The study of criminal behavior in both the individual and within a given society.
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Was Tommy Robinson transferred to a prison with a 71% Muslim population?
Paul Joseph Watson claims that Tommy Robinson has been moved to a prison with a predominantly Muslim population.
BREAKING: Tommy Robinson has reportedly been moved to a prison with a 71% Muslim population.
Inmates were banging on cell walls last…
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Did Robert Putnam find that diversity has "incredibly negative consequences"?
According to a comment on this 9gag post about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcoming immigrants:
queen_boxxy 1042 points · 28 Jan 2017
diversity has in fact incredibly negative consequences. biggest study done was by harvard professor…
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Did Muslims in the Middle East cut off the breasts of Christian women?
A Conservative Infidel article from 2014 made a claim (that was repeated in a forum for Americans for Legal Immigration PAC) that:
Muslims in the Middle East took Christian girls and cut their breasts off. Sister Hatune Dogan interviewed 280 girls…
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Do more DUIs occur the morning after drinking rather than the night of?
There have been a few circulations of a claim that more DUIs occur the morning after drinking on certain holidays versus the night of drinking. The idea is that DUIs obtained by unsuspecting people who have slept and then chose to drive the morning…
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Does media coverage of mass shootings leads to more mass shootings the same week?
In the end of this video, Dr. Park Dietz says:
Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.
Is this true?
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Did "Max the Hacker" manipulate autocues and traffic lights?
There is a man who calls himself Max the Hacker. He appears in many Dutch videos filmed in the Netherlands, such as this one in which he shows himself purporting to manipulate news readers' autocues on live television, and to change the speed limits…
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Does lengthening prison sentences reduce crime rates?
I have heard time and again that increasing the length of prison sentences produces little or no improvements in crime rates. It is said that increasing the probability of arrest after a crime has much better results.
Is there evidence for this…
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Has hypnotism been used to enhance memory?
Has hypnotism been used to enhance memory?
For example if I go to my friend's house, I may forget it's details like how many steps does there have or what color was it's door!
This is my conscious mind.
But as I hear, these details stored in the…
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Did the victim of neo-Nazi violence as reported in Pink News die?
From Pink News:
The gay teenager who was kidnapped and tortured by Russian neo-Nazis has died from his injuries it has been claimed [by Spectrum Human Rights].
... PinkNews is unable to verify the claims ...
Going to Spectrum Human…
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Was there a recent spate of violence against Indians in Australia?
I recently came across a journal entry, written in December 2012, about racial violence in Australia.
The entry mentioned an incident against a woman targeted for singing in French. I assume this refers to an alleged incident against Fanny…
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Were members of the yakuza amongst the Fukushima 50?
Tomohiko Suzuki, author of the book The Yakuza and the Nuclear Industry, claims that several members of the Fukushima 50, workers who stayed behind to work on the Fukushima dai-ichi nuclear reactor post 3/11 when others fled, were Yakuza members.…
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Are individuals with severe mental illness "much more likely" to be victims than perpetrators of violence?
From an NPR article discussing whether planning a shooting breaks the law:
Advocates often bristle when people lump mental health into conversations about mass shooters. They argue that individuals with severe mental illness are much more likely to…
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Did Russian hackers beat slot machines with an app?
Russian hackers made up to $250,000 per weekend by using an app to tell them when to pull a trigger.
[...] custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the…
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Are there more pedophiles in the Catholic Church than other religions, or professions
Are there more pedophiles per capita in the Catholic Church than other religions, or in other professions in general? If so, what is the evidence. This seems like a very difficult thing to really know beyond anecdotal evidence, which of course there…
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Is a woman murdered every 20 minutes for dowry?
I stumbled upon this image in Google images:
The image links to www.50millionmissing.info, which has, indeed, created that poster. The site is dedicated to Indian women.
Wikipedia explains the concept of Dowry Deaths, including suicide and murder…
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