The usual image of political activism is of young people, probably students, waving banners, or even throwing cobbles at serried ranks of law enforcement. But as the eleven papers, brought together for an issue of Contemporary Social Science, by Melissa

Although most citizens in developed Western societies have relatively little direct contact with crime as victims and even fewer as offenders, criminality reaches out to influence most aspects of people’s daily lives. Criminology and related social science disciplines rarely examine

Karl Marx recognized that the polarization at the heart of inequality has its own self-enhancing momentum. There are no natural processes that reduce the division between the haves and the have-nots. The opposite is the case, as has been seen

The concept of absence, and its attendant harms, mark most instances of civic disengagement. It is often assumed that happy workers are more productive than unhappy ones. But the evidence for this is limited. What unhappy workers do is stay

Protesters known as indignados — the indignant — demonstrate in the Spanish city of Palencia in 2011. Echoes of their “professional politicians are burglars” could be heard loud in clear in Donald Trump’s rhetoric. (Photo: By Montgomery (own work) [CC BY-SA

For a few who labored in anonymity while alive, there can be a sort of life after death when their mortal remains eventually are found. Is it possible to be dead whilst still alive? By contrast is it possible to

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The Truth About Offender Profiling Crime psychology expert David Canter describes how the search for scientific offender profiling became investigative psychology. Download PDF: The Truth About Offender Profiling  

Perhaps all government policies should come with this sticker affixed. (Photo: ORC Forensics) We’d all agree, wouldn’t we? Reducing health and social problems caused by alcohol abuse is a good idea. So, to set such a policy in motion we

A memorial of flowers and candles at Düsseldorf Airport for victims of the Germanwings crash. (Photo: .Hans135797531/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 4.0) Suicide when there are no obvious precursors is difficult to understand or even difficult for many people to believe possible. We