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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
guardian.co.uk, 01.07.2012
30 years after Brixton, what would Lord Scarman have made of the 2011 riots?
Failures of community engagement would have felt familiar, but the scale of trouble and the political context was quite different
Tim Newburn
Boston Globe, 01.07.2012
The economic toll of Islamic law
Timur Kuran’s provocative diagnosis of a region’s malaise – and a possible cure
Thanassis Cambanis
Boston Magazine, 01.07.2012
Almost a Psychopath
They're our neighbors, friends, colleagues, and family members. We interact with them daily, even as they manipulate, lie, cheat, and steal, all without showing empathy or remorse. They're not quite psychopaths, but they're not quite right, either. Something about them is just a little bit off — and they can make our lives a living hell. In a new book, excerpted here, two local experts take us inside the world of these hidden predators.
Ronald Schouten, James Silver
PolicyMic -, 02.07.2012
Trans-National Drug Trafficking and Crime Impedes Sustainable Development
Nadia Mughal
Baylor University, 02.07.2012
Child Abuse and Foster Care Admissions Increase When Parents Use Methamphetamines
Scoop.co.nz (press release), 02.07.2012
Calls For New Approaches on Countering Appeal of Terrorism
At Seminar, UN Top Officials Call For New Approaches on Countering Appeal of Terrorism
MedPage, 02.07.2012
Spanking Kids Leads to Adult Mental Illnesses
Michael Smith, North American Correspondent
ScienceDaily, 02.07.2012
Uncontrollable Anger Prevalent Among U.S. Youth: Almost Two-Thirds Have History of Anger Attacks
Legal Week, 02.07.2012
SFO weighs up criminal prosecutions for LIBOR interest rate rigging
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is considering bringing criminal prosecutions against bankers involved in the LIBOR interest rate rigging scandal, it emerged today (2 July).
Friederike Heine
EurekAlert, 02.07.2012
Researchers find abuse during childhood may contribute to obesity in adulthood
Ohio State University, 02.07.2012
“Self-distancing” can help people calm aggressive reactions, study finds
EurekAlert, 02.07.2012
Viewing terrorist attacks on TV increases pain intensity -- Ben-Gurion U. researchers
Nature.com, 03.07.2012
The data detective
Uri Simonsohn explains how he uncovered wrongdoing in psychology research.
Ed Yong
Mancunian Matters, 03.07.2012
August riots 'could have been predicted' with new research, Manchester University team claim
Charlie Bennett
TechWeekEurope UK, 03.07.2012
Citadel Crime Malware To Disappear From Open Market
The developers of the Citadel Trojan have said they are planning to restrict its availability, according to RSA
Brian Prince eWEEK USA
guardian.co.uk,, 03.07.2012
Fewer police officers doesn't necessarily mean a rise in crime
The relationship between crime and police numbers is complex. What matters is smart, preventative deployment of officers
Blair Gibbs
guardian.co.uk, 03.07.2012
Rapid riot prosecutions more important than long sentences, says Keir Starmer
Director of public prosecutions challenges received wisdom that heavy sentences for rioters worked as an effective deterrence
Fiona Bawdon, Paul Lewis and Tim Newburn
The New York Review of Books, 04.07.2012
Obama and Terror: The Hovering Questions
Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency by Daniel Klaidman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 288 pp., $28.00
Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11 by Jack Goldsmith Norton, 311 pp., $26.95
David Cole
Tackling terror in an Olympic city, 04.07.2012
Seven years on from the 7/7 bombings, Himaya Quasem examines the risk in the run-up to the London 2012 Games.
DutchNews., 04.07.2012
Police forces break privacy rules on security, access and time
Every police force in the country breaks the privacy rules on information about non-suspects to some extent, according to research by lobby group Bits of Freedom.
guardian.co.uk, 04.07.2012
How gun crime was investigated across Europe
EU investigators wanted a place to find answers quickly and efficiently about firearm crime
Guardian Professional
theriskyshift.com (blog), 04.07.2012
Drones Hysteria & The Targeted Killing Programme
Matt Wahnsiedler
guardian.co.uk, 04.07.2012
Riots report shows London needs to maintain police numbers, says mayor
Boris Johnson seizes on officers' concerns over impact of budget cuts on their ability to deal with future disturbances
Hélène Mulholland
New Statesman, 04.07.2012
The long, slow death of innocence
Kris Maharaj has been in jail in Miami since 1986 for a double murder, yet all the evidence shows there is no way that he was the killer. What went wrong with American justice?
Clive Stafford Smith
Nature.com, 05.07.2012
Science takes the stand
Two legal rulings by the US Supreme Court last week will have significant implications for research into health-care outcomes and for how neuroscience is used in sentencing
EurekAlert, 05.07.2012
Calling all truckers ... not!
Driver cellphone blocking technology could save lives
New York Times, 05.07.2012
Guatemalans Used in Experiments Deserve Compensation
GLENN COHEN and HOLLY FERNANDEZ LYNCH
EurekAlert, 05.07.2012
Workplace bullying witnesses consider quitting more than the victims: UBC study
New University of British Columbia research reveals that workers who witness bullying can have a stronger urge to quit than those who experience it firsthand.
EurekAlert, 05.07.2012
Workplace bullying witnesses consider quitting more than the victims: UBC study
New University of British Columbia research reveals that workers who witness bullying can have a stronger urge to quit than those who experience it firsthand.
Christian Science Monitor -, 06.07.2012
'Stand your ground' loses ground
As defendant George Zimmerman tries to raise a $1 million bond in the case of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a new study suggests that ‘stand your ground’ laws aren’t a deterrent to crime and increase homicides.
EurekAlert, 06.07.2012
New Facebook app to detect pedophiles and criminals developed by Ben-Gurion U. researchers
BBC News, 06.07.2012
Saif al-Islam will not get fair trial in Libya, says lawyer
Lawyer Melinda Taylor says an impartial trial for Saif al-Islam in Libya is ''impossible''
openDemocracy, 06.07.2012
White male judges: the Supreme Court and judicial diversity
Geoffrey Bindman
NewsReleaseWire.com, 06.07.2012
Immigration and International Crime: Expert Danny Quintana Analyzes Trends, Policy and Solutions for these Complex Problems
guardian.co.uk, 07.07.2012
Longer prison terms really do cut crime, study shows
Increasing sentences for burglary and fraud would lead to fewer offences, research for Civitas suggests
Toby Helm and Jamie Doward
The Economist, 07.07.2012
Living in black and white
How different races inhabit cities
Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities. By Carl Nightingale. University of Chicago Press; 517 pages; $35 and £22.50. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Economist, 07.07.2012
Banksters
How Britain’s rate-fixing scandal might spread—and what to do about it
Newswise, 07.07.2012
Killing of Bin Laden Offers Insight into "The Business of Martyrdom"
The fact that bin Laden was killed by a team of highly trained soldiers - and not by a drone or bomb - spoiled the grand narrative of brave Muslim fighters vs. U.S. technology that bin Laden and al Qaeda had developed in their war against the United States.
Center for Research on Globalization, 07.07.2012
7/7 Conspiracy Theories and Connecting the Dots
Tom Secker
New York Times, 08.07.2012
The British, at Least, Are Getting Tough
THE unfolding story of how Barclays — and, in all likelihood, other big banks — rigged interest rates is full of telling tidbits about the way Wall Street works. It also represents yet another teachable moment.
GRETCHEN MORGENSON
The Observer, 08.07.2012
Pharma overtakes arms industry to top the league of misbehaviour
GlaxoSmithKline's $3bn fine for mis-selling drugs in the US is the biggest ever handed down, but analysts say it is a drop in the ocean compared with the profits from medicines
Terry Macalister
New York Daily News, 08.07.2012
With 'InvestiDate,' author Maria Coder helps daters discover the truth about the people they've started seeing
Le Monde Dipomatique, 09.07.2012
Mexico’s other government
Mexico’s general election takes place in a climate of countrywide terror and violence blamed on incumbent president Felipe Calderón and his war on drugs. Yet the trouble really began when Mexico finally democratised in the 2000 election
by Jean-François Boyer
ZDNet, 09.07.2012
The internet will never be secure: Sourcefire
Summary: Securing the internet is impossible, unless you make fundamental changes to its structure, but then it won't be the same, according to a Sourcefire researcher.
Michael Lee
Telegraph.co.uk, 09.07.2012
Hundreds of thousands lose web access
The ‘DNS Changer’ virus today caused approximately 350,000 computers to lose web access.
Matt Warman
University at Buffalo, 09.07.2012
Police Officer Stress Creates Significant Health Risks Compared to General Population, Study Finds
Landmark study of police officers in Buffalo, N.Y., reveals increased incidence of chronic disease, finds suicides higher among those still working
University of California, 09.07.2012
UC Davis study finds stray-bullet shootings frequently harm women and children
openDemocracy, 09.07.2012
A quiet revolution: drug decriminalisation policies in practice across the globe
Charles Shaw
guardian.co.uk,, 09.07.2012
Singapore scraps mandatory death penalty for drug couriers
Judges will have discretion to impose life sentences in some cases
TIME, 09.07.2012
LIBOR Scandal: The Crime of the Century?
The latest interest-rate-fixing LIBOR scandal is being heralded as the most egregious in a generation
Christopher Matthews
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, 09.07.2012
New Gentile study on media violence and kids could have applications on school bullying
The Commentator, 09.07.2012
Ask Louise Mensch MP: Is "Give Drugs a Chance" a sell out, or is it realism?
Prevention Action, 09.07.2012
Prevention science – All is revealed
Prevention science is a relatively young field that has developed rapidly over the last 40 years. In 2005 the Society for Prevention Research commissioned a taskforce to develop a definition of prevention science and set out specific training needs for future prevention researchers. The resulting report, Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention, offers an insight into who prevention scientists are and what they do.
Le Monde Dipomatique, 10.07.2012
Norway’s day of reckoning
Anders Behring Breivik’s trial has ended, a year after the mass killings that shocked Norway. The country’s prosperity masks a growing social inequality that has allowed the anti-immigrant populist right to harness the frustrations of those who feel they have been left behind
Remi Nilsen
The Japan Times, 10.07.2012
Japan's battered men suffer abuse in silence
Equality bureau turns a blind eye as growing ranks of husbands claim mistreatment at the hands of their wives
MICHAEL HASSETT
EurekAlert, 10.07.2012
Dangerous caregivers for elderly
Agencies place unqualified, possibly criminal caregivers in homes of vulnerable seniors
University of Washington, 10.07.2012
Multiracial youths show similar vulnerability to peer pressure as whites
Molly McElroy
Office of Naval Research, 10.07.2012
ONR Sensor and Software Suite Hunts Down More Than 600 Suspect Boats
The Huffington Post, 10.07.2012
Sexual Exploitation Victims Should Not Be Criminalised, Howard League Report Says
Sexually exploited girls commit crime as a cry for help and should not be prosecuted, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Dina Rickman
Info4Security, 11.07.2012
Anti-cyber crime strategy goes online
A new international plan to tackle cyber crime has been launched at Queen’s University in Belfast
EurekAlert, 11.07.2012
Middle-aged women who were child abuse victims at increased risk for heart disease, diabetes
Physical abuse may lead to poor heart health decades later, study finds
EurekAlert, 11.07.2012
Identifying risky behaviors: The key to HIV prevention
Special issue of AIDS and Behavior looks at the latest behavioral interventions research ahead of XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC
Washington Post, 11.07.2012
Study shows that Sept. 11 was by far the most impactful event people remember on TV
BBC News, 12.07.2012
Mental health concern over crime victims
40% of people treated for violence-related injuries suffer mental health issues, says the professor
News One, 12.07.2012
Criminal Attorney On Police Brutality: ‘Many Officers Are Thugs With Badges’
Kirsten West Savali
The Irish Times, 12.07.2012
Memory ploughs up the past
Research shows us what we think is total recall may be a mass of distortion. Never forget
PAUL O'DONOGHUE
Science Daily (press release), 12.07.2012
Psychologists Discover Links Between Angry Thoughts and Displaced Aggression in Male Gang Affiliates
The Cutting Edge, 12.07.2012
ray-Bullet Shootings Frequently Harm Women and Children
Carole Gan, UC Davis
The Atlantic, 12.07.2012
Study of the Day: 6 Million U.S. Teens Live With Uncontrollable Anger
Hans Villarica
Prevention Action, 12.07.2012
No easy wins
Twenty-eight per cent of families with young children in Britain – amounting to an estimated 192,000 children under the age of one – face two or more “risks,” such as parental drug or alcohol misuse, unemployment or mental ill health, suggests a new analysis of national data which looks at the prevalence of those factors.
EurekAlert, 13.07.2012
Randomized trial finds counseling program reduces youth violence, improves school engagement
Los Angeles Times, 13.07.2012
Study's findings won't put an end to debate over spanking
Research suggests kids who are physically punished are more likely to develop emotional problems. But the issue is not that clear-cut for most parents
Sandy Banks
ABC Action News, 13.07.2012
Study: 'Stand your ground' laws don't deter crime, may lead to more murders
JESSICA LIPSCOMB
PsychCentral.com, 13.07.2012
TV Violence One Factor to Predict Aggression
Janice Wood Associate News Editor
BBC News, 13.07.2012
North Wales Police to trial neighbourhood justice panels
After the England riots of August 2011, courts opened on weekends and for longer hours Continue reading the main story
Zee News, 14.07.2012
Counselling program reduces youth violence
Washington: A new study provides rigorous scientific evidence that a violence reduction program succeeded in creating a sizable decline in violent crime arrests among youth who participated in group counselling and mentoring.
Politic365, 15.07.2012
2.5 Million Behind Bars: For Profit Prisons on the Rise in the U.S.
Larry Miller,
The Independent, 15.07.2012
One in 10 prisoners is a former soldier, new research reveals
Genevieve Roberts
New York Times, 15.07.2012
Postville, Iowa, Is Up for Grabs
Around 10 on a clear May morning in 2008, two black helicopters circled over Postville, Iowa, a town of two square miles and fewer than 3,000 residents. Then a line of S.U.V.’s drove past Postville’s main street and its worn brick storefronts. More than 10 white buses with darkened windows and the words “Homeland Security” on their sides were on their way to the other side of town. Postville’s four-man police force had no forewarning of what was about to happen. Neither did the mayor.
MAGGIE JONES
The Independent, 16.07.2012
College of policing to be set up
A college of policing will be set up to improve standards and professionalism among officers, the Government said today
Wesley Johnson
guardian.co.uk, 16.07.2012
Longer prison sentences are not the way to cut crime
Contrary to the claims of Civitas, prison is not the right place to rehabilitate the vast majority of offenders
Paul McDowell
HealthCanal.com, 16.07.2012
London riots will happen again
Another trigger event is all it will take for a repeat of the riots that plagued London and other cities across the country last summer, according to an expert from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Haaretz, 16.07.2012
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely writes charmingly about what makes us tell lies, but his book creates conceptual confusion by lumping together several
Stuart P. Green
CorrectionsOne, 16.07.2012
Why we incarcerate: Rehabilitation
The distinction between treatment and rehabilitation is often so vague that it sometimes leads to confusion
Dr. Bruce Bayley
The Nation (USA), 16.07.2012
How the US Rendered, Tortured and Discarded One Innocent Man
Clara Gutteridge
New York Times Blogs, 17.07.2012
Look to Past to See Folly of Aggressive Relations
John A. Eterno, a retired New York City police captain, is a professor of criminal justice at Molloy College and a co-author of “The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation.”
New York Times Blogs, 17.07.2012
Focused on Numbers, but Not Ones That Count
Robert Gangi is the director the Police Reform Organizing Project at the Urban Justice Center.
New York Times Blogs, 17.07.2012
Community Involvement Stops Crime
Donnel Baird grew up in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and spent several years as a community organizer in Brownsville. He is a student at the Columbia Business School, an Echoing Green fellow and an entrepreneur in residence at Jalia Ventures.
New York Times Blogs -, 17.07.2012
Don’t Antagonize Those Who Could Help
Paul Butler is a law professor at Georgetown University and a former United States Department of Justice prosecutor. He is the author of "Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice.''
New York Times Blogs, 17.07.2012
To See Its Value, See How Crime Rose Elsewhere
Heather Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of "Are Cops Racist?"
New York Times Blogs, 17.07.2012
Stop and Frisk Has Lowered Crime in Other Cities
Dennis C. Smith is a professor of public policy at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He has been a paid consultant for the New York Police Department in litigation involving stop and frisk.
American Friends of Tel Aviv University, 17.07.2012
Anti-Semitic Violence Down 27%, But Harassment is on the Rise
TAU's Kantor Center warns non-violent abuse is escalating world-wide
EurekAlert, 17.07.2012
Punishment motivated by fairness, not revenge
Researchers at UCL and Harvard have found that we punish cheats only when they end up better off than us, in a study that challenges the notion that punishment is motivated by revenge.
EurekAlert, 17.07.2012
Expert panel calls for new research approach to prevent youth violence
Recommendations published in a supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Wired.com, 17.07.2012
Convicted Murderer Hans Reiser Ordered to Pay His Kids $60 million
A California jury on Tuesday found Hans Reiser financially liable for killing his wife, Nina, four years ago, ordering the imprisoned Linux guru to pay the couple’s two children $60 million.
David Kravets
ICIJ, 17.07.2012
Human Corpses are Prize in Global Drive for Profits
Kate Willson, Vlad Lavrov, Martina Keller, Thomas Maier and Gerard Ryle
University of Iowa, 18.07.2012
Police need sleep for health, performance
UI study finds risks associated with shift work in law enforcement
EurekAlert, 18.07.2012
Sleep deprivation may reduce risk of PTSD according to Ben-Gurion U. researchers
ICIJ, 18.07.2012
Body Brokers Leave Trail of Questions, Corruption
Kate Willson, Vlad Lavrov, Martina Keller and Michael Hudson
London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 14, 19.07.2012
i could’ve sold to russia or china
The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in US History by Chase Madar
Newswise, 19.07.2012
The Foreigner with a Gun
American University professor’s research looks at media portrayals of ethnic terrorists and mass shooters.
The Guardian, 19.07.2012
'Warehouse' prisons falling short of Kenneth Clarke's rehabilitation pledge
Prisons and probation chief inspectors say jails still failing to tackle entrenched attitudes of sex offenders and other criminals
Alan Travis
The Atlantic Cities, 19.07.2012
How the Cutting Edge in Crowdsourced Crime Fighting Could Do More Harm Than Good
Emily Badger
EurekAlert, 19.07.2012
Elder abuse affects Latinos disproportionately
40 percent of low-income Latino elders report abuse or neglect in last year, but fewer than 2 percent have reported abuse to authorities, study reveals
Medical Daily, 20.07.2012
Scientists Reveal How Your Afternoon Tea Can Protect You in a Terrorist Attack
A simple cup of tea could be the next secret weapon against terrorism, scientists have revealed.
Christine Hsu
Medical Xpress, 20.07.2012
Don't be afraid to talk to your kids about Colorado killings
Amanda Gardner
defpro, 20.07.2012
Keeping America Secure: The Science Supporting the Development of Threat Detection Technologies
Written testimony of Domestic Nuclear Detection Office Acting Director Dr. Huban Gowadia for a House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology hearing
Foreign Policy (blog), 20.07.2012
Sharing is caring: Containing terrorism in South Asia
Stephen Tankel Share
InformationWeek, 20.07.2012
Police Make Wide Use Of Social Tools
Majority of law enforcement professionals turn to Facebook and YouTube to aid their investigations, research shows.
Derby Telegraph, 20.07.2012
'Working together the key to cutting back on crime and reoffending'
ORGANISATIONS across the city need to "work in partnership" to ensure fewer young people commit crimes and the risk of reoffending is reduced.
Wall Street Journal online, 20.07.2012
The Real Story of Chicago's Bloody Summer
The city has seen nearly 300 killings this year, but over two decades its rate of violent crime has dropped 50%.
WILLIAM J. BRATTON
BBC News, 20.07.2012
Cybercriminals in developing nations targeted
Cybercriminals in developing nations are being targeted in a new effort to combat the illegal activity.
guardian.co.uk, 20.07.2012
Bare-faced bankers should be treated as criminals: prosecuted and imprisoned
The money laundering scandal at HSBC signals that it is time to crack down hard on our financial guardians
Charles Ferguson
Reason Online, 21.07.2012
War Is Still a Racket
They say war is a fight between forces seeking victory. But sometimes the conflict is more complicated than that.
Christopher J. Coyne
New York Times, 22.07.2012
Greg Ousley Is Sorry for Killing His Parents. Is That Enough?
SCOTT ANDERSON
guardian.co.uk, 22.07.2012
Police are using phone-hacking scandal to claw back control of information
In aftermath of scandal, power over news is more firmly in hands of upper echelons of Met police than at any time in the past
Sandra Laville
Examiner.com, 22.07.2012
James Holmes studied mental disorders, criminology professor not surprised
Jeannie Stokowski-Bisanti
Businessweek (blog), 22.07.2012
Illusions Fascinated Colorado Massacre Suspect as Student
Amanda J. Crawford and Bill Callahan
EurekAlert, 23.07.2012
Racially diverse suburbs growing faster than white suburbs but resegregation threatens prosperity
Suburbs are on the cutting edge of racial, ethnic and political change in America
SPIEGEL ONLINE, 23.07.2012
Effort to Ban Far-Right NPD More Unlikely than Ever
A bid to ban Germany's far-right National Democratic Party looks more unlikely than ever due to the file-shredding scandal that has rocked the country's domestic intelligence agency. Bumbling in the investigation into a right-wing terror cell has cost the agency its credibility, an ally of Chancellor Merkel has warned.
Washington Post, 23.07.2012
Six facts about guns, violence, and gun control
The aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado shootings has been thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”
Ezra Klein
ComputerworldUK, 23.07.2012
Visa and City of London Police to share expertise in global cybercrime project
Knowledge to be pooled between businesses and security agencies
Anh Nguyen
HRmagazine.co.uk, 23.07.2012
Domestic violence has a significant, yet invisible, impact on the wellbeing of a large number of UK employees
Stephen Bevan
Christian Science Monitor, 23.07.2012
Why is Google picking a fight with the mafia?
Last week's Google gathering on how to combat organized crime garnered headlines, but many questions remain unanswered.
Steven Dudley
Salon, 23.07.2012
What real courage looks like
The president praised a woman who saved her friend's life. We need politicians that brave to fight the gun lobby
Joan Walsh
Vancouver Sun online, 24.07.2012
Crime rate in Canada at lowest level since 1972, Statistics Canada says
Western provinces generally reported higher crime rates and crime severity than those in the east
Canadian Press
guardian.co.uk, 24.07.2012
Disgraceful! The myth that criminals are claiming sickness benefits
Claims that a quarter of those on sickness benefit have a criminal record are a calumny against people desperate to work
Sue Marsh
EurekAlert Public, 24.07.2012
Male Ontario students show declines in fighting; females show elevated bullying and mental distress
Calgary Herald, 24.07.2012
Police chief says Safe Communities program essential for fighting crime
Jason van Rassel
Huffington Post, 24.07.2012
Teen Dating Violence: U.S. High Schools Unequipped To Handle The Issue, Study Shows
New York Times, 24.07.2012
More Treatment Programs
Early in the morning of Sept. 4, 1913, Ernst Wagner murdered his wife and four children in the town of Degerloch, Germany. Then he went to Mühlhausen, where he feared the townsmen were mocking him for having sex with an animal. He opened fire and hit 20 people, killing at least nine.
DAVID BROOKS
Gentlemen's Quarterly, 25.07.2012
"Is he coming? Is he? Oh God, I think he is."
One year ago, a heavily armed man dressed as a police officer appeared on the beach of a youth summer camp in Norway. The kids had no way of knowing he was targeting them for the ills of Europe. Then he started shooting. And shooting. Where were the real cops? By the end of the day, seventy-seven people had been killed, the deadliest attack in that country since World War II. As told by the survivors, these are the beat-by-beat horrors of those terrifying 198 minutes
Sean Flynn
EurekAlert, 25.07.2012
The debate over ecstasy continues
New study finds evidence of memory impairments with 1 year of recreational use
U.S. Politics, 25.07.2012
Sex Offender Registration for Juvenile Offenders May Not Be Effective
Sex offender registration requirements can punish children for decades for crimes committed in their youth.
ABC Online, 25.07.2012
UC to help national body tackle cyber crime
The University of Canberra (UC) has partnered with the nation's official Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to tackle cyber security threats head on.
University of Bielefeld, 25.07.2012
Cyberbullying: one in two victims suffer from the distribution of embarrassing photos and videos
Researchers at Bielefeld University questioned schoolchildren on cyberbullying attacks through the Internet and by mobile phone
EurekAlert, 25.07.2012
Increasing dopamine in brain's frontal cortex decreases impulsive tendency, UCSF-Gallo study finds
New York Times, 25.07.2012
Other States, and Other Times, Would Have Posed Obstacles for Gunman
ETHAN BRONNER
guardian.co.uk, 25.07.2012
Suicide rates higher for people who grew up during Irish Troubles – study
Queen's University Belfast researchers say suicide rate of middle-aged men has near-doubled since Good Friday accord
Henry McDonald
New York Times, 25.07.2012
Faulty Criminal Background Checks
The federal government has historically paid little attention to the companies that collect and sell the data used by employers in hiring decisions — including data about an applicant’s criminal history.
Dark Reading, 25.07.2012
Researchers To Launch New Tools For Search Engine Hacking
Free 'Diggity' data mining tools can identify and extract sensitive information from many popular cloud-based services
Tim WilsonDark Reading
The Independent, 26.07.2012
Special report: The riots one year on
A year after the riots, a charity in Salford and Manchester has launched a project to combat the growing demonisation of young people
Owen Jones
BBC News, 26.07.2012
Women 'lack trust' in rape police, Durham University study finds
Many women expressed a lack of trust in the police
Huffington Post UK, 26.07.2012
Detective Constable Jeffery Davis Accused Of 'Exposing' Genitals To Female Crime Victim
Mancunian Matters, 26.07.2012
Manchester study shows that almost half of all young teen daters are in abusive relationships
Mary Maguire
Huffington Post (blog), 26.07.2012
Is American Gun Culture Compatible With a Modern Civil Society?
Zaman Stanizai
Christian Science Monitor, 26.07.2012
Why Anaheim, known for Disney and the Angels, erupted in violence this week
The fatal police shootings of two young Hispanic men in Anaheim last weekend led to an explosion of ethnic and socioeconomic resentments that have festered for years.
Daniel B. Wood
Christian Science Monitor, 26.07.2012
Rumored Zetas split: Would this bring more violence or peace for Mexico?
A weakening of the Zetas in the northeast may discourage the drug gang's forays into other parts of Mexico, but internal strife often leads to more murders, writes
Patrick Corcoran
Huffington Post Posted: 07/26/2012 9:18 am, 26.07.2012
The Right to Bear Arms: the Right to Cause Harm?
Avika Dua.High school student in California
The Atlantic Cities, 27.07.2012
Inside the Weird World of Tracking Gangs on Social Media
Emily Gogolak
Poughkeepsie Journal, 28.07.2012
Do research on caregivers
A disturbing study released earlier this month from Northwestern University found many agencies that hire caregivers for the elderly provide little or no training and almost half fail to do national criminal background checks or drug testing.
The Economist, 28.07.2012
Colorado’s dark night
Guns don’t kill crowds of innocent people; maniacs with easy access to military-grade weapons do
The Guardian, 28.07.2012
'I was gutted that I'd been such a coward': photographers who didn't step in to help
OregonLive.com, 28.07.2012
Predicting a predator's next move: Tracking Oregon's high-risk sex offenders
Maxine Bernstein
Sydney Morning Herald, 28.07.2012
Sydney's newest sport - beat someone senseless or kill them for the heck of it
Rachel Olding
Troy Media, 29.07.2012
Youth crime based on a lack of social cohesion
A case of “internal foreigners?”
Winnipeg Free Press, 30.07.2012
Questioning safety in numbers
Bigger police force not having big impact on crime
Aldo Santin
Salon, 30.07.2012
Life in the American slaughterhouse: Police violence and Aurora
An examination of police violence and what it means for the culture
Stephan Salisbury
Huffington Post -, 30.07.2012
Only in America Could Cost of Care Bankrupt Victims of Violence Like in Aurora, Colorado
Wendell Potter
Real News Network (blog), 30.07.2012
The War against the Regulatory Cops on the Bank Beat
William K. Black
Liverpool John Moores University, 30.07.2012
Research from LJMU's Centre for Public Health goes global
LJMU’s Centre for Public Health has received national and international press coverage for research which reveals that children with disabilities are more likely to be victims of violence than children who are not disabled.
The Commentator - 30 July 2012 at 10am, 30.07.2012
Alcohol, crime, and the government fiddling the figures
By David Atherton
EurekAlert, 31.07.2012
Study: Conciliatory tactics more effective than punishment in reducing terrorism
EurekAlert, 31.07.2012
Adolescents in substance abuse treatment report using someone else's medical marijuana
Reports new study in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Forbes 7/31/2012 @ 5:39PM, 31.07.2012
Is Too Much Time Online An Addiction? Or Something Else?
Todd Essig, Contributor
New York Times, 31.07.2012
Psychologist Who Wrote of Abuse Is Punished
A federal health services psychologist who told superiors that an American Indian tribe was ignoring widespread child abuse on a North Dakota reservation has been reprimanded and reassigned, according to federal officials and documents.
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
EurekAlert Public, 31.07.2012
New University of Houston research focuses on treatment for perpetrator, not victim
Batterers improve communication skills in experiment
