A suspected perpetrator who can barely remember his name, several traffic violations committed by a woman in her mid-fifties who is completely unreasonable and doesn't understand her behavior—should ...

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Can a face influence who receives parole or who is likely to reoffend? New research suggests that facial appearance carries ...

Classic psychedelics such as psilocybin (often called magic mushrooms), LSD and mescaline (found in peyote) are associated with a decreased likelihood of antisocial criminal behavior, according to new ...

A father and husband strangles his wife and drops her out of a window in a staged suicide. Most people would view this act as cold-blooded murder—but might it be the tragic result of an untreated ...

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Researchers have found that a low resting heart rate may be linked to criminal convictions, as well as medical treatments and death from assaults and unintentional injuries. For the study, researchers ...

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 ...

In the wake of a mass shooting at a San Antonio, Texas-area church that left 26 dead and several more injured, questions are turning toward how a tragedy like this could have been prevented, if at all ...

A new study has found a surprising connection between eating disorders and crime: According to findings published on Aug. 9 in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, women who have been ...