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
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News tagged with criminal behaviour
Investigation reveals "shocking" epidemic of sexual assault in the NHS
A joint investigation published today by The BMJ finds that NHS trusts recorded more than 35,000 cases of rape, sexual assault, harassment, stalking, and abusive remarks, between 2017 and 2022. The findings, which show that ...
Social Sciences
May 23, 2023
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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
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Humans light 85 percent of bushfires, and we do virtually nothing to stop it
It's hard to comprehend why someone would deliberately light a bushfire. Yet this behavior regularly occurs in Australia and other countries. We would go a long way to preventing bushfires if we better understood this troubling ...
Environment
Nov 18, 2019
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Treating young people like criminals actually makes violent crime worse
The rise in violent incidents on the streets of London has prompted a wave of discussion about what causes crime among young people. The closure of children's services, cuts to police budgets, social media and drill music ...
Social Sciences
Apr 30, 2018
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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
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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
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Can we predict who will turn to crime?
Is it possible to predict whether someone will commit a crime some time in the future? It sounds like an idea from the 2002 science-fiction movie Minority Report.
Social Sciences
Aug 2, 2016
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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
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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
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