Social Science Space

The latest episode of Social Science Bites is an interview with Lawrence Sherman, professor of criminology at Cambridge University and a keen advocate of experimental criminology.

Much of the current confusion about crime trends is born of the tendency to bunch together a whole range of different harms and actions under the abstract category of ‘crime’. This blinds us to where the significant problems are.

Some criminal investigations resonate over the years. Even if you’ve only had peripheral involvement with them, as in my case, […]

Recent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to explain why I find the term ‘profiling’ so problematic yet get stuck with using it.

In our study we were interested in examining differences between religious groups and the dominant religious faith within nations in the likelihood that residents would engage in premarital or extramarital sex.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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