criminology

White Scottish man, 38, charged after five men were injured in spate of attacks in city on Friday night Witnesses to the alleged knife attacks on Muslims and others in Edinburgh on Friday have described seeing a taxi and an Uber bike courier being targeted in Leith. The attacks, suspected of being directed against Muslims and people of colour, began near a mosque in the west of Edinburgh, followe…

Iran and China among those accused of targeting critics living in the UK, as arson attack on prime minister Keir Starmer’s properties linked to Russia As Pouria Zeraati was crossing the street between his Wimbledon home and his car in south London in March 2024, he was confronted by two men. One held him firmly as the other stabbed him three times in the leg before they both fled. It was later sa…

430 ICE street arrests filed over a five-month period were clustered in predominantly Latino communities across New Jersey and New York Federal agents have arrested hundreds of immigrants off New York and New Jersey streets in recent months in a stealth enforcement campaign that disproportionately targeted people from Latin American countries, according to an investigation by the City Reporter ba…

Terry Reed, found guilty of rape and molestation of a juvenile, called ‘utter failure of a man’ by victim’s mother A suburban New Orleans religious pastor has been sentenced to 80 years’ imprisonment after being convicted of sexually molesting two boys – the third time in which he was found guilty of abusing minors. While Terry Reed received his punishment at a state court hearing on Thursday, th…

Merlin Lu faces felony and misdemeanor charges after police released images of a suspect fleeing the scene A 21- year old man who admitted to setting fire to a cross in Chicago’s Grant Park last week is now in police custody on hate crime charges, per Chicago police. Merlin Lu was arrested and charged with four felony and four misdemeanor counts related to the incident on 9 June. Continue reading…

Researchers analyzed California's extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) and found individuals subject to these orders were significantly less likely to be arrested -- including for violent and firearm-related offenses -- both during the order and in the months after it expired.

Police chief says officers working to find suspect who shot two people, one fatally, inside Wilmington hospital A suspect who shot two people in a Delaware hospital, killing one, was still at large on Tuesday, police said in a press conference. The shooting was reported around 3.30pm at Wilmington hospital, police chief Wilfredo Campos said during the news conference. Campos declined to release i…

The Challenge Correctional Systems Face Among people with serious mental illness involved with the criminal legal system, lifetime trauma exposure is nearly universal (Policy Research Associates, 2011). However, criminal legal system professionals are often not equipped to recognize trauma's effects—and without that understanding, even routine interactions can escalate, leading to retraumatizatio…

Young adults and teens are being recruited through apps like Telegram and paid to carry out attacks, officials say Police investigators in Toronto have said that dozens of shootings – including one at the US consulate in March – are linked to a “multilayered” gun-for-hire network that is also responsible for attacks on synagogues around Canada’s largest city. Toronto’s police chief, Myron Demkiw,…

Homicides have hit historic lows in cities across the nation. Criminologists are trying to puzzle out why.

Restorative justice has gained growing attention within criminal justice reform as a practical alternative to approaches centered only on punishment. It emphasizes accountability, dialogue, and community reintegration, offering a different way to understand how change in behavior takes place. This systematic review examined quantitative evidence from 34 studies, selected from an initial pool of 1…

A theft suspect died, and two San Francisco police officers suffered injuries after being run over by an SUV during an attempted arrest in Nob Hill.

Dmitriy Popov fatally stabbed O’Shae Sibley in Brooklyn in 2023 and was found guilty of manslaughter as a hate crime A New York City man who was recently convicted of a hate crime in the 2023 stabbing death of vogue dancer O’Shae Sibley is facing a prison sentence of between eight and 25 years. Sentencing for Dmitriy Popov, who was 17 at the time of Sibley’s slaying, was tentatively scheduled for…

Claims of two-tier policing and uncontrolled immigration may not be borne out by the facts, but that has not stopped them being played up for political ends As the people of Glengormley, on the northern edge of Belfast, tidied up and prepared for more violence in the midst of what has been described as a modern-day pogrom, a court 500 miles away in Southampton, on the south coast of England, star…

President says Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores killed in ‘swift and lethal’ military strike with help from Venezuela The US military has killed a leader in the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, with the help of Venezuela, Donald Trump announced on Friday. “At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to…

A man suspected for two California killings was captured in Laos after eight years on the run, officials said. He was returned to California to face charges.

Suspect detained under Mental Health Act, as police confirms counter-terrorism unit is leading investigation into attack A 14-year-old girl has been charged in connection with three stabbings at a school in North Manchester, police said. The girl was charged with three charges of attempted murder and two charges of possessing a bladed article on school premises over the incident on Tuesday. Conti…

Vance Boelter was charged with murdering Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and with shooting state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman.

Exclusive: PSNI repeatedly warned by monitoring group for eight months after a so-called hitlist of addresses began circulating in far-right networks A monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots. The Accountab…

Officer shot before 6am on Thursday while searching an apartment allegedly linked to March shooting in Toronto A Toronto police officer has been shot as police raided an apartment allegedly linked to the March attack on the US consulate. Toronto police confirmed an officer was shot before 6am while conducting a search warrant in the north-west of the city, and has been rushed to hospital. Continu…