Crime

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

Conspiracy theory surrounds the 1978 kidnap and killing of the former Italian prime minister in the centre of Rome

Britain’s political class is locked in a cycle of consensus on law and order that costs a lot and delivers little

Psychologically, absences felt in particular places matter to us. The gap left on Hadrian’s Wall will be felt by anyone who had visited the remarkable tree in situ

The hostage crisis that gave rise to the idea of a strong bond between captive and captor took place 50 years ago this week. But does the condition really exist?

The UK's determination to lock people up has already created an overflowing prison system. The prime minister's plans will only make matters worse

In his rush to participate in geopolitics, has the president forgotten about strife-torn France itself?

The California city is now for too many like a plague-ridden medieval Florence, once glorious, now inglorious

The city's role in the drugs trade has brought narco-state violence to the peaceful heart of Europe

A notorious mafia killer is now behind bars – but why did it take so long to catch him?

Ten years after four people were gunned down on a forest track in the French Alps, the murders remain a mystery. But six detectives are still working on the case

Survivors of sexual assault understand the crime’s trauma, its often numbing effect and the buried fear that never really leaves