Highlights Yes, the alleged rape case at Cornell is disturbing (all crimes are alleged until a guilty finding). Incidents involving potentially serious felonies at universities…
View More The Cornell Rape Allegations–Dropped Criminal Cases Are Common
Highlights If you want to understand crime and criminal justice systems in the US, this article is important to reporters and members of the criminal…
View More School Crime Increased by 35 Percent?–Understanding The Redesigned National Crime Victimization Survey
Highlights The point of this article is not to dispute reductions in reported crime. It’s wonderful news. But police and city administrators, plus community leaders,…
View More Are There Violent Or Property Crimes That Are Increasing?
Highlights An integration of data using reported crime and crime surveys from five countries: the United States, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. …
View More Per Five Countries-Crime May Be Shifting Towards Fraud
Highlights Are weight loss drugs affecting criminal activity? There’s data suggesting that it does. There seems to be a wide array of new observations beyond…
View More Can Weight Loss Drugs Reduce Violent Crime?
Highlights Compared with just a few years ago, fewer teenagers are: Drinking alcohol. Binge drinking. Smoking cigarettes. Vaping nicotine. Using marijuana. Beginning to use alcohol…
View More Good News For Youth Substance Abuse And Mental Health—Why That Matters for Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Extensive literature reviews from impartial, prestigious research organizations on crime and justice operations are rare. The…
View More Cutting Crime By A Third: Proactive Policing Works—Will We Use It?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. There are hundreds of media articles celebrating the reductions in reported crime as offered by the…
View More Per Gallup-Identity Theft And Scams Happen Far More Often Than All FBI Reported Crimes
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. After decades in the justice system (six years in law enforcement) with multiple university degrees, I…
View More Sorry Reporters-Why Crime Has No Easy Answers
Highlights This article was created to support my 35th appearance on the nationally syndicated Armstrong Williams show focusing on worldwide fear of crime. This article…
View More Is Prison The Answer? Fear Of Crime In The US, Europe And Central-South America
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per Gallup, seventeen percent of Democrats say that crime in the US is not serious, versus…
View More Gallup-Four Out Of Five Democrats View Crime As A Serious National Concern
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. New research from RAND explores the impact of violent crime and firearm violence on the Black…
View More New Data On Black Communities and Firearm Violence
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Per a reader’s request, the article lists the primary factors that contribute to violent and overall…
View More Top Factors That Contribute To Violent Crime
Summation This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Statistics on parole and probation from the Bureau of Justice Statistics are offered for 2023. 2024 data will…
View More Felonies And Violent Crimes-Increasing Part Of Parole And Probation Caseloads
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. This article addresses whether sexual assault of elderly women is so unlikely that it can reasonably…
View More Sexual Assault and Older Female Victims
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Examples from California, Oregon, and other areas indicate that many (most?) drug offenders do not want…
View More Many Criminal Offenders Do Not Want Drug Treatment
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. It includes states above the national averages for crime. Regardless of how crime is measured, the…
View More USDOJ-States With The Highest Rates For Violent And Property Crimes
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Most people are violently victimized by family members or people they know, according to the FBI.…
View More Most Crime Victims Know Their Offenders Per The FBI
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. “There have to be reasons for declining crime,” states one reader. What about jail and prison…
View More We’re Putting More People in Prison, Right? Reasons For Declining Reported Crime
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. ABC News: “Organized crime in Mexico is an immense problem and it’s not going anywhere. There…
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