crime

The art of stealing art

15/01/2019

The art of stealing art Noah Charney...

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‘Weapons’ Removed From Van Gogh Sculpture

20/11/2018

Controversial items relating to the artist's life were scrapped from original design over fears they could be linked to drug, knife and gun crime....

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Stealing Stanley Spencer

05/06/2018

Stanley Spencer is an important British artist and any excuse to pay tribute to him is worth while, following the recovery of a stolen painting he is in the news. ...

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mandala, psychedelic drugs

Psychedelic Drugs: Could they Actually LOWER Crime?

26/10/2017

New study suggests psychedelic drugs may reduce criminal behavior ...

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Can You Really Use Insects to Tell if A Body’s Been Moved?

02/08/2017

Forensic entomology is more complicated than it looks on TV...

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Liberty, Bad Hombres

Not Such Bad Hombres: Crime is Lower Where Immigration is Higher

13/02/2017

Four decades of evidence finds no link between immigration and increased crime ...

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Pimp My Profile: The Unstoppable Rise of Online Prostitution

18/08/2016

Prostitution has gone online - and pimps are thriving ...

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Sugar, Spice and Shrapnel. How Female Terrorists Control Extreme Networks

04/07/2016

Study reveals that although women remain under the radar in terrorist organizations, they hold the networks together...

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Revenge: Best Served Cold, or Not At All?

01/07/2016

Revenge is (bitter)sweet, study confirms ...

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More Women at Work, More Murders. Gender Equality and Homicide Increase

30/08/2015

The greater a country's gender equality in employment, the higher its homicide rate ...

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Image courtesy of Jonathan Freeman and Eric Hehman.

Babyfaced Killer or Killerfaced Baby. Can You Tell?

23/06/2015

Facial cues conveying trustworthiness are malleable while facial cues conveying competence and ability are significantly less so...

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Death on the Fault Line

10/02/2014

Torture, blood sacrifice and sinister messages extracted from Beatles lyrics. The final surges of the California Death Ray. ...

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A dollar bill, very faded

The Drug Dealers and Their Money Men

25/01/2014

Legal marijuana dispensaries can't deposit their money, despite the fact that American banks have conspired with violent drug cartels for years. ...

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A picture of an empty London street by Carl Byron Batson

A Stab in the Dark : Mugger Patterns

09/11/2013

The first study to look at the hourly pattern of street robbery in London found a 160% rise in the rate of muggings during the hours of darkness in the capital...

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