Crime

Hundreds are rallying around a woman accused of killing her three children, during a trial that has put postpartum mental health under an extraordinary spotlight

The case of a jeweller in Piedmont who killed two burglars has caused huge debate across Italy. Will the PM exploit it for her own political gain?

For all the success, the billions and the international fame, the boss of LVMH is revealed as a man made miserable by his own success

Both Immanuel Kant and Ann Widdecombe believed in capital punishment – but it is barbarous and absurd

There is a new dividing line in Northern Ireland, one that ignores the old sectarian lines of loyalists and republicans, and threatens the province with a new, insidious kind of division

The police made a terrible mistake with Henry Nowak. But deliberately stoking racial tensions for personal advantage is despicable

The Predator of Seville follows a sadly familiar pattern – women having to do the police’s work for them

The ITV drama about a rapist cabbie paints a shocking picture of police misogyny

Boyhood author David Keenan is more like a soothsayer than a novelist

In one of the largest mass trials in the country’s history, 486 alleged gang members are being tried together in a single proceeding in El Salvador

People on the left who think Israel secretly runs the world – you realise you share that view with neo-Nazis?

The leader of the biggest, most feared cartel in Mexico was killed, with CIA help, in Guadalajara. This is what happened

The government doesn’t need to legislate for every possible crime. Why? Because most people know the difference between right and wrong – as I discovered

Her memoir, A Hymn to Life, details unimaginable abuse at the hands of the man she loved – and still manages to leave you with hope

Sorry, but leaving the universe to right itself is just misguided wishful thinking

Some Germans revel in a state of emergency during the new year’s celebrations. Should their lawlessness restrict responsible fireworks enthusiasts’ fun?

The shocking Danish show that revealed a criminal network’s white collar connections was watched by half a nation and brought change

Organised crime gangs have started recruiting teenagers online to carry out hits on their rivals. There are a worrying number of willing assassins

El Salvador has become an absolutist police state. Part prison camp, part Bitcoin Beach, it’s the perfect place for Trump to send all the people he doesn’t want in America

In Sinaloa, the threat of death and chaos hangs in the air as the brutal cartel war shows little sign of abating

A new proposal to restrict the use of trial by jury could fundamentally undermine the justice system

The media often describes terrorists as manifestations of evil, or as zombie-like products of indoctrination, but we urgently need a better account than that

For philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, phone crime is ‘more akin to assault’

The prime minister needs to crack down on crime, set and meet a fair migration target and bring in a UK ID card

Gino Cecchettin, whose daughter Giulia was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, is leading the fight to end violence against women

Shoplifting is the one British industry that is thriving – and whoever is to blame, it is heaping even more pressure on our troubled high streets

A social media rumour about Keir Starmer has attracted millions of views – aided by far right figures who amplify conspiracy theories online

Peter Hummelgaard, Danish minister for justice, has blamed the emergence of ‘child soldiers’ on years of failed integration policies in Sweden

A high-profile breakout is indicative of the pressures authorities currently face in trying to keep pace with the trade in drugs and arms

Daniela Klette, a former militant of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, was finally arrested last month after decades on the run

Chronic underfunding has crushed both the courts and the police

Toxic masculinity, not the asylum system, is to blame for a rise in crimes using corrosive substances