A recent study reveals why women engage with true crime, showing safety motives and psychology—not sensationalism—drive the ...

Cultural attitudes toward violence—or, in the case of many Asians, toward nonviolence—help explain why poverty alone doesn’t ...

So why do so many people — from the commenters on Crime Watch posts to the president of the United States — keep insisting that we live in a Mad Max hellscape, dodging gun-toting barbarians on the way ...

We can see it in the local news, and we sense it when we walk or drive through our communities: Some neighborhoods are more crime-ridden than others. But why do some blocks seem to attract thefts, ...

Retail chains have added locked display cabinets and other security measures to combat shoplifting, which the National Retail Federation reports increased by 93 percent from 2019 to 2023. (Mel ...

With a Democratic administration in the White House and an election approaching, legacy media have been quick to claim that crime is decreasing. This is not just wrong but a deception. The data tell a ...

White collar crime involves non-violent, financially motivated offenses like fraud, embezzlement, insider trading, and money ...

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Do you find yourself drawn to dark documentaries? Are you captivated by your local unsolved crime case? Does the idea of a day with a remote control and Lifetime television give you goose bumps of ...

CRIME STATS: When the Public Safety Committee met in the morning - as mentioned in our daily event list - the biggest agenda ...