Questions tagged [criminology]
The study of criminal behavior in both the individual and within a given society.
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Did foreigners pay the Republika Srpska in order to shoot civilians during the siege of Sarajevo? [closed]
The documentary Sarajevo Safari alleges that during the siege of Sarajevo the army of the Republika Srpska (the VRS) had an organised program in which wealthy foreigners would pay large amounts of ...
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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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Were 10 members of the left-wing activist community murdered by people of color in 2023?
In Dec 2023, X user, National Conservative (@NatCon2022), posted
Were all these activists killed? Are people of color suspected of committing the crime?
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Is Shaken Baby Syndrome Discredited?
An opinion piece by Jeff Kukucka & David Faigman in scientific American
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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 children born out of wedlock more likely to become "predators"?
According to Joe Biden (at about 1:11:00 in the Cspan video; see also the transcript; 18 November 1993, emphasis added):
We must take back the streets. It doesn't matter whether or not the person ...
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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 black Americans make up 55.9% of known murder offenders in 2019?
The White Nationalist site VDARE claimed in a 2020 blog article:
The FBI has released its national crime stats for 2019. Murder was down 0.2%.
While blacks made up 52.5% of known murder offenders ...
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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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Did black people commit 18 times more murders per capita than white people in 2021?
The picture below is posted on 4chan.org (a NSFW website) and seems to claim that in 2021, black people committed 18 times more murders per capita than White people?
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white male Murderers per 100,...
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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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Did the crime rate in Norway drop 31% after Muslims were deported?
A racist meme was posted on Quora in November 2023 claims that Norway deported Muslims and the crime rate dropped by 31%.
Warning: Image below contains an offensive cartoon.
Did Norway deport Muslims?...
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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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Have crime rates climbed in US cities with "rogue" progressive District Attorneys?
In a 2020 article, the Heritage Foundation claims that "rogue prosecutors" (described in the article as prosecutors who are part of the "so-called progressive prosecutor movement") ...
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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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Are women 8 times more likely to be murdered after being (non-lethally) strangled by their partner?
Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention - makes the claim:
A woman who has suffered a nonfatal strangulation incident with her intimate partner is 750% more likely to be killed by the same ...
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