If there is agency and some decision-making process entailed in criminal behavior, then
what are the incentives for crime and for conformity, and what is their role in offending …

The interplay of sanctions, perceptions, and crime has special significance in criminology
and is central to a long tradition of perceptual deterrence research as well as to more recent …

The mission of policing is “to protect and serve,” but recent events suggest that many
Americans, and especially Black Americans, do not feel protected from the police …

Purpose: Over the past several months, the coronavirus has infected more than six million
Americans and killed nearly 200,000. Governors have issued stay-at-home orders, and …

Fake news on social media has become a serious problem, and social media platforms
have started to actively implement various interventions to mitigate its impact. This paper …

COVID-19 has had unprecedented effects on populations around the world. Given the
political context of the pandemic and the nation's response to it, this study sought to assess …

Extant research has provided support for the micro‐level predictions of rational choice
models of crime. Yet, a central feature of the rational choice perspective in the broader social …

Trait‐state models aim to provide an encompassing view of offender decision‐making
processes by linking individual dispositions to proximal factors. In an experiment using an …

The effect of proximate emotions on risk perceptions is of central importance to criminal
decision‐making theory, but has been understudied. We investigate the role of two integral …

As tens of thousands swarmed the US Capitol Grounds on January 6th, 2021, to oppose the
election of Joe Biden as President, thousands among them assaulted officers and breached …