Robot guards to patrol South Korean prisons
Robot guards with sensors to detect abnormal behaviour will soon begin patrolling South Korean prisons to ease the burden on their human counterparts, researchers said Thursday.
Robotics
Nov 24, 2011
8
0
News tagged with criminal behaviour
Researchers study intergenerational transmission of criminal behavior
In general, children of criminal parents are more than twice as likely to exhibit criminal behaviour themselves. The journal Aggression and Violent Behavior published the results of a study led by Sytske Besemer about the ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2017
0
25
Men are more likely to commit violent crimes. Why is this so, and how do we change it?
Criminology is the study of individual and social factors associated with crime and the people who perpetrate it. One of the discipline's well-established truths is that men commit violent and sexual offenses at far higher ...
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2021
8
5
Researchers provide evolutionary explanation of crime
In their new book, "Evolutionary criminology: Towards a comprehensive explanation of crime," Dr Russil Durrant from the Institute of Criminology and Professor Tony Ward from the School of Psychology employ evolutionary theory ...
Social Sciences
May 29, 2015
1
85
Book explores the link between evolution and criminal behavior
Dr Jason Roach of the University of Huddersfield, along with co-author Professor Ken Pease, has published a new book addressing the controversial issue of employing evolutionary theory to analyse criminal behaviour. UK criminologists ...
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2013
3
0
Friendship is mainly about 'me, me and me'
Young people mainly select their friends according to the image they have of another person, irrespective of whether the person concerned actually satisfies that image. Dutch researcher Maarten Selfhout has demonstrated that ...
Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2009
0
0
Opinion: The use of sonic 'anti-loitering' devices is breaching teenagers' human rights
How would you feel if your right to freedom of movement was infringed because other people your age were involved in criminal activity? You would be outraged, and rightly so. Yet this is the reality facing teenagers and young ...
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2017
5
6
Does bad behaviour run in the family?
University of Queensland research aims to answer the age-old question of whether anti-social behaviour is passed down through families.
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2015
2
24
Evil gene would make punishment a tricky business
Are there evil genes or is it only people who can be evil? A recent story in The Age ("Deep Divide of 'Evil Genes'") raised the question of whether criminals might evade responsibility for their crimes by blaming their genes.
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2013
3
0
Address barriers to housing ex-offenders, says research
Ex-offenders face significant barriers to securing accommodation, says research by University of Southampton academics from the Third Sector Research Centre.
Social Sciences
Mar 6, 2012
0
0
