Criminology and Economic Theory

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez, who earned the nickname Night Stalker for his mid-1980s reign of terror in the Los Angeles region, died on Friday at a hospital near the...

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Welcome to the city where pot nerds are growing the new American economy

Black Americans were nearly four times as likely as whites to be arrested for marijuana possession in 2010, but both groups used the drug at similar rates, federal data shows.

ITS activists have dressed as policemen and sex workers in Kiev; as marathon runners and Muslim men in London; and as nuns and maids in Paris. Femen, a Ukrainian...

A man used a fake Facebook account to lure a teenage girl out of her house in an attempt to stage her kidnapping and rescue so he could look like a hero but ended up killing her, a state police affidavit released Wednesday said.

With the six marijuana regulatory bills signed into law Tuesday, Colorado becomes the first U.S. state to create a legal framework for the cultivation and sale of recreational marijuana.

PARIS (AP) — France's Interior Ministry says police have arrested a 22-year-old man in the stabbing of a French soldier while on patrol in a crowded commercial area outside Paris.

A mountaineer is reportedly under fire from the Nepalese government for his illegal call from the top of Mount Everest.

Jerry Andrew Active was released from jail Saturday morning. Less than 12 hours later, police say, he killed an elderly Mountain View couple and sexually assaulted their great-granddaughter.

Among them are programs critical to missile defenses and combat aircraft, according to a confidential report.

Genes play the biggest role in getting toddlers to sleep through the night, while environmental factors are more important for daytime naps, a twin study showed.

The next time you get arrested, consider your choice of t-shirt.

Police say five people, including the gunman, are dead in a shooting rampage

Why Oregon, California and more are likely to follow Colorado and Washington toward legalization

The padlocks to hatches of an aqueduct outside of Boston that supplies drinking water to the metropolitan area were found cut Monday, leading to local concerns after there was a trespassing incident last month as well.

The Justice Department said its rate of criminal prosecutions in Indian country had risen by more than 50 percent in the past four years, a period in which violent crime soared.

AFTER years of trying to discipline him, the leaders of al-Qaeda's North African branch sent one final letter to their most difficult employee.

Anchorage police detectives are looking for a man suspected of stabbing another man in Northeast Anchorage late Monday, a department spokeswoman says.

Bail was set at $1 million Tuesday for a 25-year-old Washington man accused of putting his 6-week-old daughter in a 10-degree freezer for about an hour to stop her crying.

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Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a recommendation to copy a tactic cyber scammers use to extort money from innocent victims.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A passenger on a commercial flight from Alaska to Oregon was arrested Monday after witnesses say he tried to open an emergency exit during the plane’s descent and other passengers had to help restrain him using shoelaces and...