Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.

Video Links

Video 1: Young Killers Who Stay In Juvenile Court Take Vastly Different Paths

Description: Sometimes minors are charged as minors, but other times, when their crime is seen to warrant it, they are charged as adults. The implications of which conviction is made has life changing consequences for the future of these individuals. Interviews with both groups show individual stories.

Video 2: Crime and Warm Weather: What’s the Link?

Description: Statistically, crime spikes in warmer weather. The Weather Channel provides evidence of why this link exists in a short video.

Video 3: A Former Inmate on the Perils of Life After Prison

Description: A former inmate explains how the punishment doesn’t end after prison, and the vicious cycle a single offense can cause. They face enormous challenges. Recidivism occurs often for these newly free men and women, as reality out of prison is not as free as it may seem.

Article Link

Article 1: Criminal Profiling Doesn’t Work. TV Shows Should Maybe Stop Celebrating It

Description: This article provides an overview of what we know about psychology in aiding criminal profiling, and what has still yet to be discovered. Television shows like Mindhunter glorify these methods, but is this a reality? What is the state of it? It may not be as successful as it is made out to be.