r/Criminology

Genuinely baffled here. You cant make a prediction based on previous statistics that becomes true. It might come true but theres a chance it doesnt. If in the last 5 years, 80% of crimes were commited by men, that doesnt mean it will be the same outcome in the next five years. It could be 79% or 81%. I just wanna know why people say most men are likely to commit a crime in general. And before you say testosterone, i know that. Aparently testosterone makes you act on impulse, but men dont always act on impulse.

Hi everyone! I'm thinking about enrolling in an online criminal justice degree program, and I'd love to hear from people who have taken these courses. What are the classes like? Are they mostly reading and writing, or are there a lot of exams? What subjects did you enjoy or find difficult? Any advice for someone just starting out would be appreciated!

to the surprise of no one, slaughterhouse workers are more likely to develop PTSD and commit sex crimes

I'm big into true crime and after hearing and watching shows i genuinely do not understand how you can defend such sick people. I understand the whole "civil duty" and everyone's right to defense but how do you stomach it? I can't comprehend it.

I don’t understand some of the crimes I read about in the news where some people have no regard for human life.

If shooting someone could potentially land you in prison or death (retaliation), why would you continue living that lifestyle?

Almost every inmate being interviewed will advise others not to pursue the same path they took as they made a grave mistake. Yet.. none of this seems to deter people from being more violent.

in my experience, an overwhelming percentage of inmates and recently released offenders exhibit characteristics of narcissism.

I'm wondering:

are narcissists more prone to engage in criminal behavior?

does incarceration cause someone to develop narcissism?

does anybody have any thoughts about this

has anyone done any research about this? if so, what should I look up to find it?

thanks

QUESTION: if you were about to commit a crime which would stop you, relations, law, the way your brain is, or the way you were raised in your childhood/morale

In my opinion I feel like childhood or relations are top

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Informant as used in legal proceedings describes a person's functional relationship to the institution. It is procedural and carries no evaluation of what the act means in the social world where it occurred.

Snitch on the other hand, describes the same act or actor in relationship to the community and carries a complete ethical framework about trust, collective survival, and a history of institutional abuse. Which is grounded in reality and gives the rationality of not cooperating with an institution whose track record in that community has seen the criminal justice system do more harm than good.

Snitch is more informationally dense than informant. It carries an entire community's accumulated knowledge about how the system actually operates. Not how it describes itself in a single word.

Yet it's inadmissible to court proceedings which operates entirely in the vocabulary of informant. The more accurate description has no standing. The arguments constructed in the proceeding is therefore incomplete in a consequential way. Because a necessary premise cannot be formulated if the available vocabulary is determined by the court. The institution wins by ensuring the proceeding is conducted in a language where that understanding cannot be expressed.

I call this false by omission. An argument that passes every formal logical test and is still wrong, because it has been politically shaped to exclude the most threatening variable.