Questions tagged [criminology]
The study of criminal behavior in both the individual and within a given society.
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Was Tommy Robinson transferred to a prison with a 71% Muslim population?
Paul Joseph Watson claims that Tommy Robinson has been moved to a prison with a predominantly Muslim population.
BREAKING: Tommy Robinson has reportedly been moved to a prison with a 71% Muslim ...
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Are there 2400 bank robberies per year in the US?
At the beginning of the movie Den of Thieves it is stated that:
2400 TIMES A YEAR. 44 TIMES A WEEK. 9 TIMES A DAY. EVERY 48 MINUTES. A BANK IS ROBBED HERE.[sic]
Anyway, I don't know whether HERE ...
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Do only 0.6% of rapes lead to incarceration in the US?
According to this website: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system,
out of every 1000 rapes, 994 perpetrators will walk free
Similar percentages are presented for other types of ...
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Are most US mass shooters Democrats?
Are most mass shooters Democrats? This representative said they are.
'So many people that commit mass murders are Democrats': New York congresswoman sparks outrage during discussion on Florida school ...
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Were there 18 school shootings in the US from Jan 1 to Feb 14, 2018?
CBC Radio (Canada) reported earlier this evening that the Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School "was the 18th school shooting in the U.S. since the beginning of 2018.".
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Did OJ Simpson murder his ex wife and Ron Goldman? [closed]
Many people believe that OJ murdered his wife and Ron Goldman.
He was found not guilty in criminal court but later found liable for their deaths in civil court, based on newer evidence that wasn't ...
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Are Americans besieged by high-crime immigrant communities? [closed]
President Trump's senior policy advisor Stephen Miller just said this in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper:
The people that you don't connect with and understand, the people whose manufacturing ...
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Has Trump's administration been making more human trafficking arrests than the Obama administration?
I come across this image below circulation on the internet.
The image is comparing the human trafficking arrests during Trump's and Obama's administrations. Are these figures true?
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"White people" crime? [duplicate]
In US popular culture, it's often asserted that white people are more prone to commit certain types of crime that are "crazy", such as serial murder, child abduction, mass shooting, etc.
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Is Mexico one of the "highest crime Nations in the world"?
Recently, an often-shared tweet claimed:
With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other.
I have a bit of ...
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Has the marijuana black market in Colorado increased since the state repealed its state laws prohibiting it?
Jeff Hunt, the Vice President of Public Policy at Colorado Christian University, wrote in a recent opinion piece in USA Today:
In the years since, Colorado has seen an increase in marijuana related ...
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Do Roma people make up 60% of the Czech prisoners?
There is a common belief in Czech society that most of the prisoners in Czech Republic are Roma people. Wikipedia backs it up with a vague reference to a book from 1998:
According to Říčan (1998), ...
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Do American sanctuary cities breed crime?
Sean Spicer gave a press conference recently in which he gave the distinct impression that sanctuary cities have more crime than other cities because of their sanctuary status.
President Trump said ...
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Did an Austrian court require a child to prove that they did not consent to rape?
The Sun's headline says:
SHOCK RULING Outrage as Iraqi migrant who raped boy, 10, in ‘sexual emergency’ at swimming pool has conviction OVERTURNED because court couldn’t prove the child said ‘no’
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Was a 15-year-old teen sentenced to 15 years because he took 5 seconds to stop intercourse with an 18-year-old?
This story has been floating around in image form. Is it as ludicrous as it is presented, or are there nuanced facts being left out? Did it even happen?
The 18-year-old woman (“J.L.”) had sex in her ...
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Did Robert Putnam find that diversity has "incredibly negative consequences"?
According to a comment on this 9gag post about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcoming immigrants:
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diversity has in fact incredibly negative ...
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Are chain gangs a deterrent to crime?
Various states have or recently had chain gangs, in which groups of prisoners perform physical or menial work in public while wearing chains/shackles. Supporters claim that it acts as a deterrent - ...
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Did Russian hackers beat slot machines with an app?
Russian hackers made up to $250,000 per weekend by using an app to tell them when to pull a trigger.
[...] custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 ...
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Is the USA murder rate at a high? Specifically is it at a 45 year high?
Current US President Donald Trump is on record as repeatedly saying that "The murder rate is the highest it's been in I guess 45-47 years."
Is that true?
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Do 1 in 2 Swiss citizens have guns and do they have the lowest crime rate?
I came across a facebook post by an Australian political party that states
1 in 2 citizens in Switzerland have guns
Lowest crime rate in the world
Are the above two statements true?
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Are 30% of U.S. prisoners deaf or hard of hearing?
This article by a former corrections officer begins
An estimated 30 percent of offenders are deaf or hard of hearing, often referred to as the "invisible disability."
I find this super surprising, ...
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Did Turkish people commit 70–80% of the rapes in Cologne around the year 1996?
In an interview by the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from 2016-12-29, the journalist/feminist Alice Schwarzer said (in German):
Dass vor 20 Jahren 70 bis 80 Prozent aller Vergewaltigungen in Köln von ...
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Can brain tests on toddlers predict future criminality? [closed]
A study reported in Nature Human Behaviour in 2016 generated a lot of media hype. Typical headlines asserted:
The disturbingly accurate brain science that identifies potential criminals while they’...
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Are John Podesta, a number of pizzerias, and DNC members involved in a child-sex ring? [closed]
Wikipedia explains that:
Pizzagate is a debunked conspiracy theory started by an alt-right Twitter account and spread by 4chan users and /r/The_Donald forum on Reddit, which alleged that John ...
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Did Muslims in the Middle East cut off the breasts of Christian women?
A Conservative Infidel article from 2014 made a claim (that was repeated in a forum for Americans for Legal Immigration PAC) that:
Muslims in the Middle East took Christian girls and cut their ...
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Did increase in minimum wage cause a decrease in crime in NYC?
I was recently reading about the pros and cons of increasing the minimum wage.
This excerpt is from pro #15 at the bottom of this webpage:
Researchers who studied crime rates and the minimum wage ...
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Are democrats more likely to commit crimes then republicans in the United States?
Ted Cruz during in interview with Hugh Hewitt claimed that democrats are more likely to commit violent crime than republicans.
He apparently is getting this statistic from a study on three states ...
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Are there 2-3m illegal migrants with criminal records in the USA?
President-Elect Trump has said that he plans to deport or jail between 2 million and 3 million illegal migrants in the USA who have criminal records.
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he will ...
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Was there a spike in hate crimes after the Brexit referendum?
Was there a spike in hate crimes after the Brexit referendum?
Example claim: 'Horrible spike' in hate crime linked to Brexit vote, Met police say
A “horrible spike” in hate crime after Britain’s ...
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Did a thief think he could conceal his identity from security cameras by putting lemon juice on his face?
McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being ...
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Was Fred Hampton murdered?
Multiple films and books refer to the death of Blank Panther Party leader Fred Hampton as a murder or assassination. My understanding is that the police inquest into the raid that resulted in his ...
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In the US, are illegal immigrants more likely to commit crimes?
Trump has claimed numerous times that part of the reason we need to close the border is that the illegal immigrants are prone to crimes. I want to check these claims. Are illegal immigrants more ...
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Did Saddam Hussein have a secret torture chamber in New York City?
The NY Post reported this week that Saddam Hussein had a secret torture chamber in New York City between 1979 and 2003.
The sources the paper cites are two "anonymous officials". The paper does not ...
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Is it illegal for regular US citizens to possess or read the Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks?
While referring to the the Podesta emails which were leaked by WikiLeaks this week, CNN's Chris Cuomo said on live TV:
Also interesting is, remember: It's illegal to possess these stolen
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Was Princess Diana murdered? [duplicate]
Was there foul play involved with the fatal car crash that killed Princess Diana?
It seems that the best conclusion was that their BMW was speeding on that night to try and escape from aggressive ...
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Is this "whites killed by whites" diagram wrong?
I found the following diagram on twitter:
(Sorry for not giving the source: I don't know how to link there.)
The diagram gives the impression that if you're a white person (in USA), then you're ...
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Do immigrants to the US commit less crimes that native born Americans? [closed]
In 2015, Donald Trump suggested in a speech that Mexican immigrants to the US were bringing crime.
In response, several reporters denied it, such as the Washington Post
data show that new immigrants —...
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Do more DUIs occur the morning after drinking rather than the night of?
There have been a few circulations of a claim that more DUIs occur the morning after drinking on certain holidays versus the night of drinking. The idea is that DUIs obtained by unsuspecting people ...
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Are fat people kidnapped less frequently?
This has been on T-shirts, in a Minions meme, and even some Q&A sites:
Fat people are hard to kidnap.
While the B-flick method of kidnapping (knock 'em unconscious and then carry the mark) is ...
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Are African Americans victims of a disproportionate number of police killings?
Many people are currently arguing that African Americans are being killed by police disproportionately to their percentage of the US population.
An example of the claim is given at Mapping Police ...
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Was child porn found in the possession of Michael Jackson?
A recent article in the Daily Mail states:
Michael Jackson was found to have a sizable collection of pornographic material at his Neverland Ranch in 2003 according to police reports cataloging the ...
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Is this graph of "mass shootings" backed up by reliable data?
There's this graph on the internets:
But I was unable to find any sources of the data. Most of the sites that present the graph seem to be politically oriented. Is this backed by any hard data?
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Would anyone other than Hillary Clinton be imprisoned for improper data access? [closed]
It's a common claim in social media that Hillary Clinton should be convicted of criminal charges and sentenced to a prison term because of how she accessed classified information. A notable claim to ...
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Does banning fictional portrayal of child abuse reduce actual child abuse?
The United Kingdom's Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (part 2, chapter 2) makes possession of images portraying fictional child abuse punishable by law. Wikipedia has a summary, but here's a snip from ...
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Has a bone marrow transplant caused confusion in criminal investigations?
Dr. Azita Alizadeh wrote an 'Ask a geneticist' column about how patients with a bone marrow transplant will end up with at least two different sets of DNA in their body - DNA from their blood (which ...
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Are black Americans responsible for more than 50% of homicides?
I have read comments and articles (an example) that claim that African-Americans are responsible for more than 50% of all homicides in the United States of America.
How credible is this claim?
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Is this document describing pedophile logos an authentic FBI document?
This WFTV report references an FBI document:
A symbol purportedly called the "GirlLover logo" found on FBI
documents from 2007 looks similar to the symbol O’Kelly found on the
toy she bought.
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Are there more pedophiles in the Catholic Church than other religions, or professions [closed]
Are there more pedophiles per capita in the Catholic Church than other religions, or in other professions in general? If so, what is the evidence. This seems like a very difficult thing to really know ...
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Have only 5% of U.S. inmates received a trial?
According to this article, 95% of inmates in the U.S. have never received a trial, choosing a plea bargain to avoid potentially punitive sentencing if found guilty.
The reality is that almost no ...
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Have more U.S. senators been arrested for sexual misconduct in bathrooms than trans women?
I just saw this in my Facebook feed, and now I'm curious if it's actually true. Do they actually keep records of this? It seems improbable, just because there are so many more trans women than ...
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