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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Atlantic, 01.06.2015
Cruel and Unusual
The botched execution of Clayton Lockett—and how capital punishment became so surreal.
Jeffrey E. Stern
Washington Post, 01.06.2015
The case for why Baltimore should pay murderous residents not to kill
Terrence McCoy
University of Texas at Austin News, 01.06.2015
The Criminal Justice System is a Massive Failure. Here’s a Solution
Contrary to logic, intuition and common sense, the hard fact is that punishment does not reduce criminal offending.
William Kelly
Pacific Standard, 01.06.2015
What the Body Cameras Cannot See
Body cameras have been cast as a panacea for police brutality, but some experts are skeptical of their effectiveness.
Jane Greenway Carr
The Washington Post, 01.06.2015
Net of Insecurity: The making of a vulnerable internet
UCLA scientist Leonard Kleinrock stands next to a specialised computer - a forerunner to today's routers - that sent the first message over the internet in 1969 from his original laboratory on the school's campus.
BRET HARTMAN
Wall Street Journal, 01.06.2015
China’s Internet Police Step Out of the Shadows
After years of working in the shadows, China’s Internet police are stepping into the light.
Telegraph.co.uk, 01.06.2015
Police snooping on email and phone records every two minutes
Forces across the country made 733,237 requests to access communications data in the last three years, according to the privacy campaigner Big Brother Watch.
Tom Whitehead
EurekAlert!, 01.06.2015
Finnish-Swedish study analyzes link between psychotropic drugs and homicide risk
University of Eastern Finland
EurekAlert!, 01.06.2015
Weakening memories of crime through deliberate suppression
Association for Psychological Science
theguardian.com, 01.06.2015
Black Americans killed by police twice as likely to be unarmed as white people
Guardian analysis finds 102 people killed by police so far this year were unarmed, and that agencies are killing people at twice the rate calculated by US government
Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland and Jamiles Lartey
Foreign Policy (blog), 01.06.2015
What to Do When Foreign Fighters Come Home
Not every Westerner who comes home after joining the Islamic State is a threat. But whether they ultimately live a life of peace or violence can be shaped by what they find when they get back.
Georgia Holmer
Malaysia Chronicle, 02.06.2015
Islamic State’s secret CASH COW
WHILE Islamic State militants present themselves as a destructive and unpredictable force, there’s another pragmatic side to the group, which is not above making a quick buck.
EurekAlert!, 02.06.2015
Interpersonal conflict is the strongest predictor of community crime and misconduct
Criminology researchers use big data to track neighborhood decline in a special issue of Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
The Conversation, 02.06.2015
Patriot Act meltdown: surveillance, politics and Rand Paul
The expiry at midnight, Sunday of three key provisions of the Patriot Act has thrown Washington into turmoil and halted surveillance programs – a panel of scholars gives their verdicts.
Benjamin Dean, Gregory Koger
The Conversation, 02.06.2015
Terror group’s social media ploy edges out rivals, wins recruits
Robyn Torok
The Conversation, 02.06.2015
The fall of Silk Road isn’t the end for anonymous marketplaces, Tor or bitcoin
The technology behind Silk Road is still sound, but with the potential for a life sentence it would take faith to deploy them.
Matthew Shillito
The Conversation, 03.06.2015
How FIFA (via Interpol) turned to academia to clean up the ‘beautiful game’
Maria Haberfeld
The Conversation, 03.06.2015
How online vigilantes make paedophile policing more difficult
Groups like Letzgo Hunting claim to fill the gaps left by inefficient police work, but does their approach undermine police work and treatment?
Graham Hill, David S. Wall
The Conversation, 03.06.2015
Extremist activity: don’t even think about it in this pre-crime state
Theresa May's latest extremism bill means citizens can be punished even before they commit a crime.
Maria W. Norris
The Conversation, 03.06.2015
To avoid militarising the internet, cyberspace needs written rules agreed by all
All interaction depends on rules, written or unwritten, to ensure a smooth ride. But in cyberspace there are none.
Brandon Valeriano
The Conversation, 04.06.2015
Shopping mall design could nudge shoplifters into doing the right thing – here’s how
Architects should experiment with cues that encourage potential thieves to make unconscious decisions not to steal.
Dhruv Sharma, Myles Kilgallon Scott
New York Times online, 04.06.2015
Rise in Crime Is a Reason to Fear Anti-Police Rhetoric
Heather Mac Donald
New York Times online, 04.06.2015
Crime Statistics Don’t Show That the Sky Is Falling
Tracey L. Meares
ProPublica, 04.06.2015
Europe’s Revolving-Door Prisons Compound Growing Terror Threat
Sentences are short compared to the U.S.; two Charlie Hebdo attackers and another suspected plotter, now in Yemen, cycled through French jails.
Sebastian Rotella
ProPublica, 04.06.2015
New Snowden Documents Reveal Secret Memos Expanding Spying
The Obama administration has stepped up the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program on U.S. soil to search for signs of hacking.
Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson
Pacific Standard, 04.06.2015
When Addicts Get Out of Jail
New research suggests that maintaining methadone treatment in jails and prisons would save lives.
Lauren Kirchner
The Conversation, 05.06.2015
Did the US overreact to 9/11?
The new head of Oxford university says it did but while some took post-tragedy patriotism too far, others were pursuing an old agenda.
Thomas Mills
Fox News, 05.06.2015
'Broken Windows' policing is not broken
Following the crisis in America’s cities involving the police and minorities, calls for justice reform have become even more frequent than have interventions from the Department of Justice.
EurekAlert!, 05.06.2015
Powerful people are quick to notice injustice when they are victimized, research finds
EurekAlert!, 05.06.2015
Why good people do bad things
Anticipating temptation may improve ethical behavior, study finds.
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The Economist, 06.06.2015
Crime in Latin America - Quickie kidnappings
As abductions get faster, the poor are being targeted along with the rich.
Breitbart News, 07.06.2015
Minority Report: British Police Plan to Use ‘Predictive Crime’ Software
Donna Rachel Edmunds
The Conversation, 08.06.2015
How national security gave birth to bioethics
On Human Experiments: what lies behind some of the most shocking human experiments in recent history? Here's a clue: most of it took place during wartime or when war seemed like a real threat.
Jonathan D Moreno
CityLab 8.6., 08.06.2015
Why America Should Stop Building Youth Jails
The tragic story of Kalief Browder is instructive, and we should take away some important lessons about incarcerating teens.
Brentin Mock
theguardian.com, 08.06.2015
The Psychoactive Substances Bill: An opportunity or threat for research?
A bill before the House of Lords proposes new powers for the police to prosecute people involved in trade in legal highs. But can these drugs ever be beneficial? A research exemption would allow researchers to find out.
Pacific Standard, 08.06.2015
Should We Re-Consider Giving Juvenile Offenders Gentler Treatment?
The arrest of three runaway boys for a horrific rape shines light on New York City’s latest program for troubled youth.
Joaquin Sapien
EurekAlert!, 09.06.2015
Study: Juvenile incarceration yields less schooling, more crime
Teen offenders who serve time finish school less often, become repeat offenders more often.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EurekAlert!, 09.06.2015
Penn study: Processing arrested juveniles as adults has small effect on their recidivism
University of Pennsylvania
Telegraph.co.uk, 09.06.2015
Million violent crimes a year 'cut out' of official figures
Academic research shows violent crime may be 60 per cent higher than previously thought because Government figures say victims can only suffer a maximum of five incidents.
David Barrett
The Conversation, 09.06.2015
Explainer: how flogging violates international law
Saudi Arabia has upheld a blogger's flogging sentence, in defiance of international pressure. How long will this go on?
Sophie Gallop
Pacific Standard, 09.06.2015
Can Bystander Videos Effectively Stop Police Misconduct?
An incident at a Texas pool party puts the psychology of surveillance to the test.
Jared Keller
Pacific Standard, 09.06.2015
Solitary Confinement and the Teenage Brain
More than 20 years ago, the international community agreed that teenagers should only be jailed as a last resort—and never placed in solitary confinement.
Francie Diep
Pacific Standard, 09.06.2015
How France—and Weak Sentencing Guidelines—Let the Charlie Hebdo Killers Go Free
"Terrorists are treated like common criminals when it comes to sentencing, even if they are repeat offenders."
Sebastian Rotella
Middle East Eye, 09.06.2015
Partial justice: How Saudi executions serve the monarchy
A surge in beheadings is tied to assertion of power by new king - not to poverty, bureaucratic tinkering, or rule of law.
The Conversation, 10.06.2015
Judge’s comments hurt efforts to protect all children from abuse
Why Justice Pauffley was wrong to suggest that social workers "make allowances" for cultural differences.
Dan Allen
The Conversation, 10.06.2015
Why Australia needs to change its view of organised crime
Today's organised crime occurs through loose and undefined networks made up of criminal entrepreneurs and freelancers with little concern for group branding or loyalty.
Terry Goldsworthy, Caitlin Byrne
Christian Science Monitor, 10.06.2015
Crime spike could throw police reform efforts into doubt
The US has embraced more-liberal ideas of policing in the wake of a number of fatal confrontations between police and black men. But a spike in crime is testing that shift.
Harry Bruinius
ABC Online, 10.06.2015
A plea of insanity: mental illness and the criminal justice system
Lynne Malcolm
EurekAlert!, 10.06.2015
Pedophiles more likely to have physical irregularities
Study suggests physical deviations in the face and head of pedophiles develop during the prenatal period.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 10.06.2015
The War on Thugs
How propaganda fuels our prison problem
Jason Stanley
verfassungsblog.de, 10.06.2015
How just is the EU, or: is there a ‘new’ European deficit?
Dimitry Kochenov, Gráinne de Búrca, Andrew Williams
The Conversation, 11.06.2015
Here’s why a law against organised crime isn’t such a good idea
The UK isn't home to the mob or the mafia - and the law should reflect that.
Anna Sergi
The Conversation, 11.06.2015
Retraction of scientific papers for fraud or bias is just the tip of the iceberg
After we were stung, we realised just how much of a threat misconduct and cherry picked data is to health.
Ian Roberts
The Conversation, 11.06.2015
Disabled people pay for sex too — so what happens when clients become criminals?
The nordic model fails people who have limited options for sexual fulfillment.
Eva Klambauer
The Conversation, 11.06.2015
Pope’s child abuse tribunal won’t get the Catholic Church out of trouble
The pope has announced a tribunal to shine a light on clerical abuse – but the Catholic church is in an irretrievable moral bind.
David Pilgrim
Huffington Post UK, 12.06.2015
Crime Surveys Are Masking the Scale of Domestic Violence - And the Numbers Matter
Sandra Horley
Chronicle of Higher Education, 12.06.2015
Conflict Over Sociologist's Narrative Puts Spotlight on Ethnography
Alice Goffman's account of a Philadelphia neighborhood has set off a debate among sociologists about how she went about her research.
Marc Parry
The Economist, 13.06.2015
Save our stones
Jihad and vandalism: As well as killing people, Islamic State is smashing up ancient works of art. Only a little can be done to prevent its acts of barbarism.
The Economist, 13.06.2015
The most persecuted people on Earth?
The Rohingyas: Myanmar’s Muslim minority have been attacked with impunity, stripped of the vote and driven from their homes. It could get worse.
Wall Street Journal, 14.06.2015
Police Work to Balance Crime Fighting With Protecting Citizens’ Rights
Increase in gun violence reignites a debate across the country.
Josh Dawsey and Pervaiz Shallwani
The Conversation, 15.06.2015
Domestic violence ‘grown old’: the unseen victims of prolonged abuse
Domestic violence is not limited to younger women.
Hannah Bows
The Conversation, 15.06.2015
Dewsbury case reminds us we have much to learn about how extremism spreads
Talha Asmal is believed to have become the UK's youngest suicide bomber, prompting more questions about how we can protect young people from radicalisation.
Kim Knott
Irish Times, 15.06.2015
Half of bank staff dealt with suspected elder abuse
Age Action releases financial abuse survey results to coincide with World Elder Abuse Day
Pamela Duncan
Irish Times, 15.06.2015
Innocence Project is putting a stop to wrongful convictions across the world
The project, started in 1992, has already freed 300 innocent people in the US. Erin McGuire
theguardian.com, 15.06.2015
There's a new domestic abuse crime – but how will people stop it?
With coercive control to become a criminal offence, a totally new way for public professionals to interact with victims and collect evidence is needed.
Louise Tickle
The Conversation, 15.06.2015
How one of Islamic State’s early atrocities became a myth
The Camp Speicher massacre was one of Islamic State's earliest and worst mass killings – but it was nearly buried under a tide of misinterpretation and denial.
Balsam Mustafa
The Conversation, 15.06.2015
Official statistics mask extent of domestic violence in the UK
Research on the UK's only source of statistics on violent crime shows that domestic violence and violence against women are massively understated.
Sylvia Walby
The Conversation, 15.06.2015
Snoopers' Charter plans under fire from UK terror watchdog
David Anderson's report on surveillance isn't a charter for online privacy but it could create problems for a government set on capturing all our data.
Ray Corrigan
New York Magazine, 15.06.2015
Everything We Know About the New York Prison Break
Margaret Hartmann, Jaime Fuller and Chas Danner
California Magazine, 16.06.2015
No One Gets Hurt: Why the Future of Crime May Be Less Violent and More Insidious
Michael Taylor
The Conversation, 16.06.2015
Radical Islam and the West: the moral panic behind the threat
If governments are to maintain public support for their military ventures, war narratives must be kept simple and consistent. The underlying message must not change: the West is always the innocent victim of terrorism, never its perpetrator.
Scott Burchill
The Conversation, 16.06.2015
No means no: how resistance training for women can stop (some) rape
A Canadian study has found that university women participating in a rape-prevention program involving "resistance training" were significantly less likely to be sexually assaulted in the next year.
Anastasia Powell
The Conversation, 17.06.2015
After school shootings, students fare poorly in math, English
What happens to kids who survive school shootings? What are some of the damaging effects they are left to cope with?
Louis-Philippe Beland, Dongwoo Kim
The Conversation, 17.06.2015
Criminalising forced marriage has not helped its victims
One year after new laws made forced marriage illegal, our expert reviews the progress made - or lack thereof.
Aisha K. Gill
UMSL Daily (blog), 17.06.2015
‘Beyond Ferguson’ conference looks at role of mental health
Evie Hemphill
Washington Post (blog), 17.06.2015
The start of Ramadan is bringing new fears of an Islamic State attack
Adam Taylor
CityLab, 17.06.2015
Busting the Myth of 'The Ferguson Effect'
Pundits are fanning fears of new “crime waves” across cities. Criminologists aren’t buying it.
Brentin Mock
STLtoday.com, 18.06.2015
A 'Ferguson effect' on crime rates? St. Louis criminologist finds no clear proof
Fast Company, 18.06.2015
The U.S. Doesn't Track Deaths By Police, So Citizens Are Doing It
Absent a federal law requiring police to report deaths on their watch, citizens are stepping in.
Michael Grothaus
The Marshall Project, 18.06.2015
What’s Justice for Kids Who Kill?
Kahton Anderson and the raging raise-the-age debate.
Dana Goldstein
The Conversation, 18.06.2015
Keep foreign hands off Afghanistan
As the US slows down its troop withdrawal and China increases its involvement in Afghanistan, a warning that if the country is to see peace again, foreign meddling needs to stop.
Gabriela Marin Thornton, Arwin Rahi
The Conversation, 18.06.2015
By freeing prisoners from cycle of crime, education cuts re-offending
Education is one of the most important factors in giving prisoners options upon release, reducing the chance of re-offending.
Susan Hopkins
EurekAlert!, 18.06.2015
Three-year-olds help victims of injustice
Young children are just as likely to respond to the needs of another individual as they are to their own.
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Pacific Standard, 19.06.2015
Church Shootings Happen Often Enough That There's a National Church Shooting Database
A dig into the data reveals that not all of them are motivated by prejudice, but a significant portion are.
Francie Diep
Pacific Standard, 19.06.2015
Why the Language of Mass Murder Matters
Make no mistake: The Charleston shooting was an act of terrorism.
Jared Keller
USA TODAY, 19.06.2015
'Lone wolf' attacks are difficult to detect — and difficult to prevent
Rick Jervis
The Conversation, 19.06.2015
The lethal gentleman: the ‘benevolent sexism’ behind Dylann Roof’s racism
The killing of nine people in Charleston's AME Church was motivated by racism, first and foremost, but also sexism.
Lisa Wade
The Conversation, 19.06.2015
Prosecuting sports corruption is tough, and we should look to another solution
The US and Swiss cases against FIFA executives are full of drama, but success is not a given. A new model for managing sporting corruption should be considered.
Jack Anderson
The Conversation, 19.06.2015
Internet has hidden perils for teenagers – but spying on them isn’t the answer
Should 'think of the children' ever come to the point of spying on teenagers?
Jens Binder
Rolling Stone, 19.06.2015
The Charleston Shooter: Racist, Violent, and Yes – Political
How could it not be political, when the Republican Party has weaponized its supporters and made violence a virtue?
Jeb Lund
The Conversation, 20.06.2015
Look for the patterns in Charleston
So long as we treat each mass shooting, each black death as an isolated tragedy, there's nothing we can do. Things can change if we look for the patterns.
Ethan Zuckerman
The Conversation, 20.06.2015
The massacre at Mother Emanuel: the past still lives with us
Why studying South Carolina's history led to one graduate student's activism -- and how that experience informs his reflections on the Charleston killing.
Author A D Carson
The Conversation, 20.06.2015
Hate violence and the tragedy of the Charleston shootings
While the Charleston shooting is unusually horrifying, many of the themes of this tragedy are symptomatic of the nature of hate violence in our Country.
Edward Dunbar
Mother Jones, 20.06.2015
The Deeply Racist References in Dylann Roof's Apparent Manifesto, Decoded.
What does 1488 mean?
Clara Jeffery and James West
The New Yorker, 22.06.2015
The Inside War
To expose torture, Dianne Feinstein fought the C.I.A.—and the White House.
Connie Bruck
The New Yorker, 22.06.2015
The Story of a Hate Crime
What led to the murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill?
Margaret Talbot
Chicago Daily Herald, 22.06.2015
Could training stem police shootings? Las Vegas is a test
ADAM GELLER
EurekAlert!, 22.06.2015
Manning up: Men may overcompensate when their masculinity is threatened
University of Washington
Telegraph.co.uk, 22.06.2015
We need to help individual victims of domestic abuse, whatever their gender
We must stop looking at domestic abuse as something that only happens to women, says Ian McNicholl, who knows first-hand how male victims are not taken seriously
Ian McNicholl
Macleans.ca, 22.06.2015
Fentanyl: The king of all opiates, and a killer drug crisis
It’s stronger than heroin and more potent than OxyContin. It’s also cheap, ubiquitous, and incredibly deadly. Inside the rise of fentanyl.
Jonathon Gatehouse and Nancy Macdonald
theguardian.com, 22.06.2015
Dylann Roof is the product of a system that has bred racist hatred for centuries
The Charleston shooting is not an anomaly: as Maya Angelou argued, white America must face up to the imprint of slavery on US culture and the violence that black people suffer
Charleston In Mourning After 9 Killed In Church Massacre
Joanne Braxton and Michael Sainato
The Conversation, 22.06.2015
Syria’s refugees: time to get serious about preventing a lost generation of Arab Youth
Syrians are the single largest group of displaced people in the world. How to make sure that the plight of these refugees doesn't fuel future conflicts?
David Mednicoff
1to1 Media, 22.06.2015
NYPD Turns to Social Media to Strengthen Community Relations
New social media innovations have helped to improve performance on crime control, managing incidents, and traffic conditions.
Tom Hoffman
TakePart, 22.06.2015
Dylann Roof and the Death Penalty: Does What the Charleston Victims’ Families Want Matter?
The case taps into America’s debate over the death penalty.
Mark Sappenfield
HealthCanal.com, 22.06.2015
Sexual assaults less likely in neighborhoods where registered sex offenders live
Reported sex offenses were lower in neighborhoods where more registered sex offenders live—a finding that runs counter to public perception about residential safety.
ANN ARBOR
The Conversation, 23.06.2015
Foreign fighters aren’t a new problem, so heed history’s lessons
Foreign fighters have always posed a dual challenge: how to stop them going and what to do if they return. History offers lessons on managing these problems, including that it's hard to stop them leaving.
Sarah Percy
USA Today, 23.06.2015
Lack of training, standards mean big problems for small police departments
Kevin Johnson
EurekAlert!, 23.06.2015
Not drink driving is often against the lore: QUT study
Queensland University of Technology
Vox, 23.06.2015
Everyone blames mental illness for mass shootings. But what if that's wrong?
German Lopez
New Haven Register, 24.06.2015
In New Haven, police chiefs from around the nation talk about juvenile justice
Ryan Flynn
The Conversation, 24.06.2015
How US gun control compares to the rest of the world
Other 'advanced nations' make it far harder for someone like the Charleston killer to get his hands on a Glock semiautomatic handgun or any other kind of firearm.
John Donohue, C Wendell and Edith M Carlsmith
The Marshall Project, 24.06.2015
The Surprisingly Imperfect Science of DNA Testing
How a proven tool may be anything but.
Katie Worth
The Conversation, 24.06.2015
Radicalisation on campus: why new counter-terror duties for universities will not work
Chris Allen
Pacific Standard, 25.06.2015
Your Research-Based Guide to American White Supremacist Movements
Hate groups provide violent ideologies for terrorists who have killed dozens of Americans over the last 14 years.
Francie Diep
Vocativ, 25.06.2015
ISIS’ Brutality In Videos Is “Terrorist Clickbait”
An Islamic State video released Tuesday was the most savage to date, underscoring the group's pattern of increasingly violent propaganda
The Marshall Project, 25.06.2015
What Prisons Can Learn From Schools
Lessons from education reform on transforming an expensive, ineffective system.
Eli Hager
theguardian.com, 25.06.2015
Beyond Dylann Roof: inside the hunt for domestic extremists in the digital age
Whether you call it terrorism or not, law enforcement officials say they are aware of home-grown threats around the globe. The question now is how to stop them
Andrew Gumbel
The Conversation, 25.06.2015
Hate violence is a global problem – and a crime against humanity
Paul Iganski
The Conversation, 25.06.2015
Europol tasked with online search-and-destroy mission to combat Islamic State
David Lowe
The Conversation, 26.06.2015
One small law reform could bring justice to hundreds of child abuse victims
Eleanor Russell
The Conversation, 26.06.2015
Terror attacks on France and Tunisia are much more than a security issue
Rosa Freedman
The Conversation, 26.06.2015
Terror in Tunisia: tourist deaths on the beaches of Sousse will kick-start a crisis
Rory McCarthy
The Economist, 27.06.2015
On the cocaine trail
An angry account of the suffering inflicted by the world’s appetite for illegal drugs.
Roberto Saviano
The Economist, 27.06.2015
A counsel of despair
The Charleston massacre will not produce new controls on firearms.
The Economist, 27.06.2015
A horrible choice
America doesn’t pay ransoms, but won’t prosecute individuals who do.
New York Times online, 27.06.2015
Long Taught to Use Force, Police Warily Learn to De-escalate
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
The Seattle Times, 27.06.2015
Islamic State group and a lonely young American woman
A look at how online recruiters loyal to the Islamic State group persuaded a young woman in Washington state to support their extremist cause.
Rukmini Callimachi
The Advocate, 28.06.2015
Autopsy of a police custody death: a look into the death of a mentally ill, drug-addicted Scott man
The final minutes of a mentally-ill, drug-addicted man
Lanie Lee Cook
Christian Science Monitor, 28.06.2015
Why police don't pull guns in many countries
More-rigorous training and better community relations limit police shootings in Germany, Britain, Canada, and other nations. Lessons for the United States.
Sara Miller Llana
theguardian.com, 28.06.2015
Violent videos show apes may have sense of right and wrong
Apes paid more attention to film clips of an infant chimp being killed by its own kind than other acts of violence
theguardian.com, 28.06.2015
Minimum alcohol pricing cuts serious crime, study reveals
Canadian research finds crimes against the person fell by 9% over a decade as authorities in British Columbia increased prices by 10%
Denis Campbell
NWAOnline, 28.06.2015
Some officers resist de-escalation push
Veterans say job about enforcing law, making arrests, not engaging public.
TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Newsweek, 28.06.2015
So You Want to Legalize Weed?
Up and down the Western Hemisphere, marijuana policy is a growing topic of discussion, and laws are starting to change.
Beau Kilmer
Minneapolis Star Tribune, 28.06.2015
Former police rookie who killed a man is now professor who teaches ways to avoid deadly force
MARTHA IRVINE
The New Yorker, 29.06.2015
Prison Revolt
A former law-and-order conservative takes a lead on criminal-justice reform.
Bill Keller
theguardian.com, 29.06.2015
Enough broken windows policing. We need a community-oriented approach
Officers need to develop close ties to the communities they serve rather than alienate them. They should not browbeat citizens but work with them.
John Eterno and Eli Silverman
EurekAlert!, 29.06.2015
Almost one in three US adults owns at least one gun
Owners more than twice as likely to be part of 'social gun culture'
Almost one in three US adults owns at least one gun, and they are predominantly white married men over the age of 55, reveals research published online in the journal Injury Prevention.
EurekAlert!, 29.06.2015
Study: Children from high conflict homes process emotion differently
University of Vermont
The Conversation, 29.06.2015
How evolutionary psychology may explain the difference between male and female serial killers
Marissa Harrison
The Conversation, 29.06.2015
Government must invest in skills and police resources to tackle cybercrime
Ali Dehghantanha
The Conversation, 29.06.2015
Tunisia attack shows the war with Islamic State is bigger than we think
Paul Rogers
New York Magazine, 29.06.2015
Inside Rikers Island, Through the Eyes of the People Who Live and Work There
Dana Goldstein , Simone Weichselbaum , Christie Thompson , Eli Hager , Beth Schwartzapfel , Maurice Chammah , Alysia Santo and Nick Tabor
BioNews, 29.06.2015
Living in a high-crime area ages your cells
Residents of noisy and high-crime neighbourhoods are over a decade older biologically compared with those who live in low-crime areas, according to recent research.
Isobel Steer
Mother Jones, 29.06.2015
The 20 Best Lines From the Supreme Court Dissent Calling to End the Death Penalty
Enough is enough, says Justice Stephen Breyer.
By AJ Vicens and David Corn
EurekAlert!, 29.06.2015
The fear you experience playing video games is real, and you enjoy it, IU study finds
Indiana University
theguardian.com, 29.06.2015
Joseph Stiglitz: how I would vote in the Greek referendum
Neither alternative – approval or rejection of the troika’s terms – will be easy, and both carry huge risks
theguardian.com, 30.06.2015
24 ways to reduce crime in the world’s most violent cities
Violent crime is deeply entrenched in some developing countries, particularly in Latin America. Our experts offer these solutions to bringing down high rates.
Naomi Larsson
Medical Xpress, 30.06.2015
Majority of men who use violence toward partners struggle with serious mental health issues
The Conversation, 30.06.2015
Schools should offer anti-extremist education for all, not spy on those at risk
Paul Thomas
Washington Post online, 30.06.2015
The NRA’s fear-driven narrative doesn’t make us safer
The "stranger danger" approach to personal safety ignores 60 percent of crimes.
Meg Stone
The Rise of Violent Right-Wing Extremism, Explained, 30.06.2015
The Rise of Violent Right-Wing Extremism, Explained
Experts say attacks like the mass shooting in Charleston have been a growing threat.
Jaeah Lee, Brandon Ellington Patterson, and Gabrielle Canon
The Conversation, 30.06.2015
Teachers on the frontline against terror: what should schools do about radicalisation?
Matthew Francis
Lincolnshire Police, 30.06.2015
Developing the best leadership for policing
Leadership across all ranks and roles needs to change in order to help policing meet challenges of the future, according to a final report published by the College of Policing today.
The Conversation, 30.06.2015
Is Islamic State evidence we are living in a ‘post-honour’ world?
Ali Reza Yunespour
The Washington Post, 30.06.2015
There’s nothing ‘enlightened’ about executing the innocent
Radley Balko
The Intercept, 30.06.2015
What Justice Breyer’s Dissent on Lethal Injection Showed About the Death Penalty’s Defenders
Liliana Segura
The Conversation, 30.06.2015
Decriminalization doesn’t address marijuana’s standing as a drug of the poor
Chris S Duvall
The Conversation, 30.06.2015
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