Criminology - Quillette (Page 2)

The Life of a Transgender Prisoner

Transgender convicts receive treatment from other prisoners that correlates to how attractive they are.

Henry Higgins

17 Jun 2019 · 6 min read

The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality

Despite the fact that low IQ is correlated with negative outcomes in a large number of areas and afflicts around 15 percent of the population, we seem incapable of treating it like any other public health problem.

Wael Taji

25 Aug 2018 · 13 min read

Are Liberal Democracies 'Rape Cultures'?

The rape culture is much like the poor sanitation conditions which led to typhoid—it provides an environment in which acts of rape are fostered.

Antonin Foucaux

6 Jun 2018 · 10 min read

Biosocial Criminology and the Lombrosian Paradox

It is this very intellectual dishonesty, this reputational cost, that has had such an inhibitory, obscuring effect on the development of biosocial criminology.

Samuel Forster

12 May 2018 · 7 min read

No, There's No Evidence of a Murder Wave Targeting Gay Americans

Wait a minute. Only four gay men were murdered in all of 2016? And then 20 the next year?

Walter Olson

11 Feb 2018 · 4 min read

Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and Violence

We should work to devise effective solutions to continue that progress, rather resorting to using all men as scapegoats for the violence that remains.

Gideon Scopes

25 Oct 2017 · 13 min read

Is There a Biological Case for Criminal Justice Reform?

“We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm,” Sapolsky writes. “It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.”

Hal Conick

20 Oct 2017 · 6 min read

Is Crime Genetic? Scientists Don’t Know Because They’re Afraid to Ask

What if much of what we know about the causes of crime is either deeply flawed or flat out wrong?

Brian Boutwell and JC Barnes

18 Feb 2017 · 6 min read

Does Religion Cause Violence?

Make no mistake, we should be wary of the effects that beliefs might have.

Brian Boutwell and Jonny Anomaly

22 Jan 2017 · 10 min read

The Bermuda Triangle Part II: Dangerous Research & The Risks Worth Taking

The strategies of mob science are uncomplicated and as both Rushton and Gottfredson would learn first hand, they are terrifyingly effective.

Brian Boutwell

3 May 2016 · 7 min read

Criminology’s Wonderland: Why (Almost) Everything You Know About Crime is Wrong

As we have noted before, crime is heritable. And yet, there is no crime gene.

Brian Boutwell and Kevin Beaver

31 Mar 2016 · 10 min read

Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong

The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.

Heather Mac Donald

21 Mar 2016 · 11 min read

What Does Science Tell Us About the So-Called Ferguson Effect?

A substantial segment of the American public is questioning the legitimacy of police actions, including the use of force. This attention is a Ferguson effect in itself.

Scott E Wolfe Scott H Decker and David C Pyrooz

1 Mar 2016 · 8 min read

How Criminologists Who Study Biology are Shunned by Their Field

Biosocial criminologists endure reputational attacks often. The field of criminology is not an especially cordial place to work.

Brian Boutwell

13 Nov 2015 · 10 min read