Mass killings (described by the FBI as four or more unlawful killings in a single event) devastate communities and create fear across countries. But if we’re going to begin to understand what makes someone randomly kill large numbers of...

Traditionally criminology focused on criminal action and its control. Labelling theory widened the focus to include the social reaction to crime and its consequences. This film documents the rise and fall of labelling theory and...

Geographical offender profiling is now being used by police forces

around the world to help focus investigations into a connected se
ries
of crimes where there are no obvious suspects. This film i
ntroduces
students...

One evening a couple were watching tv when they heard a knock on

their front door. On the doorstep was a shivering 10-year-old
girl
wearing only a t-shirt. She had been snatched from
outside a
community centre...

When Philly native Sarah Curtis-Fawley travelled to Australia for what she just intended to be a year, fate seems to have intervened. Marrying, and eventually opening up a bakery (the Pacific Pie Company) in Portland, Oregon specializing...

The bystander effect has long been used to explain the general lack of public help towards people who have been harmed, or are at risk of harm. This film looks at more recent research that takes us beyond the bystander effect and...

A STUDENT has finally embraced her vitiligo after years spending hundreds of dollars a month on make-up to disguise it. Up until a year ago, 21-year-old Mariah Perkins, from Timonium, Maryland, would hide the white patches on her face...

The video explains the concept of differential association theory, which suggests that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions and experiences. It uses the example of a young boy named Robin who ends up in jail after...

Pat King, a key figure in what became the Freedom Convoy that paralyzed downtown Ottawa in early 2022, has been found guilty of five charges for his role in the protest. Criminology expert Michael Kempa, one of the experts who advised on...

A explosion of criminal origin at Belgiums national criminology institute in Brussels caused a fire and major damage but no casualties according to officials

Title card: "THE GRIP OF GRAFT" / LS high angle shot of Welfare Island, New York City (later known as Roosevelt Island) / LS EXT Welfare Island Prison / VS high angle views of prison / MS robber runs out of bldg with "Donovan's Bar and...

The National Sheriffs' Association and researchers want more action from the FBI to limit loss of key data from a change to the Uniform Crime Report.

Vulnerable youth are increasingly adopting violent behavior to survive on the streets which will cost society later on says criminologist Fermin Marmol in an interview with AFP after two street children were allegedly involved in the...

El experto en criminologia de Venezuela Fermin Marmol Garcia afirma que la violencia entre los menores del pais proviene de su necesidad de sobrevivir en las calles