Exposure to air pollution increases violent crime rates, study finds
Breathing dirty air can make you sick. But according to new research, it can also make you more aggressive.
Environment
Oct 3, 2019
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News tagged with crime
Community policing found to be ineffective in improving trust or reducing crime
An international team of researchers has found that instituting community policing into several communities in six countries in the Southern Hemisphere did little to improve trust in police and did not reduce crime rates. ...
World wide web creator sees open access future for academic publishing
Activists pushing for free, open access to academic papers will eventually defeat publishers who seek to lock scholarly findings behind paywalls, the founder of the world wide web said today.
Internet
Jan 29, 2013
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S.Korea kids to carry GPS beepers against sex crime
South Korea, shaken by several brutal sex crimes against minors, will supply children with GPS-embedded beepers to warn police of dangers and activate surveillance cameras, officials said Wednesday.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 28, 2010
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Anonymous blocks Peru's high-tech police website
The vigilante Internet hackers called Anonymous blocked the website of Peru's police who fight against computer crime, a officials said Monday.
Internet
Mar 5, 2012
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Researchers measure the link between unemployment and crime
Massive layoffs in times of crisis can lead to a surge in crime, according to a study by Diogo Britto, Paolo Pinotti (both at Bocconi Baffi-CAREFIN's CLEAN center), and Breno Sampaio (Federal University of Pernambuco) published ...
Economics & Business
Sep 19, 2022
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More accurately capturing data on crime using surveys
As part of the ESRC research grant Recounting Crime, Alexandru Cernat, David Buil-Gil, Ian Brunton-Smith, Jose Pina-Sánchez, and Marta Murrià-Sangenís have published a new article in the journal Crime & Delinquency.
Mathematics
Feb 21, 2022
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Legal marijuana stores lead to increases in property crime: study
Legal marijuana shops are linked to higher levels of property crime in nearby areas, according to a nearly three-year study in Denver.
Social Sciences
Apr 27, 2017
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New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes
In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint of death. Speaking ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 17, 2009
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Living species of daddy longlegs has two additional sets of underdeveloped eyes as embryos
While some people may first associate daddy longlegs with, well, their long legs, researchers Guilherme Gainett and Prashant Sharma have been especially focused on the arachnids' eyes. In their paper published last week in ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 29, 2024
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