With five years of experience as a writer and editor in the higher education and career development space, Ilana has a passion for creating accessible, relevant content that demystifies the higher-ed ...

Influenced by economic, social and environmental factors, criminal behaviour is a complex phenomenon. Academics across disciplines as varied as sociology, geography, mathematics and psychology work to ...

The more lead that people are exposed to in childhood or in the uterus, the more likely they are to engage in criminal behaviour as teenagers or adults, according to a review of 17 studies. “The ...

The Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Saint Louis University incorporates an interdisciplinary perspective to examine the causes and correlates of criminal behavior and the ...

In our last Forensic View, we saw that adolescent cognition can be very different from that of adults. Part of this derives from developmental differences in the prefrontal cortex, but there are also ...

Is “My microbes made me do it” a valid legal defense? A few years ago, a Belgian man in his 30s drove into a lamppost. Twice. Local authorities found that his blood alcohol level was four times the ...

Katey Thom and Stella Black, alongside our wider rōpū, received funding from the Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation for this research. Stella Black received funding from the Michael and Suzanne ...