Social Science Space

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

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.

Why do we punish and to what ends?

Apparently Luka Rocco Magnotta made videos of himself killing cats and eating parts of his murdered victim, making the videos […]

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

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…

The third event in the Myths and Realities joint series last year at the British Library attracted a large audience to hear […]