What is the last question? It appears, at first blush, to be a trick question. Last question means a long line of previous questions...

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...

The New York Times film critic, A.O. Scott, has written an interesting article about why in his view that Americans have become less...

Obedience has a long history. The assimilation of this principle over thousands of years has allowed the creation of empires and...

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...

It is difficult to find a reliable number of gold shops in Thailand or specifically the gold shops in Bangkok. One Internet source put ...

Twenty-four-year old Japanese national Mitsutoki Shigeta, who hired multiple surrogate mothers in Thailand, has been a leading news...

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...

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...

To understand in any meaningful way a police force requires information about the culture in which the police are recruited, educated,...

From pre-historic times, we have been slapping handcuffs on an intruder, stranger, criminal suspect, violent lunatic or someone you...

Two unrelated Thailand crime stories shared a common theme this week—impulsive, violent behavior. In one case, a sixty-two year old...

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...

Mostly criminal justice has been assigned to law enforcement authorities. There has always been some exceptions, where outsiders...

Historically criminals were hauled off to the gallows for what today would be considered minor offenses. The rope was slipped around the...

Life is messy. So are component parts of life: our politics, the environment, economics, and social relationships. History teaches a ...

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...

People become uncompromising once their argument settles into a battle over who is right and who is wrong. Everyone wishes to be right....

“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.” ―Charles de Gaulle There are two silences that concern me and should concern you. “You have a...

The first obligation of a writer is to mess with people’s biases, making them question the reliability of the filters they use to...