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Webcam 'sextortion' blackmail is on the rise and has been linked to 4...

At least four male suicides in the UK have been linked to "webcam blackmail"— a form of extortion where victims are tricked into performing sex acts — the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) and National...

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'DISCIPLINED MEDAL-WINNING CONSPIRACY': Over 1,000 Russian athletes benefited...

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Russian athletes competing in summer, winter and paralympic sport were involved in or benefited from an institutional conspiracy to conceal positive doping tests, a...

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How the SEC chooses to target people on Wall Street

Eugene Soltes is a professor at Harvard Business School as well as the author of Why They Do It, which focuses on white-collar crime. He spent seven years speaking with some of the biggest white-collar...

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FORMER MAFIA ASSOCIATE: This is what 'The Sopranos' got right

Frank DiMatteo, author of The President Street Boys: Growing Up Mafia, was a close associate of the Gallo crime family in Brooklyn, New York and also drove getaway cars for the Mafia. He explains what...

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A 'Hunger Games' style Russian reality show will allow 'murder, rape, anything'

A Russian reality show in which crimes such as rape and murder are "allowed" is to be launched next year, according to reports.The TV show, called "Game2: Winter," will see 30 male and female...

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Russians are getting worried about 2017

The outgoing year was a series of extraordinary events, including many genuine shocks, by anyone's standards.But for many Russians, it also may be the year that country began to come in from the cold –...

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Kidnappings in Colombia have fallen 92% since 2000

Bogota (AFP) - Kidnappings in Colombia have fallen 92 percent since 2000, a "historic" change, the authorities said Tuesday as the government and FARC rebels implement a peace deal meant to end a...

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David Clarke, the Fox News sheriff, puts Milwaukee on the back burner as he...

It was October 27, and David Clarke was furious with a Fox scheduler.The outspoken Milwaukee County sheriff had been set to appear on Stuart Varney's Fox Business show, but there had been a...

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Facebook won't explain why a live torture video wasn't removed sooner

Facebook on Thursday refused to respond to mounting questions over its apparent failure to take down a live broadcast of the brutal attack of a young man with disabilities in Chicago. Wednesday’s...

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A Kenyan student launched a 'panic button' app that could improve public safety

Edwin Inganji may have figured out a quick fix to alleviate at least part of Kenya's public safety problem.Inganji is a computer scientist and co-developer of Usalama, an app that alerts law...

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'I'm alarmed': Congresswoman wants answers from Trump-backing sheriff David...

As Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke's national profile has risen, a local congresswoman has increasingly pressed him over the biggest controversy facing him: a string of deaths at the county jail...

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The story of 'Slender Man' — the internet’s creepiest urban legend

HBO's new documentary about Slender Man — a tall, shadowy monster that has terrified people on the internet for years — will finally premiere on January 23, 2017 .  The character may be fake, but he...

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These experimental jails have rotating cells and only one exit

Rotary jails were created to minimize personal contact between guards and prisoners. They feature rotating cells that spin on a central axis.Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this...

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How Obama became the first president in 36 years to oversee a drop in the...

President-elect Donald Trump is inheriting a lot from Barack Obama — most notably, a growing economy. But perhaps one achievement is rarer than them all: a declining prison population.According to new...

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A Norwegian mass killer is suing over prison conditions — here's a tour of a...

Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, is suing the state for alleged violations of his human rights at Oslo Prison. Norway's prison system is regarded as one of the most humane in the...

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A Harvard business professor explains a legal form of 'insider trading' in...

Eugene Soltes is a professor at Harvard Business School as well as the author of "Why They Do It", which focuses on white-collar crime. He spent seven years speaking with some of the biggest...

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Japan's elderly account for 20% of all crime — and it's turning prisons into...

Japan's petty thieves aren't all miscreant teens and wayward adolescents. They're grandparents.The share of crimes committed by the elderly in Japan has risen dramatically in recent years. According to...

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Chicago violence gets everyone's attention, but it is not America's murder...

Murders increased significantly last year in the majority of American cities with a population over 250,000, according to preliminary data from police departments and news reports. The bump comes one...

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Hackers can now steal your fingerprints from photos

New research warns that hackers could copy fingerprints from high-resolution photographs. A possible solution is already in the works, with transparent film stickers that prevent photographs from being...

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David Clarke tells 'DeploraBall' crowd the only time he'd reach 'across the...

WASHINGTON — Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke made a Thursday night appearance at the "DeploraBall"  — the pre-inauguration party organized by some of Donald Trump's more prominent alt-right...

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