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Topic: criminology

Prison cells (Getty Images/Hitoshi Nishimura)

Criminology stirs biology's racist past

Michael Schulson - Undark
Former President Donald Trump speaks on May 28, 2022 in Casper, Wyoming. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

Greatest con artist of our time

Chauncey DeVega
Redhanded by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire (Photo illustration by Salon/Steve Ullathorne)

What tips someone into Murderville?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), French scholar, developed the criminal anthropometry. Self-portrait ID following his own methods made on August 7 1912, at the age of 59. (adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

The troubling pursuit of human metrics

Jessica Helfand - MIT Press Reader
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(Photo illustration by Salon/Keith Spencer)

How I stole my bike back

Keith A. Spencer
The stolen bicycle. (Keith A. Spencer)

How I stole my bike back

Keith A. Spencer
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What about "police science"?

Nidia Bañuelos - The Conversation
Syed Rizwan Farook; Dylann Roof; Nikolas Cruz; Devin Patrick Kelley; Seung-Hui Cho; Adam Lanza; James Holmes; Nidal Hasan; Omar Mateen; Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. (AP/Getty)

Mass shooters instead of serial killers?

Amanda Marcotte
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Eugène François Vidocq (Wikimedia)

The first secret agent's wild story

Noah Charney
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