Between 1968 and 1985, in Florence Italy, eight couples were killed in violent acts that included multiple gunshots, stabbings and female genital mutilation. The perpetrator of these vicious crimes, dubbed ‘The Monster of Florence,’ has never been caught. Despite the ...

The rate of crime has been increasing at a very high rate in the society. In consistent with this, criminal investigation agencies have continued to research on the appropriate strategies to combat rising criminal activities in the society. Following this ...

Substance abuse is a multi-facetted problem that plagues a whole society, irrespective of different age categories and social classes. The consequences and the amount of harm caused to the individual, the family and society are diverse. Mauritius, while being a ...

Criminal activities are as real in China as they are in U.S. Crime in U.S. is motivated by pursuit for American dream and American culture that encourage material wealth as a measure of personal success. The rate of crime in ...

Known as the CSI-Effect, the media’s representation of criminal proceedings manipulates and distorts the deliberations made by juries ‘ resulting in unrealistic expectations of contemporary forensic science. The CSI-Effect has evolved and perpetuated through the emergence of popular crime dramas, ...

Burglary known also as housebreaking is a crime, the quintessence of which is an entry into premises for the intentions of committing an offence. Typically, that offence will be a form of theft, but many jurisdictions stipulate others, which fall ...

Racial profiling is generally defined as the utilization of a person’s race or even ethnicity by law enforcers as a principle factor in determining whether to pursue a certain criminal case further. In most of the countries worldwide, racial profiling ...

According to Pratt (2007) the origins of penal populism lie in the work of Sir Anthony Bottoms (1995) who used the term ‘populist punitiveness’ (Bottoms 1995 cited in Pratt 2007: 2) to discuss one of the main influences on contemporary ...

DNA typing is the use of DNA evidence for identification. The DNA evidence found at a crime scene can either link a person to a crime or it can eliminate them as a suspect. It is based on the observation ...

Left Realists were of the belief that all research and efforts previously were pointless because none pointed towards an answer to what causes crime. Left Realists believed that the state of criminology was one of abject failure and there was ...