Violent Crime

After two thieves attempted to steal the laptop of a customer at an Oakland, California, Starbucks, he chased them from the restaurant and was killed when the car the robbers were driving slammed him into another vehicle.

There were 492 homicides in Chicago in 2019, down 13 percent from the previous year and down 38 percent from 2016, according to official statistics.

Data used for the FBI's annual report on crime in the United States said that murder, assault and robbery were down in 2018—but that there was an increase in rape.

The FBI believes Little, 78, is among the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. Now, he is drawing portraits of his victims from a Texas prison.

Violent crime killed nearly 64,000 Brazilians last year.

Germany had an open-door policy for migrants in 2015 and 2016.

In the wake of inexplicable mass shootings and cases like Aaron Hernandez's, a new study strikes a nerve.

Critics say the attorney general is ignoring empirical evidence on sentencing with instructions to U.S. prosecutors to federalize cases involving violent offenders.

Can't a community opt for an uptick in violent crime in exchange for an end to saturation policing?

According to the FBI's crime statistics, the past five years have been the safest of the past half-century.

Fewer beats per minute may add up to lower levels of psychological arousal that leads young men to seek out risky behaviors.