A news release from the University of Surrey, UK, draws attention to the first study to have systematically assessed the carbon footprint of UK crimes. The research team found that :- “[…] crime committed in 2011 in England and Wales gave rise to over 4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents. Burglary resulted in the […]
Tag: Crime
New uses for old CDs (part 3)
Got old CDs? Looking for uses for them? Have you thought about their application in crime scene photography? “Tripod legs of cameras often sink into sand, mud, or snow. To avoid this, old CDs can be used by placing approximately three of them under the feet of the tripod. CD’s can also be used as […]
Quantum Holographic Critical Criminology
A bicycle is stolen, it later reappears in another place. A likely explanation is that the bicycle was unlawfully moved (as a unified and coherent macro-collection of atoms and molecules) by the thief. But not all criminologists are happy with such broad-brushed Newtonian descriptions of events. Take for example professor Dragan Milovanovic of Northeastern Illinois […]
Puzzling Experiment of the Day: Mock Crime Blink
Today’s Puzzling Experiment of the Day is described in this paper: “Detecting false intent using eye blink measures,” Frank M. Marchak [pictured here], Frontiers in Psychology, 4 (2013): 736. (Thanks to investigator Neil Martin for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at Veridical Research and Design Corporation, Bozeman, MT, USA, explains: “Here we examined—across two […]