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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
Sydney Morning Herald, 03.01.2016
Teenagers increasingly assaulting, abusing their parents
Cosima Marriner and Timna Jacks
The Conversation, 04.01.2016
The genie is out of the bottle – it’s foolish to think encryption can now be banned
Adam Fish
The Conversation, 04.01.2016
Mandatory sentencing leads to unjust, unfair outcomes – it doesn’t make us safe
Hilde Tubex
The Independent, 04.01.2016
Making a Murderer: Netflix documentary on Steven Avery 'could not be made in UK due to lack of open justice'
Ian Burrell
Medical Daily, 04.01.2016
Youth Violence Prevention: How Race/Ethnicity Influence Fighting Among Young People
Justin Caba
New York Times, 05.01.2016
Cautious Response to Armed Oregon Protest
KIRK JOHNSON, RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and ERIK ECKHOLM
The Conversation, 05.01.2016
Stop, in the name of profit! Five reasons why hiring ‘private police’ is a bad idea
Kevin Morrell
The Conversation, 05.01.2016
Oregon siege: the US militia movement is resurgent – and evolving
Crawford Gribben
The Economist, 05.01.2016
Too many American schools are using police officers to enforce classroom discipline
The Conversation, 06.01.2016
Designer nights out: good urban planning can reduce drunken violence
Kees Dorst
The Washington Post, 06.01.2016
In push to reform police work, officers examine their own biases
Matt Zapotosky
The Conversation, 06.01.2016
Obama’s bold move against guns proves the politics of firearms really is changing
Peter Squires
Pacific Standard, 07.01.2016
Libertarian Fairy-Tales: The Bundy Militia's Revisionist History in Oregon
Aaron Bady
The Conversation, 07.01.2016
‘Last-drink’ laws, not lockouts, reduce alcohol-fuelled violence
Kypros Kypri
The Conversation, 07.01.2016
Can voice recognition technology really identify a masked jihadi?
Ian McLoughlin
TechRepublic, 07.01.2016
Hackers' modus operandi: 5 insights that may help identify emerging threats
Michael Kassner
Christian Science Monitor, 08.01.2016
In wake of Cologne attacks, Germans ask: Are we handling immigration honestly?
Sara Miller Llana
theguardian.com, 08.01.2016
Let’s not shy away from asking hard questions about the Cologne attacks
Gaby Hinsliff
The Conversation, 08.01.2016
Sex attacks row forces Merkel to defend her policies from racism
James Hodkinson
PsychCentral.com (blog), 09.01.2016
Religious Beliefs Can Promote Cooperation Rather than Violence
Janice Wood
Bloomington Pantagraph, 09.01.2016
ISU profs hope to take the lab to the crime scene
Lenore Sobota lsobota
theguardian.com, 09.01.2016
‘I went to join Isis in Syria, taking my four-year-old. It was a journey into hell’
Kim Willsher
New York Times, 10.01.2016
‘Broken System’ Allows ISIS to Profit From Looted Antiquities
STEVEN LEE MYERS and NICHOLAS KULISH
CNN, 10.01.2016
A controversial coup: Sean Penn and Rolling Stone land El Chapo interview
Brian Stelter
The Washington Post, 11.01.2016
What do citizens fear most — for the world, the nation, themselves? The answers might surprise you.
Daniel Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams
theguardian.com, 12.01.2016
Syria: 'You can't have an entire population dependent on aid'
Charlotte Bailey
The Conversation, 12.01.2016
Lessons from a would-be suicide bomber on how to defeat terrorism
Andrew MacLeod
TechRepublic, 12.01.2016
North America's underground cybercrime economy: Business is booming
Michael Kassner
theguardian.com, 13.01.2016
Hidden rise in violent crime driven by growth in violence against women
Damien Gayle
The Conversation, 13.01.2016
Governments undermining encryption will do more harm than good
Suelette Dreyfus
The Conversation, 13.01.2016
Istanbul bombing piles on the international pressure for Turkey
Alpaslan Ozerdem
The Conversation, 13.01.2016
Capture of El Chapo won’t stop drug war in Mexico as long as corruption is rife
Peter Watt
Genetic Literacy Project, 13.01.2016
Accuracy of eyewitness testimony: Is it all in our head?
Andrew Porterfield
New Statesman online, 13.01.2016
Slavoj Žižek: The Cologne attacks were an obscene version of carnival
Slavoj Zizek
The Conversation, 13.01.2016
How foetal alcohol spectrum disorders could be a hidden epidemic
Penny A. Cook, Raja Mukherjee
The Independent, 14.01.2016
Islamist terrorism: Getting to grips with the post-jihad world
George Arney
Tucson Weekly, 14.01.2016
Nope, Research Doesn't Really Link Migrants to Crime in the US
María Inés Taracena
The Conversation, 14.01.2016
Do we need more police, or are there better ways to cut crime?
Rick Sarre
The Conversation, 14.01.2016
Jakarta attacks: is Islamic State’s presence in South-East Asia overstated?
Scott Edwards
The Conversation, 14.01.2016
Q&A: why did terror hit Jakarta’s streets – and what happens next?
Noor Huda Ismail
EurekAlert!, 14.01.2016
UCLA psychology study explains when and why bystanders intervene in cyberbullying
University of California - Los Angeles
The Conversation, 14.01.2016
Why the Calabrian mafia in Australia is so little recognised and understood
Stephen Bennetts
The Conversation, 15.01.2016
Migrant communities think more like non-migrants after just one generation, study suggests
Alex Mesoudi, Kesson Magid
The Conversation, 15.01.2016
Charlie Hebdo reinforces the very racism it is trying to satirise
Anshuman Mondal
The Conversation, 15.01.2016
The great Hatton Garden heist: why are we so fascinated by crime capers?
Ruth Penfold-Mounce
theguardian.com, 15.01.2016
Hundreds of Britons caught trying to join jihadis, says foreign secretary
The Conversation, 15.01.2016
Could your taste for ‘teen’ porn land you in legal trouble?
Samantha Pegg
Forbes, 17.01.2016
Policing Meets Big Data: A Lesson In Sentiment Mining, Data Recency And Dashboards
Kalev Leetaru
The Conversation, 17.01.2016
To fight terrorism, Indonesia needs to move beyond security measures
Noor Huda Ismail
The Conversation, 19.01.2016
Institutional abuse: why we don’t listen to children behind bars
Jameel Hadi
The Conversation, 19.01.2016
Mental health care for prisoners could prevent rearrest, but prisons aren’t designed for rehabilitation
Jennifer Reingle Gonzalez
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, 19.01.2016
Juvenile Justice Can Be Reformed Without Invoking Old Prejudices
Erica Webster
The Independent, 19.01.2016
Know how you can easily shut down domestic violence services? Erase women in need from official statistics
The Conversation, 19.01.2016
Social media response to Islamic State must be more agile: Turnbull
Michelle Grattan
The Independent, 20.01.2016
Police are just as likely to hold misconceptions about their jobs as the general public, research shows
Doug Bolton
EurekAlert!, 20.01.2016
Legal, policy changes can lead to shifts in use of medical marijuana
Johns Hopkins
The Conversation, 20.01.2016
Europe’s failed response to refugee crisis risks fraying local labor markets
Nikos Passas, Nicolas Giannakopoulos
EurekAlert!, 20.01.2016
Childhood trauma associated with worse impulse control in adulthood, U-M study finds
University of Michigan Health System
New York Times, 21.01.2016
As Supreme Court Clerk, Ted Cruz Made Death Penalty His Cause
JASON HOROWITZ
The Conversation, 21.01.2016
Why Burkina Faso is a choice target as al-Qaeda bids to reclaim stolen thunder
Berny Sèbe
SPIEGEL ONLINE, 21.01.2016
'The Current Outrage Is Very Hypocritical'
Christiane Hoffmann and René Pfister
EurekAlert!, 22.01.2016
Study: Paramedics' risk of being assaulted far exceeds firefighting colleagues
Drexel University
The Conversation, 22.01.2016
Bombings aside, Indonesia is still battling over the role of political Islam
Carool Kersten
Monterey County Herald, 23.01.2016
Susan Meister: Gun violence needs real study as health epidemic
Susan Meister
Lawfare, 23.01.2016
If It’s Broke, Don’t Make it Worse: A Critique of the U.N. Secretary-General’s Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism
Naz Modirzadeh
New York Times, 24.01.2016
As Frustrations With Mexico’s Government Rise, So Do Lynchings
AZAM AHMED and PAULINA VILLEGAS
Verfassungsblog, 24.01.2016
A New Page in Protecting European Constitutional Values: How to best use the new EU Rule of Law Framework vis-a-vis Poland
Armin von Bogdandy, Carlino Antpoehler, Michael Ioannidis
theguardian.com, 25.01.2016
Canadian MP says La Loche shooting shows 'tragic' plight of First Nations
Telegraph.co.uk, 25.01.2016
Prisoners get higher marks than Durham University criminology students in academic course
The Conversation, 25.01.2016
A decade after the riots, France has rewritten its colonial history
Itay Lotem
The Conversation, 25.01.2016
How did the mind-boggling new drugs bill make it through parliament?
Nick Davis
Daily Mail, 25.01.2016
Purr-fect storm of confusion as electoral commission mistakenly sends an enrol-to-vote letter to a cat - named Chairman Meow
The Conversation, 26.01.2016
Not all psychopaths are criminals – some psychopathic traits are actually linked to success
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ashley Watts
The Conversation, 26.01.2016
Could encryption ‘backdoors’ safeguard privacy and fight terror online?
Keith Martin
EurekAlert!, 26.01.2016
BU study finds link between state gun ownership rates and murders of women
Boston University Medical Center
The Denver Post, 26.01.2016
Denver auditor recommends police keep racial data on stops
Noelle Phillips
New Statesman, 26.01.2016
Ending the new Thirty Years war
Brendan Simms and Michael Axworthy and Patrick Milton
Newswise Released, 27.01.2016
Violent Crime Lower Near Drug Treatment Centers Than Other Commercial Areas
The Conversation, 27.01.2016
Non-police doing police-type work operate in a perilously grey area of law
Rick Sarre
The Conversation, 27.01.2016
Scottish police lurch from one crisis to another – with a little help from the Met
Nick McKerrell
EurekAlert!, 27.01.2016
Ben-Gurion U. researchers have discovered multiple botnets
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Christian Science Monitor, 27.01.2016
How technology that detects gunfire is helping Pittsburgh police
Max Lewontin
Pacific Standard, 27.01.2016
Was It Rape? The Problems With Varying Definitions for Sexual Assault
Stephanie Auteri
EurekAlert!, 28.01.2016
Victimized adolescents more at risk of thinking about suicide or attempting suicide at 15
EurekAlert!, 28.01.2016
Is cannabis addictive? Are there treatments? Answers in New journal's roundtable discussion
Mary Ann Liebert
The Conversation, 28.01.2016
Seizing valuables from asylum seekers – Denmark has lost the plot, and its heart
Katharine Jones
EurekAlert!, 29.01.2016
No easy answers in UW study of legal marijuana's impact on alcohol use
University of Washington
The Conversation, 29.01.2016
Homelessness causes offenders to end up back in prison – here’s how to break the cycle
Graham Bowpitt
The Conversation, 30.01.2016
Outrage over leaked Jimmy Savile report is as much about the BBC’s future as his crimes
Simon Cross
