The study of criminal behavior in both the individual and within a given society.
Questions tagged [criminology]
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How prevalent is the use of drugs (other than alcohol) to spike food/drinks?
A few years ago, I worked in nightclub security. During my training course,* the instructor told us that it was common for people to come up and claim that they had been spiked with something, but that in 92%† of cases it was just excessive alcohol…
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Do Roma people make up 60% of the Czech prisoners?
There is a common belief in Czech society that most of the prisoners in Czech Republic are Roma people. Wikipedia backs it up with a vague reference to a book from 1998:
According to Říčan (1998), Romani make up more than 60% of Czech prisoners and…
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Did an Austrian court require a child to prove that they did not consent to rape?
The Sun's headline says:
SHOCK RULING Outrage as Iraqi migrant who raped boy, 10, in ‘sexual emergency’ at swimming pool has conviction OVERTURNED because court couldn’t prove the child said ‘no’
I came across this article which made an…
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Did Michael Jeffery (Hendrix's manager) kill Jimi Hendrix after tricking him into signing an insurance policy?
Michael Jeffery, Jimi Hendrix's manager, tricked Hendrix into signing an insurance contract that pays Jeffery $2 million upon the death of Mr James Marshall Hendrix.
A short time later, Hendrix is found "drowned with wine in his lungs and undigested…
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Does Islam lead to higher crime rates?
I live in a mostly atheistic country. I have often heard the claim that Muslim people commit more crimes than others, especially that they are thieves due to their religion. Is there is any truth to it.
Does Islam proclaim thievery?
Is there a…
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Was the NAACP slow in acting for the rights of Sherman Ware?
In What the NAACP can learn from George Zimmerman, George Zimmerman's brother Robert Zimmerman Jr. claimed that the organization was slow to act on the beating of homeless African-American Sherman Ware by Justin Collison, the son of a policeman:
My…
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Did Hugo Chávez have a net worth of 2 billion dollars at the time of his death?
I've seen this now numerious times,
Analysts say Leftist leader had 'amassed private fortune of $2 billion' - Dailymail.co.uk
And, that's a pretty sly way to say that "someone said". But, is it true,
"According to Jerry Brewer, president of…
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Have more people been killed in Chicago than U.S. troops in Afghanistan?
A tweet from @LeftSentThis stated that
2,000 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001, more than 5,000 people have been killed by gun fire in Chicago during that time.
There are at least two mis-matches in the data sets:
people vs.…
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Do cyber crimes cost $US114b annually?
A study Symantec claims that the global damages from cyber crime were
A study by Symantec Corp, the maker of Norton computer security
software, estimates the cost of global cybercrimes at $114 billion
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Are women 8 times more likely to be murdered after being (non-lethally) strangled by their partner?
Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention - makes the claim:
A woman who has suffered a nonfatal strangulation incident with her intimate partner is 750% more likely to be killed by the same perpetrator…with a gun.
This 2021 Guardian article…
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Have about 170 million people been killed in the name of Allah?
In a question recently asked on the Christianity site, namely, Why don’t Christians accept Muhammad as the true prophet?, an answer quoted this article:
“Beware of false prophets who … inwardly are ravenous wolves.” “Ravenous” certainly seems an…
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Does too much artificial lighting result in increased crime and safety problems?
According to a Washington Post article, Nebraska's tourism board is applying for dark sky certification for the Merritt Reservoir State Recreation Area. As part of their application, they are
planning dedicated educational programming related to…
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Do mass shooters tend to have been bullied as kids?
(Originally posted on Psychology.SE, it has been suggested that I post here instead)
The media frequently claims that mass shooters are or were bullied as children. Does the scientific evidence back up this claim? Evidence that is reported in…
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Do large groups performing Transcendental Meditation lead to city-wide reductions in crime?
A 1988 paper, Test of a Field Model of Consciousness and Social Change: The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program and Decreased Urban Crime describes some studies of data from the '70s and found that the more people who attended group…
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In Kentucky, did one man beat up another man after they both bought the same woman's vote?
According to the Washington Post article Selling votes is common type of election fraud:
corrupt candidates in Clay County, Ky., once paid $100. But that was probably too much: It attracted one woman who already had sold her vote. The man who…
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