The tragic school shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis. represents one of the rarest events in criminal justice—a mass shooting by a teenage girl. One of the "iron laws" in ...

Black Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population but 33 percent of the victims of reported violent crime. The statistics on homicide are even worse. Over 50 percent of homicide victims are ...

Take a moment and picture an image of a rapist. Without a doubt, you are thinking about a man. Given our pervasive cultural understanding that perpetrators of sexual violence are nearly always men, ...

For the 2024 election season, we've updated this reporting to cover the latest changes — and debates — around crime stats. Two key crime reports released by the Justice Department this fall reveal a ...

Twenty-three samples from 22 longitudinal studies assessing both bullying perpetration and bullying victimization were selected from a sample of 1,408 candidate studies using several prespecified ...

There are the Black elites and then there are the rest of us. Ibram X. Kendi is one of them. Despite his middle class upbringing and current vast material wealth, he has made a living out of telling ...

Criminologists have traditionally focused, albeit almost exclusively, on the perpetrators of crime, and rightfully so; however, by focusing their collective attention on the perpetrators, researchers ...

Quick: Rate how much you agree with each of these items on a scale of 1 (“not me at all”) to 5 (“this is so me”): It is important to me that people who hurt me acknowledge that an injustice has been ...

The tragic school shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis. represents one of the rarest events in ...

Black Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population but 33 percent of the victims of reported violent crime. The statistics on homicide are even worse. Over 50 percent of homicide victims are ...