The reasons the homicide rate is declining are complex, but a reduction in alcohol consumption and access to weapons are contributors.
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Since 1990, the homicide rate has declined by 20%. Researchers are still figuring out what’s behind the trend: increased incarceration, improvements in the economy or even aging populations.
Readers are invited to a special screening and Q&A with former detective Jackie Malton, criminologist Fiona Brookman and forensic scientist Martin Evison.
Firearms are the second leading cause of death among US children and adolescents.
At the beginning of the 1980s, homicides were relatively rare in Venezuela. Now, it’s one of the most dangerous countries in Latin America.
A round up of evidence-based views on the knife crime epidemic – including what action is really needed to prevent more young lives being lost.
Knife crime incidents are individual tragedies, but rising homicide rates reveal a changing society which is ill at ease.
Serious violence is rising, and there’s little more that police can do to stop it. Of course, the real culprits are cutbacks to the nation’s social protection systems.
Official records on police homicides are full of holes. A new study tries to fill in the gaps – and finds new evidence of racial and regional inequality.
At least one in six older people experience some form of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse each year.
Race has long been a taboo subject in Brazil. With the March 14 killing of the black Rio politician Marielle Franco, any myth of the country as a ‘racial democracy’ has been broken wide open.
Police in Toronto say they’ve found the remains of at least six people in the midst of their investigation into alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur. Here’s what goes on in such investigations.
Intimate partner homicides where there is no known history of violence are not uncommon.
Abolishing defensive homicide in Victoria was a mistake has left the law inflexibile in dealing with homicide offences.
Sometimes small changes can be the most effective at reducing violence – and these are seldom acknowledged.
Parents killing their children is uncommon, but there are some risk factors around the crime such as mental illness, previous abuse and domestic violence.
Did the government-funded gun buybacks introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have “no effect” in reducing gun deaths in Australia, as an audience member claimed on Q&A? Let’s look at the evidence.
In one bloody week in June, 181 Rio residents were shot, including a baby in utero. It’s now impossible not to notice that city’s once-lauded favela “pacification” strategy has all but collapsed.
In this episode of Change Agents, Andrew Dodd speaks with Amee Meredith and Caterina Politi, who lost family members to random acts of violence, on their campaign to reform 'one-punch' laws.
Even though males represent around half the population, they account for about two-thirds of Australian homicide victims.
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor of Criminology, University of South Wales
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Director of Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Monash University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Criminologist / Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer (Teaching) for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Edge Hill University
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C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford University
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Professor of Law, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Leadership, Swinburne University of Technology