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🪓 DOES CUTTING OFF HEADS ACTUALLY STOP PEOPLE FROM KILLING?
For centuries, the idea seemed almost obvious.
You want to prevent crime?
Show people what it costs.
And if prison isn't frightening enough, it's hard to imagine a more radical threat than this:
“If you kill, we kill you.”
The logic seems almost impossible to argue with.
The harsher the punishment, the higher the price of committing the crime.
The higher the price, the fewer people should be willing to pay it.
So let's follow that logic all the way.
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⚖️ Imagine two societies.
In the first, a murderer risks spending the rest of their life in prison.
In the second, they risk being executed.
Same crime.
But in one society, the offender remains alive.
In the other, the state kills them.
If the severity of punishment is what deters people from killing, the second society should have an additional weapon.
Fear of death.
The reasoning feels so intuitive that testing it almost seems unnecessary.
Researchers tested it anyway.
Again.
And again.
Some studies concluded that capital punishment saved lives.
Others found no detectable effect.
Others even found an increase in homicide.
So in 2012, the U.S. National Research Council assembled a committee of experts to examine the evidence.
Not to decide whether the death penalty was moral.
Not to decide whether it was just.
They asked a much colder question:
Does the threat of execution actually prevent homicides?
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And this is where our thought experiment begins to crack.
To measure the effect of capital punishment, you can't simply compare:
“death penalty”
with
“no punishment.”
Because that's generally not the real alternative.
A murderer who isn't executed may still receive an extremely severe sentence, including life imprisonment without parole.
So the real question becomes:
How many people who would accept the risk of spending their entire lives in prison would decide NOT to kill specifically because they might be executed?
And suddenly…
this gets much harder.
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You would need to know how potential offenders actually perceive their chances of being caught.
Then convicted.
Then sentenced to death.
Then actually executed.
You would need to separate that effect from everything else:
differences between jurisdictions, policing, economic conditions, changes in crime rates, and the availability of other punishments.
Executions are also rare enough to make some statistical comparisons extremely difficult.
Different models applied to the data have therefore produced radically different conclusions.
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💥 SCIENCE HAS NOT PROVEN THAT THE DEATH PENALTY DETERS NO ONE.
BUT IT HASN'T ESTABLISHED THAT IT DETERS HOMICIDE BETTER THAN THE PUNISHMENTS THAT REPLACE IT, EITHER.
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That is essentially where the National Research Council landed.
After reviewing the available research, the committee concluded that the studies could not reliably determine whether capital punishment:
reduces homicide,
increases it,
or has no effect.
And there's an important detail here.
That uncertainty isn't evidence for either side.
Failing to demonstrate an effect is not the same thing as demonstrating that the effect doesn't exist.
It's frustrating.
But that's precisely one of the things science is supposed to do:
stop us from turning something that feels obvious into something we claim to know.
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🧠 When we broaden the question to deterrence in general, however, something interesting appears.
The U.S. National Institute of Justice summarizes a substantial body of research with a striking conclusion:
the CERTAINTY of being caught appears to matter more than the SEVERITY of the punishment.
In other words, making a punishment increasingly brutal or lengthy isn't necessarily the most effective way to change behaviour.
A credible risk of being caught may matter more than a terrifying punishment that seems unlikely to happen.
And suddenly, our reasoning from the beginning looks much less obvious.
We imagined:
crime
→ harsher punishment
→ greater fear
→ less crime.
But for a threat to work, the person about to commit the crime must know about it, believe it could actually happen to them, think there's a meaningful chance they'll be caught and convicted…
and be in a position to factor all of that into their decision.
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The debate over capital punishment obviously extends far beyond deterrence.
Justice, retribution, wrongful convictions, costs, morality and fundamental rights involve different questions and different arguments.
But if someone simply says:
“Obviously, executing murderers stops other people from killing.”
They aren't describing an established scientific conclusion.
They're describing an intuition.
Maybe it's true.
Maybe it isn't.
But the available evidence examined in this major review couldn't establish it.
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🔎 Some ideas feel so logical that we forget to ask them for evidence.
Those may be exactly the ideas we should remember to test.
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📚 SOURCES:
• National Research Council — Deterrence and the Death Penalty, National Academies Press, 2012.
Consensus report of the Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty.
DOI: 10.17226/13363
• National Institute of Justice — Five Things About Deterrence, 2016.
Research overview on the certainty and severity of punishment, drawing in particular on the work of Daniel S. Nagin.
#Science #Criminology #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #Deterrence #CriticalThinking #Skepticism #QUAERO
🪓 COUPER DES TÊTES EMPÊCHE-T-IL VRAIMENT LES GENS DE TUER ?
Pendant des siècles, l'idée a paru presque évidente.
Vous voulez empêcher un crime ?
Montrez ce qu'il en coûte.
Et si la prison ne suffit pas à faire peur, il reste difficile d'imaginer menace plus radicale que celle-ci :
« Si tu tues, on te tue. »
La logique paraît imparable.
Plus la punition est terrible, plus le prix du crime augmente.
Plus le prix augmente, moins on devrait avoir envie de le payer.
Alors allons jusqu'au bout de cette logique.
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⚖️ Imaginez deux sociétés.
Dans la première, un meurtrier risque de passer le reste de sa vie enfermé.
Dans la seconde, il risque d'être exécuté.
Même crime.
Mais dans un cas, le condamné conserve sa vie.
Dans l'autre, l'État la lui prend.
Si la sévérité de la peine est ce qui dissuade de tuer, la seconde société devrait disposer d'une arme supplémentaire.
La peur de mourir.
Et ce raisonnement a quelque chose de tellement intuitif qu'il semble presque inutile de le tester.
Pourtant, des chercheurs l'ont fait.
Encore.
Et encore.
Certaines études ont conclu que la peine capitale sauvait des vies.
D'autres qu'elle ne produisait aucun effet détectable.
D'autres encore ont trouvé une augmentation des homicides.
Alors en 2012, le National Research Council américain a réuni un comité d'experts pour examiner cette littérature.
Pas pour décider si la peine de mort était morale.
Pas pour savoir si elle était juste.
Une question beaucoup plus froide :
est-ce que la menace d'être exécuté empêche effectivement des homicides ?
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Et c'est ici que notre expérience mentale commence à se fissurer.
Pour mesurer l'effet de la peine capitale, il ne suffit pas de comparer :
« peine de mort »
avec
« aucune punition ».
Parce que ce n'est généralement pas l'alternative réelle.
Un meurtrier qui n'est pas exécuté peut être condamné à une peine extrêmement lourde, éventuellement à la prison à vie sans possibilité de libération conditionnelle.
La véritable question devient donc :
combien de personnes qui auraient accepté le risque de passer leur vie en prison renoncent au meurtre spécifiquement parce qu'elles pourraient être exécutées ?
Et là…
ça devient beaucoup plus compliqué.
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Il faudrait savoir comment les meurtriers potentiels perçoivent réellement leur risque d'être arrêtés.
Puis condamnés.
Puis condamnés à mort.
Puis effectivement exécutés.
Il faudrait isoler cet effet de tout le reste :
les différences entre États, les politiques policières, les changements économiques, les variations de criminalité, les autres peines disponibles…
Et les exécutions sont suffisamment rares pour rendre certaines comparaisons statistiques extrêmement fragiles.
Résultat :
des modèles différents appliqués aux données ont produit des conclusions radicalement différentes.
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💥 LA SCIENCE N'A PAS DÉMONTRÉ QUE LA PEINE DE MORT NE DISSUADE PERSONNE.
ELLE N'A PAS NON PLUS RÉUSSI À DÉMONTRER QU'ELLE DISSUADE DAVANTAGE QUE LES PEINES QUI LA REMPLACENT.
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C'est précisément la conclusion du National Research Council.
Après avoir examiné les travaux disponibles, le comité estime qu'ils ne permettent pas de déterminer si la peine capitale :
réduit les homicides,
les augmente,
ou n'a aucun effet.
Et il ajoute quelque chose d'important.
Cette absence de réponse ne doit pas être utilisée comme une preuve en faveur d'un camp.
Ne pas réussir à démontrer un effet n'est pas démontrer l'absence de cet effet.
C'est frustrant.
Mais c'est exactement à cela que sert la méthode scientifique :
nous empêcher de transformer ce que nous trouvons intuitivement évident en connaissance établie.
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🧠 En revanche, lorsqu'on élargit la question à la dissuasion en général, quelque chose d'intéressant apparaît.
Le National Institute of Justice résume une importante littérature de recherche ainsi :
la CERTITUDE d'être arrêté semble compter davantage que la SÉVÉRITÉ de la peine.
Autrement dit, dans beaucoup de situations, augmenter encore la violence ou la durée du châtiment n'est pas nécessairement le meilleur levier pour modifier un comportement.
Un risque crédible d'être attrapé peut compter davantage qu'une punition terrifiante mais perçue comme improbable.
Et tout à coup, notre raisonnement du début paraît beaucoup moins évident.
Nous pensions :
crime
→ punition plus terrible
→ peur plus grande
→ moins de crimes.
Mais pour que la menace fonctionne, encore faut-il que celui qui s'apprête à agir connaisse cette menace, pense qu'elle s'applique réellement à lui, estime qu'il risque d'être capturé et condamné…
et prenne suffisamment le temps d'intégrer tout cela dans sa décision.
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La question de la peine de mort dépasse évidemment la dissuasion.
Justice, rétribution, erreurs judiciaires, coûts, morale, droits fondamentaux : ce sont d'autres débats, qui nécessitent d'autres arguments.
Mais si quelqu'un affirme simplement :
« Évidemment que tuer les meurtriers empêche les autres de tuer. »
Alors il ne décrit pas une conclusion scientifique établie.
Il décrit une intuition.
Peut-être vraie.
Peut-être fausse.
Mais pas démontrée par les données disponibles examinées dans cette grande revue.
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🔎 Certaines idées nous paraissent tellement logiques que nous oublions de leur demander leurs preuves.
C'est précisément celles-là qu'il faut penser à tester.
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📚 SOURCES :
• National Research Council — Deterrence and the Death Penalty, National Academies Press, 2012.
Rapport de consensus du Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty.
DOI : 10.17226/13363
• National Institute of Justice — Five Things About Deterrence, 2016.
Synthèse de la littérature sur certitude et sévérité des sanctions, notamment à partir des travaux de Daniel S. Nagin.
#science #criminologie #Justice #PeineDeMort #EspritCritique #Zététique
#Science #Criminology #DeathPenalty #Deterrence #CriticalThinking #QUAERO
Thinking about Foucault's discussion of public punishment in Discipline and Punish, and how he describes it as a theatrical showing of brutal power enacted on the criminal's body but designed to be an example of the state's absolute authority over those of us watching.
And thinking about shows like To Catch a Predator, and Cops, and Jailbirds.
And thinking about the way we share body cam and cctv footage of arrests and of police brutality, especially when it's enacted on Brown and Black bodies.
And thinking about the way ICE is very publicly dragging people out of their homes.
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Foucault #surveillance #surveillanceTech #panopticon #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition
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I got a good 1800 words written this morning... I'm slightly annoyed that I seem to just be reiterating the same points over again, but that's how the assessment guidelines have it set out, and I don't trust this particular lecturer to be able to see that (for example) I've actually answered points 4, 6, and 9 in the same paragraphs... so I'm just writing it slightly differently 3 different times.
Anyways, I'm enjoying writing about Sisters Inside.
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Nauru (an island to the northeast of Australia) has just changed its name to the Republic of Naoero.
I'm only mentioning this because my housemate is doing her final post-marking edits for her phd, which is about Australia's illegal treatment of asylum seekers through off-shore detention and how we contravene their right to health, and it mentions this country a LOT.
And before anyone ReplyGuys—no, it isn't as easy as "find & replace".
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My housemate and I were just talking about how serial killers are becoming less and less common, and I was saying that one thing I think a lot of people are missing in the conversation about why that might be is that spree killings are becoming increasingly more frequent.
My housemate (joke):
It's an attention span thing.
Me:
The tiktokification of mass violent events..
...and thusly yet ANOTHER phd idea is born.
Hoping the print edition of #TheBestNewTrueCrimeStories #PartnersInCrime will be out soon. In the meantime, there's an #ebook and #audiobook available now! #truecrime #books #bookseries #forensics #BookRecommendation #booktok #bookstagram #criminology
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I have an absolutely fucking ridiculous assessment to write this week for an absolutely fucking ridiculous subject.
So I'm picking up support supplies.
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The Boone County Prosecutor’s office will argue for the maximum sentence for a man who has pleaded guilty…
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This is general class feedback given for our first assessment of this subject.
I'm at university. Studying a bachelors' degree.
And this is the level of feedback being given.
I want to kill myself.
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Lebanon man admits to grisly killing of friend | News
A Lebanon man admitted Friday to the grisly murder of his disabled friend last year. Jacob Cram, 36,…
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Детская познавательная литература
Дитяча пізнавальна література, Children's educational literature
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/82
Старые журналы
История, периодика, XIX-XX век Старі журнали Історія, періодика, XIX-XX століття Old magazines History, periodicals, XIX-XX centuries
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/821
Ведомости
епархиальные ведомости, санкт-петербургские ведомости, старая периодика, журналы, периодические издания, история, Россия, Украина
diocesan St. Petersburg journals, old periodicals, history, Russia, Ukraine, єпархіальні петербурзькі журнали, стара періодика, історія, Росія, Україна
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/820
Ботаника, определители растений, таксономия, флора мира.
Worldwide Tropical
на английском, испанском, немецком. Botany, plant determinant, taxonomy, flora of the world. SPECIES PLANTARUM Ботаніка, визначник рослин, таксономія, флора світу. Botánica, determinante de plantas, taxonomía, flora del mundo. 🌴
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/819
Ботаника, определители растений, таксономия, флора мира.
South America
на английском, испанском, немецком. Botany, plant determinant, taxonomy, flora of the world. SPECIES PLANTARUM Ботаніка, визначник рослин, таксономія, флора світу. Botánica, determinante de plantas, taxonomía, flora del mundo.
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/818
Ботаника, определители растений, таксономия, флора мира.
North America
на английском, испанском, немецком. #Botany, #plant determinant, #taxonomy, flora of the world. #SPECIES #PLANTARUM #Ботаніка, #визначник #рослин, #таксономія, #флора світу. #Botánica, determinante de plantas, taxonomía, flora del mundo. 🌲
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/817
Ботаника, определители растений, таксономия, флора мира.
Mediterranean
на английском, испанском, немецком. Botany, plant determinant, taxonomy, flora of the world. SPECIES PLANTARUM Ботаніка, визначник рослин, таксономія, флора світу. Botánica, determinante de plantas, taxonomía, flora del mundo. 🌳
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/816
Ботаника, определители растений, таксономия, флора мира.
Australia and New Zealand
на английском, испанском, немецком. Botany, plant determinant, taxonomy, flora of the world. SPECIES PLANTARUM Ботаніка, визначник рослин, таксономія, флора світу. Botánica, determinante de plantas, taxonomía, flora del mundo. 🌴
t.me/scilib_yura15cbx/814
Are ubiquitous LLMs changing the economics of modern slavery?
I’ve been reading recently about the terrifying scale of modern slavery underpinning the online scam industry. Victims are recruited internationally with the promise of reliable work only to be bundled into cars and taken to heavily fortified compounds, where they are forced to meet targets for online outreach under threat of torture or even death. For example the Guardian report the experience of a Kenyan man forced into ‘cyberslavery’ in Myanmar:
The men were being taken to neighbouring Myanmar, where Okindo found himself inside a walled compound guarded by rebel militia.
I was in a cell just so I could be determined to be a trafficking victim and get my freedom. If I hadn’t, I’d have rotted away there
He was set to work every day for the next three months, forced to send thousands of messages from fake social-media profiles, posing as a rich American investor to swindle US real estate agents into cryptocurrency scams.
When he failed to reach daily targets, he was beaten, locked inside a freezing-cold room and deprived of food for up to two days. He prayed he would avoid the electric shocks and sexual torture others endured at the hands of a Chinese criminal gang that ran the centre.
“It was hell on Earth,” he says. “I broke completely, to the point of losing hope entirely.”
Okindo, who was finally released from Myanmar’s KK Park compound in April, is among a fast-growing population of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians trafficked to south-east Asia as criminal syndicates increasingly look to expand their ranks with east African labour.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/09/cyberslavery-kenya-uganda-ethiopia-southeast-asia-myanmar-scam-centres
A UN report estimated hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked in this way to work as online scammers. Until recently I had no idea about the scale of this crime which can be seen in the sheer size of the fortified compounds where it takes place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nenr0ejizFs
A grim thought has plagued me while I’ve been reading this stuff: are LLMs not a cheaper way to do this? What I found so unsettling about watching these videos are the familiar trappings of the office bureaucracy alongside the inhuman brutality of what is taking place there. This is evil but it’s also banal. It’s a bureaucracy optimised to run an operation at scale… anyone who could put this together would also be primed to think about how new technology could be used to streamline the activity. So are ubiquitous language models going to change the economics of this multibillion dollar criminal industry? I asked Gemini if language models could replace scam cities and it offered this interesting response:
Why AI Cannot Replace Human Victims
- Emotional Nuance: Cyber-scams like “pig butchering” require weeks or months of deep, customized emotional grooming to build romantic or platonic trust.
- Adapting to Suspicion: Human scammers can instantly pivot, improvise, and use emotional intuition when a target starts asking difficult questions or shows suspicion.
- Live Verification: Targets frequently demand live proof, requiring victims to hop on voice calls, send real-time selfies, or manipulate live video streams on command.
- Low Human Costs: Because syndicates use forced labour, the financial cost of sustaining a human victim (minimal food and shared dorms) is incredibly low, competing directly with the costs of high-end computing power.
How Syndicates Use AI as a Force Multiplier
Instead of replacing humans, criminal networks use AI to make their human workforce vastly more efficient.
- Mass Translation: AI translation tools allow non-English speaking captives to message victims worldwide with perfect grammar and localized slang.
- Deepfake Technology: Scammers use real-time AI deepfakes to alter their faces and voices during video verification calls, tricking targets into believing they are talking to the person in the profile photos.
- Script Generation: Large Language Models (LLMs) generate highly convincing, personalized conversation templates and icebreakers, which human captives then customize.
- Target Profiling: Machine learning algorithms scrape data from social media to help captives identify high-value, vulnerable targets automatically.
I think ‘low human costs’ is undoubtedly correct. But think about what that means: slaves are cheaper than compute. I guess I’d hoped that an unintended consequence of LLMs (particularly the open-weight models that are rapidly catching up to the frontier) would be to reduce the demand for coerced labour. However I suspect it’s more likely that we’ll see an intensification of labour in the compounds, structurally analogous to the reorganisation of work which models are driving in other domains. This Interpol report describes technology as a ‘force multiplier’ in which AI-infused fraud comes to be substantially more profitable than existing techniques. Indeed it has democratised access to tools for fraud through criminal P2P marketplaces:
Criminal peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces provide full-service hubs for financial fraud syndicates. These networks offer end-to-end criminal infrastructure including phishing tools, fake trading platforms, AI-powered chatbots for victim
grooming and encrypted communication channels.
If I’m inferring correctly from this, it means the capital investment in building an online scam operation with coerced labour is essentially much lower. Does this mean we might see it spread from beyond the fortified compounds into much smaller units? Which by their nature are possibly harder to identify and detect?
#crime #criminology #fraud #humanTrafficking #interpol #LLMs #slavery
Do you think "my laser hair removal really hurt and it's made me feel sooky" is a valid reason to ask for an extension?
#uni #Academia #Criminology #CriminalJustice #university #writing #audhd #autism #adhd
https://www.europesays.com/3168855/ VA Crime analysis Report 2025 | Crime #Crime #crimes #CriminalJustice #CriminalLaw #criminology #Dashboard(computing) #Data #Deviance(sociology) #DrugRelatedCrime #homicide #IssuesInEthics #LawEnforcement #LawRelatedEvents #misconduct #ProblemBehavior #Violence #ViolentCrime #Virginia
The Plume and the Alibi
An answer to Caroline Fraser, whose book Murderland argues that lead and arsenic from the smelters of the Pacific Northwest helped produce the serial killers of the 1970s and 1980s. A reader sent me a fragment of an interview with you. You are asking why the Pacific Northwest produced so many serial killers, and you have arrived at smelters, at lead, and at a pair of graphs that lie on top of each other. You won a Pulitzer for Prairie Fires and you do not deserve a lazy reply, so here is the long one. One half of what you are saying is sound. The other half is rotten, and the rot is spreading into the half that deserves to survive. […]
Homicide rates - USA is a real outlier.
"How does violent crime in Europe compare to America?"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RKK9GxzuMhE
#homiciderates #criminality #criminology
#elonislying #usa #europe
"Everyone deserves to see the sky and breathe fresh air.
But the Allan Government’s No Air in Prison Bill seeks to stop people behind bars from having at least one hour of fresh air each day in prison.
This is a cruel attack on basic human dignity that will disproportionately harm incarcerated First Nations people and other people stuck in solitary confinement.
The Allan Government must stop shrugging off human rights responsibilities that are meant to protect us all and should abandon this Bill."
Read our explainer on ‘What the Corrections Amendment Bill 2026 (Vic) means for human rights in prison’: https://www.hrlc.org.au/explainers/suffocating-human-rights
#AusPol #Australia #VicPol #Victoria #Criminology #CriminalJustice #HumanRights #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #anarchism #CommunityNotCops #Aboriginal
(from the Human Rights Law Centre Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1aMCaCsx28/)
It’s *What on Earth? Wednesday* time for a bizarre story from our archives! Does getting a poor night’s sleep make you more likely to do a murder? 👀 at my neighbours’ response to last night’s barking dogs… medicalnewsbulletin.com/killing-for-... 🧪 #BehSci #psychiatry, #clinpsych #criminology
Fragmented system hampering UK response to economic crime, researchers find
A new study from The University of Manchester has offered the most comprehensive look to date at how…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #UK #criminology #Faculty-of-Humanities #Headlines #Hum-soss #humanities #humanities-local #social-science #SoSS #SoSSNews #topbanner #UnitedKingdom #UniversityofManchester
https://www.europesays.com/britain/87394/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/87394/ Fragmented system hampering UK response to economic crime, researchers find #criminology #FacultyOfHumanities #Headlines #HumSoss #humanities #HumanitiesLocal #SocialScience #SoSS #SoSSNews #TopBanner #topbanner #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfManchester
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1102705/ Fragmented system hampering UK response to economic crime, researchers find #Britain #criminology #England #FacultyOfHumanities #GreatBritain #Headlines #HumSoss #humanities #HumanitiesLocal #NorthernIreland #Scotland #SocialScience #SoSS #SoSSNews #TopBanner #topbanner #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfManchester #Wales
NEW! #GifsArtidote podcast episode - #subscribe & #support my work
the original article you can find here:
https://gifsartidote.life/2021/01/21/what-would-the-rule-of-law-look-like-in-a-socialist-society/
#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #podcast #science #criminology #CrimPsy
NEW! #GifsArtidote podcast - #subscribe & #support my work
this episode will be one from a series of academic articles i wrote about how socialist and ultimately communist ideas could provide answers to basic concepts in society; in other words this week, i will talk about what in practice would the rule of law look like in a socialist society. i will use concepts i come across in my study criminology and psychology and connect them to a socialist viewpoint and compare it to the current situation in the world.
the original article you can find here:
https://gifsartidote.life/2021/01/21/what-would-the-rule-of-law-look-like-in-a-socialist-society/
#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #podcast #science #criminology #CrimPsy
"You could also get a job as a domestic violence support worker, which is something that's been in the media a bit lately.. especially with the 4 women this last week, who died after having interactions with their partners.."
Excuse me, WHAT?!
Did you stutter? Did you actually mean to say "were murdered by", but sneezed and a whole lot of bullshit fell out of your mouth instead?
#ShitMyLecturerSays #Criminology #CriminalJustice #GenderedViolence #VAW
Lecturer:
Why are people doing this course?
Me:
I'm a police and prison abolitionist, I believe that the system we have now not only doesn't work, but it creates immense amounts of harm.
Next person:
I'm very similar to Aby. I worked in Corrective Services and am now working in disability services. I want to meld these two types of work and work with disabled prisoners.
umm.. THESE THINGS ARE NOT SIMILAR
jesus fucking christ
#policing #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #AbolishPolice #CommunityNotCops #Criminology
Jail’s gardening project is blossoming and bounteous | News https://www.allforgardening.com/1870585/jails-gardening-project-is-blossoming-and-bounteous-news-2/ #agriculture #CriminalLaw #criminology #garden #gardening #ImprisonmentAndDetention #penology #plant #PlantAgriculture #Prison #prisoner #punishments #Recidivism #SubstanceAbuse
Politicians are listening to voters angry about dramatic and well-publicised crimes—and you can understand why. Indonesians were horrified when a 12-year-old stabbed her mother 26 times, killing her. In Colombia a 15-year-old boy last year shot and killed a senator campaigning to be president. In Sweden and elsewhere, gangs use children to attack properties or people.
#legal #crime #punishment #sociology #criminology #police #justice #Fairness
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/09/who-is-capable-of-evil
Jail’s gardening project is blossoming and bounteous | News https://www.allforgardening.com/1870058/jails-gardening-project-is-blossoming-and-bounteous-news/ #agriculture #CriminalLaw #criminology #garden #gardening #ImprisonmentAndDetention #penology #plant #PlantAgriculture #Prison #prisoner #punishments #Recidivism #SubstanceAbuse
In a UK murder trial in 1994 the jury contacted the murder victims by ouija board to ask them who their murderer was.
The victims told the jury, again.. VIA A FUCKING OUIJA BOARD, that the man on trial was the murderer.
This was enough for 4 out of the 12 jurors to decide the accused was guilty.
After watching Maternal Instinct, I decided to watch some follow-up videos regarding the defendant because this particular case heavily involved fraud and deception. As someone that is interested in the intersection of psychology, criminology, and cybersecurity (i.e., behavioral analysis and threat hunting), I found this case to be particularly interesting regarding the social engineering tactics involved.
While doing research, I stumbled upon the "Dark Tetrad." While I was already somewhat familiar with the Dark Triad, this adds new elements to that existing psychological research regarding the pleasure from other's suffering. I couldn't help but to look back and consider my own online trolling/angry responses regarding the polarized political climate over the last decade. While I have since stepped back from social media (and really all big tech controlled environments), I couldn't help but feel guilty about my past behavior after reading about the dark tetrad.
In digital spaces, we often witness users flippantly applying maximum-severity labels (e.g., "Nazi") to minor policy disagreements. While tribalism explains the majority, psychological research shows that some of the instigators of these trends often exhibit Dark Tetrad traits such as sadism and Machiavellianism. For them, the label isn't historical analysis; it’s a high-potency payload used deliberately to cause psychological distress and social chaos.
From a threat assessment perspective, this creates a lot of noise and a "Boy Who Cried Wolf" vulnerability. When the baseline social alarm system is constantly blaring false positives over trivial matters, society's ability to recognize and respond to a genuine, cascading systemic crisis is catastrophically degraded.
Mainstream social architectures are built to optimize engagement by exploiting these dark psychological traits. By rewarding outrage with visibility, algorithms allow malicious actors to manipulate the middle ground out of existence. They weaponize moral grandstanding to convert ordinary users into force multipliers for polarization.
Moving to decentralized spaces like Mastodon isn't just about escaping noise; it’s about choosing a platform architecture that refuses to incentivize moral grandstanding and Dark Tetrad manipulation. In cybersecurity, we rely on logs and objective data. We need to apply that same analytical discipline to how we evaluate and filter human behavior online.
#InfoSec #Cybersecurity #Psychology #Criminology #DarkTetrad #DarkTriad
new podcast episode out!
#GifsArtidote presents episode 14: the death penalty
this time i am talking about the hypocrisy of the state in committing murder, whilst facilitating the material conditions driving people to harm others & themselves.
#press #StateCrime #IndependentMedia #psychology #criminology #science
https://gifsartidote.life/2026/06/26/gifs-artidote-episode-14-the-death-penalty/
new podcast episode out!
#GifsArtidote presents episode 14: the death penalty
this time i am talking about the hypocrisy of the state in committing murder, whilst facilitating the material conditions driving people to harm others & themselves.
#press #StateCrime #IndependentMedia #psychology #criminology #science
https://gifsartidote.life/2026/06/26/gifs-artidote-episode-14-the-death-penalty/
hate to say i told ya so, but...
(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)
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WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces
WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals
WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.
The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup
The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.
#AusPol #Australia #WAPol #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #RightToPrivacy
