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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The New Yorker, 01.03.2021
Why Does the Pandemic Seem to Be Hitting Some Countries Harder Than Others?
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Conversation, 01.03.2021
Despite claims NZ’s policing is too ‘woke’, crime rates are largely static — and even declining
Ananish Chaudhuri
The Conversation, 01.03.2021
Delays in reporting alleged rapes are common — even years later. This isn’t a barrier to justice
Bri Lee, Jonathan Crowe, Rachael Burgin
Chicago Tribune, 01.03.2021
Faced with rising crime and social upheaval, more Black Chicagoans are seeking out firearms for their own protection
John Keilman
Scientific American, 01.03.2021
Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests
Jim Daley
Newswise, 01.03.2021
Walking away from the beat - why police officers are voluntarily leaving in large numbers
PEOPLE.com, 01.03.2021
Domestic Violence in U.S. Increased By 8 Percent After COVID Lockdown Orders Began, Says Study
Maria Pasquini
Chicago Booth Review, 01.03.2021
Will algorithms fix what’s wrong with American justice, or make things worse?
Jeff Cockrell
New York Times, 01.03.2021
Nigeria’s Boarding Schools Have Become a Hunting Ground for Kidnappers
Ruth Maclean
The Conversation, 02.03.2021
Jamal Khashoggi: why the US is unlikely to deliver justice for the murdered journalist
Armida L. M. van Rij
EurekAlert!, 02.03.2021
Law enforcement seizures of methamphetamine and marijuana rose during pandemic
NIH
EurekAlert!, 02.03.2021
New report offers detailed analysis of Capitol Hill siege
George Washington University
The Crime Report, 02.03.2021
Stop Turning Your Head: Black Cops Speak Out Against ‘Blanket of Racism’
Isidoro Rodriguez
The Washington Post, 02.03.2021
Study: 1 in 7 U.S. prisoners is serving life, and two-thirds of those are people of color
Tom Jackman
EurekAlert!, 02.03.2021
Child abuse surges in times of crisis - the pandemic may be different
University of California - San Francisco
New York Times, 02.03.2021
Exposing Shady Gold Traders, Illegal Gun Traffickers and Government Lies
Jonathan Green
EurekAlert!, 03.03.2021
Study reveals impact of lockdown on violence in a UK capital city
Cardiff University
InSight Crime, 03.03.2021
Organized Crime and the Environment in Latin America: A Fatal Encounter
KATIE JONES
EurekAlert!, 03.03.2021
80% of sexual abuse victims in Spain who seek public compensation receive nothing
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Reason.com, 03.03.2021
Science-Based Policy Means Decriminalizing Sex Work, Say Hundreds of Researchers
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
The Conversation, 04.03.2021
What the policing response to the KKK in the 1960s can teach about dismantling white supremacist groups today
David Cunningham
USA Today, 04.03.2021
Killed over a counterfeit bill: Data on misdemeanors can lead to racial justice in policing
Jeremy Travis and Preeti Chauhan
New York Times, 04.03.2021
The House passes a policing overhaul bill named for George Floyd, whose death spurred nationwide protests.
Nicholas Fandos, Catie Edmondson and Karen Zraick
Bloomberg Businessweek, 04.03.2021
Inside Pfizer’s Fast, Fraught, and Lucrative Vaccine Distribution
By Stephanie Baker, Cynthia Koons, and Vernon Silver
The Conversation, 04.03.2021
Why white supremacists and QAnon enthusiasts are obsessed – but very wrong – about the Byzantine Empire
Roland Betancourt
Newswise, 05.03.2021
With unfair police treatment, the tragedy is not limited to the incident itself
University at Buffalo
South Seattle Emerald, 06.03.2021
Weekend Long Reads: What Impact Did COVID-19 Have on Crime?
Kevin Schofield
Phys.org, 06.03.2021
With unfair police treatment, the tragedy is not limited to the incident itself
University at Buffalo
Financial Times, 07.03.2021
Militias, corruption and Covid: Rio de Janeiro’s deepening crisis
Bryan Harris
EurekAlert!, 08.03.2021
Hospital-based violence intervention program engages vulnerable populations
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
EurekAlert!, 08.03.2021
Lifting the lid on how domestic abusers use technology
University of Portsmouth
The Conversation, 08.03.2021
5 strategies to prepare now for the next pandemic
Tiffany A. Radcliff, Angela Clendenin
The Conversation, 08.03.2021
A year into the pandemic, the coronavirus is messing with our minds as well as our bodies
Athena Aktipis, Joe Alcock
Newlines Magazine, 08.03.2021
The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention
Policy Report
New York Times, 08.03.2021
N.Y.P.D. Releases Secret Misconduct Records After Repeal of Shield Law
Ashley Southall
The Conversation, 09.03.2021
Evidence shows mental illness isn’t a reason to doubt women survivors
Emma Tseris, Nicole Moulding
The Independent, 09.03.2021
Half of people in England and Wales have misgivings about police stop and search, survey suggests
Lizzie Dearden
Masslive, 09.03.2021
UMass research finds 17% drop in police-related fatalities during Black Lives Matter movement
Ron Chimelis
The Guardian, 10.03.2021
Germany's intelligence agencies have failed to tackle rightwing violence for too long
Peter Kuras
Small Wars Journal, 10.03.2021
SWJ Book Review – Islamic State’s Online Propaganda: A Comparative Analysis
Robert J. Bunker
New York Times, 10.03.2021
Police Unions Won Power Using His Playbook. Now He’s Negotiating the Backlash.
Michael H. Keller and Kim Barker
The Conversation, 11.03.2021
How the quest for significance and respect underlies the white supremacist movement, conspiracy theories and a range of other problems
Arie Kruglanski
The Conversation, 11.03.2021
Dunblane 25 years on: how a mass school shooting changed British gun laws
Peter Squires
EurekAlert!, 11.03.2021
Fatal police violence nearby increases risk of preterm birth
University of California - San Francisco
The Guardian, 11.03.2021
California attorney general cuts off researchers’ access to gun violence data
Lois Beckett
CBS Austin, 11.03.2021
270+ charged in Capitol siege; US weighs a new law concerning domestic terror
JOCE STERMAN, ALEX BRAUER and ANDREA NEJMAN
The Guardian, 11.03.2021
A year on from George Floyd: how laws allow police to use fatal force
Ankita Rao
The Guardian, 11.03.2021
I was raped as a teenager. Here is why I didn’t consider going to the police
Lucia Osborne-Crowley
The Conversation, 11.03.2021
New Jersey State Police’s first 100 years characterized by racial prejudice
W. Carsten Andresen
The Conversation, 12.03.2021
Super-recognisers: some people excel at both face and voice recognition
Ryan Jenkins, David James Rober, Josh P Davis
The Conversation, 12.03.2021
Super-recognisers: some people excel at both face and voice recognition
Ryan Jenkins, David James Robertson, Josh P Davis
The Independent, 13.03.2021
Isis supporter planned attack after networking with terrorists inside prison
Lizzie Dearden
EurekAlert!, 15.03.2021
Study: Seattle's minimum wage increase did not change crime or employment rates
Newswise, 15.03.2021
Study: Men of color avoid public places out of fear of involvement with criminal justice agents
Crime and Justice Research Alliance
Washington Post, 15.03.2021
Post-prison, people just want normal things. Americans say that’s too much to expect.
Esther Matthews
The Conversation, 15.03.2021
After the insurrection, America’s far-right groups get more extreme
Matthew Valasik, Shannon Reid
The Good Men Project, 15.03.2021
Policing Is an Abusive Relationship We’re left walking on eggshells.
Davin Hall
WAR ON THE ROCKS, 16.03.2021
How New is the New Extremist Threat? Preliminary Conclusions from the U.S. Capitol Arrests Data
Nate Rosenblatt and Jason Blazakis
BirminghamLive, 16.03.2021
'Distressing' research as nine in ten children in criminal justice system are suspected abuse victims
Mark Cardwell
The Conversation, 16.03.2021
Prosecuting ex-presidents for corruption is trending worldwide – but it’s not always great for democracy
Victor Menaldo, James D. Long, Morgan Wack
The Conversation, 16.03.2021
Sarah Everard: why women shouldn’t have to risk trading their freedom for safety
Hannah Bows
Los Angeles Times, 16.03.2021
Asian Americans have been verbally and physically attacked, shunned during pandemic, study shows
Anh Do
Vanity Fair, 17.03.2021
Why Are We Taking Robert Aaron Long’s Word For It That The Georgia Killings Weren’t About Race?
Bess Levin
The Independent, 17.03.2021
Prisoners three times more likely to die from Covid than general population, research suggests
May Bulman
The Conversation, 17.03.2021
Journalists and security agencies don’t need to be friends. But can they at least talk to each other?
Peter Greste
EurekAlert!, 17.03.2021
Gun violence rises in TV dramas over two decades, paralleling U.S. gun homicide trends
Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
The Conversation, 18.03.2021
Lockdown, violence and understanding women’s anger
Kaitlynn Mendes, Elizabeth Milne, Jessica Ringrose, Tanya Horeck
EurekAlert!, 18.03.2021
COVID-19 pandemic impacts mental health worldwide
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
EurekAlert!, 18.03.2021
COVID-19 denial depends on a population's trust in social institutions
National Research University Higher School of Economics
The Washington Post, 18.03.2021
‘It’s race, class and gender together’: Why the Atlanta murders aren’t just about one thing
Monica Hesse
TIME, 18.03.2021
It's a 'Nightmare Being Replayed' as a Cop Faces Trial in George Floyd's Death
Janell Ross
New York Times, 18.03.2021
Asian-Americans Are Being Attacked. Why Are Hate Crime Charges So Rare?
Nicole Hong and Jonah E. Bromwich
The Conversation, 19.03.2021
Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it’s not a hate crime
Pawan Dhingra
The Conversation, 19.03.2021
The Atlanta attacks were not just racist and misogynist, they painfully reflect the society we live in
Jamie Chai Yun Liew
The Conversation, 19.03.2021
What is a hate crime? The narrow legal definition makes it hard to charge and convict
Jeannine Bell
Washington Post, 19.03.2021
Racist anti-Asian hashtags spiked after Trump first tweeted ‘Chinese virus,’ study finds
Andrea Salcedo
The Conversation, 19.03.2021
Police and civilians disagree on when body camera footage should be made public
Dan Bromberg, Étienne Charbonneau
The Conversation, 20.03.2021
‘Sex addiction’ isn’t a justification for killing, or really an addiction – it reflects a person’s own moral misgivings about sex
Joshua B. Grubbs
The Conversation, 21.03.2021
ASIO’s language shift on terrorism is a welcome acknowledgment of the power of words
Greg Barton
Washington Post, 21.03.2021
The rioter next door: How the Dallas suburbs spawned domestic extremists
Annie Gowen
EurekAlert!, 22.03.2021
No connection between proximity to Stockholm terrorist attack and attitudes to terrorism
University of Gothenburg
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, 22.03.2021
COVID-19 and Global Terrorism Pandemics
Ganor, Boaz
EurekAlert!, 22.03.2021
COVID-19 related cyber-attacks leveraged government announcements
University of Warwick
EurekAlert!, 22.03.2021
Cyber security experts launch guidelines to help police crackdown on organised crime
University of Bristol
The Conversation, 23.03.2021
Almost 90% of sexual assault victims do not go to police — this is how we can achieve justice for survivors
Anastasia Powell, Asher Flynn, Rachael Burgin
The Conversation, 24.03.2021
Ten years on from the Syrian uprising, what has prevented an end to the tragedy?
Hanlie Booysen
The Washington Post, 24.03.2021
Terror in a Boulder supermarket: How the King Soopers shooting unfolded
Jennifer Oldham, Frances Stead Sellers, Shayna Jacobs, Marc Fisher
Washington Post, 24.03.2021
The gun implicated in Boulder uses the same ammunition as an AR-15. It’s legally a pistol.
Alex Horton
Seattle Times, 24.03.2021
Shootings never stopped during the pandemic: 2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades
Reis Thebault and Danielle Rindler
The Conversation, 24.03.2021
What we learned from tracking every COVID policy in the world
Thomas Hale
ABC News, 25.03.2021
Questioning of sexual assault victims during trials 'worse' than in the 1950s, criminologist finds
Elise Kinsella
The Conversation, 25.03.2021
Sexual assault victims can easily be re-traumatised going to court — here’s one way to stop this
Mary Iliadis, Kerstin Braun
The Conversation, 25.03.2021
Many QAnon followers report having mental health diagnoses
Sophia Moskalenko
New York Times, 25.03.2021
The (Way Too Many) Kids Whose Lives Have Been Upended by Gun Violence
Gary Younge
New York Times, 25.03.2021
New York Reaches a Deal to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
Luis Ferré-Sadurní
New York Times, 25.03.2021
Misogyny Fuels Violence Against Women. Should It Be a Hate Crime?
Alisha Haridasani Gupta
The Conversation, 26.03.2021
Men are more likely to commit violent crimes. Why is this so and how do we change it?
Rick Sarre, Andrew Day, Ben Livings, Catia Malvaso
Jerusalem Post, 26.03.2021
Over 200 scholars create new antisemitism definition excluding BDS
RON KAMPEAS/JTA
The Conversation, 26.03.2021
Why misogyny needs to be tackled in education from primary school
Louise Mullany, Loretta Trickett
EurekAlert!, 26.03.2021
Studying the health and wellbeing of police officers during the global pandemic
University of Huddersfield
EurekAlert!, 26.03.2021
Studying the health and wellbeing of police officers during the global pandemic
University of Huddersfield
New Statesman, 26.03.2021
The executed innocent: Why justice for Ethel Rosenberg still matters
Emily Tamkin
Washington Post, 27.03.2021
Gun-control activists gird for tough national fight in wake of deadly rampages: ‘We’re playing the long game’
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Brittany Shammas and Annie Gowen
Albany Times Union, 28.03.2021
Research reveals gaping racial disparities in suburban arrests
Pete DeMola, Paul Nelson
The MIT Press Reader, 29.03.2021
Tackling Hate Speech: In Conversation With Caitlin Ring Carlson
Zoë Kopp-Weber
The Conversation, 29.03.2021
Extremism in the UK: new definitions threaten human and civil rights
Chris Allen
The Conversation, 29.03.2021
Mass shootings are rare – firearm suicides are much more common, and kill more Americans
Lacey Wallace
The Conversation, 29.03.2021
Derek Chauvin trial begins in George Floyd murder case: 5 essential reads on police violence against Black men
Catesby Holmes
Open Democracy, 29.03.2021
Atlanta Asian massage parlor murders are a warning to the anti-trafficking sector
Jamison Liang
The Justice Gap, 30.03.2021
Study: Nine out of ten children in justice system ‘known or suspected’ to have been abused
Jon Robins
NBC4 Washington, 30.03.2021
Virginia Lawmakers Ban Police Use of Facial Recognition
Denise Lavoie and The Associated Press
Washington Post, 30.03.2021
Watchdog defends police handling of vigil that caused uproar in Britain
Karla Adam
EurekAlert!, 30.03.2021
Teachers can use popular media to address anti-Asian bias, KU research shows
University of Kansas
The Conversation, 30.03.2021
Mexico moves to legalize cannabis use, a modest step toward de-escalating drug war
Luis Gómez Romero
Washington Post, 30.03.2021
Opinion: The Kremlin may be slowly killing Alexei Navalny in prison. The world must not let it happen.
Vladimir Kara-Murza
The Conversation, 30.03.2021
Line of Duty: two ex-anti-corruption officers on how the police actually catch ‘bent coppers’
Sarah Jane Fox, James Holyoak
Women's Health, 31.03.2021
The Risk of Domestic Violence Increases Substantially When A Woman Earns More Than Her Male Partner
Newswise, 31.03.2021
Not Prosecuting Misdemeanors Reduces Likelihood of Re-arrest, New Study Finds
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Open Democracy, 31.03.2021
Germany’s COVID sceptics fuelled by Russian media and far-Right conspiracies
Darren Loucaides Alessio Perrone
New York Times, 31.03.2021
Your Tinder Match Will Soon Be Able to Run a Background Check on You
Karen Levy
