The Victorian government has announced it will send social workers to 20 of the state’s schools to try to reduce violent youth crime.
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New research out of Queensland shows there are rehabilitative ways to help reduce youth sexual crime - and youth crime overall.
Crime has been declining for decades across countries with quite varied policing practices and funding.
Current crime-fighting proposals lack concrete, evidence-based actions and proven public health strategies that are known to significantly and cost-effectively reduce violent crime.
Phasing out pointed-tip kitchen knives in favour of round-tip knives is a natural extension of the UK’s progress on weapons control.
In the early 2000s, we tested a new curriculum on more than 200 students. Here’s what we found when we met the students again, two decades later.
An analysis of trends over the last 20 years in Canada could not find any correlation between increases in municipal police budgets and a reduction in crime rates. There’s another way forward.
Civil forfeiture laws and unexplained wealth orders seem to be less about crime control than an exercise in public funding.
There are proven ways to significantly reduce violent crime within the next five years. It requires becoming not “tough on crime,” but “smart on crime” before it happens.
Experts still disagree about why the US prison population has grown so much over the last few decades. But crime is only one part of the problem.
Predictive policing has improved in leaps and bounds and become increasingly automated thanks to big data, data mining and powerful computers.
Nigeria’s built environment should ideally be part of a broader, integrated approach to crime prevention and community policing.
With face masks now compulsory or recommended in various parts of the country, how are facial recognition systems functioning?
Researchers look for signals that might distinguish people who are upset and ranting online from those who intend to do real physical harm.
Anti-money laundering efforts are based on measuring activity, not results. To cut crime and terrorism, we need a frank conversation about where the system has gone wrong.
Electronic monitoring can help deter people from committing further crimes, but it needs to be used along with other crime prevention methods.
Design principles, known as ‘crime prevention through environmental design’, are used all over the world to make cities safer. But some of these principles can be discriminatory and hostile.
AI has a role to play in trying to prevent crime, but how much control should we give our robo cops?
Abalone poaching in Cape Town succeeds because there is a motivated offender, a suitable target and a lack of security.
Crime is way down in one Flint, Michigan, neighborhood, where locals have teamed up to revamp neglected public spaces. Here, why ‘busy streets’ can prevent violence and save cities money.
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Ph.D. Candidate, Legal Studies, Carleton University
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Emeritus professor of Criminology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University
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Professor of Crime Science, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Statistics, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Environmental Criminologist and Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning, Curtin University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Research Fellow, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Director, Center for Terrorism and Security Studies; Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Psychology; Member of the Strategic Research Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, Deakin University