Recently in a criminology class that I have been taking at school, my professor asked us why do people do crime. He put up various pictures from recent history and asked us what, in this case, made these people do crime. One of these scenarios was the attack on the
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Does Art Cause Crime? (no, it is not that simple): A Cultural Criminological Response to the Charlie
The Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris on January 7, 2015 beg for a more nuanced understanding of what happened and why, than is currently available in the popular media. Cultural criminology considers both the background and foreground of crime, and also sometimes studies the relationship between art and crime. As