Crime
Forensics, criminal justice, and true crime
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Crime
The microscopic rifling inside a firearm barrel is unique to one in ten thousand weapons
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Crime
U.S. serial killings peaked in 1989 and have declined since despite growing urbanization
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Crime
The first DNA exoneration proved that a confession does not always guarantee guilt
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Crime
The average organized serial killer possesses a completely normal IQ of ninety-eight
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Crime
White-collar fraud costs the United States significantly more than all forms of street crime
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Crime
Female serial killers use poison as their primary method in most cases
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Crime
Modern criminology began as a pseudoscience that measured facial features to predict criminal behavior
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Crime
Red-collar criminals commit violence specifically to prevent the exposure of their financial frauds
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Crime
The modern legal focus on swift and certain punishment originated with an eighteenth-century philosopher
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Crime
Urban crime often clusters in specific transitional zones regardless of which groups live there
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Crime
Social strain theory suggests that crime occurs when cultural goals exceed structural opportunities
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Crime
The Jack the Ripper investigation produced the first formal character profile of a killer
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Crime
Fingerprinting replaced body measurements after a mother was convicted by a bloody thumbprint
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Crime
Every physical contact between a criminal and a scene leaves a microscopic trace
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Crime
A nineteenth-century chemist developed a test that could detect a fiftieth of a milligram of arsenic
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