Want a Lower Homicide Rate? Try Reducing the Number of Liquor Stores.
Reducing the number of businesses in Baltimore that sell alcohol in urban residential areas may lower the homicide rate, according to new research. As cities…
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World’s Most Popular Websites’ Inconsistent and Misleading Password Advice Could Increase Risk of Cyber Attacks
Password meters are frequently made available to help users secure their personal data against the threats posed by cyber criminals. However, the ‘inconsistent and misleading’…
Your Car May Be Vulnerable to Cyberattacks – Even the Smartest of Smart Cars Have Issues
The emergence of smart cars has opened the door to limitless possibilities for technology and innovation – but also to threats beyond the car itself….
Nonviolent Crime Increase Connected to Sale of Recreational Marijuana in Denver
In 2014, Colorado began selling recreational cannabis to people older than 21, becoming the first state to legalize recreational marijuana. A new study evaluated the…
New System Uses Smartphone Video to Accurately Locate Shooters
New analytical tool could aid human rights, public safety workers. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can accurately locate a shooter…
Scientists Clever, Controversial New Plan to Help Save Endangered Rhinos
Published today in Scientific Reports scientists hope their method will provide a blueprint to create credible fakes that could eventually flood a market that has…
Researchers Uncover the Truth About Super Bowl Sex Trafficking
For years news outlets have tied major sporting events to an increase in sex trafficking, but researchers have now revealed that assumption is a myth…
Researchers Analyze “Lunar Effect” – Does Crime Increase When the Moon Is Full?
NYU researchers test whether ‘lunar hypothesis’ is founded on superstition or empirical data. Just in time for Halloween, the BetaGov team at NYU’s Marron Institute…
Hunting Down Cybercriminals With New Machine-Learning System
Model from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory identifies “serial hijackers” of internet IP addresses. Hijacking IP addresses is an increasingly popular form of…
“Fascinating and Scary” – Is Something Literally in the Air Causing Violent Crime?
Exposure to air pollution increases violent crime rates, study finds. Breathing dirty air can make you sick. But according to new research, it can also…
Study Analyzes Effect of Legalization of Recreational Marijuana on Crime – Here Are the Results
Eleven states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana. A new study funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice sought to…
Immigrants Who Committed Felonies Less Likely to Commit Another Felony Than Nonimmigrants
Prior research has shown that immigrants have lower rates of offending, arrest, and incarceration than nonimmigrants. However, that work hasn’t examined whether this holds true…
Using Plants to Combat Prison Recidivism
Determining whether horticultural programs can stem repeat offenses. A study out of Texas State University attempted to determine the number of available horticultural community service…
Researchers Use Statistical Method to Challenge Criminological Theories
Criminologists from the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg set out to see if there is such a thing as…