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James Q. Wilson Dead at 80: The Enduring Legacy of Broken Windows Theory
Image: Amazon In 1982 James Q. Wilson and George Kelling co-authored a piece for The Atlantic in which they laid the foundation for a new theory of crime. In essence, they argued that fixing broken...
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Distressingly Delightful Dexter
Image: Amazon I like Dexter. I like the books, I like the show. And I don’t like myself much after having indulged the momentary pleasure in the snappy writing of Dexter’s internal monologue, the...
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Delectably Discriminating Dexter
Image: Amazon Dexter is one of my favorite television shows. Ever. Of all time. My mother first excitedly told me about the show, “A blood-splatter analyst who is a serial killer.” I thought this...
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The Terrible Price of Mass Incarceration
Have you ever driven a car, blindfolded, at a hundred and fifty miles an hour? It’s a line uttered by the creepy sociopath, Bruno Anthony, in Strangers On A Train, but it might just as well describe...
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Earth Day’s Criminal Roots: Ira Einhorn
Image: Amazon While today’s Earth Day celebrations might draw attention to the relatively new idea of environmental crime, the Day’s roots are inextricably linked with a domestic homicide in the 1970s....
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Dumbing Up: Writing Forensic Psychology for Dummies
Image: Amazon by David Canter Just out of my BA in psychology, trying to earn a crust by teaching an adult education night class for the WEA in Crewe, I decided I should not use any jargon or...
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How The Hunger Games Can Teach Violence Prevention
Image: Amazon The buzz about The Hunger Games among my colleagues was all centered on the fact that it’s a series in which young people murder young people. (Anyone with dry eyes after Rue is killed...
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Book Spine Poetry: Women and Crime
Is it possible to create book spine poetry with texts on women and crime? Try this one. Image: CrimeDime.com We used Rethinking Gender, Crime, and Justice edited by Renzetti, Goodstein, and Miller,...
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CrimeDime’s Non-Fiction Summer Beach Reads
It’s time to pull yourself away from the desk, the screens, the calls for service. Summer’s here, and it’s time grab the sunscreen and hit the beach because baby’s in Reno with the vitamin D. Books we...
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CrimeDime’s Fiction Summer Beach Reads
You might have missed our non-fiction recommendations. Or maybe you didn’t like them. Or maybe you were just completely baffled by our love-a-thon with Tending Weeds. To compensate you for your...
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