Christopher G. Moore
An Answer to the Last Question
What is the last question? It appears, at first blush, to be a trick question. Last question means a long line of previous questions...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Sep 25, 2014
- 9 min
Social Media, Police Culture and the Koh Tao Murders
Two young Britons were killed less than two weeks ago on a beach in Koh Tao, a small island, Surat Thani province located in the South of...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Sep 18, 2014
- 11 min
Forever Young and Demonic Males
The New York Times film critic, A.O. Scott, has written an interesting article about why in his view that Americans have become less...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Sep 11, 2014
- 8 min
Obedience
Obedience has a long history. The assimilation of this principle over thousands of years has allowed the creation of empires and...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Sep 5, 2014
- 11 min
Obey
I have felt the gravitational pull from a number of writers over the years. Most writers go through stages of falling under the spell of...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Aug 28, 2014
- 7 min
Guarding the Gold in Thailand
It is difficult to find a reliable number of gold shops in Thailand or specifically the gold shops in Bangkok. One Internet source put ...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Aug 21, 2014
- 10 min
Baby Factory Dad—The Coming of the first Super Baby Maker Dad Singularity
Twenty-four-year old Japanese national Mitsutoki Shigeta, who hired multiple surrogate mothers in Thailand, has been a leading news...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Aug 14, 2014
- 7 min
Online Commercial Sex—the Digital Age of Victimless Crimes
Where do you put your police: on the streets or online? This modern question would haven’t surfaced twenty years ago. Now it is a major...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Aug 7, 2014
- 12 min
Jim Thompson, Novelist and Essayist
Jim Thompson, Novelist and Essayist Born 1964, Died 2nd August 2014 Forty-nine years is a short time to be resident on this spinning rock...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Aug 1, 2014
- 7 min
The High Cost of Badly Paid Cops
To understand in any meaningful way a police force requires information about the culture in which the police are recruited, educated,...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jul 25, 2014
- 4 min
Taser-cuffs for the 21st Century
From pre-historic times, we have been slapping handcuffs on an intruder, stranger, criminal suspect, violent lunatic or someone you...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jul 18, 2014
- 5 min
Impulse Control & Crime
Two unrelated Thailand crime stories shared a common theme this week—impulsive, violent behavior. In one case, a sixty-two year old...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jul 15, 2014
- 6 min
Reflections on 5 years of Blogging
In July 2009 I posted my first essay on International Crime Authors Reality Check. In the last five years, I have posted 260 essays. (Note...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jul 4, 2014
- 6 min
The Online Sleuths and the Cold Case
Mostly criminal justice has been assigned to law enforcement authorities. There has always been some exceptions, where outsiders...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jun 26, 2014
- 5 min
Predicting Future Crime With Big Data
Historically criminals were hauled off to the gallows for what today would be considered minor offenses. The rope was slipped around the...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jun 20, 2014
- 8 min
Spotlights and Flashlights
Life is messy. So are component parts of life: our politics, the environment, economics, and social relationships. History teaches a ...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jun 13, 2014
- 12 min
Crunching Big Numbers, Understanding Short Lists
Give a writer some facts, numbers or basic information and ask him to use it to tell a story. See what happens. What kind of story does...
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Christopher G. Moore
- Jun 6, 2014
- 9 min
The Illusion of Understanding
People become uncompromising once their argument settles into a battle over who is right and who is wrong. Everyone wishes to be right....
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Christopher G. Moore
- May 30, 2014
- 4 min
Silence
“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.” ―Charles de Gaulle There are two silences that concern me and should concern you. “You have a...
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Christopher G. Moore
- May 23, 2014
- 10 min
The Global Language of Bias: What do we use language for?
The first obligation of a writer is to mess with people’s biases, making them question the reliability of the filters they use to...
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