criminology

While the reduction is indeed something to be pleased about, remember that in criminology, it's not unusual to see blips like this.

I mean, your first reply to my commentary was specifically against me saying that there are multiple factors in criminology.

You should look at criminology more before making some of the crazy claims you're making.

Yes, you really do need to study criminology a bit more to understand why this is a bad way to present data.

My knowledge about criminology or criminal justice is very limited, and it's probably polluted by all the cop movies and TV shows.

Obviously those aren't the only two studies on the subject, it's been a focus of criminology research since it's been a discipline.

Yes, more crime happens in urban environments; criminology is pretty clear on this.

Anyone who has studied criminology for five minutes knows that you can't adequately compare the levels of crime in different areas this way.

In relation to this post's subject, Alexander is not an expert in criminology, law enforcement, political perception, or sociology.

The answer is that criminology is affected by a wide variety of factors, and making statements like the guy in the article that 90% of crime can be attributed to one factor is nonsense.

> I mean, your first reply to my commentary was specifically against me saying that there are multiple factors in criminology.

A few years ago, the Australian Institute of Criminology and South Australia's major crime-investigation branch studied 163 attempted and actual contract killings between 1989 and 2002.

Similarly, if I redefine "murder" to mean "puppy", that shouldn't change your views on criminology.

If you think that there is "a crime rate aggregated over all crimes", then there's some fundamental things you don't know about criminology.

"If you look at what's happening in Ferguson—basically you have two entirely different versions of events," said Michael White, a professor of criminology at Arizona State University.

Criminology texts emphasize this point; the object is to elicit a confession that will stand up in court.

Criminology is actually pretty clear on the point.