A LEADING crime professor has revealed the "warped psychology" of the serial killer behind the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler. Professor Peter Squires, who teaches criminology at the University of Brighton, said Levi Bellfield's prison confession to the murder is "attention-seeking". His comments come after yesterday's news that Bellfield's shock revelation has prompted police to review probes into a number of other crimes. The killer was given a whole-life prison sentence in June 2011 for killing the 13-year-old schoolgirl. Commenting >>>

Our national habit when talking about rape often ignores the perpetrator's role and puts the onus on the victim. Such emphasis misdirects prevention efforts. Rapists cause rape, yet recent high-profile surveys have focused on victims and ignored perpetrators. The Campus Climate Survey Validation Study (CCSVS), released January 20, 2016 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, is commendable for broadening inquiry to question those who cause the harm while also addressing flaws in other surveys such as the 2015 American Association of Universities Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct and Sexual >>>

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(Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images) By Melissa Dahl In 2013, a mountain climber named Chad Thomas told The Wall Street Journal that he'd returned a backpack to the outdoor-clothing and -gear retailer REI earlier that year -- a backpack that he had, by the way, originally purchased in 2004. Nine years later, it "was getting old and dirty, and I didn't like it anymore," Thomas told WSJ. (You don't say.) At the time, REI had an unlimited return policy, so the store in San Ramon, California, not only accepted the backpack's return but gave Thomas an additional $17 to match the item's current price. Related: >>>

Gerald Farin Download Full Image Upon obtaining his doctorate in mathematics from Technical University Braunschweig, Farin set out on his geometric modeling path. He went where the action was for computer graphics in the 1970s: the University of Utah. After joining the mathematics department as a teaching fellow in 1978, Farin began what would become a nearly 20-year collaboration >>>