But the latest measure looks largely symbolic, says Richard Garside, a criminologist at King's College, London.
Poverty cannot be the primary reason, says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
Writing in the Guardian newspaper, the Toronto-based criminologist said that the government had "gutted" the Patten report.
"They would iron their clothes and pack their knapsack, " says Richards, now a criminologist at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Stephen Farrall, a criminologist at Sheffield University, points out that hard times and crime are not true alternatives.
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Because, says a survey by one criminologist, far fewer crimes are now reported.
Women make up about 5% of the ranks of mass killers, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.
The other piece of work is entitled, They are Us and We are Them: Portraits of prisoner, prison officer and criminologist.
Among these there are currently some 1, 100 people behind bars in France for terrorist-related activities, according to Alain Bauer, a criminologist.
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The structure of the police is split in more ways than that: into several distinct forces, weakening the overall effect, says one criminologist.
Daniel Silverstone, a criminologist, says black criminals have tended to murder each other because, lacking good connections, they cluster in the most competitive drug-dealing markets.
Declan Roche, a criminologist at the London School of Economics, points out that, with the exception of jury service, the judicial system is almost entirely undemocratic.
Criminologist James Alan Fox says the uncle's intuition is justified.
Zimring, a criminologist at Berkeley Law, has spent years crunching the numbers of what happened in New York in the context of what happened in the rest of America.
According to research by Fiona Measham, a criminologist at the University of Lancaster who researches British drinking and drug-taking habits, drugs like ketamine and mephedrone are increasingly popular cocaine substitutes.
"The murder rate goes down, and shootings are stable, so there is also a question of whether medical care has improved, " said Jeffrey Fagan, a criminologist and law professor at Columbia University.
Jock Young, a criminologist at Middlesex University, says that like the invention of the telephone, the advent of mobiles has enabled people to report some crimes when previously they wouldn't have considered it worthwhile.
Criminologist Gregg McCrary, a former behavioral scientist for the FBI, said the agency gets criticized both when it doesn't warn people and when it does warn of a potential threat, as Attorney General John Ashcroft did Monday.
Drier works on the Mafia ranging from those of a criminologist, Pino Arlacchi, to the memoirs of a former prime minister, Giulio Andreotti, who faces trial for allegedly getting rather too close to his topic have also been best-sellers.
The criminologist Colin Wilson, who has corresponded with Brady for almost a decade, says that the decision by the Home Office to put a stop to this work and to turn down Brady's offer to donate a kidney with no reason given, devastated him.
Criminologist Prof David Wilson of Birmingham City University, who once worked on the sex offender treatment programme at Grendon prison, says psychological profiling can indicate whether such a criminal is less likely to re-offend - but ultimately, the nature of the offence makes it impossible to be absolutely certain.
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