When it comes to homicide rates, the outlook for Australia is positive with continued reduction in the homicide rate. However, challenges remain.
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When do words at an end-of-life decision constitute a crime? A law professor explains why lawmakers should act to clear up the gray area that remains.
The figures have been taken out of context.
How does the police decide where to send dive teams to search for bodies? They ask scientists for advice.
Data on violent incidents in the US reveal that our focus on Islamist extremism since 9/11 may be misguided.
Two teenagers have been sentenced to life for a double murder. But their crime is extremely rare.
Cases of homicide by falling are rare. But the Gable Tostee case is not the first instance of a fall from a building causing death being linked to criminal conduct.
But one thing is clear, only a small proportion of violence can be blamed on schizophrenia.
Reducing stubbornly high levels of violence can be achieved if there is a focus on ensuring that children are not exposed to violence or toxic stress at home.
South Africa has stubbornly high rates of violent crime. More concerning, though, is that the latest crime stats suggest the recent increase in murders is not slowing - it may even continue.
Women over 60 are being killed in their own homes - but little more is known about these crimes.
It was a true media bonanza – and we now know that the media played a powerful role in influencing public perception of guilt or innocence.
Gerard Baden-Clay’s successful appeal against a conviction for the murder of his wife should not be misread as a sign of judicial tolerance of domestic violence.
It’s important to look beyond the same old gender sterotypes.
South Africa’s homicide rates have declined consistently since democracy, but remain among the highest in the world. They are about four times the global average at more than 30 per 100,000 people.
South African police are murdered at a high rate, making funerals and memorial services all too common. What happens and gets said at these services can help us understand aspects of police culture.
Other ‘advanced nations’ make it far harder for someone like the Charleston killer to get his hands on a Glock semiautomatic handgun or any other kind of firearm.
I have to confess I made a big mistake in not reviewing the real life whodunit podcast Serial when I listened to the first episode in October. Initially little-known, the podcast has just broken iTunes…
She showed me the cigarette burns on her arms. Her eyes seemed empty as she slumped in the chair, answering questions with defeated shrugs. Finally she explained that her stepfather had held her down and…
Victorian attorney-general Robert Clark today introduced a bill into parliament that repeals the offence of defensive homicide. The bill signifies a significant step forward in ensuring just responses…
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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