Hi everyone! I’m currently an RN in a prison hospital and I love my job, but I’ve always wanted to do more. I worked in a psych ward and county inmates as a student, and now I work in the acute health care setting for incarcerated individuals from all over the whole state. I love being able to provide a safe, healing space for them, but it’s so depressing. I read a lot of criminology research and I want to be involved in projects that help dignify incarcerated individuals, and also maybe projects that can help prevent crime in the first place, like studies on social welfare. I’m not sure how sociology or research really works, I just know that most of the authors in the articles I read have a masters in sociology. Will my nursing background even be useful in criminology research? Do any of ya’ll have a masters in sociology? I’d appreciate any insight to criminology research, thanks!

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Hi I am just completing a criminology masters (UK) and want to move on to a PHD. The question I want to ask is are prison's breeding grounds for crime? I want to look at if offenders made criminal connections in prison that they wouldn't have on the outside. To do this I would need cellmate history and who was in close proximity with who when in prison so I can then look at if these individuals co-offended together later. I have no idea how I would even go about asking for this information. Looking it up on google is just confusing. Maybe there's a reason this hasn't been done before. Is this just a pipe dream? if there no chance I will be granted access to such data?

With all the discussions surrounding crime, there seems to be a lack of focus on strategies aimed at reducing community violence. Although I'm not a criminology major, I've taken an interest in this topic and found some valuable insights. The key is social control, which in criminology, refers to the mechanisms, strategies, and institutions societies employ to regulate and control individual behavior.

• Precision Policing (Formal Social Control)
  • Focused Deterrence
  • Hot Spots Policing
• Community Violence Interventions (Informal Social Control)
  • Violence Interrupters
  • Urban Planning (CPTED)
  • Mental Health Services

Thoughts?

I couldn't find anything on the first page of google, so...

It its pretty well established that increasing penalties doesn't carry significant deterring effects for crimes besides for things like illegal parking and now I'm wondering, if for certain crimes it might even increase the severity of the crimes committed.

Say for instance, instead of just robbing someone the perpetrator also murders his victim in order to get rid of the eyewitness that could identify him. Or because a sentence already would be de facto life ending, the perpetrator hass less inhibitions to go farther than they initially planned to if complications arise.

Are there maybe studies on this subject? I could swear I read something along these lines at some point but maybe I'm all wrong here.

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One tough thing about jail is that even if you're in there for a good cause, most people in there are not. A kneejerk reaction that a lot of people might think is that a lot of (if not most) people in jail deserve to be there for some reason or another. And yet the U.S. has more incarcerated people than any other country. What do other countries do that keeps their citizenry out of jail?

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This may not be the right place to ask, if so, where can I ask for help finding the statistic.

I've found a lot of statistics relating to cases or wrongful convictions related to eyewitness testimonies, but I'm looking for what percentage of convictions are based solely on a single eyewitness testimony From my knowledge or understanding, most convictions do have some physical evidence to support them, and cases with no evidence except a sole eyewitness testimony are POSSIBLE but uncommon & what I thought would be statistically unlikely. Are there statistics to support this that I'm struggling to find? Am I wrong in this, or is there just not existing statistics on it?

The only statistics that I can find supporting this is on rape or sexual assault. Most sources varying 2-6% of reported rapes/sexual actually lead to a conviction. I can't find much on allegations without physical evidence of any other crimes or as a broad concept.

I looked at them the other day and there were 19,200 homicide offenses, and references to that figure show up in Google searches so I know I'm not crazy...but now the figure is only 16,485.

Also, they added different weapon definitions so there's now a category for both "firearm" and "other firearm"...WTF??

Someone please help me make sense of this...

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i have to talk about how the crime is represented in the media so i’ve chosen hillsborough as i can talk abput the newspapers eg the sun. But i need to use criminological theories but not sure which ones would be applicable

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I'm a layman with a bachelor's in psychology so what most interested me most about the book (volume 1 anyway) was how Yochelson and Samenow went into how criminals develop and their experiences in life, how they act with people with whom they are supposed to be the closest and their general attitudes towards their way of life.

I went through that book in like two or three days and was just hooked. I've seen that volumes 2 and 3 have a different style and move towards the ultimate goal/thesis compared to first volume but I'll probably just go through those two if I can't find anything else similar.

Thanks

Is criminology a career one could pursue if I have some very low experience being an investigator?

I currently work for this shopping website where third-parties sell their products, and my role is to dig in the internet for anything we can find about their business and their supply chain. We have guidelines to know what to look for, what's considered red flags on any business, such as reviews about the legitimacy of their business, counterfeit complaints, etc. It's kind of like a stalking job you do on someone, but that someone is a business and you're using google and public websites.

But I wanted to study something to grow in that field of investigations, not precisely in crime scenes – which I liked a lot when I was a teen, but it was partly because of the TV shows, which I know it's a lot of fantasy. I have the stomach for gruesome scenes, but I know it's not the same to watch from a screen.

I understand that as a criminologist one could work in finance institutions, insurance companies? I guess I don't want to waste the 5 years I've been doing this low effort job, but I want to use those skills to turn myself into a real something. Get a north, a degree.

Thank you for your time and any advice!

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I’m about to graduate with my bachelors in criminology. I’m going right into the work force, but in a few years I plan on going back

I’m conflicted

The work I want to do right now is basically social work, but I also want to do academic stuff like study the sociology behind crime

If I get my masters in social work, would I be able to teach at a university or do academic work?

Pyrrhic defeat theory is the idea that those with the power to change a system, benefit from the way it currently works. I'm just wondering where did the name come from and why isn't it Pyrrhic victory as it originally was?

For context, I am an international student and recently completed my master’s degree in criminology with specialisation in cybercrime and cybersecurity. I did my bachelor’s degree in forensic science from my home country. It’s been two months since I completed my degree and I’m struggling to find a job: it’s not the job hunting in itself that is stressing me out but the requirement of having an SC clearance to even apply for most of the jobs based on my degree. It requires me to be a resident of the UK for atleast 3 years. This limits my chance to find jobs as cyber security consultant, or any other cyber related entry level jobs.

I am very much looking into finding some insights as to how to find jobs based on my degree and what all opportunities are there for me. I just want to put any of my degree to use be it bachelors or masters. Any research jobs or desk or office jobs. Any help is appreciated.

Hey all, I was wondering you would say Is the most under reasearched area of criminology or where revision could be needed?

Thank you

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Or give me ideas of what to research (I have access to APA PsychInfo). I’m a psych major, not criminology major. I’ve only taken one related class. I’m wondering what the statistics are regarding age of first time offenders. The case I’m looking into from 1959 is a case of potential rape and then murder of a child. I’m wondering how common it is for a man in his 50’s to do this for the first time at this age.

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Every bit of research that's ever been done tells us that simply punishing criminals harder does not work at best and makes things worse at worst. i bite my tongue when people genuinely believe that imposing harsher sentences will lead to decreased crime

EDIT: muting the post. it's very clear who in the replies has actually studied criminology and who joined the sub because they like crime shows and wanted to talk about crime.

Hi all, Recently I have had a Criminology and Crime Prevention textbook published. I am really pleased with it and was wondering how other people found publishing? And whether you had any tips for others to succeed? I would be really interested in those that have had to publicise a book as an example but I'm aware other might be interested in other areas of the process.

Next on my list to try is to get a journal article, but I have heard it can be a challenge, has anyone got experience of getting work out there?

For those interested my book is available on the link below, but that's not the purpose of this post, just trying to avoid having to answer an obvious question!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1915080746/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1707758270&sr=8-1

I’ve seen the figure that the average person walks by 36 killers at some point in their life.

As far as I know, that figure comprised of people who committed pre-meditated murder.

For the average person, how many people do they meet in their lifetime that have killed another person accidentally, like in a car crash or as a soldier in war? Is manslaughter more common than murder? Looking for a very broad definition of manslaughter but it has to be humans killing humans who have been birthed.

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