At a time when vehicle theft claims are falling across most of Australia, Victoria is heading in the opposite direction.
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The Trump administration claims “mass migration” is a threat to “Western civilisation”. But research shows migrants don’t commit crimes at disproportionate rates.
Scottish police created a specialised violence reduction unit to treat violence as a public health issue. It worked, and it’s coming to Victoria.
People’s fears of crime are shaped by the political context in which they grew up.
Candidates to be the next mayor of Detroit want to help build back neighborhoods. A real estate policy expert has some ideas.
New research tracking more than 80,000 Queenslanders from birth to adulthood reveals the differences between men and women in patterns of criminal behaviour.
Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.
Several recent stabbings in Australia have left many people nervous. But what does the data say about knife crime here?
In the last year, the public’s concern about crime has risen again.
Certain offences have shown increases in Victoria, NSW and Queensland over the past couple years, but the overall youth crime trend lines have been declining in the past decade.
Recent data from Statistics Canada shows crime rates in Canada rising. Crime has become a hot-button political issue in Canadian cities. But what does the data actually mean?
A lot is said about kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria but little is known about how families mobilise resources and deliver ransom to kidnappers.
Australia recorded the second-lowest number of homicides since the Australian Institute of Criminology began compiling national statistics in 1989.
Whether crime is up or down depends on what kind of crime, what the comparison is to, and where you’re counting crimes.
Minneapolis residents voted 56% to 44% against an amendment that would have transformed the city’s police. The reasons they did so are complicated, an expert writes.
FBI statistics recorded a 30% rise in homicides in 2020. A criminologist helps break down what was behind the spike.
Statistical models debunk claims by Trump and others that undocumented immigration into the U.S. increases crime, building on a litany of past research.
The prestige the role of detective once had has been eroded and needs to be restored.
Certain crimes, such as robberies and sexual offences, have declined dramatically during the pandemic, while others, such as online fraud, domestic violence and homicides, have not.
Crime rates are down, but they were decreasing while imprisonment rates were increasing, so that doesn’t really explain lower numbers in our prisons.
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Criminology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Assistant Professor Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Professor of Criminology, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Adjunct Professor of Criminology, University of Canberra
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW
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Professor of Sociology, University of Iceland
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Emeritus Professor, Law Faculty, UNSW