Social science research on terrorism has grown rapidly in recent years, aided by social and
legal studies. In this review, we examine research on the causes of terrorism and the …

▪ Abstract The United States in the 1990s has experienced the greatest sustained decline in
violent crime rates since World War II—even though rates thus far have not fallen as rapidly …

Although research on terrorism has grown rapidly in recent years, few scholars have applied
criminological theories to the analysis of individual‐level political extremism. Instead …

Prior studies that have empirically investigated the impact of rail station proximity on property
values have not fully investigated the factors that may account for this relationship. Stations …

Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime
decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack …

Research on the relationship between police and crime, like many criminological topics, is
subject to uncertain causal direction and omitted controls. We recommend procedures that …

The impact of state prison populations on crime is typically estimated by applying the
lambda, the individual crime rate, of prisoners or arrestees. We outline the problems with this …

The reliability, validity, and factor structure of a modified version of the Psychopathy
Checklist—Revised (PCL—R) for adolescents was investigated, completed using file …

National-level time series data are a crude tool for distinguishing between two alternative
behavioral explanations for a link between unemployment and crime. Consequently …

In a major new theory of criminal behavior, Mark Colvin argues that chronic criminals
emerge from a developmental process characterized by recurring, erratic episodes of …