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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
Pacific Standard, 01.11.2013
New York’s 'Shop and Frisk' Scourge
Racial profiling in luxury stores is causing way more problems than it’s preventing
Lauren Kirchner
Salon, 01.11.2013
Why is it always a white guy: The roots of modern, violent rage
The LAX shooter, once again, is reported to be a white male. Here's why they're always first to violence
Michael Kimmel
Cambridge News, 01.11.2013
As Victim's Code is changed, would you want to face a criminal who targeted you?
FLO SNEAD
4-traders (press release)-, 01.11.2013
World Bank Group : ‘Pirate Trails’ Tracks Dirty Money Resulting From Piracy Off the Horn of Africa
Ransoms Total Over US$339 Million, Says New World Bank Research
The Guardian, 01.11.2013
GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies
Julian Borger
The Conversation, 01.11.2013
Nations can no longer afford to go it alone on cyber-security
Senior representatives from more than 90 governments met in Seoul recently to discuss cyber-space, including cyber-security and cyber-crime. It was the third in a series of international conferences that has followed a push from the UK government to bring a more international perspective to discussions…
Author Ian Brown, Oxford Martin Fellow, The Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at University of Oxford
The Economist, 02.11.2013
The grabbing hand of the law
How prosecutors seize the assets of the innocent
The Economist, 02.11.2013
More sophisticated than you thought
A new study reveals how Somali piracy is financed
The New York Times, 03.11.2013
No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
The National Security Agency was founded in 1952, and its surveillance capabilities were limited by legislation in 1978. But with the attacks of September 2001 came a new sense of urgency.By Reem Makhoul, Channon Hodge and Alyssa Kim
SCOTT SHANE
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 04.11.2013
Teens in child welfare system show higher drug abuse rate
EurekAlert!, 04.11.2013
DoD, CIA required military MDs to breach ethics in dealing with detainees: New report
Medical, military, and ethics experts say health professionals designed and participated in cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment and torture of detainees; seek policies to assure conformance with ethical principles
GQ Magazine, 04.11.2013
A Very Dangerous Boy
Last week, a judge in California finally decided the fate of a violent and damaged child who murdered his neo-Nazi father a few years ago, when he was just 10 years old. Amy Wallace reports on the tragic, impossible case of Jeff and Joseph Hall
Amy Wallace
EurekAlert!, 05.11.2013
Computer model anticipates crime hot spots
Collaboration between a UCR sociologist and Indio police is reducing crime
American Friends of Tel Aviv University, 05.11.2013
Torture Permanently Damages Normal Perception of Pain
TAU researchers study the long-term effects of torture on the human pain system
The Times and Democrat, 05.11.2013
Preventable violence
In the last two weeks over a four-day period, 14 adults and seven children from four different states were killed in domestic violence-related murders.
LAURA FINLEY
The Nation, 06.11.2013
History’s Sinkhole
How did the US-Mexican border become the place where the American past chokes on itself?
Greg Grandin
The New York Review of Books, 07.11.2013
Gambling with Civilization
Paul Krugman
The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
by William D. Nordhaus
Yale University Press, 378 pp., $30.00
The London Economic, 07.11.2013
Crime and punishment
Exploring the counterproductive nature of illegalising industries.
Maiorem legem, maiore flagitio; greater the law, greater the crime.
Nathan Lee, Finance and Politics writer
Newswise Released, 08.11.2013
The NFL Shows Bullying’s Not Just for Kids: What Are the Psychological Repercussions of Adult Bullying?
ScienceBlog.com (blog), 08.11.2013
Returning home broken not the norm for U.S. veterans
Two decades of research by Rumi Kato Price, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine, shows reason for optimism about the future of returning soldiers.
economia -, 08.11.2013
Most fraudsters work from within
The typical modern fraudster is aged between 36 and 45 and holds an executive position within their organisation, according to KPMG
CNN, 09.11.2013
Experts: Maine, Michigan votes another 'green light' for marijuana legalization
Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
New York Times online, 10.11.2013
Laws Have Overcriminalized Business Behavior
Ellen Podgor is the Gary R. Trombley family white-collar crime research professor at the Stetson University College of Law. She writes at the White Collar Crime Prof Blog.
theguardian.com, 11.11.2013
Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets
Decline partly put down to strong focus on rehabilitation and more lenient sentences for some offences
Richard Orange in Malmö
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 11.11.2013
Better police surveillance technologies come with a cost, scholar says
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, 11.11.2013
For Juveniles, the Elusive Right to Legal Counsel
Gary Gately
Tulsa World, 11.11.2013
Learn how to detect and deal with child sexual abuse
ALTHEA PETERSON World Staff Writer
Aarhus University, 11.11.2013
When your body needs calories, you are more inclined to help the poor
New research shows that hunger affects our attitudes towards the welfare state. And when hungry people state their support of the welfare system, it is not so much a reflection of their concern for the poor; rather it is a strategy for securing further resources for themselves.
Ingrid Marie Fossum
Wall Street Journal (blog), 11.11.2013
Gun Violence in Top-Grossing PG-13 Films Exceeds R-rated Ones
Alexandra Cheney
Prevention Action, 11.11.2013
“Teens and Toddlers” pregnancy prevention trial finds few significant benefits
NPR (blog)-, 12.11.2013
The Case Against Brain Scans As Evidence In Court
It's not just people who go on trial these days. It's their brains.
Huffington Post, 12.11.2013
Perceptions Matter: A Roadmap to Reducing Crime
Greg Berman, Executive Director, Center for Court Innovation
Since 1990, New York City has seen one of the longest sustained drop in crime ever experienced by a big city -- murders reduced by 79 percent, rape by 62 percent and robbery by 82 percent.
Evening Standard-, 12.11.2013
Study to probe how alcohol is leading teenage girls into crime
A major investigation into the links between alcohol and criminal offending by teenage girls is to be carried out by government watchdogs.
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Lakewood, CO, United States, 12.11.2013
Colorado Background Check Company Introduces No-Cost Screening to Non-Profits
Headlines & Global News, 12.11.2013
Teens Drawn to Danger; More Likely to Fight than Take Flight
Rebekah Marcarelli
News-Medical.net, 12.11.2013
Parental supervision at ages 11-14 lowers risk for problem gambling by age 22
Toronto Star, 12.11.2013
Nursing-home violence a growing concern, with 11% of residents classed as ‘aggressive’
Following another patient death, experts warn that long-term-care homes are housing more residents with behaviour issues, without enough specially trained staff.
Theresa Boyle Health
NEWS.com.au, 13.11.2013
Deadlier than ever: Welcome to the new ice age
OUT among the new addicts whose young lives are spiralling away in psychosis, at border control checkpoints which increasingly uncover it hidden in bizarre consignments, in the wastelands of public housing where it is the drug of choice.
Sydney Morning Herald, 13.11.2013
Royal commission on child abuse to look at how offenders are sentenced
Barney Zwartz
Medical Xpress, 13.11.2013
Understanding the origins of delinquent and deviant behaviors
For want of a receptor: Some behaviors shaped during early development
Mother Nature Network (blog)-, 13.11.2013
Bullies more likely to engage in risky behavior
Twenty-five percent of self-professed bullies also admit to engaging in casual sex.
Delaware County Daily Times, 13.11.2013
Company's ‘Safeboard' aims to protect classrooms from shooters
Matthew Piper
Prevention Action, 13.11.2013
Reach for the stars and moon
Research shows that social skills training programs for children and young people with emotional or behavioral problems often have short-lived and only moderate benefits. However, a group-based program in the Netherlands is designed to remedy weaknesses in earlier programs and shows promise, especially when “booster” reinforcement sessions are included
Frontline - Print edition, 13.11.2013
Torture and impunity
Two books portraying in disturbing detail the harm impunity can cause to persons in custody and to those belonging to vulnerable sections.
V. VENKATESAN
Mankato Free Press, 14.11.2013
Stop-and-frisk led to few convictions, state study finds
Christie Smythe Bloomberg News
Metro-Thursday, 14.11.2013
Cash for contract killing: The economics behind hiring a hitman
In fiction, hitmen wear dark suits, execute targets using guns with silencers and then walk off into the horizon with a briefcase full of cash.
Appleton Post Crescent, 14.11.2013
Views differ on bill to remove 17-year-old criminal offenders from adult system
In Wisconsin, 17-year-olds are prohibited from voting, drinking alcohol or buying cigarettes. But if they break the law, they’re treated as adults.
EurekAlert!, 14.11.2013
Study finds social networks are key to city violence
A new study of gun violence in Chicago, led by Yale sociologist Andrew Papachristos, reveals that a person's social network is a key predictor in whether an individual will become a victim of gun homicide, even more so than race, age, gender, poverty, or gang affiliation.
Christian Science Monitor, 15.11.2013
Stop-and-frisk: New York AG report questions its effectiveness
New York's attorney general said the stop-and-frisk report – an NYPD spokesman called it flawed – sought to 'advance the discussion about how to fight crime without ... violating equal justice under the law.'
Harry Bruinius, Staff Writer
SPIEGEL ONLINE, 15.11.2013
Neo-Nazis and Hooligans Find Common Ground
Football Violence
Rafael Buschmann
The Missourian, 16.11.2013
What Mass Killers Want
Rampage shooters cast themselves as the stars of the public spectacle. They crave the media spotlight which is why we should do everything possible to deprive them of it.”
Bill Miller Sr.
Timesonline.com, 17.11.2013
Rx for Abuse: Prescription drug use among teens on the rise
Jenny Wagner jwagner@timesonline.com
Science Codex-, 18.11.2013
Like other offenses, cyberdeviance and cybercrime seem to start and peak in the teen years
Huffington Post, 18.11.2013
Gentrification Will Reduce Crime and Violence, But Only if Poor People Stay
John Roman, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute
Huffington Post Posted, 18.11.2013
Contextualizing Domestic Violence
Pierre R. Berastaín, Student, Harvard Divinity School; Communications and Marketing Coor, National Latin@ Network; Co-Founder, MA Restorative Justice Collaborative
Salon, 18.11.2013
“Just Babies”: Is morality hard-wired?
A new book seeks the roots of right and wrong in the study of infants as young as 3 months
Laura Miller
University of Cincinnati, 18.11.2013
Multilevel Study Finds No Link Between Minimum Wage and Crime Rates
Results will be presented at the American Society of Criminology’s 69th annual meeting in Atlanta.
The Guardian, 18.11.2013
Google to tackle images of child sexual abuse with search and Youtube changes
Company announces new technology to identify content from paedophiles as UK joins forces with US at No 10 summit
Nicholas Watt and Juliette Garside
New York Review of Books (Blogs), 18.11.2013
The NSA’s Global Threat to Free Speech
Kenneth Roth, Félix Vallotton
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 19.11.2013
Teens who drink alone more likely to develop alcohol problems as young adults
Results also show adolescents drink alone to cope with negative emotions
Foreign Policy ( USA ), 19.11.2013
Stuxnet's Secret Twin
The real program to sabotage Iran's nuclear facilities was far more sophisticated than anyone realized.
RALPH LANGNER
Prospect, 19.11.2013
The FBI files on being and nothingness
From 1945 onwards, J Edgar Hoover’s FBI spied on Camus and Sartre. The investigation soon turned into a philosophical inquiry…
Andy Martin
Victoria News Updated, 21.11.2013
The grey area of criminal justice
For minor crimes, police and social agencies are keen to use restorative justice, where the offender takes responsibility and tries to make amends, rather than facing a criminal record.
Kyle Slavin
Huffington Post UK, 21.11.2013
Why We Must Intervene Early With Children and Young People With Harmful Sexual Behaviour
Jon Brown
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 21.11.2013
Preventing marijuana-induced memory problems with over-the-counter painkillers
Scientific American (blog), 21.11.2013
The Dark Side of Power Posing: Cape or Kryptonite?
Jay Van Bavel
Newswise Released, 22.11.2013
Expert: As NYC Bans Tobacco Sales to Minors, An Innovator’s App Could Bolster Law
theguardian.com, 22.11.2013
Tim Berners-Lee: Online surveillance undermines confidence in internet
Jimmy Wales, reveals that Wikipedia will begin encrypting communications with its users to prevent spying
Charles Arthur, technology editor
Wall Street Journal (blog)-, 22.11.2013
Corruption Currents: From Calculated Threats to Swiss Data Theft
Mike Lucas
The Economist Nov 23rd 2013, 23.11.2013
Helping them stay home
The Second Chance Act helps keep ex-inmates out of prison
New York Times, 23.11.2013
Police Unsure if Random Attacks Are Rising Threat or Urban Myth
‘Knockout Game’ a Spreading Menace or a Myth
Todd Heisler
The Australian, 23.11.2013
A spate of random, cruel murders, committed by teens - coincidence or a sign?
Richard Guilliatt, The Australian
ReporterNews.com-, 23.11.2013
America's 'grossly underreported' arsons hide public safety threat
Most acts of arson in America go unreported to the federal government, masking a major threat to public safety.
New York Times, 23.11.2013
Prison for a State Chemist Who Faked Drug Evidence
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JESS BIDGOOD
Teachers College, 25.11.2013
Bringing the Impact of Domestic Violence Home
Published in Research/Publications
The Independent, 25.11.2013
Gateway to terror: British Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary 'sent hundreds to join al-Qa’ida in Syria'
Groups linked to 46-year-old have 'facilitated or encouraged' up to 80 young Muslims from the UK – and 250 to 300 people from across Europe – to join forces fighting Assad
Ian Johnston , Sophie Robehmed
Chicago Sun-Times, 25.11.2013
Boot camp less effective than prison for gun offenders: study
Gun offenders sentenced to boot camp are more likely to be rearrested than those sent to prison, a new analysis suggests.
FRANK MAIN Staff Reporter
Ohio State University, 25.11.2013
Teens ‘Eat More, Cheat More’ After Playing Violent Video Games
Research finds effects go beyond increase in aggression
Huffington Post, 25.11.2013
El Hacker Cívico: Civic-Minded Techies Gain Sway with Government in Mexico and Beyond
Theresa Bradley
Newswise Released, 25.11.2013
Gun Policy Experts Available to Discuss Federal and State Policies
December 14th marks the 1-year anniversary of the mass shooting in Newtown, CT. Experts with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research are available to contribute to your reporting.
urbanmilwaukee, 25.11.2013
How Liars Jail the Innocent
State laws have no standards on police informants, whose wrongful testimony can put innocent people behind bars.
Mario Koran
Science Daily (press release), 25.11.2013
Companies That Screen Social Media Accounts Alienate Job Candidates
Streetsblog Capitol Hill (blog)-, 25.11.2013
Fight Street Crime With Speed Bumps and Crosswalks
Tanya Snyder
Montreal Gazette, 25.11.2013
McGill applauded for measures to prevent sexual assault
University ‘will take concrete steps’ to support victims
By Karen seidman, GAZETTE universities reporter
New York Times, 26.11.2013
Report Retraces Six Minutes of Horror, and Every Step a Gunman Took
MATT FLEGENHEIMER
New York Times, 26.11.2013
Chilling Look at Newtown Killer, but No ‘Why’
JOSEPH BERGER and MARC SANTORA
University of Waterloo, 26.11.2013
Graphic Warnings Labels on Cigarette Packs Could Lead to 8.6 Million Fewer Smokers in the United States and Save Millions of Lives
Megan Tait
The Guardian, 26.11.2013
One in 10 women have been forced into sex against their will, Lancet study says
Sexual coercion is becoming normalised, warns researcher, urging early intervention at schools to curb stereotypes
Haroon Siddique
theguardian.com, 26.11.2013
Why south London's 'slave' house is nothing of the sort
The slavery hysteria whipped up by the media and politicians is a convenient distraction from dealing with real problems of exploitation and low pay
Frank Furedi
Reason, 26.11.2013
Watched Cops Are Polite Cops
Requiring law enforcement to wear video cameras will protect your constitutional rights and improve policing.
Ronald Bailey
Evening Standard, 26.11.2013
Shock at scale of child-on-child sex attacks
Children are committing shocking sexual assaults against each other, "profoundly distressing" evidence suggests.
Ottawa Citizen, 26.11.2013
Feds want more information on police use of force
Carys Mills, OTTAWA CITIZEN
Daily Mail PUBLISHED, 26.11.2013
Sandy Hook 911 tapes WILL be released as judge says they will 'vindicate' the first responders
The Chronicle of Social Change, 26.11.2013
Researchers Can Help Inform Street Outreach Movement
Patricia Campie and Ryan Basen
Times Herald-Record, 26.11.2013
Panel seeks more input on Ulster police efficiency
James Nani; Times Herald-Record
The Atlantic Cities, 26.11.2013
This Is What Happens When Neighborhoods Don't Trust the Police
If you're looking for a case study in what happens when residents stop trusting their local police department, look no further than Wilmington, Delaware.
Mike Riggs
EurekAlert!, 26.11.2013
A gene mutation for excessive alcohol drinking found
UK researchers have discovered a gene that regulates alcohol consumption and when faulty can cause excessive drinking. They have also identified the mechanism underlying this phenomenon
Centre Daily Times, 26.11.2013
Liquor sale myths aren’t holding up
The biggest boogeyman created by Pennsylvania’s cabal against liquor-store privatization is that it would lead to increased crime and decreased compliance with the state’s liquor laws.
The Guardian,, 26.11.2013
Victims of sexual coercion are often blind to the crime
Statistics out today show assault is often explained away as misunderstanding or a script of male initiative and female passivity
Wendy Macdowall
Yahoo!7 News, 26.11.2013
Proceeds of crime: Do NSW police seize more than the rest of Australia?
During a state-wide haul of bikie clubs' guns, drugs and money in Queensland earlier this month, New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell drew attention to his own state's policing success. Mr O'Farrell said his state pockets more than half the cash and assets seized
Oakland Local, 26.11.2013
Can sustainable community development impact crime reduction in urban areas?
Eric K Arnold and New America Media
DesMoinesRegister.com, 27.11.2013
Rules say: Police can quit pursuit
Some recent chases met one of the criteria for pulling back, review shows
Los Angeles Times, 27.11.2013
Adam Lanza's files show him as another shooter caught up in Columbine
Matt Pearce
Money Morning, 27.11.2013
The Next Big Cyber Weapon: Your Car?
William Patalon III, Executive Editor, Money Morning
DigitalJournal.com, 28.11.2013
Academics tackle the correlation between crime and wages
Recent studies struggle over the connection between wages and crime.
University of Manchester, 28.11.2013
Improved safety measures by mental health services help to reduce suicide rates
Spiked, 28.11.2013
Clare’s Law: a violation of our private lives
The domestic violence disclosure scheme won’t be effective, but it will be intrusive.
Luke Gittos, law editor
Staffordshire Newsletter, 28.11.2013
Radical new plan to bring help to child victims of crime in Staffordshrie
The Guardian, 28.11.2013
Research in brief – 28 November 2013
Our weekly round-up aimed at showcasing the latest research across the subject spectrum at UK universities
Sydney Morning Herald, 28.11.2013
Human traffickers are mostly women, Australian Institute of Criminology report finds
More women than men have been convicted in Australia for human trafficking and slavery and not one has had links to organised crime.
Jerusalem Post-, 29.11.2013
Historically unprecedented number of European Muslim fighters in Syria
BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
Huffington Post, 29.11.2013
DNA and Death Row
Television journalist, author, syndicated columnist
Diane Dimond
Prevention Action, 29.11.2013
Stress hormone measurement – a new addition to the prevention science toolkit?
Physical or emotional abuse and neglect at an early age can alter the development of children’s biological stress responses – but how might that knowledge be put to positive use by those who plan and evaluate prevention services?
The Canberra Times, 30.11.2013
Child protection is a community responsibility
Peter Jean, Chief Assembly reporter for The Canberra Times.
BBC News 30 November, 30.11.2013
Europe could feel the backlash from jihadist conflicts
By Frank Gardner BBC security correspondent
