10 Best Articles on Crime

A cost-benefit approach to the crackdown in El Salvador

Time behind bars can increase the likelihood that someone will re-offend, research finds. In many cases, programs that rehabilitate, rather than punish, may be a better solution.

In the Idaho murders, the real crime has become a “true crime”—an ominous form of interactive entertainment.

Cities have turned to an old standby to reduce crime. There's just one problem.

A Home Office-funded project that used artificial intelligence to predict gun and knife crime was found to be wildly inaccurate

The number of bank robberies is at about the lowest since the 1960s. A researcher investigates why.

1. On a Wednesday morning during an unbearable late-summer heat wave, I sat in the back seat of my mother’s car, my three-month-old baby beside me, as we cruised along the 85, which runs from San Jose…

«Later on, she told me, she realized it was not conventional for a young woman like herself to call the sales department of a large, established company. But at the time she did not know that, and if she had—well, I’m guessing she would not have cared.»

A Harvard-trained lawyer was convicted of committing bizarre home invasions. Psychosis may have compelled him to do it. But in a case that became a public sensation, he wasn’t the only one who seemed…

I. If you shoot someone in the head with a .45 every time you kill somebody, it becomes like your fingerprint, see? But if you strangle one, stab another, and one you cut up, and one you don’t, then…

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem…