A Statistical Rethink Suggests Judges May Not Be ‘Liberated’ the Way Criminologists Thought
A new study argues that criminologists have been testing the liberation hypothesis with regression effects when the theory actually concerns ...
Tag: criminology
Fake Data, Real Findings: How Synthetic Records Could Fix Criminology’s Reproducibility Crisis
A new study shows that machine-generated synthetic data can reproduce a published criminology experiment's findings with near-perfect accuracy, offering a ...
The Science of Why People Don’t Commit Crimes When They Could
A new theoretical framework proposes that non-offending during real criminal opportunities can be explained by five distinct categories of restraint ...
Mass Shooters Often Reveal Their Plans First, New Study of 483 Attacks Finds
A comprehensive analysis of all 483 deadly U.S. mass shootings from 2000 to 2023 finds that 41 percent were preceded ...
Why Harsher Punishments Fail: The Criminological Case Against Penal Populism
A new theoretical review argues that penal populism's claims of effectiveness, moral desert, and democratic support collapse under scrutiny from ...
Prison Bullying Fuels Suicidal Thoughts via Rumination and Depression
A new study of Chinese inmates finds that prison bullying predicts suicidal ideation through the chain mediation of rumination and ...
When Schools Reopened, Marijuana-Using Friends Mattered More: Pandemic Natural Experiment Reveals Power of In-Person Peer Influence
A statewide Florida study finds that friends' marijuana use predicts adolescent marijuana use far more strongly among students who returned ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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