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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Sentinel, 01.02.2015
Midstate police look at body cameras to improve accountability, public safety
Samantha Madison
Scottish Daily Record, 01.02.2015
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.. well sometimes at least
Jackie Bird
New Yorker, 02.02.2015
Your Son Is Deceased
The city has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, but no officer has been indicted.
Rachel Aviv
The Atlantic, 02.02.2015
Race and Overreaction: On the Streets and in Schools
The excessive punishment of young people of color can have a direct impact on their future prospects.
Mica Pollock and Tanya Coke
New York Times online, 02.02.2015
Washington State Looks to Share Marijuana Taxes With Cities
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EurekAlert!, 02.02.2015
Many universities undercount sexual assaults on campus, research finds
Fines against schools haven't deterred violations, study concludes.
American Psychological Association
Telegraph.co.uk, 02.02.2015
Complaints about police rise by 15pc in year
Independent Police Complaints Commission says number of recorded complaints about police rises to 34,863 in 2013/2014.
The Guardian, 02.02.2015
It’s immigration, not immigrants, that British people say they don’t like
For 70% of us ‘immigration’ is an idea that suggests a Britain overrun by welfare tourists, but ‘immigrants’ are likely to be people we know.
Peter Kellner
Sydney Morning Herald, 02.02.2015
Chan and Sukumaran should not have to beg to avoid barbaric death penalty
Every second Australian wants two of her fellow citizens to be killed for trying to take heroin out of Indonesia.
American Civil Liberties Union News and Information, 02.02.2015
Police Officer Discretion in the Use of Body Worn Cameras
Jay Stanley
Huffington Post, 02.02.2015
Eric Garner's Only Crime Was Indignation. He Should Be Alive Today.
H. A. Goodman
New York Times, 03.02.2015
Bratton Says Terrorism and Protests Will Be Handled by Separate Police Units
J. DAVID GOODMAN
The Conversation, 03.02.2015
From gambling rings to sly downloads: how police corruption has changed
Jon Moran
Telegraph.co.uk, 03.02.2015
Failed 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid describes 'tactical regrets' that mass murder mission failed
British terrorist shows no remorse for 2001 plane bomb plot and says he has 'no tears' for Charlie Hebdo victims in letters from Supermax prison.
Philip Sherwell
The Conversation, 03.02.2015
A new legal framework for the age of cloud computing
Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
The Conversation, 03.02.2015
Terrorism is not a good reason to arm the police with tasers
Michelle Bentley
The Conversation, 03.02.2015
Boris’s jihadi ‘wankers’ mark a real shift in western terrorism
Kevin McDonald
The Conversation, 03.02.2015
Milgram was wrong: we don’t obey authority, but we do love drama
Kathryn Millard
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, 03.02.2015
Social Media and the North Side Gang Life
Jeremy Layton
The Guardian, 04.02.2015
Australian security and counter-terrorism
Banning Hizb ut-Tahrir would play into extremists' hands, says British expert.
TIME, 04.02.2015
Don’t Dismiss Poverty’s Role in Terrorism Yet
The studies are mixed, but our analysis should not be hasty.
David Sterman
Journalist's Resource, 04.02.2015
Juvenile incarceration and long-term consequences: Research on high school graduation rates, adult jail time
EurekAlert!, 04.02.2015
Opioid and heroin crisis triggered by doctors overprescribing painkillers
Brandeis University
The Conversation, 04.02.2015
Islamic State atrocities: violence flares from Iraq to North Africa
Shaun McDaid
The Guardian, 04.02.2015
Welcome to the most corrupt nation in Europe
While the conflict with Russia heats up in the east, life for most Ukrainians is marred by corruption so endemic that even hospitals appear to be infected. Can anyone clean the country up?
Oliver Bullough
MIT Technology Review (blog), 04.02.2015
Holding Data Hostage: The Perfect Internet Crime?
Thousands of people will have their personal files held hostage this year, by software that uses virtually unbreakable encryption.
Tom Simonite
The Conversation, 04.02.2015
Humans are wired for prejudice but that doesn’t have to be the end of the story
Caitlin Millett
BBC News, 05.02.2015
Paris attacks: Prisons provide fertile ground for Islamists
For anyone trying to recruit people to the cause of radical Islam, a French jail would be an ideal place to start.
Henri Astier
Sun Sentinel, 05.02.2015
Toxic relationships: Abuse is a two-way street
Raul España and Sanjana Srinivasan
The Conversation, 05.02.2015
Jordanian pilot execution shows how dangerous combat with Islamic State really is
Paul Rogers
The Conversation, 05.02.2015
Child abuse inquiry gets new chair and more powers – but is it enough?
Bernard Gallagher
The Conversation, 05.02.2015
Islamic State gore-fest appeals to voyeuristic streak in society
Bill Durodie
The Conversation, 05.02.2015
Why do women in West turn to Islamic State? For the same reasons as men
Farhaan Wali
Community Care, 05.02.2015
Social care has a role in preventing hate crime, it’s not just a criminal justice issue
A multi-agency hate crime care pathway will raise much-needed awareness of the issue, says Dr Chih Hoong Sin.
Dr Chih Hoong Sin
inewsnetwork, 05.02.2015
I-News Examines the Research about False Reporting in Sex Assault Cases
Kristin Jones
Medscape, 05.02.2015
New Insight Into the Psychopathic Brain
Psychopathic violent offenders have abnormalities in brain regions that may prevent them from learning from punishment, a finding that may have implications for prevention and treatment, according to a novel imaging study.
Megan Brooks
The Guardian, 05.02.2015
Antisemitic attacks in UK at highest level ever recorded
Community Security Trust recorded 1,168 incidents against Britain’s Jewish population in 2014, more than double that of the previous year.
Robert Booth
MSUToday, 05.02.2015
Do cops need college?
A new study suggests college-educated cops are dissatisfied with the job, have negative views of their supervisors and don’t necessarily favor community policing, a strategy aimed partly at reducing the number of deadly police-citizen incidents dominating the headlines.
Andy Henion, William Terrill
ABC Online, 05.02.2015
Explained: Where do foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria come from?
The number of foreigners who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight has topped 20,000 and surpassed the number attracted to Afghanistan in the 1980s, latest estimates suggest.
Matthew Liddy & Colin Gourlay
The Conversation, 05.02.2015
Indonesia uses faulty stats on ‘drug crisis’ to justify death penalty
Claudia Stoicescu
The Conversation, 05.02.2015
Tor: the last bastion of online anonymity, but is it still secure after Silk Road?
Steven J. Murdoch
The Wilson Times, 06.02.2015
2 decades of community policing
Philosophy forever changed Wilson police as challenges evolve.
Olivia Neeley
NET Website, 06.02.2015
Gang expert talks about the problem and solutions after gang violence outbreak in Omaha
Mike Tobias
Baltimore Sun, 06.02.2015
Is violence contagious?
Outbreaks of gun violence in the U.S. bear an uncanny resemblance to infectious disease epidemics elsewhere.
Breitbart News, 06.02.2015
ISIS Women’s Guide: ‘Emasculation of Muslim Men… Tearing Society Apart’
Dr. Phyllis Chesler
From JMag to Jihad John: the radicalization of John Maguire, 06.02.2015
From JMag to Jihad John: the radicalization of John Maguire
Andrew Duffy, Meghan Hurley
The Globe and Mail, 06.02.2015
Jerry Langton’s Cold War indexes the history of organized crime in Canada. But so what?
JOHN SEMLEY
ThinkProgress, 06.02.2015
Raising Education Standards Could Be The Key To Better Policing
Carimah Townes
The Conversation, 06.02.2015
Speaking with: Tim Jones on child sexual abuse within religious institutions
Tamson Pietsch
The Conversation, 06.02.2015
An open letter to the British Prime Minister: 20th-century solutions won’t help 21st-century surveillance
Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis
Newswise, 06.02.2015
Stress Caused by Discrimination Linked to Mental Health Issues Among Latino Teens
theguardian.com, 06.02.2015
Why are we obsessed with the Nazis?
The Nazis still have a strong hold on us – in daily news stories, in bookshops and cinemas, even on the streets of Europe. But how has thinking about the Third Reich changed over the decades? And does it exert such a grip because it represents racism in its most extreme form?
Richard J Evans
The Economist, 07.02.2015
Apartheid, or just apart?
The French prime minister’s use of the word apartheid provokes reactions, and some soul-searching.
The Inquisit, 09.02.2015
Scientists Prove Manipulative Questioning Tactics Used By Police Can Induce False Memories, Confessions
Le Monde diplomatique, 09.02.2015
Where do you come from?
The idea of defining immigrant, or formerly immigrant, communities by their ethnic origins or religion has supplanted any previous class or economic definitions. This is an invented story.
Benoît Bréville
The Conversation, 09.02.2015
‘Je suis Ahmed,’ Charlie Hebdo, and France’s elephant in the room: race
Jean Beaman
The Marshall Project, 09.02.2015
‘A System That Is Clearly Broken’
A Minnesota sex-offender program is under fire. How long can the state hold people for crimes they have not yet committed?
Beth Schwartzapfel
Foreign Affairs, 09.02.2015
ISIS on the Run
The Terrorist Group Struggles to Hold On.
Michael Pregent and Robin Simcox
BBC News, 09.02.2015
Stop-and-search: Police officers accuse politicians of ignorance
Rank and file police officers have accused politicians of "ignorance" over consensual stop and searches.
Aeon, 09.02.2015
Be not brave
Cowards have been shamed, beaten and shot, yet their failing has an important social function. Let’s hear it for cowardice.
Chris Walsh
Boston Globe, 09.02.2015
Statistics open eyes to the debate on race
NAACP’s ad aims to shed light on little-known Facts.
Akilah Johnson
theguardian.com, 09.02.2015
UK police force apologises for taking details of Charlie Hebdo readers
Wiltshire force says it has deleted from its system details of four people who bought copies of magazine from a newsagent.
Josh Halliday
Washington Post, 10.02.2015
Was Kayla Mueller’s situation different from other Islamic State hostages?
Adam Taylor
The Conversation, 10.02.2015
Yemen chaos shows drones can take out key targets, but they’ll never defeat terrorism
Jon Moran
The Independent, 10.02.2015
Imprisonment 'turns young offenders into sex criminals'
Plans for Europe’s biggest juvenile prison called into question by findings of Howard League study.
Paul Peachey
Pacific Standard, 10.02.2015
Lethal Rejection: Will the Supreme Court's Lethal Injection Review Kill the Death Penalty?
The Supreme Court is reviewing lethal injection for the first time in seven years. Here’s what it means for the death Penalty.
Annie Waldman
Mirror.co.uk, 11.02.2015
Study finds 40% of teenage girls in England are being forced to have sex
Ruth Halkon
The Guardian, 11.02.2015
Security researcher publishes 10m usernames and passwords online
Mark Burnett is putting his database into the public domain to help improve online security, but fears an FBI raid for his actions.
Stuart Dredge
The Conversation, 11.02.2015
The politics of (not) counting: why war on terror’s civilian toll matters
Tom Gregory, Alex Edney-Browne
The Conversation, 11.02.2015
The number of Sure Start centres is irrelevant – it’s quality that matters
Naomi Eisenstadt
The Conversation, 11.02.2015
Privacy is fast becoming the real disruptive force in digital technology
Paul Levy
The Conversation, 11.02.2015
Drones are more than killing machines, but what happens when they become intelligent?
Andy Miah
Journalist's Resource, 11.02.2015
Active shooters: Trends of mass killing incidents in the U.S. and perpetrators’ characteristics
The Atlantic, 11.02.2015
The Many Causes of America’s Decline in Crime
A new report finds that locking up more offenders isn't making people any safer—and may even be counterproductive.
Inimai M. Chettiar
EurekAlert!, 12.02.2015
Large numbers of teenage girls experience sexual coercion in relationships
More than 4 in 10 teenage schoolgirls in England have experienced sexual coercion.
University of Bristol
The Guardian, 12.02.2015
FBI director James Comey on race – full text: 'America isn’t easy. America takes work'
The director of the FBI spoke at Georgetown University about the often dysfunctional relationship between law enforcement and people of color. Here’s the full text of his speech.
Bloomberg, 12.02.2015
THE DARK SCIENCE OF INTERROGATION
How to find out anything from anyone.
Drake Bennett
EurekAlert!, 12.02.2015
Juvenile gang members in US top 1 million, new study finds
Sam Houston State University
The Conversation, 12.02.2015
NHS guardians won’t help whistleblowers unless they’re protected from bullying too
Elizabeth Cotton
theguardian.com, 12.02.2015
1.4 million women suffered domestic abuse last year, ONS figures show
Office for National Statistics survey shows that rates remain stubbornly high, while violent crime more generally continues to fall.
Alan Travis
Pacific Standard, 12.02.2015
Who's Policing the Police?
One solution to improve officers' relationships with their communities: holding the bad cops accountable.
Kate Wheeling
Pacific Standard, 13.02.2015
From the System to the Street
The factors and figures behind the so-called “foster care to prostitution pipeline”.
Lauren Kirchner
The Conversation, 13.02.2015
Hundreds of refugees dead in the Mediterranean and still Europe won’t act
Helen O'Nions
Pacific Standard, 13.02.2015
University Assault Audits Don't Tell the Full Story
A new study shows that sexual assaults reported under the Clery Act decline after government audits, suggesting drastic underreporting.
Nathan Collins
Pacific Standard, 13.02.2015
What's in a (Islamic) State?
The brutal violence the Islamic State has used to control its territory is as much as part of its establishment of a state in Syria and Iraq as are the services it provides.
Daniel Solomon
U-T San Diego, 14.02.2015
Study: Incarceration not behind crime drop
Researchers find locking people go up not enough to explain decline in national crime rate.
Kristina Davis
Telegraph.co.uk, 15.02.2015
Super strong cannabis responsible for quarter of new psychosis cases
John Bingham, Peter Dominiczak, Camilla Turner
Toronto Star, 15.02.2015
Aggressive police questioning may boost false accusations, study finds
Wendy Gillis
Washington Post (blog), 15.02.2015
Why the United States incarcerates so many people (in one graph)
John Sides
Christian Science Monitor, 15.02.2015
How communities are keeping kids out of crime
Cities and states are moving away from locking up juvenile offenders, offering treatment and other programs to prevent them from becoming hardened criminals.
Stacy Teicher Khadaroo
The Conversation, 16.02.2015
Was the news media shamed into covering the murders in Chapel Hill?
Russell Frank
The Conversation, 16.02.2015
Denmark must not succumb to polarisation in the wake of Copenhagen attacks
Vincent F Hendricks
The Conversation, 16.02.2015
The new law against ‘revenge porn’ is welcome, but no guarantee of success
Clare McGlynn, Erika Rackley
The Conversation, 17.02.2015
Women’s personal experiences of violence should indeed incite Fury
Anastasia Powell
The Conversation, 17.02.2015
When talking about terrorism, let’s not forget the other kind
Igor Primoratz
Pandaemonium (Blog), 17.02.2015
The failure of multiculturalism
This is an essay about multiculturalism in Europe that I wrote for the latest issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, which has a series of features on ‘The Trouble with Race’.
Kenan Malik
The Conversation, 17.02.2015
Human rights are nice, but they shouldn’t be enshrined in law
Hugh McLachlan
EurekAlert!, 17.02.2015
Major study of trafficked men, women & children reveals abuse & complex health issues
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Le Monde diplomatique English Edition, 18.02.2015
Myth and reality
Anti-Semitic opinions don’t prevail in France. Yet anti-Semitic attacks have increased sharply in the past decade.
Dominique Vidal
The Conversation, 18.02.2015
The evidence supports specialist refuges for domestic violence
Jane Bullen
Washington Post (Blogs), 18.02.2015
5 countries where police officers do not carry firearms — and it works well
Rick Noack
EurekAlert!, 18.02.2015
People who believe they were 'born that way' more inclined to blame God for bad behavior
Case Western Reserve University
The Guardian, 18.02.2015
Bad lieutenant: American police brutality, exported from Chicago to Guantánamo
The Guardian, 18.02.2015
Bad lieutenant: American police brutality, exported from Chicago to Guantánamo
New York Review of Books, 19.02.2015
Justice Deferred Is Justice Denied
Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.
Brandon L. Garrett
Sydney Morning Herald, 19.02.2015
Police seizures have little impact on methamphetamine market, AIC report
Henry Belot
The Atlantic, 19.02.2015
When Schools Simulate Mass Shootings
K-12 students are now learning how to prepare for trauma. But at what cost?
Angela Almeida
University of Baltimore News, 19.02.2015
Criminology Professor Serves as Visiting Researcher on Initiative to Improve Domestic Violence Offender Treatment in Colorado
Prof. Tara Richards
EurekAlert!, 19.02.2015
Cyberbullying linked to 6-fold increase in depression among female college students
theguardian.com, 19.02.2015
After the Silk Road conviction, Tor must be protected
While the anonymising software has been used for illegality, it provides a pathway to otherwise impossible communication all over the world
Craig A. Newman
theguardian.com, 19.02.2015
How Chicago police condemned the innocent: a trail of coerced confessions
Spencer Ackerman
Pacific Standard, 19.02.2015
Why Juvenile Justice Should Start—and Stay—at Home
Texas A&M researchers explain how community-based programs rehabilitate juvenile offenders better, and for less money, than correctional facilities.
Lauren Kirchner
theguardian.com, 19.02.2015
How Chicago police condemned the innocent: a trail of coerced confessions
Spencer Ackerman
Pacific Standard, 19.02.2015
Why Juvenile Justice Should Start—and Stay—at Home
Texas A&M researchers explain how community-based programs rehabilitate juvenile offenders better, and for less money, than correctional facilities.
Lauren Kirchner
The Conversation, 20.02.2015
Countering Boko Haram: can a regional approach help Nigeria?
Nigera is facing an increasingly brazen campaign of violence and terror by Boko Haram.
David Mickler
The Independent, 20.02.2015
New video technology could help researchers pin-point where Jihadi hostage videos were shot
The technology is still in its early stages of development.
Jon Stone
Fast Company, 20.02.2015
The Problem With Sex Workers and Law Enforcement Body Cameras
Recording arrests is supposed to help both alleged criminals and the police. Yet workers say the footage could lead to more exploitation.
Tracy Clark-Flory
Legal Tribune ONLINE, 20.02.2015
Generalstaatsanwalt unter Verdacht
Geheimnisverrat in den Fällen Wulff und Edathy?
The Independent, 20.02.2015
New video technology could help researchers pin-point where Jihadi hostage videos were shot
The technology is still in its early stages of development.
Jon Stone
Fast Company, 20.02.2015
The Problem With Sex Workers and Law Enforcement Body Cameras
Recording arrests is supposed to help both alleged criminals and the police. Yet workers say the footage could lead to more exploitation.
Tracy Clark-Flory
The Conversation, 20.02.2015
Criminalising ten-year-olds is no way to run a justice system
Nicola Carr
Business Insider Australia, 20.02.2015
This chart shows the shockingly clear link between the number of local pubs and domestic violence
Simon Thomsen
Journalist's Resource, 20.02.2015
Hate crimes and ongoing research questions: Examining racial, ethnic and religious bias
theguardian.com, 21.02.2015
Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule
US air strikes have damaged morale in Raqqa, Syria, but a local anti-Isis activist says no one is expecting the group to be driven out.
Abu Ibrahim al-Raqqawi
theguardian.com, 21.02.2015
Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule
US air strikes have damaged morale in Raqqa, Syria, but a local anti-Isis activist says no one is expecting the group to be driven out.
Abu Ibrahim al-Raqqawi
Savannah Morning News, 22.02.2015
A different way to fight terrorism: De-radicalize their members
JOHN G. HORGAN
The Independent, 22.02.2015
Why are so many young men inured to violence?
'After he fell out with his parents, Ziamani was radicalised in only 12 weeks'.
Joan Smith
Savannah Morning News, 22.02.2015
A different way to fight terrorism: De-radicalize their members
JOHN G. HORGAN
The Independent, 22.02.2015
Why are so many young men inured to violence?
'After he fell out with his parents, Ziamani was radicalised in only 12 weeks'.
Joan Smith
Axis of Logic, 22.02.2015
What The Atlantic left out about ISIS according to their own expert
Jack Jenkins
The New Yorker, 23.02.2015
The Unravelling
In a failing state, an anti-Islamist general mounts a divisive campaign.
Jon Lee Anderson
Police Oracle, 23.02.2015
£10 million fund for policing research
The Police Knowledge Fund was set up to encourage the development of policing through the use of academic research. Scott Docherty - Police Oracle.
The Conversation, 23.02.2015
To stop child abductors, we need a better understanding of who they are
Graham Hill
The Conversation, 23.02.2015
Alcohol’s link to domestic violence is in focus – now what?
Ingrid Wilson, Angela Taft
The Conversation, 23.02.2015
We must ensure that domestic violence awareness yields results
Domestic violence has been an agenda item for some time. It is not something that society, nor governments, have recently discovered.
Terry Goldsworthy, Matthew Raj
Al Jazeera America, 23.02.2015
A police force confronts its racial bias
After data showed Kalamazoo's police racially profiled residents, the department is trying to right a decades-old wrong.
Sameen Amin
EurekAlert!, 24.02.2015
Cyberbystanders: Most don't try to stop online bullies
While most don't directly intervene, many take indirect measures.
Ohio State University
The Atlantic, 24.02.2015
Behind ‘the Disappeared’ of Chicago’s Homan Square
A criminologist dissects the so-called black site, where military interrogation techniques allegedly substituted for questioning.
Tanya Basu
New Statesman, 24.02.2015
In defence of soft power: why a “war” on terror will never win
The recent rise in global terrorism is alarming, but it also reaffirms the failure of our purely hard military approach to counter the phenomenon.
Hamed El-Said
The University of Manchester, 24.02.2015
New Research Partnership to inform policing policy and practice
Live Science, 24.02.2015
Using Faulty Forensic Science, Courts Fail the Innocent (Op-Ed)
Karen Kafadar, Anne-Marie Mazza
The Conversation, 24.02.2015
The new terrorists and the roots they share with gangs and drug lords
What makes some communities more vulnerable to the use of violence than others?
Mark Edberg
The Conversation, 24.02.2015
How the Ukraine crisis brought European security back from the dead
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe is the only hope for neutral information about what's going on in Eastern Ukraine.
David J. Galbreath
EurekAlert!, 25.02.2015
UT Dallas criminologist's study shows lack of mental health care for prisoners
New research by a UT Dallas criminologist has found that a substantial number of prison inmates have not received treatment for mental health conditions.
CBC.ca, 25.02.2015
St. Thomas prof leads research on Western women in ISIS
Study seeks insights into why women join militants.
Christian Science Monitor, 26.02.2015
To fight homegrown jihadis, Germany takes lesson from battle with neo-Nazis
Germany has turned away hundreds of neo-Nazis from violence and reintegrated them into society. Could the same approach work for German would-be jihadis?
Isabelle de Pommereau
The Atlantic, 26.02.2015
A Second Chance: Education's Role in Reversing Mass Incarceration
Why it's important to lift formerly incarcerated black men out of the crime cycle
Irvin Weathersby Jr.
theguardian.com, 26.02.2015
Why linking depression to violent crime could be a red herring
Shirley Reynolds
The Conversation, 26.02.2015
Before Jimmy Savile, there was ‘Mr G’ – the 1920s philanthropist who abused children in hospitals
The Conversation, 26.02.2015
Bethnal Green girls need to know there is a way out of Islamic State cult
Katherine Brown
The Guardian, 28.02.2015
Most sex workers have had jobs in health, education or charities – survey
One of largest ever surveys of industry reveals pressures that lead people to sex work, including inability to meet living costs on low NHS pay
Diane Taylor
