People holding German flags arrive at a right-wing protest gathering near a statue of Karl Marx the day after a man was stabbed and died of his injuries on August 27th, 2018, in Chemnitz, Germany.
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Candles and flowers are displayed outside a grocery store on January 2nd, 2018, where a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend in the western German town of Kandel.
The Central Asian nation has a far greater number of female prisoners jailed for murder of a male family member than other countries in the region.
At least 200 people were killed in 24 countries last year in retaliation for standing up to environmentally destructive industrial projects.
By leaving out crucial statistics, the Netflix phenomenon plays into clichés about murdered women.
In 1989 in Fairbanks, Alaska, Byran Perotti killed Johnny Jackson in cold blood. The community's silence around the murder compounded the shock of the crime itself.
A distinct criminological profile emerges when researchers study the men and women who kill family members.
The slaying of two Virginia journalists captures the horror of death in the age of photographic reproduction.
Scenes before a tragedy—and how art responds to murder.
A new Supreme Court case could affect thousands of prisoners serving life sentences without parole for crimes they committed as teens.
A new analysis of crime stats suggests that economics trumps biology in causing violent behavior in teenagers.
The Etan Patz murder trial is the latest test case for measuring the power of a confession, whether or not it’s actually true.
Vanderbilt University’s Jonathan Metzl and Kenneth MacLeish address our anxieties and correct our assumptions.
Local police departments should reflect the communities they serve, but fixing that alone won’t curb unnecessary violence.
A compelling new documentary on Boston's infamous mob boss shows the lasting trauma of his reign of terror.
A Minnesota high school student overdosed on a synthetic drug she got from some fellow teens. The prosecutor is charging them as adults—with third-degree murder—in order to "send a message." That's the wrong one.
What makes it so hard for some men to question their own assumptions and so easy for them to act boldly and brutally when faced with closed doors?
The ambient temperature of a courtroom could change the way people perceive crimes—which, in turn, could affect sentencing.
Do vampires exist? No, they do not. But that hasn't stopped a handful of researchers from clinging to the myth of "clinical vampirism."
Did a popular young political leader plot to commit mass murder in Alaska?