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Abstract. This article explores the persistence of the ‘crime legend’ genre. A case study approach was used, and three crime legends with a considerable history of public debunking were chosen: the market in snuff films; the theft of vital organs for black-market transplant; and the abduction of children from theme park restrooms.
- Pamela Donovan
- 2002
This article explores the persistence of the ‘crime legend’ genre. A case study approach was used, and three crime legends with a considerable history of public debunking were chosen: the ...
Nov 1, 2013 · Myth #5: Most crimes are solved by fingerprints and DNA. Fact: Less than 1 percent of all serious crimes are solved by DNA, and fingerprints do only slightly better. Myth #6: Fingerprints can definitively match a person to a crime scene. Fact: Fingerprint matches are entirely subjective and we have no idea whether the cliché that all ...
May 9, 2023 · The relationship between urban legend, authored fiction and true crime is often too complex to unpick. To muddy the waters even further, consider the case of The Slender Man. Back in the dark old days of the internet (2009), Slender Man was created as part of a photoshop challenge, where users of the Something Awful forum were tasked with creating ‘paranormal images’.
- Crime in 2020
- Crime in 2021: Dealing with Uncertainty in National Data
- Crime in 2022: Early Indicators
- Placing Current Trends Into Historical Context
Crime rates changed dramatically across the United States in 2020. Most significantly, the murder rate — that is, the number of murders per 100,000 people — rose sharply, by nearly 30 percent. Assaults increased as well, with the rate of offenses rising by more than 10 percent. Both increases are connected to a broader surge in gun violence. More t...
In early October 2022, the FBI released its long-awaited compilation of 2021 crime data. But this data differed sharply in content and quality from previous years due to a transitionin the way the government collects crime data. Specifically, 2021 was the first year to rely exclusively on a recently updated system for tracking crime data, the Natio...
FBI data covering all of 2022 is not yet available, so it is too soon to speak with confidence about national crime trends for that year. But research by Jeff Asher, an analyst who studies crime trends, and another report by the Council on Criminal Justice, point to two positive developments: murders and gun violenceappear to have dropped in many c...
These increases in crime rates are serious on their own terms and should not be trivialized. Nationally, however, they do not return us to the high crime rates of the early 1990s. From 1991 to 2014, the national murder rate plummeted by more than 50 percent, from 9.8 to 4.4 killings per 100,000 people. By comparison, the murder rate for 2020 stood ...
Apr 11, 2024 · 6 percent. in July 2023 from a year earlier. Specifically, murder was down by 11 percent, rape was down by 11 percent, and robbery was down by 6 percent. Yet at the time that these statistics were ...
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