“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” ―Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Characters, even the most...

The nature of crime is relatively straightforward across all cultures. Criminals depend on others who fail to cross check for danger and...

I’ve been writing books for over thirty years. The other evening I explained several of my ideas about the writing process to two...

A crime fiction author is constantly patrolling the perimeter searching for interesting crime stories, hints of cultural trends in crime...

It’s official. No Broken Windows has been adopted as policing policy to be taught in a senior-police training-course offered by the...

Everyone has lots of ‘friends’ on social media. Some people you’ve never heard of have millions of followers on Twitter. How can anyone...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an essay about violence. I have two companion ideas I’m developing: borders and boundaries, hegemony, and ...

No one wants to get in the middle of a fight between opponents who wish to knock out the other. Everyone has a theory of how to stop a...

Crime authors deal in the currency of violent behavior. Every society has violent actors. Mostly they play the part of villains, except...

Unless you are sleep walking, you are noticing things as you move around. You might ask yourself about you daily motion. How many steps...

Judges are expected to be impartial storytellers, weaving their narratives from the evidence presented to them, considering previous...

“Off with their heads!” ―Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Power. Grab it. Earn it. Put it to a vote. The tango between power and...

The legacy of artists depends on their enduring ability to make succeeding generations pay attention to nature, mankind, humanity,...

14th February is Valentine’s Day. On this day for winning hearts, protesters remain in the streets of Bangkok. There has been another...

The New Statesman had an article titled “Death by data: how Kafka’s The Trial prefigured the nightmare of the modern surveillance state”...

The price of looking the other way by state officials has a new measurement: the Rhino Horn Index. Like a Hollywood list for actors and ...

My generation remembers when this Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western was released in 1966. It was the time of the Cold War. Good guys on...

Consent, or the absence consent, is a crucial concept that runs like an operating system inside politics, criminal justice and social...

Inside the world of crime fiction, a story starts with a murder. Nothing has changed since ancient days that people murdered one another....

The reality check idea is we need to be mindful of how we find information, where we find it, how we analyze it, and finally how we act...