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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
USA TODAY, 02.01.2017
Roof sentence will say more about us than him: Melinda Henneberger
Melinda Henneberger
The Conversation, 02.01.2017
Why don’t people get it? Seven ways that communicating risk can fail
Rod Lamberts
The National Business Review, 03.01.2017
Book extract: Surveillance in the post-Snowden era – Part I
Kathleen Kuehn
EurekAlert!, 03.01.2017
Gun violence research underfunded, understudied compared to other leading causes of death
Allentown Morning Call, 03.01.2017
Three years late, seminal death penalty report still unfinished
Riley Yates
PR Newswire, 03.01.2017
National Institute of Justice Studies Parallels Between "Lone Wolves" and Mass Murderers
USA TODAY online, 03.01.2017
Tackle problems of policing, racism as public health issue: Column
David R. Williams and Steven A. Mazzie
The Conversation, 04.01.2017
How the Berlin Christmas market terror attack affects Chancellor Merkel and Europe
Johanna Schuster
CSS Resources (blog), 04.01.2017
Dynamics of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Kosovo
Adrian Shtuni
CSS Resources (blog), 04.01.2017
Smart CCTVs: Third Eye of Secure Cities
Muhammad Faizal Bin Abdul Rahman
EurekAlert!, 04.01.2017
Corporal punishment viewed as more acceptable and effective when referred to as spanking
The Conversation, 04.01.2017
From Orgreave to Rotherham – the trials and tribulations of South Yorkshire Police
Joanna Gilmore
The Conversation, 04.01.2017
Organised crime in the fisheries sector starts to get the attention it deserves
Emma Witbooi
EurekAlert!, 05.01.2017
Mothers' lack of legal knowledge linked to juvenile re-offending
Michigan State University
The Conversation, 05.01.2017
Attackers can make it impossible to dial 911
Mordechai Guri, Yisroel Mirsky, Yuval Elovici
The Conversation, 05.01.2017
Terrorism, the far-right and Russian meddling: the biggest threats to Europe in 2017
Richard Maher
PBS NewsHour, 07.01.2017
Building simple fences around vacant lots could help reduce crime
Martha T. Moore
Ars Technica UK, 07.01.2017
Gunshot wounds are contagious; bullets spread like the flu, study finds
Beth Mole
The Conversation, 08.01.2017
Understanding others’ feelings: what is empathy and why do we need it?
Pascal Molenberghs
guardian.ng, 08.01.2017
Why Nigeria may not defeat Boko Haram soon: Re-visiting the counter-operations
Saheed Ahmad Rufai
Herald Scotland, 09.01.2017
Glasgow expert to offer Florida keys to ending gang problems
Stephen Naysmith
The Conversation, 09.01.2017
Chicago 1969: When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites
Colette Gaiter
The Conversation, 09.01.2017
Searching deep and dark: Building a Google for the less visible parts of the web
Christian Mattmann
Toronto Star, 09.01.2017
When men kill their partners, warning signs often missed
Alyshah Hasham & Wendy Gillis
Forbes, 09.01.2017
New Research Shows Why Crime Is The Key To Understanding Gentrification
Scott Klocksin
EurekAlert!, 09.01.2017
Friend or foe? Each creates national unity, a mix creates divisions, study shows
EurekAlert!, 09.01.2017
Children are more apt to confess misdeeds if they think parents will react positively
University of Michigan
EurekAlert!, 09.01.2017
New framework could help online addicts reduce their usage
Binghamton University
The Conversation, 10.01.2017
Early signs show legal high ban is pushing sales from the high street to street dealers
Paul Gray, Robert Ralphs
The Conversation, 10.01.2017
Violence in the name of ‘honour’ is a public health problem not a cultural one
Sadiq Bhanbhro
EurekAlert!, 10.01.2017
Rise of personal technology in criminal proceedings poses risks to individuals' rights
The Conversation, 10.01.2017
Rule by the lowest common denominator? It’s baked into democracy’s design
Firmin DeBrabander
The Conversation, 10.01.2017
A ‘tougher’ citizenship test should not be used to further divide and exclude
Alex Reilly, Mary Anne Kenny
Computerworld, 10.01.2017
Families of ISIS victims sue Twitter for being 'weapon for terrorism'
Sharon Gaudin
San Diego Union-Tribune, 11.01.2017
Are military veterans more likely to go on shooting sprees?
Jeanette Steele
The Conversation, 11.01.2017
Child victim or brutal warlord? ICC weighs the fate of Dominic Ongwen
Yvonne McDermott
The Conversation, 11.01.2017
Norway’s human rights appeal over the prison conditions of Anders Breivik – explained
William Henderson
New York Times, 11.01.2017
Obama Races to Overhaul Police in Baltimore and Chicago Before Trump Era
SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
The Washington Post, 11.01.2017
Survey reveals disconnect between police and public attitudes
Scott Clement and Wesley Lowery
New York Times, 11.01.2017
How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump
SCOTT SHANE, NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MATTHEW ROSENBERG
Interesting Engineering, 11.01.2017
Minority Report Becomes Reality: Artificial Intelligence Succeeds to Identify Criminals By Their Faces
Tamar Melike Tegün
The Conversation, 12.01.2017
For gangs with a social media presence like Apex, there’s no such thing as bad publicity
Mark Wood
EurekAlert!, 12.01.2017
Offenders' deadly thoughts may hold answer to reducing crime
Iowa State University
EurekAlert!, 12.01.2017
Researchers reveal that not all violent acts are equal
Queen Mary University of London
The Conversation, 12.01.2017
Drones delivering packages in cities won’t take off – here’s why
Richard Andrew Williams
The Conversation, 12.01.2017
Music has the power to rock the state, but youth movements will find the state always bites back
Clifford Williamson
EurekAlert!, 13.01.2017
Study looks at strategies used by African-American women facing intimate partner violence
University at Buffalo
Newsweek, 13.01.2017
Paris Attacks Suspect Salah Abdeslam Says 'I'm Not Ashamed' in Prison Letters
Jack Moore
The Conversation, 13.01.2017
Whether or not Trump claims are true, Russia is still using sex for spying
Dan Lomas
Pacific Standard, 13.01.2017
Why Congress’ Backpage Victory Could Create Problems for Law Enforcement
Morgan Baskin
verfassungsblog.de, 13.01.2017
How to Kill an Idea: An American’s Observations on the NPD Party-Ban Proceedings
Russell A. Miller
New Statesman TV & Radio, 16.01.2017
“Real Housewives of Isis”: How do British Muslim women feel about the controversial BBC sketch?
David Patrikarakos
The Conversation, 16.01.2017
Police forces need to better understand why perpetrators sexually abuse children
Graham Hill
The Conversation, 16.01.2017
Britain’s criminal justice system doesn’t know what to do about autism
Clare Allely, Antonia Wood
EurekAlert!, 17.01.2017
Racial bias in a heartbeat: How signals from the heart shape snap judgements about threat
University of Sussex
The Conversation, 17.01.2017
Dangerous liaisons: the British guide to avoiding a honey trap
Christopher J. Murphy
Pew Research Center, 17.01.2017
Female police officers’ on-the-job experiences diverge from those of male officers
Renee Stepler
The Conversation, 18.01.2017
Clemency for Chelsea Manning – but will Assange or Snowden also find the US merciful?
Amy Maguire
CSS Resources (blog), 18.01.2017
The Growing International Movement Against Killer Robots
Stephen Goose and Mary Wareham
POLITICO Magazine, 18.01.2017
‘He Has This Deep Fear That He Is Not a Legitimate President’
Michael Kruse
The Conversation, 19.01.2017
Syria, Russia and Turkey – the uneasy alliance reshaping world politics
Mehmet Ozalp
Los Angeles Times, 19.01.2017
Video shows police cornering mentally ill man and fatally shooting him: 'This was an execution'
Bennington Banner, 19.01.2017
Statewide study on racial disparities differs from local variables
Holly Pelczynski
EurekAlert!, 19.01.2017
Your 'anonmyized' web browsing history may not be anonymous
Princeton University, Engineering School
EurekAlert!, 19.01.2017
One in 5 adults secretly access their friends' Facebook accounts
University of British Columbia
The Conversation, 19.01.2017
A triple execution in Bahrain has provoked national outrage – and international silence
Marc Jones
The Guardian, 19.01.2017
How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next
William Davies
The National Interest online, 21.01.2017
What Is the Best Way to Deal with the Problem of Islamic Terrorism?
Hugo Kirk
The Conversation, 22.01.2017
ICC expands definition of war crimes to cover combatants in the same armed forces
Yvonne McDermott
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 22.01.2017
The terrifying geography of nuclear and radiological insecurity in South Asia
Hannah E. Haegeland Reema Verma
FiveThirtyEight, 23.01.2017
Higher Rates Of Hate Crimes Are Tied To Income Inequality
Maimuna Majumder
The Guardian, 23.01.2017
Tunisia asks for EU help to combat terrorism after Sousse massacre
Patrick Wintour
The Conversation, 23.01.2017
Did Jeff Sessions forget wanting to execute pot dealers?
John Donohue C Wendell and Edith M Carlsmith and Max Schoening
The Marshall Project, 24.01.2017
What We Can Learn from the Amazing Drop in Juvenile Incarceration
Ashley Nellis and Marc Mauer
Reason.com, 24.01.2017
No Short-Term Bad Effects on Native Employment or Most Crime Rates from German Migrant Influx, Study Finds
Brian Doherty
The Conversation, 24.01.2017
More police won’t necessarily lead to better outcomes on family violence – here’s what we need
Marie Segrave, Dean Wilson , Kate Fitz-Gibbon
The Conversation, 24.01.2017
From colonial Algeria to modern day Europe, the Muslim veil remains an ideological battleground
Katarzyna Falecka
Washington Post, 25.01.2017
Man who turned away from radical Islam arrested on drug, prostitution charges
Rachel Weiner
EurekAlert!, 25.01.2017
Delaying pot smoking to age 17 is better for teens' brains, a new study suggests
University of Montreal
The Conversation, 26.01.2017
Trump’s policies will affect four groups of undocumented immigrants
Susan Bibler, Jennifer Chacón, Sameer Ashar, Stephen Lee
The Conversation, 26.01.2017
Far beyond crime-ridden depravity, darknets are key strongholds of freedom of expression online
Roderick S. Graham, Brian Pitman
The Independent, 26.01.2017
President Donald Trump to publish weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants
Ben Kentish
The Conversation, 27.01.2017
Q&A: what legal obligation does the US have to accept refugees?
Liam Thornton
The Conversation, 27.01.2017
If Trump brings back torture, can the UK be trusted not to collude in it?
Ruth Blakeley
Stuff.co.nz, 29.01.2017
'He's doing enough damage without them': Why the Islamic State has been oddly quiet about Trump
GREG MILLER
EurekAlert!, 30.01.2017
Prior DUIs predict future criminal activity among firearm owners
University of California
EurekAlert!, 30.01.2017
Shootings in US schools are linked to increased unemployment
Northwestern University
The Conversation, 30.01.2017
Quebec mosque attack forces Canada to confront some ugly problems
Steve Hewitt
The Conversation, 30.01.2017
For too long, the West has expected Muslims to defend their faith from labels of violence
David Beamish
The Conversation, 30.01.2017
A guide to the Geneva Convention for beginners, dummies and newly elected world leaders
Rhona Smith
The Conversation, 31.01.2017
‘Europe is suffering multi-morbidity’: a conversation with Claus Offe in Berlin
John Keane
