Tag Archives: crime

White Paper: The Earliest Historical True Crime Literature and What It Reveals About Readers’ Appetite for Crime and Punishment

Posted on December 18, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary True crime is often considered a modern genre, shaped by mass literacy and commercial printing. In reality, the fascination with recounting real acts of violence, theft, deception, and justice is nearly as old as recorded history. Across ancient … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Identifying Criminal Concentration: Data Infrastructure Requirements and the Role of Denial in Urban Decline

Posted on December 17, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Across societies with sufficiently developed administrative and criminal justice data systems, crime is not evenly distributed across populations. A small fraction of individuals—often termed chronic, persistent, or high-rate offenders—are responsible for a disproportionate share of serious criminal harm. … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Why Polk County, Florida—and Sheriff Grady Judd—Became a National Flash Point in America’s Crime Debate

Posted on December 15, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary Polk County sits at a crossroads of American cultural politics about crime: fast growth, suburban–exurban churn, and an “I-4 corridor” media ecosystem that turns local incidents into national content. Sheriff Grady Judd has amplified that effect through an … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Evidence That Would Support or Contradict “Coulter’s Law” in Crime Reporting

Posted on December 15, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary “Coulter’s Law” is commonly described as a claim about delay: the longer it takes the news media to identify a perpetrator (often framed around mass shootings or notorious incidents), the less likely the perpetrator is to be a … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Connection Between Sports, Gambling, and Organized Crime—and Its Impact on the Legitimacy of Sport

Posted on October 28, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Sports deliver civic rituals of fairness and merit. Gambling delivers liquidity, attention, and revenue. Organized crime exploits the seam between them—where information asymmetries, weak controls, and cross-border payments create opportunities to fix contests, launder money, and intimidate participants. … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Self-Snitching, Surveillance, and the Proliferation of Evidence: Consequences for Unsolved Crimes

Posted on October 28, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The age of ubiquitous surveillance has created a paradox: even as the world becomes more recorded, transparent, and traceable, vast numbers of crimes remain unsolved. This white paper explores the phenomenon of self-snitching—the voluntary or inadvertent disclosure of … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Restoring Credibility to Government Statistics on Identity and Politics in Crime

Posted on October 5, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Public trust in government crime statistics has eroded amid perceptions of bias, mislabeling, and political manipulation, particularly concerning the roles of ethnicity, identity, and political motivations in criminal activity. News reports highlight alleged underreporting of certain violence—such as … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Tying Federal Funding of Public Transportation to Safety Performance

Posted on September 10, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Proposal. Linking a portion of federal transit funding to safety benchmarks would create incentives for agencies to reduce violent crime on buses, subways, and light rail. Benchmarks. A comparative look at violent incidents per 1 million unlinked passenger … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Butler To The World

Posted on January 1, 2024 by nathanalbright

Butler To The World: How Britian Helps The World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crime, And Get Away With Anything, by Oliver Bullough This is not a book that is likely going to be a very popular one in Great Britain. While … Continue reading →

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Book Review: By Hands Now Known

Posted on October 31, 2023 by nathanalbright

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, by Margaret A. Burnham When I started reading this book, I had some rather harsh feelings about the shrill tone of the book and by the author’s somewhat tedious repetitiousness about certain … Continue reading →

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