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Wall Street Journal, 02.08.2021
Portland, Ore., Can’t Find Police for Unit to Fight Rising Murder Rate
The Conversation, 02.08.2021
The London riots ten years on: how a crackdown on protest became their main legacy
Matteo Tiratelli
The Conversation, 02.08.2021
Pandemic pushed defendants to plead guilty more often, including innocent people pleading to crimes they didn’t commit
Shi Yan, David M. Zimmerman, Kelly T. Sutherland, Miko M. Wilford
South China Morning Post, 03.08.2021
Can data science help fight terrorism? This China-based research team thinks it can
Holly Chik
The Conversation, 03.08.2021
‘I don’t think the police would do much’: new research shows racism during COVID is rarely reported
Alanna Kamp, Kevin Dunn, Matteo Vergani, Nida Denson, Rachel Sharples
The Conversation, 03.08.2021
Relationship between big tech and policing is shielded behind commercial confidentiality – it’s a problem
Katerina Hadjimatheou
The Conversation, 03.08.2021
Stop and search disproportionately affects black communities – yet police powers are being extended
Winifred Agnew-Pauley, Bisola Akintoye
The People's Vanguard of Davis, 03.08.2021
Data Shows Reduction in Low-Level Arrests Reduces Crimes; Comparison Study of San Francisco Under DA Boudin
Linh Nguyen
New York Times, 03.08.2021
Osama bin Laden, the Fanatical Terrorist and the Devoted Family Man
Louise Richardson
The Journalist's Resource, 03.08.2021
Death and taxes: Research links neighborhood race, tax delinquency and life expectancy
Naseem S. Miller
New York Times, 03.08.2021
Should My Neighborhood Be Paying an Off-Duty Officer For Security?
Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Age, 04.08.2021
Relaxation of will-making rules during COVID may open elderly to abuse
Toby Crockford
The Conversation, 04.08.2021
4 low-cost ways to create safe public spaces where all kids can play
Renee Umstattd Meyer, J. Aaron Hipp
Modern Diplomacy, 04.08.2021
Drones in the Hands of Terrorists: What Happens Then?
Tatyana Kanunnikova
American Independent, 04.08.2021
Despite promises, Facebook is still not removing antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech
Josh Axelrod
PhillyVoice, 04.08.2021
Philly's gun violence epidemic and the power of fixing up neighborhoods block by block
Michael Tanenbaum
Criminology First, 05.08.2021
COVID-19 frauds: An exploratory study of victimization during a global crisis
Jay P. Kennedy, Melissa Rorie, Michael L. Benson
The Conversation, 05.08.2021
COVID-19 caused a global setback in reproductive and sexual health rights, especially for women
Gabriel Blouin-Genest, François Couturier, Michèle Rietmann, Natalia Torres Orozco, Rosalie Émond-Tremblay, Sarah Stecko
The Crime Report, 06.08.2021
Is There a Link Between Airbnb and Neighborhood Crime Rates?
Kent Bausman
phys.org, 06.08.2021
Defunding the police: Calls not easily transferable to other sectors without significant expenditures, adjustments
American Society of Criminology
The Conversation, 06.08.2021
It’s a myth that we’re too ‘soft’ on serious young offenders – our research shows why
Serena Wright, Susie Hulley
Insider, 06.08.2021
A former janitor stockpiled weapons for a mass killing at the Oregon school where he worked, police say
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
The Daily Beast, 07.08.2021
How R. Kelly Preyed on and Controlled an Underage Aaliyah
Cheyenne Roundtree
stuff.co.nz, 08.08.2021
'I have been attacked emotionally': Romance scam victim speaks out to help others
Rob Stock
Washington Post, 08.08.2021
Opinion: Trump’s coup attempt grows even more worrisome as new details emerge
Ruth Marcus
New York Times, 08.08.2021
As R. Kelly’s Trial Begins, Here’s a Timeline of the Allegations
Laura Zornosa and Jacey Fortin
The Conversation, 09.08.2021
Islamophobia in schools: How teachers and communities can recognize and challenge its harms
Asma Ahmed
Newswise, 09.08.2021
Survivors of domestic abuse can shatter the cycle of domestic violence
University of South Australia
The Conversation, 10.08.2021
Complicity and silence around sexual harassment are common – Cuomo and his protectors were a textbook example
Sandy Hershcovis, Ivana Vranjes, Jennifer L. Berdahl, Lilia M. Cortina
The Conversation, 10.08.2021
After Islamic State: how local shop owners in Mosul are rebuilding their historic markets
Yousif Al-Daffaie
Thomson Reuters Foundation News, 11.08.2021
OPINION: A hotter world will be a more violent world. Here’s why
Robert Muggah and Mac Margolis
Willamette Week, 11.08.2021
Black Portlanders Are More Likely to Be Murdered Than Their Peers in Cities Better Known for Crime
Nigel Jaquiss, Aaron Mesh
The Trace, 11.08.2021
New York to Roll Out Pioneering Violence Prevention Program That Involves Financial Incentives
Champe Barton
Washington Post, 12.08.2021
Transcript: Protecting Public Safety with Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael S. Harrison
Washington Post Live
The Conversation, 12.08.2021
Afghanistan: what the conflict means for the global heroin trade
Jonathan Goodhand
Newswise, 12.08.2021
Study Suggests Reforms to Prevent Bribery and Corruption at Major Sporting Events
University of Portsmouth
New York Times, 13.08.2021
The Afghan Military Was Built Over 20 Years. How Did It Collapse So Quickly?
Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Fahim Abed and Sharif Hassan
British Psychological Society, 13.08.2021
Psychological distress and resilience in first responders and health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Jennifer Pink, Nicola S. Gray, Chris O’Connor, James R. Knowles, Nicola J. Simkiss, Robert J. Snowden
CBS Chicago, 13.08.2021
Behind Police Leaders Claims That Bail Reform Is Responsible For Surge In Violence
New York Times, 14.08.2021
20 Years of Defense, Erased by the Taliban in a Few Months
Scott Reinhard and David Zucchino
The Guardian, 14.08.2021
The Guardian view on the Taliban’s advance: not an American debacle but Afghans’ tragedy
The Conversation, 15.08.2021
Afghan government collapses and Taliban on verge of controlling country: 5 essential reads
Catesby Holmes
The Guardian, 15.08.2021
Incel ideology: a new blurry form of extremism incubated online
Mark Townsend
Washington Post, 15.08.2021
The Taliban is retaking Afghanistan. Here’s how the Islamist group rebuilt and what it wants.
Derek Hawkins
The New Yorker, 15.08.2021
Does the Great Retreat from Afghanistan Mark the End of the American Era?
Robin Wright
New Statesman (UK), 15.08.2021
The graveyard of empires: Why American power failed in Afghanistan
Adam Tooze
The Crime Report, 16.08.2021
Police Reform, Like Vaccination, Requires Global Strategy
Lawrence W. Sherman
The Stylist, 16.08.2021
Laura Bates on the threat posed by incels and why we need to start calling them what they really are – terrorists
iNews, 16.08.2021
Taliban 2.0 have learned to manipulate social media, but their actions in Afghanistan show little has changed
Michael Day
Washington Post, 16.08.2021
Afghan security forces’ wholesale collapse was years in the making
Craig Whitlock
The Conversation, 16.08.2021
Afghanistan: why a visibly distressed government minister had to admit that ‘some people won’t get back’
Sara de Jong
The Conversation, 16.08.2021
There’s no end to the damage humans can wreak on the climate. This is how bad it’s likely to get
Andrew King, Nerilie Abram, Sarah Perkins
Washington Post, 16.08.2021
America was finally using Biden’s Afghanistan strategy. Then he pulled the plug.
Rory Stewart
News-Medical, 17.08.2021
Study: COVID-19 pandemic resulted in increased rates of intimate partner aggression
Emily Henderson
The Conversation, 17.08.2021
Afghanistan only the latest US war to be driven by deceit and delusion
Gordon Adams
New York Times, 17.08.2021
The Taliban Are Back. Now Will They Restrain or Support Al Qaeda?
Steven Erlanger
The Conversation, 17.08.2021
America’s moral responsibility for the tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan
Michael Blake
The Conversation, 18.08.2021
Incel culture: what we’ve learned from investigating Plymouth attacker’s digital footprint
Blyth Crawford, Florence Keen
The Conversation, 18.08.2021
Afghanistan: assessing the terror threat in the west as the Taliban returns
Michele Groppi
TIME, 18.08.2021
Criminal Justice Researchers Studied Over 4 Million 911 Calls. Here’s How Their Findings Could Influence Calls for Police Reform
Josiah Bates
The Intercept, 18.08.2021
The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices
Ken Klippenstein, Sara Sirota
Genetic Literacy Project, 19.08.2021
Podcast: What goes on inside the brain of a terrorist? This cognitive scientist made it his mission to find out
Lydia Chain, Malia Politzer
TheHealthSite, 19.08.2021
Covid Pandemic Resulted In Eightfold Increase In Intimate Partner Aggression
Longjam Dineshwori
Phys.org, 20.08.2021
Body cams alone not enough to prevent police violence
Australian National University
New York Times, 20.08.2021
How the Taliban Turned Social Media Into a Tool for Control
Paul Mozur and Zia ur-Rehman
New York Times, 21.08.2021
50 Years After Vietnam, Thousands Flee Another Lost American War
Miriam Jordan
Glamour Magazine, 23.08.2021
The incel subculture is infecting young men and inciting unthinkable violence against women, so why is the threat of misogyny never taken seriously?
Kimberley Bond
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), 23.08.2021
Always afraid that bad things will happen again
Kristine Grønhaug
Medscape, 23.08.2021
'Less Lethal' Crowd Control Weapons Linked to Serious Neurotrauma
Pauline Anderson
MediaNama, 23.08.2021
The use of facial recognition technology for policing in Delhi: An empirical study of potential religion-based discrimination
Jai Vipra
New York Times, 24.08.2021
Is New York’s Wave of Gun Violence Receding? Experts See Reason for Hope.
Troy Closson
PBS NewsHour, 24.08.2021
On TikTok, misogyny and white supremacy slip through ‘enforcement gap’
Amanda Becker
The Conversation, 24.08.2021
Money is frequently offered to redress wrongs — what does it achieve for victims and justice?
Kathleen Daly, Juliet Davis
The Conversation, 25.08.2021
Countries that are more compassionate towards refugees have lower levels of violence – new research
Timo A Kivimäki
Washington Post, 25.08.2021
Insights into the Nazis’ failed nuclear program may lie within this 2-inch-tall uranium cube
Caroline Anders
Computer Weekly, 25.08.2021
Calling the cops for ransomware attacks doesn’t help, say cyber pros
Alex Scroxton
Bloomberg, 25.08.2021
How Target Got Cozy With the Cops, Turning Black Neighbors Into Suspects
Peter Waldman and Lauren Etter
The Independent, 25.08.2021
Domestic homicides could rise now lockdown has been lifted, police report finds
Maya Oppenheim
The Conversation, 25.08.2021
Remaining and expanding: what the Taliban’s return will mean for jihadi terrorism
Greg Barton
New York Times, 25.08.2021
Cory Booker Outfoxed Republicans on ‘Defund the Police.’ Now What?
Emily Bazelon
The Conversation, 26.08.2021
What is ISIS-K? Two terrorism experts on the group behind the deadly Kabul airport attack and its rivalry with the Taliban
Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines
New York Times, 26.08.2021
Rejecting Covid Inquiry, China Peddles Conspiracy Theories Blaming the U.S.
Austin Ramzy and Amy Chang Chien
The Guardian, 26.08.2021
Unacknowledged rape: the sexual assault survivors who hide their trauma – even from themselves
Rachel Thompson
The Conversation, 26.08.2021
The history of the Taliban is crucial in understanding their success now – and also what might happen next
Ali A. Olomi
Washington Post, 26.08.2021
The story of an Afghan man who fell from the sky
Gerry Shih, Niha Masih and Dan Lamothe
The Conversation, 26.08.2021
‘You couldn’t leave your husband. It wasn’t done’ – the story of the women behind the first domestic violence refuges
Gill Margaret Hague
Newsweek, 27.08.2021
Could the U.S. Evacuation List Become a Taliban Kill List if All Allies Don't Leave?
Alex J. Rouhandeh and Naveed Jamali
New York Times, 27.08.2021
Amid Afghan Chaos, a C.I.A. Mission That Will Persist for Years
Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman
The Conversation, 27.08.2021
Kabul bombings a dark day for Afghanistan and Joe Biden — and a harbinger of worse to come
Tony Walker
Politico, 27.08.2021
After Afghanistan, let’s not be misty-eyed about the West’s rules-based order
H.A. Hellyer
Eurasia Review, 29.08.2021
New Study Shows Rundown Neighborhoods Not Slated To Go Into A Steep Decline
Eurasia Review
San Diego Union-Tribune, 29.08.2021
Cops were taught incidental fentanyl exposure is deadly. Experts say it’s unlikely. Why the disconnect?
Teri Figueroa, Karen Kucher
New York Times, 29.08.2021
Stop the Doomsaying. U.S. Credibility Will Weather Afghanistan.
Dennis B. Ross
The Conversation, 30.08.2021
Afghanistan: ISIS-K violence could force the west into an unlikely alliance with Taliban
Scott Lucas
The Conversation, 30.08.2021
Why is it so difficult to fight domestic terrorism? 6 experts share their thoughts
Mikkel Dack, Colleen Murphy, Roger and Stephany Joslin, Gary LaFree, John Horgan, Kurt Braddock, Monika Nalepa
The Conversation, 30.08.2021
The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in life-and-death consequences of data privacy
Margaret Hu
New York Times, 30.08.2021
A New Breed of Crisis: War and Warming Collide in Afghanistan
Somini Sengupta
War on the Rocks, 30.08.2021
Ten Things the United States Should Do to Combat Terrorism in the Sahel
Michael Shurkin and Aneliese Bernard
New York Times, 30.08.2021
In Afghanistan, an Unceremonious End, and a Shrouded Beginning
Thomas Gibbons-Neff
New York Times, 31.08.2021
Biden Didn’t See the ISIS-K Threat in Afghanistan Until Too Late
Asfandyar Mir
https://www.injusticewatch.org/news/police-and-prosecutors/2021/chicago-gun-violence-gang-narrative/, 31.08.2021
The problems with Chicago’s gang-centric narrative of gun violence
Lakeidra Chavis
The Bakersfield Californian, 31.08.2021
How Washington's new laws on police use of force have changed officers' training, weapons
Mike Carter
The Washington Post, 31.08.2021
U.S. troops depart a dramatically changed Afghanistan after 2 weeks of chaos and 20 years of war
Pamela Constable and Dan Lamothe
EurekAlert!, 31.08.2021
Helping families exposed to intimate partner violence
Grant and Award Announcement University of Houston
The Guardian, 31.08.2021
In Afghanistan, Islamic State is seeking to exploit divisions within the Taliban
Antonio Giustozzi
The Guardian, 31.08.2021
To understand what happens next in Afghanistan, look to its neighbours
Mohammad Ali Shabani
