Violent crime, including homicide, increased sharply in the United States after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even more disturbing is the fact that fewer murders are being solved overall.

On this day, March 27, 1905, fingerprint evidence is used for the first time to solve a murder case. The bludgeoned bodies of London shopkeepers Thomas and Ann Farrow were found by a worker. Scotland ...

In Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s shimmering portrait of 1980s New York, Sherman McCoy’s father offers his son the following advice: if you want to live in the city, “you’ve got to insulate, ...

Certain sensational crimes grab the public’s attention and imagination, becoming infamous unsolved mysteries. While cases from nearly every continent made the list, most originate from the United ...

Our political and cultural systems are obsessed with exploiting fears about crime. But it wasn’t always this way. 1964 GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. You had to watch your back on the grimy ...