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The Atlantic, 01.05.2020
A new approach to fighting the opioid crisis as it quietly rages on
Beth Macy
The Conversation, 01.05.2020
Zoom security: I’ve researched problems with video conferencing for years – here’s what you need to know
Thomas Reisinger
The Conversation, 01.05.2020
Face masks: what the Spanish flu can teach us about making them compulsory
Samuel Cohn
The Guardian, 02.05.2020
‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime
Simon Parkin
Salon, 03.05.2020
White supremacists are using anti-lockdown protests to recruit new members
Tom Boggioni
EurekAlert, 04.05.2020
Research examines the impact of new technology used in video court hearings
University of Surrey
The Conversation, 04.05.2020
Islamic State could be about to strike back – and the world is paying little attention
Aviva Guttmann
Politics.co.uk, 04.05.2020
Populists entrench power around the world in furnace of covid emergency
Michael Peel
The Conversation, 05.05.2020
We can’t let coronavirus kill our cities. Here’s how we can save urban life
Jonathan Daly, Kim Dovey, Quentin Stevens
The Conversation, 05.05.2020
Global sea piracy ticks upward, and the coronavirus may make it worse
Brandon Prins
theguardian.com, 05.05.2020
Why has eastern Europe suffered less from coronavirus than the west?
Shaun Walker, Helena Smith
Dallas Morning News, 06.05.2020
What we don’t know can hurt us. Why Dallas needs to get better crime analysis
Dallas Morning News Editorial
The Conversation, 06.05.2020
The coronavirus is costing us more than just our health and economy
Pearl Eliadis
EurekAlert, 06.05.2020
Police stop fewer black drivers at night when a 'veil of darkness' obscures their race
Stanford School of Engineering
The Conversation, 06.05.2020
Mass arrests and overcrowded prisons in El Salvador spark fear of coronavirus crisis
Miranda Cady Hallett
The Conversation, 07.05.2020
The killing of Ahmaud Arbery highlights the danger of jogging while black
Rashawn Ray
EurekAlert, 07.05.2020
How do police view legalized cannabis? In Washington state, officers raise concerns
Crime and Justice Research Alliance
Microsoft News, 07.05.2020
Coronavirus Has Changed Everything for Police Across the Country
Zusha Elinson
New York Times, 08.05.2020
Georgia Killing Puts Spotlight on a Police Force’s Troubled History
Rick Rojas, Richard Fausset and Serge F. Kovaleski
HeraldScotland, 08.05.2020
Coronavirus: One in four want police to be tougher over lockdown rules
Alistair Grant
Truthout, 09.05.2020
Let’s Imagine a Post-Pandemic Era With Less Policing and No New Jails
Amanda Alexander
Washington Post, 10.05.2020
Social distancing enforcement is ramping up. So is concern that black and Latino residents may face harsher treatment.
Justin Jouvenal and Michael Brice-Saddler
The Conversation, 10.05.2020
Coronavirus contact tracing poses serious threats to our privacy
Aaron Mauro
The Conversation, 11.05.2020
Coronavirus: the first big test of the information age and what it could mean for privacy
Alistair S. Duff
The Conversation, 11.05.2020
Coronavirus lockdown measures may be putting older adults at greater risk of abuse
Jennifer Storey, Michaela Rogers
The Crime Report, 11.05.2020
COVID-19 Behind Bars: Release Can Be ‘Lethal’ Without Help
Gabriel B. Eber and Marc Schindler
Newswise, 11.05.2020
Young men most likely to break lockdown rules, mental health study shows
University of Sheffield
Spectrum News NY1, 11.05.2020
(PODCAST) What Policing Data Can Reveal About Racial Disparities in NYC
Spectrum News NY1 New York City
Techdirt, 11.05.2020
Arrest Numbers Show The NYPD Is Handling Pandemic Enforcement With The Same Biased Enthusiasm It Put Into Stop And Frisk
Vox, 11.05.2020
The private militias providing “security” for anti-lockdown protests, explained
Jane Coastonjane
Deutsche Welle, 11.05.2020
Germany: Politicians worry about radicalization at anti-lockdown protests
Elizabeth Schumacher
The National Interest, 11.05.2020
How India Is Using the Coronavirus Pandemic to Inflict Violence in Kashmir
Omer Aijazi
POLITICO, 12.05.2020
‘Conspiracy bingo’: Trans-Atlantic extremists seize on the pandemic
MARK SCOTT and STEVEN OVERLY
EurekAlert, 12.05.2020
#Thisisourlane: How physicians can take action to reduce gun violence
American Academy of Family Physicians
The Intercept, 12.05.2020
The Pandemic Brings Out the Authoritarian and the Libertarian in Us All. Can We Meet in the Middle?
Judith Levine
The Guardian, 12.05.2020
Coronavirus is the ultimate demonstration of the real-world impact of racism
Alana Lentin
The Conversation, 12.05.2020
Government cybersecurity commission calls for international cooperation, resilience and retaliation
Benjamin Jensen, Chris Inglis
WIRED, 12.05.2020
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
Andy Greenberg
Los Angeles Times, 13.05.2020
LAPD community policing has prevented crime and made residents feel safer, study finds
Cindy Chang
The Conversation, 13.05.2020
COVID-19 has blown away the myth about ‘First’ and ‘Third’ world competence
Steven Friedman
The Conversation, 13.05.2020
Migration: how Europe is using coronavirus to reinforce its hostile environment in the Mediterranean
Maurice Stierl Leverhulme
Pittsburgh Current, 14.05.2020
Panel looks at the state of policing and incarceration of black people during COVID-19
Atiya Irvin-Mitchell
The Conversation, 14.05.2020
What the coronavirus crisis reveals about vulnerable populations behind bars and on the streets
Stephanie Hartwell, Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, Sheryl Kubiak
The Conversation, 14.05.2020
Living with bunker builders: doomsday prepping in the age of coronavirus
Bradley Garrett
The Marshall Project, 14.05.2020
What Women Dying In Prison From COVID-19 Tell Us About Female Incarceration
Cary Aspinwall, Keri Blakinger and Joseph Neff
The Intercept, 14.05.2020
As Coronavirus Spreads Behind Bars, Prisons Release Very Few People
Alice Speri
The Conversation, 15.05.2020
Why young people commit crime and how moral education could help – new research
Neema Trivedi-Bateman
POLITICO EUROPE, 15.05.2020
How Google and Apple outflanked governments in the race to build coronavirus apps
Mark Scott, Elisa Braun, Janosch Delcker and Vincent Manancourt
Globalnews.ca, 16.05.2020
HIV-AIDS taught us not to police a disease outbreak, say experts. Did the lesson stick?
Jane Gerster
The Guardian, 18.05.2020
Making defendants state nationality is 'racialising' UK courts – report
Owen Bowcott and Catherine Baksi
EurekAlert, 18.05.2020
Personal accounts of childhood maltreatment matter more for mental health than records
King's College London
The Conversation, 18.05.2020
There’s a history of white supremacists interpreting government leaders’ words as encouragement
Shannon M. Smith
EurekAlert, 18.05.2020
The brain's facial recognition area doesn't differentiate outgroup members
Society for Neuroscience
Christian Science Monitor, 19.05.2020
A helping hand? Amid pandemic, gangs cast themselves as protectors.
Whitney Eulich, Ana Ionova
The Conversation, 19.05.2020
‘I feel that all the doors have been closed’: lockdowns are making life even harder for migrant survivors of sexual violence
Jenny Phillimore, Sandra Pertek
Newswise, 19.05.2020
Quarantine, stress from COVID-19 pandemic may lead to increased intimate partner violence
Binghamton University
EurekAlert, 20.05.2020
How social media platforms can contribute to dehumanizing people
North Carolina State University
EurekAlert, 20.05.2020
Tackling alcohol harms must be an integral part of the nation's recovery from COVID-19
EurekAlert, 21.05.2020
Mental ill health 'substantial health concern' among police, finds international study
The Conversation, 21.05.2020
How Central Asia’s authoritarian regimes have used coronavirus to their advantage
Saltanat Janenova, Jonathan Fisher
TheTyee.ca, 21.05.2020
Police Are Making Pandemic Life Worse for Already Oppressed People
Meenakshi Mannoe
The Conversation, 21.05.2020
Rule of law has moved centre stage in lockdown: what it is and why it matters
Cathleen Powell
The Conversation, 21.05.2020
PPE and contactless delivery: drug dealers reveal how they are adapting to coronavirus
Tammy Ayres, Craig Ancrum
USA TODAY, 22.05.2020
In coronavirus crisis, lessons in humanity toward America's incarcerated
Marc M. Howard
The Intercept, 22.05.2020
New York City and Los Angeles Slash Budgets — but Not for Police
Alice Speri
The Conversation, 24.05.2020
The coronavirus pandemic highlights the need for a surveillance debate beyond ‘privacy’
David Lyon
Verfassungsblog ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL, 24.05.2020
Impacts of COVID-19 – The Global Access to Justice Survey
Diogo Esteves, Kim Economides
The Conversation, 25.05.2020
Dominic Cummings: powerful people are the most likely to break the rules – even if they make them
Andre Spicer
Sydney Morning Herald, 25.05.2020
Despite risks, we're not too fussed about facial recognition
Farrah Tomazin
THE STRATEGIST, 25.05.2020
Anonymous no more? Make it a crime to re-identify personal data
Jessica Clarence
EurekAlert!, 25.05.2020
Reducing neighborhood crime: Place management of alcohol outlets
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
The Intercept, 25.05.2020
Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance
Sam Biddle
National Law Review, 25.05.2020
Human Rights Abuses in the Enforcement of Coronavirus Security Measures
The National Interest, 26.05.2020
The Cost of Pandemic Pushback: Baltimore Sees Crime Spike Over Memorial Day Weekend
Maggie Ybarra
San Diego Union Tribune, 26.05.2020
Policing during COVID-19: Officers face new threat in the line of duty
David Hernandez
The Conversation, 26.05.2020
Coronavirus: drones used to enforce lockdown pose a real threat to our civil liberties
Birgit Schippers
The Conversation, 26.05.2020
The coronavirus pandemic moved life online – a surge in website defacing followed
David Maimon, C. Jordan Howell
The Conversation, 26.05.2020
‘Incel’ violence is a form of extremism. It’s time we treated it as a security threat
Sian Tomkinson, Katie Attwell, Tauel Harper
The Conversation, 26.05.2020
How the coronavirus increases terrorism threats in the developing world
Nisha Bellinger, Kyle Kattelman
Newswise, 26.05.2020
Helping Law Enforcement Solve and Prevent Chemical-Related Violence
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate
The Conversation, 27.05.2020
For First Nations people, coronavirus has meant fewer services, separated families and over-policing: new report
Lorana Bartels, Thalia Anthony
The Statesman | New Delhi, 27.05.2020
Pandemic, policing and role of social media
Mandava Harsha Vardhan and Sanjay Pulipaka
Straight, 27.05.2020
COVID-19: How mainstream-media coverage of pandemic crime rates is getting it wrong
Ashley Mollison, Marilou Gagnon, and Meenakshi Mannoe
The Conversation, 27.05.2020
Collecting race-based data during coronavirus pandemic may fuel dangerous prejudices
Sachil Singh
EurekAlert, 27.05.2020
Study shows domestic violence reports on the rise as COVID-19 keeps people at home
University of California - Los Angeles
EurekAlert, 27.05.2020
Training bystanders to intervene will help to prevent domestic violence and abuse, study shows
University of Exeter
MIC.com, 27.05.2020
After police killed George Floyd, protests in Minneapolis's streets turned ugly
Rafi Schwartz
The Conversation, 27.05.2020
More people are dying in American prisons – here’s how they face the end of their lives
Martha Hurley
SciTechDaily, 28.05.2020
COVID-19: Domestic Violence Up, Traffic Stops and Burglaries Down
University of California - Los Angeles
The Conversation, 28.05.2020
Why cellphone videos of black people’s deaths should be considered sacred, like lynching photographs
Allissa V. Richardson
Newswise, 28.05.2020
Study: Exposure to police violence may be more impactful for individuals who perceive police as a threat to their personal safety
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington Post, 28.05.2020
Power Up: Racism and police violence in spotlight at crucial time in 2020 race
Jacqueline Alemany with Brent D. Griffiths
The Conversation, 29.05.2020
Predicting the pandemic’s psychological toll: why suicide modelling is so difficult
Jayashri Kulkarni
The Conversation, 29.05.2020
Ahmaud Arbery’s killing puts a spotlight on the blurred blue line of citizen’s arrest laws
Seth W. Stoughton
The Conversation, 29.05.2020
Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public’s view of protest
Danielle K. Kilgo
Newswise, 29.05.2020
Law enforcement violence in black communities will continue despite criminal justice system action in Minneapolis case
West Virginia University
The New Yorker, 29.05.2020
The Intolerable Tensions Between American Cities and their Police Forces
Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Newswise, 31.05.2020
UB expert can discuss death of George Floyd, history of racial injustice in America
University at Buffalo
New York Times, 31.05.2020
Many Claim Extremists Are Sparking Protest Violence. But Which Extremists?
Neil MacFarquhar
New York Times, 31.05.2020
Facing Protests Over Use of Force, Police Respond with More Force
Shaila Dewan and Mike Baker
The Conversation, 31.05.2020
Police officers accused of brutal violence often have a history of complaints by citizens
Jill McCorkel
Raw Story, 31.05.2020
No, Donald Trump cannot name Antifa a terrorist group — here’s why
Sarah K. Burris
