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People accept breaks in the causal chain between crime and punishment
Crime and punishment are usually connected. An agent intentionally causes harm, other people find out, and they punish the agent in response. We...
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Policing Hate Crime: Exploring the Issue with a Cohort of Sworn Police Officers
Globally, there has been a trend in rising levels of hate crime that scholars have argued is reflective of significant social problems within...
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True Crime Consumption as Defensive Vigilance: Psychological Mechanisms of a Rape Avoidance System
The circumvention of female reproductive choice via rape is a costly and evolutionarily persistent threat to women’s reproductive fitness. This is...
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Should We Stay or Should We Go? A Critical Review of Journey-to-Crime Research
Our collective understanding of criminal mobility relies almost exclusively on journey-to-crime research, which focuses on the distances traveled by...
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Crime Scene and Victim Characteristics in Sexual Homicide Cases Where the Body is Openly Displayed
Research on body disposal methods in cases of sexual homicide primarily focused on the movement of the victim’s body from the crime scene to the dump...
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Relationships Between Offenders’ Crime Locations and Different Prior Activity Locations as Recorded in Police Data
Understanding the relationships between individual offenders’ crime locations and their prior activity locations is important to enable individual...
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True Cases of Child Eyewitnesses
This chapter outlines seven true cases when a child was the primary (or only) eyewitness to a crime. Some of the cases were addressed by modern...
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Effects of emotional ambiguity and emotional intensity on true and false memory
Whereas the effects of emotional intensity (the perceived strength of an item’s valence or arousal) have long been studied in true- and false-memory...
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The Memory-Undermining Effect of Simulated Crime-Related Amnesia and Its Legal Implications: a Review
Pretending to suffer from amnesia for a mock crime has been shown to lead to memory impairments. Specifically, when people are asked to give up their...
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Unequal treatment under the flaw: race, crime & retractions
Disciplines in social and behavioral science have become increasingly committed to promoting social justice activism at the expense of viewpoint...
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What Prosecutors and the Police Should Do About Underreporting of Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime
IntroductionVast discrepancies between official hate crime statistics and victim reports of hate crimes reveal that a large proportion of hate crimes...
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Factors Influencing Successful Co** among Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Personnel: Recruiting for Resilience – A Mixed Methods Study
Successful co** is important for staff well-being, retention and reducing absenteeism, especially for those employed in high emotional labour jobs...
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Swift Judgment: How White, Black, and Latina Women and Girl Perpetrators Are Differentially Portrayed in Crime News
News story narratives often depict people of color in harmful, stereotypical ways (e.g., as crime prone or unable to reform). However, examinations...
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What Will You Do When They Think It Was You? Counter-interrogation Strategies of Innocent Interviewees Under Suspicion vs. No Suspicion
The current imaginary mock-crime study examined innocent interviewees’ ( N = 128) planned counter-interrogation strategies and their willingness to...
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Looking more criminal: It’s not so black and white
Prior research regarding the influence of face structure on character judgments and first impressions reveals that bias for certain face-types is...
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Same-Sex Relationships and Criminal Behavior: A Total Population Study in The Netherlands
Sexual minority groups experience elevated risk across a range of adverse outcomes. Previous studies from the USA showed that these risks include...
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Positive Peers—The Neglected Stepchildren of Social Influence Theories of Crime
Despite being one of the least studied components of social influence, positive peer associations have much to offer social learning theories of...
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The effect of pre-event instructions on eyewitness identification
Research on eyewitness identification often involves exposing participants to a simulated crime and later testing memory using a lineup. We conducted...
