Crime and justice involve individual behavior, social conditions, policing, law enforcement, prevention, and public policy. This tag brings together articles that examine criminal behavior, organized crime, terrorism, policing practices, justice systems, and responses to serious harm.
Crime prevention policy works best when it starts with a simple idea: different crimes happen for different reasons, in different places, and under different social conditions. A strategy that reduces street robbery may do little to prevent domestic violence, cyber fraud, organized crime, or white-collar offending. That is why criminological theories are useful—not because one […]
The relationship between wealth and crime is more complicated than the familiar claim that “poverty causes crime.” People with low incomes are not inherently more likely to commit crimes, wealthy people are not immune from criminal behavior, and differences in arrest or incarceration rates do not necessarily tell us how much crime each social class […]
