor Matthew Lee reports that both violent crime and all-cause mortality rates are on average…
Women, more than men, choose true crime over other violent nonfiction
— 17 Feb 2010 12:50 | HealthWhen it comes to violent nonfiction, men are from Mars, the planet of war, but women are from Earth, the planet of serial killings and random murders…
The hidden cost of schizophrenia
— 28 Jan 2010 09:50 | HealthPeople being treated for schizophrenia are more likely than the general population to have encounters with the criminal justice system in the US. A study published in the open access…