Crime

Halcyon curates the most significant crime-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with crime-related challenges.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment topped Open Culture's crowdsourced list of Books Intelligent People Should Read. I certainly enjoyed its narrow intensity, a stark contrast to the broad sweep of the same author's equally magisterial The Brothers Karamazov.

The risk of being murdered has been declining for a quarter of a century. Eastern Europe in particular has seen steep drops, by as much as 75%.

Halcyon Highlights is a bi-weekly round-up of some of the most compelling trends that we have spotted over the past fortnight.  + , - or = indicate whether we consider each trend/development to prove mainly positive, negative or neutral/too early to judge...

• Crime - corruption is considered by some the greatest obstacle to economic and social development in the world. With over US $1 trillion paid in bribes annually, the magnitude of value lost is comparable with the GDP of all of Africa.

• Crime/Globalisation - is terror only a small part of a much bigger problem to do with the dark side of globalisation, meaning that over the next quarter-century, societies will be increasingly dominated by organised crime?