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In a paper published last month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, authors use police department records about individuals’ social and geographical information to determine gang memberships. 
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Sony brands the PS Vita as more than simply a game portable. Maybe it should call the machine a "crime fighter", too?
Sakis Koukouvis's insight:
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When most people think about global warming, they envision rising temperatures and sea levels. Robert Agnew, a professor of sociology at Emory, thinks about rising crime rates.
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Researchers have found that leafier places in Baltimore tend to have lower crime rates than those with few or no trees.
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A recent article suggests that allowing polygyny would increase violent crime to such a degree that it would stifle economic growth. This is a logical conclusion if you assume that polygyny leaves many men without wives. The modern economy, however, has already disenfranchised the majority of low-income men from the marriage market.
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Public opinion and public policy often assume that immigration is directly related to higher rates of crime, but the social conditions of neighborhoods actually have a more significant effect on violent crimes than immigrant populations.
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Neuroscience shows that the adolescent brain is still developing. The question is whether that should influence the sentencing of juveniles. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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The Future Attribute Screening Technology project (FAST) was not dreamed up by Philip K. Dick, but it could have been. Lead by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the initiative aims to use sensor technology to detect cues "indicative of mal-intent," defined by the DHS as intent or desire to cause real harm -- "rapidly, reliably, and remotely." It would be used, they say, to fight terror.
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An assistant professor at Sam Houston State University, College of Criminal Justice is working to unlock the mysteries surrounding the role that genetics and environmental influences play on criminal and antisocial behavior.
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Compelling new evidence of a link between inequality and crime in England invites reconsideration of the individualistic 'tough on crime' stances of recent New Labour and Conservative governments - according to an article in the latest issue of the journal Social Policy and Society.
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Over a period of 12 years, Andrei Chikatilo murdered at least 53 people before being arrested in Rostov, Russia, in 1990. While Chikatilo’s killings, mainly of women and children, may have been senseless, a new study has found some sense in the distribution of intervals between the murders, which closely follows a power law. The researchers propose that the murder activity can be explained by a model describing neuronal firing in the brain, very similar to the model that describes the distribution of intervals between epileptic seizures.
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Nathan Green: Are crime rates really higher when there's a full moon?
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Parts of the brain responsible for decision-making and impulse control are still developing during a person's teens...
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The brain has a genetic source of violent behavior, says a German neurologist.
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Goodman perceives abundance not just in the way Peter Diamandis describes it, but also an abundance of ways criminals can severely damage the well being of society. He explains, “There is no operating system that can’t be hacked,” and as everything moves into the digital realm, we are serving the criminals a free lunch. With a few lines of code the world is at a hacker’s fingertips. Stolen passwords and government-led operations like Stuxnet are just the tip of the iceberg. Goodman points to the emergence of new technologies like 3D Printers and synthetic biology as just another way for criminals to do harm.
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Religion is often thought of as psychological defense against bad behavior, but researchers have recently found that the effect of religion on pro-social behaviors may actually be driven by the belief in hell and supernatural punishment rather than faith in heaven and spiritual benevolence.
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Robots are edging closer to our everyday lives all the time. They bring the promise of social change, but they may also enable a whole new phenomenon: Robot-mediated lawbreaking. ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Prisoners tend to be more generous than the general public because they could be looking for ways to atone for their crimes, research has shown.
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Scientific research to date provides no useful conclusion on whether the death penalty reduces or boosts the murder rate, said a report by the US National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday.
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Audio forensics is one of the newest branches of the old science of analyzing crime scenes. It depends on a mix of high-tech software and human judgment. How exactly does the latest technology help analysts sharpen unintelligible recordings and peg voices to people?
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The positive effects of gardens on property values are well-known, but a new study says gardens can even keep you safe.
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Apparently, robbing McDonald's has become a thing in Australia. McRobbery's are so rampant down under that McDonald's locations in Aussieland are taking measures to protect themselves by spraying criminals with an invisible mist of DNA.
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Police in Chatham-Kent, Ont., announced Wednesday that, of 1,986 people arrested so far this year, 203 were Aries, whereas just 139 were Sagittarius.
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SINCE 1992 the Innocence Project, an American legal charity, has used DNA evidence to help exonerate 271 people who were wrongly convicted of crimes, sometimes after they had served dozens of years in prison. But a mystery has emerged from the case reports. Despite being innocent, around a quarter of these people had confessed or pleaded guilty to the offences of which they were accused.
K.I.R.M. God is Business " From Day One"'s curator insight,
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