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David WilsonSunday Post |
Leading criminologist David Wilson delves into the world of a fake admiral, a Madeleine McCann imposter and a notorious US rapist The arrest and...
From Netflix to lecture halls, the question remains the same: why do people commit horrific crimes? David Wilson unpacks our obsession with the...
I’m currently reading Oliver Basciano’s Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World, which includes the extraordinary story of...
In the early hours of Christmas Day 1950, a patrolling police officer found Kay Matheson and Ian Hamilton, two students from Glasgow University,...
Scottish criminologist David Wilson was shocked by what he saw on a daytime stroll through one of England's biggest cities. Here, he shares the...
Why do offenders film themselves committing crime, then share that film with friends, or upload it onto social media platforms? It seems...
Misogyny is not innate but learned behaviour and increasingly boys and young men are learning how to hate from social media. Perhaps we’ve all...
I’ve long accepted that the role of rational thought in human existence has been greatly exaggerated. We believe our team is going to win, despite...
I’ve long accepted that the role of rational thought in human existence has been greatly exaggerated. We believe our team is going to win, despite...
Can your diet cure cancer? The simple, and unequivocal answer to this question is it that it can’t cure cancer and to make such a claim to sell a...
Convicted murderer Luke Mitchell has failed to win a legal battle at Scotland’s highest civil court over a parole board decision to deny him his...
The opening yesterday of The Thistle in Glasgow, a Safer Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF), funded by the Scottish Government, is merely the latest...
The two most iconic investigations in the entire history of social psychology are Stanley Milgram’s “obedience to authority” experiments conducted...
I’ve been on a book tour recently with the novelist Marcel Theroux, who surprised and delighted me the other day by commenting in our shared...