Tag: Crime

I caught the movie Arrival on a random cable channel the other day. The movie is excellent, still, with a fantastic Amy Adams performance and a vibe of both menace and wonder that is intoxicating. (It’s no wonder director Denis Villeneuve was tasked with reviving both Blade Runn...

I call them sheep. Many of the people in the image that anchors this article. They see one person eating the $16 burrito, $16 avocado toast, $22 traditional breakfast or $24 bowl of rigatoni at this “cafe” and they must do likewise. No matter what lies at the heart of the expe...

Following the suspicious death of her 18-year-old son Grant, Angie Solomon tried to procure the cemetery plots surrounding Grant to make sure strangers wouldn’t be buried next to him. After making an initial order with the funeral home, Angie was shocked to discover her ex-husband Aaron was...

Art is a powerful medium that can challenge societal norms and provoke thought. Graffiti, in particular, has gained significant recognition in recent years, with prominent street artists like Banksy captivating audiences worldwide. Banksy, known for his anonymous identity and politically charged art...

Karaivaz wrote about the arrogance of organized criminal groups with a direct influence on the police apparatus. Gang clearing or “clearing accounts” is very common in Greece. The murders are almost identical to the attack on Karaivaz. Greek police rarely investigate such cases, much les...

At the Middle of our Design Bootcamp at Ironahck Berlin we were given the Task to do a collaboration project together with the Data Analytics Class. We teamed up for the Crime Scene Berlin topic, where the Data of the past 10 Years was analized. Our task for this project was to deliver ...

Higgins was very much a creature of Boston. He graduated from Boston College in 1961 and, six years later, from Boston College Law School. He was proud of all the great writers, athletes and politicians who’d worked in Boston. When people from other cities insisted their hospitals were just as...

Amidst the turbulent times, “ defund the police” has become a topic of contention in various cities, including Chicago. The term has garnered negative connotations and political backlash. Thus, local politicians shy away from it. Even celebrities like Morgan Freeman have expres...

Inthe world of true crime, the bizarre and mysterious cases often capture our attention the most. One such chilling story that remains unsolved is the mystifying case of Roy Bigg. Roy Bigg was a name that might not have meant much to many, but in the annals of London’s most perplexing crime...

“A cara do crime” translated to English as “the face of crime”, a term popularized throughout Brazil due to the proibidão and trap genre of music. Proibidãois the name given to a type of electronic funk music produced in Brazilian favelas, particularly in Rio de...

It is well known that Rio de Janeiro is known as the “Cidade Maravilhosa”, being one of the biggest tourist centers in the country. Despite the wonders of Rio de Janeiro, the state has high rates of violence and trafficking, problems that the police have difficulty over...

The policeman in Brazil is a soldier. The police car is “caveirão” (something like a war tank called “Big Skull”). The entire hierarchy, strategy and training of the police is not just military but war. That’s because at some point we buy into the idea that we&rs...

Organizations such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Traffic, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and many more are working towards building regula...

In an effort to bring awareness and understanding to what drug facilitated crime scenarios look like and the obstacles victims face, we must begin with ourselves. The law and societal biases won’t change unless we start here, one at a time, learning more and challenging our own thoughts and pr...

The story unfolds on an eerie night, October 29, 2018, when Antrim, off-duty but dressed in his sheriff’s uniform, used his authority to deceive and steal. His crew, posing as law enforcement, cleared out Stiizy, a prominent marijuana storage and retail facility. What makes this crime even mor...

Listening to a true crime podcast today about Ed Kemper, I was thinking about all the people fascinated by him, having books on him, watching documentaries and films on him, and thinking about who he truly is. He is human garbage. It may be interesting to try and understand Kemper for a while but...

These new criminology and criminal justice studies were published recently by journals I monitor. 1. The guillotine: Shadow, spectacle and the terror, published in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. 2. Intimate Partner Violence and Suicidality: Applicability of Gen...

Through thousands of documentaries, headlines and the cultivating of the genre on Youtube, how are we focusing on the reality of real life depravity? Sensationalism has been the bread and butter of the true crime genre since its inception. Tracing back to yesteryear, the tales of 19th century pen...

I have written before about poverty and crime, and violent offending, stressing that the relationship between offending and poverty is not a straightforward one e.g., that in the postwar period, crime, including violent offending increased significantly up until the early 1990’s despite standa...

On May 19th, I was falsely accused and arrested. Prior to this, on January 27th, 2022. I began receiving a lot of spam emails to my personal email account as well as constant phone calls and vulgar VM’s. When I went to check my social media account, I received a warning from the San Jose Polic...

If crime rates could explain the observed increase in federal crime legislation and spending, then one would expect continued elevated levels for both throughout the remainder of the 20th century. By 1980, the violent crime rate in the United States had risen by over 250%, peaking in 1991 ...

In my experience, working class people in the United States exist within a strange paradox. They do not like cops, often finding themselves the targets of their unfair and discriminatory harassment. At the same time, crime is a constant worry, whether it’s getting robbed at gunpoint working th...

Gordon MacDonald is the Chief Justice for New Hampshire’s Supreme Court. Before that he was Attorney General for New Hampshire. And before that he was a partner at law firm Nixon Peabody. He also now appears to be emerging as a ringleader in organized crime and hiding it — under the colo...

I’ve written a few posts about the increase in 2020. A more interesting question is why things were so much worse in the 1980's. Public perception tends to be confused. A majority of voters think that crime gets worse, every year. But the reality is that there are trends, it comes ...

On April 30, Aaron Martinez celebrated his 35th birthday. A day later he was brutally murdered by his neighbor who had been harassing them for years and saying he didn’t want Latinos in his neighborhood. According to CBS News Texas, when Martinez moved to Forney more than 2 years ago, 30-...

Anti-Asian hate crime numbers fell by 33% from 2021 to 2022, indicating the first decrease in anti-Asian hate since the start of the pandemic, according to recently released FBI crime statistics. However, anti-Asian hate crime figures remain firmly above pre-pandemic numbers, with 2022 recordin...

The recent 2021 Hate Crime Statistics found that reported hate crime incidents increased by over 11%, — from 8,210 in 2020 to 9,065 in 2021. According to the report, over 63% of single-bias hate crime incidents were motivated by the offenders’ prejudice toward a victim&rsq...

In 1893, a physician named Cesare Lombroso published La Donna Delinquente (The Criminal Woman) in which he claimed to have discovered a new human subspecies: the “born criminal.” Lombroso rejected the idea that crime was a product of social inequality or human nature. Instea...