Copycat crimes is a hypothesis based on the social learning model that crimes are replicated and inspired by knowledge of similar crimes, especially crimes shown widely in the media. However, to date the evidence for the validity of this hypothesis is inconclusive.

New cyber bank heist story out of Stockholm raises specter of Sumitomo Mitsui Bank heist.

After seeing the documentary on the so-called 4-year-old artist, the writer thinks about passing off one of her ideas for The New Yorker cartoon caption contest as her son's, who's 24.

"Mass shooters need to be held out as perverts. Mass shooting is a copycat crime, and no one follows a pervert. How our society portrays sex offenders is a useful and successful example. The same must be done to terrorists and mass shooters. People do follow evildoers; no one, however, follows a pervert"