Author + Forensic Consultant + Distinguished Professor + Music Aficionado
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The most searing and brilliant critique of society and the criminal justice system in decades, reminiscent of Thomas Sowell and James Q. Wilson.
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🚨Self-Control's Long Shadow🚨
At midlife, federal offenders who had clinical self-control problems during adolescence are more likely to be polysubstance abusers, have more gunshot and stabbing wounds indicative of a criminal lifestyle, are more involved in gangs, and are more likely to demonstrate symptoms of antisocial personality disorder.
Those with early self-control problems have much worse criminal careers that start more than a decade earlier, include more juvenile justice system involvements, persist longer with more adult arrests, convictions, and confinements, and include more probation and parole revocations.
They are more violent across the life span with significantly more arrest charges for murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, and rape. Adolescent self-control disorders increase the likelihood of career criminality to a great degree, more than 544% increased odds.
Self-control problems are consistent. Even in samples from the general population, those with low self-control have more police contacts, more arrests, earlier onset of police contact, and earlier age of first arrest. They are also more likely to be arrested and convicted of crimes even when controlling for other correlates of offending. Those with the worst self-control profiles exhibit probabilities of arrest and conviction several times higher than others.
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YouTube has a nice option of the first Miles Davis Quintet's classic four albums at once:
Cookin'
Relaxin'
Steamin'
Workin'
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🚨New Serial Murder Research🚨
Interesting new paper shows documented criminal history and post-parole homicide are associated with significantly higher victim counts. Stranger victimization, the use of multiple killing methods, sexual assault, and post-crime body movement were also associated with higher victim count. Despite justice system interventions, the most prolific murderers nevertheless produce the most damage.
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Fantastic breakdown of the 1984 classic "Easy Lover" by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins.
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Obsessed with true crime? Here’s why.
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Serial homicide offenders’ final cruel act is their own death, before their crimes are detected and ever adjudicated.
A half-century after Susan Rush’s murder, Othram used DNA from the original crime scene to help the Pennsylvania State Police identify her killer as James Richard Clark Sr., who also murdered Brenda Lee Ritter in 1977. #dnasolves
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It was exciting to get a copy of the Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies in the mail this weekend --@jschildkraut80 and I joined many other insightful contributors in authoring a chapter.
Thanks Kyle Burgason and Matt DeLisi for leading this!
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Perfect stocking stuffer for the true crime fan in your family.
Available in paperback! Providing state-of-the-art scholarship on homicide, this handbook edited by Kyle Burgason & Matt DeLisi (@CrimeMusica) is a key collection for students, researchers & practitioners engaged in the study of #homicide: routledge.com/Routledge-Hand… @adamwlankford
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Fascinating study showing homicide risks by sex among people reported missing. Although males comprise most homicide victims, it is a different story for sexual homicide.
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I often see on this platform that Dennis Rodman is the greatest rebounder, an ahistorical and massively inaccurate take.
With basketball, the answer to many of your questions is Wilt Chamberlain.
61 years ago today, Nate Thurmond grabbed 42 rebounds against Detroit.
Pistons player-coach Dave DeBusschere after the game:
"Thurmond is the guy who leads the Warriors. As he goes, so go the Warriors."
Only four players in NBA history have a 40-rebound game: Wilt (14 of them), Russell (8), Jerry Lucas, and Thurmond.
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🚨Forensic psychology🚨
Homicide is the most severe form of crime and one that imposes the greatest societal costs. We introduce the homicide circumplex, a set of traits, behaviors, psychological and psychiatric features that are associated with greater homicidal ideation, homicidal social cognitive biases, homicide offending and victimization, and psychopathology that is facilitative of homicide.
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Apparently mitigating factors are empirically aggravating factors for sexual recidivism.
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More often than not, these cases involve serial or habitual offenders.
State police in Pennsylvania announced DNA testing has tied together two long-standing cold case deaths and allegedly confirmed a "serial killer" was in southwestern Pennsylvania in the 1970s. abcnews.link/tLx27hS
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