Questions tagged [criminology]
The study of criminal behavior in both the individual and within a given society.
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Did Former Chief Justice of India commuted death sentence of a person who raped and killed 4 year old girl?
This is posted used by Hindu group in small protest in New York to protest against Indian judiciary.
So, I want to Know did Uday Umesh Lalit (former CJI) commuted death sentence of pedophile who raped ...
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Did Denmark report that 64% of Palestinian refugees from 1992 received serious fines or jail time?
In this 2023 interview on Conservative-party-aligned British channel GB News, UK politician and presenter Nigel Farage and Danish politician Peter Kofod quoted - and showed an excerpt - from a report ...
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Is Shaken Baby Syndrome Discredited?
An opinion piece by Jeff Kukucka & David Faigman in scientific American
makes the claim
In a last-minute effort to save the life of a man on death row, a bipartisan group of Texas legislators has ...
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Are one in four victims of intimate partner homicides in Australia male?
In the YouTube video The WAR on MEN is total government misinformation, John Cadogan makes the claim that "One in four victims of intimate partner homicide in Australia are male."
He gives a ...
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Did addiction rates and overdose rates skyrocket more in Oregon than in the rest of the US?
I read on Oregon recriminalises drug possession after overdoses rocket that:
The law rolls back an experimental policy [Measure 110] - the most liberal drug measure in the US - that made possession ...
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Was Imran Khan's prosecution on charges of "iddat" ("un-Islamic marriage") the first such case in Pakistan?
The Guardian writes:
A local court in Pakistan has sentenced Imran Khan, the country’s former prime minister, and his wife to seven years each in a case related to their marriage, which it declared “...
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Was the average prison sentence of men who kill their female partners 2 to 6 years in 1989?
According to this Jan 12, 2019 article from the Guardian:
The average prison sentence for men who kill their female partners is
two to six years.
Such short sentencing sounds unrealistically short ...
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Do Americans in Russia typically get sentenced to nine years in prison for offenses that local Russians typically get only a one year sentence?
Trevor Reed says that is the case, but he only offers a sample of two Americans (himself and Griner). He says that Russians would "usually receive a year, two years maybe" for the same ...
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Did UK police agree to drop sex-offense charges in exchange for an apology?
In the United Kingdom, Community Resolution Orders give the police the powers to deal with minor offences in which the offender pleads guilty and agrees to reparations, without using the court systems ...
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Has there ever been a burglary or assault from someone keeping an old key and using it on new owners?
It's "common knowledge" that you should change keys on move-in. Usually this is suggested to avoid burglary (or for Googlers and more casual conversation, "robbery"). But has ...
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Is the number of "ghost guns" in the US increasing?
The White House and media have recently claimed the following:
Law enforcement officers across the country increasingly find there is no way to trace certain guns they recover from crime scenes. [...
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Does too much artificial lighting result in increased crime and safety problems?
According to a Washington Post article, Nebraska's tourism board is applying for dark sky certification for the Merritt Reservoir State Recreation Area. As part of their application, they are
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Is poverty the strongest cause of crime? [closed]
TLDR: Is crime the most important cause of crime?
A common claim, as far as I have seen never sourced in any meaningful way, is that poverty constitutes the strongest or in other ways most relevant ...
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Did Wild West outlaws regularly wear face masks?
An article ("Westerners used to wear masks" by Andrew Gulliford, June 13, 2020) in The Journal of Cortez, Colorado, claims that it was a regular practice of bandits in the "Wild West&...
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Did Abner Schoenwetter spend 6.5 years in jail because he used plastic bags instead of cardboard boxes when importing lobsters from Honduras?
Forbes states that:
Abner Schoenwetter was importing seafood to sell to U.S. restaurants for over 12 years from Honduras. Those shipments were overseen by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
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Were senior officals who outran their executioners pardoned in the Ottoman Empire?
According to various sources, in the Ottoman Empire, when a senior official was given a death sentence, he'd race with his executioner. If he were to win the race, the death sentence would be commuted,...
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Were the vast majority of people on the National Sex Offender Registry children when they committed their crime?
In "Planet America extra podcast (PEP)" 25 Sep (At 1 hour 27 minutes) Dr David Smith made the following claim:
"The national sex offender registry is a disaster in all kinds of respects,...
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Are children of incarcerated parents much more likely to become incarcerated?
This 2017 article from the journal of the US's National Institute of Justice states:
One statistic indicates that children of incarcerated parents are, on average, six times more likely to become ...
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Do mass shooters tend to have been bullied as kids?
(Originally posted on Psychology.SE, it has been suggested that I post here instead)
The media frequently claims that mass shooters are or were bullied as children. Does the scientific evidence back ...
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Did Jeffrey Epstein take his own life?
IN 2019, Barbara Sampson, the New York City's Chief Medical Examiner, ruled that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a suicide by hanging.
New York City’s medical examiner ruled Jeffrey Epstein’s death a ...
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Is John Durham handling all referrals from the IG investigation?
Jerry Dunleavy said this on Wednesday in the Washington Examiner:
Durham’s investigation is separate from the one that was just finished by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The DOJ watchdog ...
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Do any people in South Africa traditionally spend two days together praising wrong-doers to help them?
I have seen variations on the following meme posted by many of my friends on Facebook:
https://me.me/i/ubuntu-in-certain-regions-of-south-africa-when-someone-does-4931579
In certain regions of ...
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Were more Americans fatally shot by March this calendar year than died during DDay as the Washington post claimed?
As above - seems either scary or unlikely? Is this claim accurate?
Washington Post: More Americans were shot to death by March 6 this year than died on D-Day
From the linked article:
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Does USA imprison people of color at a higher rate than whites for the same crime convictions?
The Ben & Jerry's website says:
America locks people up at a higher rate than any other country, and bias is baked right in. If you’re a person of color or struggling to make ends meet, you’re ...
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Did a victim of Weinstein testify in a letter that the acts performed were consensual?
The German newspaper FAZ reports:
Die Ankläger erreichte eine schriftliche Stellungnahme der früheren Nachwuchsschauspielerin Lucia Evans. Darin beschrieb Evans den Oralsex mit Weinstein in dessen ...
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