The assumption that gangs are at the root of gun crime in the UK is overstated, according to a study published today in a special issue of Criminology and Criminal Justice, published by SAGE.

The Los Angeles Police Department's official online crime map fails to include almost 40% of serious crimes reported in the city over the last six months.

A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet and the University of Oxford finds that the severe mental disorder schizophrenia only marginally increases the risk of committing violent crime. Rather, the overrepresentation of individuals with schizophrenia in violent crime is almost entirely attributable to concurrent substance abuse.

Drew Peterson will have to spend at least a few more days in jail as his legal team's efforts for a bail reduction have stalled. At a Monday morning arraignment, a not guilty plea was entered on Peterson's behalf. A prosecution request asking for the removal of Judge Richard Schoenstedt delayed defense plans to seek a bail reduction which could enable Peterson to await his upcoming murder trial outside of jail.

Boston police have arrested Philip H. Markoff, a second-year Boston University School of Medicine student, in connection with the killing of a woman who advertised massage services on Craigslist and was later shot to death at the Marriott Copley Place.

Police hunting the killer of eight-year-old Tracy, California girl Sandra Cantu, whose body was found yesterday in a suitcase after an irrigation pond was drained, today cordoned off Clover Road Baptist Church as part of their investigation.

It's already Monday in Sydney and heavy security is expected at today's funeral of Sydney crime network boss Abdul Darwiche, who was murdered in front of his family on Saturday outside court after his brother was jailed for life for murder in 2006.

What is the old saying? "No good deed goes unpunished?" That seems to be the case here, as a good samaritan who was helping two elderly women cross a busy street, pushed them out of the way of an oncoming truck, and suffered broken bones as a consequence, has been ticketed for jaywalking.

The wildfires that tore across the southern state of Victoria in Australia now appear to have been deliberately set, changing them from a natural tragedy to arson, and perhaps more.

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo had planned on leaving the country to go to Canada. However those plans changed after Pardo himself suffered third degree burns and his Santa suit melted into his legs.

Going through an acrimonious divorce, Bruce Pardo dressed up like Santa slaughtered at least six people on Christmas Eve. Pardo devised a plan for revenge against his ex-wife and dressed like Santa in order to slaughter his family.