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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
VoxEU, 01.08.2020
When godfathers become entrepreneurs: On the organized crime’s infiltration in legal economy
Marco Le Moglie, Giuseppe Sorrenti
New York Times, 01.08.2020
Body Bags and Enemy Lists: How Far-Right Police Officers and Ex-Soldiers Planned for ‘Day X’
Katrin Bennhold
NBC News, 02.08.2020
'Defund the police' movement could offer sexual assault survivors a different path for justice, experts say
Wilson Wong
NBC News, 02.08.2020
'Defund the police' movement could offer sexual assault survivors a different path for justice, experts say
Wilson Wong
ABC News, 02.08.2020
'Hire more women' has been touted as a quick fix to police brutality since Rodney King. Here's why empty calls for equality fail.
Erin Schumaker
The Conversation, 03.08.2020
Anti-Semitism is on the rise, 75 years after the end of the Holocaust and Second World War
Daniel Miller
Newswise, 03.08.2020
Strong relationships in adulthood won’t ‘fix’ effects of early childhood adversity
University of Notre Dame
New York Times, 03.08.2020
These Remarks Might Get a Police Chief Fired. Not in New York.
Emma G. Fitzsimmons
The Conversation, 03.08.2020
How a peace conference’s failures a century ago set the stage for today’s anti-racist uprisings
Elizabeth Thompson
The Conversation, 03.08.2020
How a peace conference’s failures a century ago set the stage for today’s anti-racist uprisings
Elizabeth Thompson
The Conversation, 03.08.2020
How a peace conference’s failures a century ago set the stage for today’s anti-racist uprisings
Elizabeth Thompson
NPR, 04.08.2020
Amnesty International Documents 125 Incidents Of Police Violence Against Protesters
Laurel Wamsley
The Conversation, 04.08.2020
Defunding the police requires understanding what role policing plays in our society
Temitope Oriola
ComputerWeekly, 04.08.2020
Police require radical reform to deal with 21st century challenges
Sebastian Klovig Skelton
BiometricUpdate, 04.08.2020
Large retailers afraid of implementing facial recognition, study finds
Luana Pascu
The Conversation, 04.08.2020
Trump can’t delay the election, but he can try to delegitimise it
David Smith
The Conversation, 05.08.2020
Beirut explosion: the disaster was exceptional but events leading up to it were not – researchers
Scott Edwards, Christian Bueger
The Conversation, 05.08.2020
Knife crime: why young people need to get a say in their rehabilitation
Sean Creaney, Jo Deakin
The Guardian, 05.08.2020
Modi's brutal treatment of Kashmir exposes his tactics – and their flaws
Arundhati Roy
The Conversation, 06.08.2020
As the coronavirus rages in prisons, ethical issues of crime and punishment become more compelling
Austin Sarat
The Conversation, 06.08.2020
A second COVID-19 wave? Here are 6 lessons from the first
Loren Falkenberg
EurekAlert!, 06.08.2020
Small towns have highest risk of intimate partner violence
Washington State University
EurekAlert!, 06.08.2020
Small towns have highest risk of intimate partner violence
Washington State University
Newswise, 06.08.2020
Gun violence increasing in the pandemic. Researchers seeking solutions.
University of Washington School of Medicine
New York Times, 07.08.2020
Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure
Nellie Bowles
NBC News, 07.08.2020
Racist police practices like mug shots normalize the criminalization of Black Americans
Nicole R. Fleetwood
New York Times, 08.08.2020
Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Robert Draper
Street Roots, 09.08.2020
Psychological impacts of this moment are overwhelming, Black mental health care providers say
Jessica Pollard
CalMatters, 09.08.2020
The fallacy behind private surveillance cameras in San Francisco
Jennifer King and Jael Makagon
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 09.08.2020
These Scholars Denounced the Police. Do Their Universities Have Their Backs?
Emma Pettit and Megan Zahneis
Action News, 09.08.2020
Lawsuit over NYPD discipline records highlights the tension between police and oversight agencies
The Conversation, 10.08.2020
How the shady world of the data industry strips away our freedoms
Uri Gal
EurekAlert!, 10.08.2020
Study: Increased presence of law enforcement officers in schools does not improve safety
NBC News, 10.08.2020
QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show
Ari Sen and Brandy Zadrozny
VentureBeat, 10.08.2020
University of Michigan study advocates ban of facial recognition in schools
Kyle Wiggers
EurekAlert, 10.08.2020
New study documents increasing frequency, cost, and severity of gunshot wounds
American College of Surgeons
DocWire News, 11.08.2020
The color of risk protection orders: gun violence, gun laws, and racial justice
The Conversation, 11.08.2020
Coronavirus misinformation is a global issue, but which myth you fall for likely depends on where you live
Jason Weismueller, Jacob Shapiro, Jan Oledan, Paul Harrigan
The Conversation, 11.08.2020
Video: The Wall of Moms builds on a long protest tradition
Kelsy Kretschmer
EurekAlert, 11.08.2020
Fear of stricter regulations spurs gun sales after mass shootings, new analysis suggests
SF Gate, 11.08.2020
'I am George Floyd': Too $hort, Lil B and Del discuss police brutality
Dan Gentile
Newswise, 12.08.2020
MTSU, Texas State professors posit pandemic offers 'largest criminological experiment in history'
EurekAlert, 12.08.2020
Public health consequences of policing homelessness
University of Colorado Denver
ABA Journal, 12.08.2020
Convicted of a crime that never occurred? It happens all too often, law prof says
Lee Rawles
The Conversation, 13.08.2020
In COVID’s shadow, global terrorism goes quiet. But we have seen this before, and should be wary
Greg Barton
EurekAlert, 13.08.2020
Systemic racism has consequences for all life in cities
University of Washington
Gotham Gazette, 13.08.2020
The Path to More Justice, Better Policing and Safer Communities in Brooklyn and Beyond
Eric Gonzalez & Rev. David K. Brawley
EurekAlert, 14.08.2020
New study shows increase in domestic violence injuries during COVID-19
Radiological Society of North America
POLITICO, 15.08.2020
Defund the police? It’s already happening thanks to the Covid-19 budget crunch
REBECCA RAINEY and MAYA KING
PsyPost, 15.08.2020
Right-wing authoritarians are less likely to update false beliefs after corrective feedback, study finds
Eric W. Dolan
Chicago Tribune, 17.08.2020
What is ‘kettling’? It’s a controversial tactic to contain crowds, and Chicago police are accused of using it during downtown protests.
Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas
The Conversation, 17.08.2020
More help required: the crisis in family violence during the coronavirus pandemic
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr. Naomi Pfitzner, Jacqui True FASSA
Christian Science Monitor, 17.08.2020
Why do Americans think more immigration means more crime? (audio)
Samantha Laine
Psychology Today, 17.08.2020
Blacks More Likely Targeted Than Whites Despite Traditional Police Training
Arthur Dobrin D.S.W.
The Conversation, 17.08.2020
Hush money? How compensation can leave child abuse survivors with mixed feelings
Samina Karim
PR Newswire, 17.08.2020
Expert Available to Comment on Evidence-Based Police Reform and Unconscious Bias in Policing
The Conversation, 17.08.2020
Coronavirus and ‘domestic terrorism’: how to stop family violence under lockdown
Amanda Gearing
Forbes, 18.08.2020
An Unacceptable Crisis: Domestic Violence Has Skyrocketed Nearly 2X During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Sai Balasubramanian
EurekAlert, 18.08.2020
Police officers face multifaceted, compounding stressors that can lead to adverse events
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
The Conversation, 18.08.2020
The enforcer: the myth and reality of organised crime’s hard man
Mohammed Rahman
New York Times, 18.08.2020
G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russia
Mark Mazzetti
Verfassungsblog ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL, 18.08.2020
How to Make Whistleblower Protection in Europe more Effective
Caroline Hunt-Matthes, Yasmine Motarjemi
The Conversation, 18.08.2020
Jailing the Christchurch terrorist will cost New Zealand millions. A prisoner swap with Australia would solve more than one problem
Alexander Gillespie
The Conversation, 19.08.2020
The combination of dementia and domestic abuse is all too often overlooked
Rebecca Zerk, Sarah Wydall
EurekAlert, 19.08.2020
Study of one million Danish children: Childhood adversity increases the risk of early death
University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Modern Diplomacy, 19.08.2020
A Local and Global Threat: The White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Terrorism
Zakir Gul and Dr. Ferhat Goktepe
World Economic Forum, 19.08.2020
3 cognitive biases perpetuating racism at work - and how to overcome them
Adwoa Bagalini
Washington Post, 19.08.2020
Misinformation about the coronavirus is thwarting Facebook’s best efforts to catch it
Elizabeth Dwoskin
The Conversation, 20.08.2020
Domestic violence shadow pandemic has not gone away after lockdown
Lynne Gabriel
The Next Web, 21.08.2020
Data-informed predictive policing was heralded as less biased. Is it?
The Markup
The Mercury News, 23.08.2020
A question after George Floyd: What do we want police to do?
Andre Mouchard
New York Times, 23.08.2020
Why Trump Never Stops Talking About ‘Our Suburbs’
Brian F. Schaffner, Jesse H. Rhodes and Raymond J. La Raja
Byline Times, 24.08.2020
By Refusing to Call White Supremacist Killers ‘Terrorists’, the Media Furthers its Aim of Demonising Muslims
Brian Cathcart
EurekAlert, 24.08.2020
Punitive sentencing led to higher incarceration rates throughout adulthood for certain birth cohorts in North Carolina
EurekAlert, 24.08.2020
Study: Despite training, Vermont police departments still show widespread racial bias
University of Vermont
The Conversation, 24.08.2020
Media reporting on mental illness, violence and crime needs to change
Anna Ross, Elizabeth Paton Conjoint, Michelle Blanchard
The Conversation, 24.08.2020
Latin American women are disappearing and dying under lockdown
Lynn Marie Stephen Philip H. Knight Chair
The Harvard Gazette, 25.08.2020
How rape culture shapes whether a survivor is believed
Christina Pazzanese
Brookings Institution, 25.08.2020
How can we enhance police accountability in the United States?
Rashawn Ray
In These Times, 25.08.2020
Community Control Won’t Fix What’s Wrong with Cops
Carl Williams and Christian Williams
Fortune, 26.08.2020
Why some senior officers are making it harder for police departments to fight racism
Brian Rubineau
The Crime Report, 26.08.2020
Latinx Youth Undercounted, Ignored in Juvenile Justice System: Report
TCR Staff
NewsOne, 26.08.2020
A Timeline Of Racist Policing In America: A Legal Legacy Of Lawlessness In Law Enforcement
Connie Hassett-Walker
The Conversation, 27.08.2020
When life means life: why the court had to deliver an unprecedented sentence for the Christchurch terrorist
Alexander Gillespie
The Conversation, 27.08.2020
Why Americans are buying more guns than ever
Aimee Huff, Michelle Barnhart
EurekAlert, 27.08.2020
Russian scientists predicted increased unrest in the United States back in 2010
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Observer Research Foundation, 27.08.2020
Countering terrorism and violent extremism at Facebook: Technology, expertise and partnerships
Erin Saltman
The Conversation, 27.08.2020
Non-Muslims who live close to Muslims are less likely to be Islamophobic, study shows
Val Colic-Peisker, Adrian Flitney
BuzzFeed News, 27.08.2020
Blanked-Out Spots On China's Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang's Camps
Alison Killing and Megha Rajagopalan and Christo Buschek
Newswise, 28.08.2020
Stanford and Michigan researchers on a "movement of movements approach" to end police violence
Stanford Graduate School of Business
NBC News, 29.08.2020
Jacob Blake's police shooting highlights the hidden victims of police violence
Dr. Rhea Boyd
Orange County Register, 30.08.2020
Crime dropped to historic lows as police spending swelled to historic highs. Now what?
Teri Sforza
The Crime Report, 31.08.2020
What Causes Rising Crime? Democrats or Virus, Summer
Crime and Justice News
Block Club Chicago, 31.08.2020
A Promising Violence Prevention Program In Chicago Faces A Massive Budget Setback
Lakeidra Chavis
The Intercept, 31.08.2020
Doorbell Cameras Like Ring Give Early Warning of Police Searches, FBI Warned
Sam Biddle
