The Life of a Transgender Prisoner
Transgender convicts receive treatment from other prisoners that correlates to how attractive they are.
Henry Higgins
· 6 min read
Criminology
A collection of 29 posts
The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality
Despite the fact that low IQ is correlated with negative outcomes in a large number of areas and afflicts around 15 percent of the population, we seem incapable of treating it like any other public health problem.
Wael Taji
· 13 min read
Are Liberal Democracies 'Rape Cultures'?
The rape culture is much like the poor sanitation conditions which led to typhoid—it provides an environment in which acts of rape are fostered.
Antonin Foucaux
· 10 min read
Biosocial Criminology and the Lombrosian Paradox
It is this very intellectual dishonesty, this reputational cost, that has had such an inhibitory, obscuring effect on the development of biosocial criminology.
Samuel Forster
· 8 min read
No, There's No Evidence of a Murder Wave Targeting Gay Americans
Wait a minute. Only four gay men were murdered in all of 2016? And then 20 the next year?
Walter Olson
· 4 min read
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and Violence
We should work to devise effective solutions to continue that progress, rather resorting to using all men as scapegoats for the violence that remains.
Gideon Scopes
· 14 min read
Is There a Biological Case for Criminal Justice Reform?
“We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm,” Sapolsky writes. “It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.”
Hal Conick
· 6 min read
Is Crime Genetic? Scientists Don’t Know Because They’re Afraid to Ask
What if much of what we know about the causes of crime is either deeply flawed or flat out wrong?
Brian Boutwell
· 7 min read
Does Religion Cause Violence?
Make no mistake, we should be wary of the effects that beliefs might have.
Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
The Bermuda Triangle Part II: Dangerous Research & The Risks Worth Taking
The strategies of mob science are uncomplicated and as both Rushton and Gottfredson would learn first hand, they are terrifyingly effective.
Brian Boutwell
· 7 min read
Criminology’s Wonderland: Why (Almost) Everything You Know About Crime is Wrong
As we have noted before, crime is heritable. And yet, there is no crime gene.
Brian Boutwell and Kevin Beaver
· 11 min read
Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
What Does Science Tell Us About the So-Called Ferguson Effect?
A substantial segment of the American public is questioning the legitimacy of police actions, including the use of force. This attention is a Ferguson effect in itself.
Scott E Wolfe Scott H Decker and David C Pyrooz
· 9 min read
How Criminologists Who Study Biology are Shunned by Their Field
Biosocial criminologists endure reputational attacks often. The field of criminology is not an especially cordial place to work.
Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read