by Gabriel Alkhdour | Nov 26, 2017 | Science
Entomology has had a profound impact on growing thousands of death investigations. The infestation of blowflies and other fauna on decomposing remains can provide vital clues to a manner and cause of death, depending on the environmental conditions. An Australian team...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Nov 15, 2017 | Crime
State-sanctioned executions are sharply on the rise, according to a new Amnesty International report which found that 1,634 people were executed in 2015 – a 25-year high, and 50 percent more than were recorded in the previous year. To read more please visit:...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Nov 6, 2017 | History
As ingrained in our society as we may think the concepts of crime and punishment may be, the truth is that out understanding of what crime is and how to respond to it have evolve significantly through the centuries To read more please visit:...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Oct 30, 2017 | Law and Justice
When you’re a kid in trouble, it’s easy to feel cornered—by neighborhood bullies, by domineering teachers, by parents who make you feel unwanted at home. But when teens feel like life is closing in on them, why does the government keep wanting to put them in cages? To...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Oct 25, 2017 | Security
As the number of connected devices is projected to grow to 20 to 50 billion by 2020, the FBI says the threat of DDoS attacks launched by leveraging flaws in IoT devices is not going away anytime soon. To read more please visit:...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Oct 20, 2017 | Crime
Child sex abuse investigations pose a number of challenges to an officer or investigator. Many of the cases are reported late, which means there may or may not be a crime scene to respond to and thus little or no physical evidence to examine or collect. To read more...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Oct 16, 2017 | Science
If you’ve ever watched a prime-time crime drama like CSI, you know that DNA evidence is often the linchpin that makes a case. Match a suspect’s DNA to DNA found at the scene of a crime and it’s certain they’re the culprit. To read more please visit:...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Oct 8, 2017 | Safety
Every parent worries about online predators at some point. And while it’s smart to be cautious, the facts show that it’s actually fairly rare for kids to be contacted by adult strangers seeking sexual communication. Of course it’s natural to be...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Sep 26, 2017 | Crime
The grieving family of a young boy from Sacramento, California, said he was a hero in the last moments of his short life. Dante, 8, had tried to rescue his younger sister from an alleged sexual assault when he was attacked by the perpetrator, beaten with a hammer and...
by Gabriel Alkhdour | Sep 21, 2017 | Privacy
After a cyberattack that potentially exposed the personal information of 143 million people, the credit reporting agency Equifax set up www.equifaxsecurity2017.com, a website to help people determine whether they had been affected. However, on multiple occasions over...
