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Provoked by Boredom: Experiences from Youth Confinement

By Tea Torbenfeldt Bengtsson | Published: January 8, 2013

Study finds boredom is a key experience in daily life in secure care and young people deal with their boredom through the generation of risk-taking action.

Scotland the Brave?

By David Canter | Published: January 3, 2013

The referendum on Scottish independence, scheduled for 2014, may be regarded as an amusing abstraction for those outside Scotland but within it raises many questions about Scottish identity and what is special about Scottish society.

Posted in International Debate, News | Also tagged Alcoholism, Making the Case for the Social Sciences, Policy, Prison, Scotland, Scottish Independence, Scottish Society, Social Science | Leave a comment

Do Adult Drug Courts Produce Other Psychosocial Benefits?

By Michael Rempel | Published: October 8, 2012

Although by no means a household word, “drug courts” have been among the most studied criminal justice interventions of the past two decades. So what are these courts, and why do they matter?

The Internet Black Widow

By David Canter | Published: October 4, 2012

When some journalist awards a case a sobriquet like The Railway Rapist, or the Moors Murderers that the media has got its teeth into the case and will shake as much life out of it as possible.

Posted in Featured, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Research, Resources | Also tagged Defense, Law, Media, Media Coverage, murder, Prosecution, Serial Killers | Leave a comment

Tough on Crime or Beating the System?

By Ann Dirks-Linhorst | Published: September 25, 2012

An evaluation of Missouri Department of Mental Health’s Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Murder Acquittees.

Lie Detection by Inducing Cognitive Load

By Jeffrey Walczyk | Published: September 14, 2012

Eye movements and other cues to the false answers of “witnesses” to crimes.

Posted in Featured, International Debate, News | Also tagged false witness, Inducing Cognitive Load, Lie detection, Social Science, Witness | Leave a comment

Moving Beyond Deterrence

By Laura Dugan and Erica Chenoweth | Published: September 11, 2012

The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel

Posted in International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Anti-Terrorism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Palestine, Social Science, Terrorism | Leave a comment

Hate Rock 101

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: August 14, 2012

A sociologist explains why Sikh temple shooter Wade M. Page’s white-power music scene is dying out, just as we’re all discovering it.

What Do We Mean when We Talk About Punishment?

By Kelly Hannah-Moffat and Mona Lynch | Published: June 29, 2012

Why do we punish and to what ends?

Teaching Internet Ethics

By David Canter | Published: June 11, 2012

Apparently Luka Rocco Magnotta made videos of himself killing cats and eating parts of his murdered victim, making the videos available online. In 2008 Tomohiro Kato announced on an internet bulletin board his intentions to kill people at random at noon in Tokyo’s Akihabara. He did just that in a spate of stabbings, lasting less […]

Posted in International Debate, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged Ethics, Hiroko Kanoh, internet, Internet Etiquette, Japan, Luka Rocco Magnotta, Social Science, Tomohiro Kato, Yamagata University | Leave a comment

Dumbing up

By David Canter | Published: April 24, 2012

The challenge of writing popular psychology came home to me recently when I accepted the invitation to write Forensic Psychology for Dummies

The Campaign for Eddie Gilfoyle’s Murder Conviction to be Squashed

By David Canter | Published: January 26, 2012

The ability of people to keep their most desperate, innermost thoughts hidden from those around them is surely something that juries ought to be reminded of in cases where a death could be suicide or murder...

Posted in Featured, Interdisciplinarity, Public Policy, Research, Resources | Also tagged Court, Crime, Forensics, Jury, Law, Suicide | Leave a comment

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