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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Conversation, 01.11.2022
Police officer resignations have risen by 72% in the last year – we asked former officers why
Jemma Tyson, Sarah Charman
Newswise, 01.11.2022
Reducing Childhood Poverty Could Cut Criminal Convictions by Almost a Quarter, Study Shows
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado
The Guardian, 01.11.2022
Crowd crushes: how disasters like Itaewon happen, how can they be prevented, and the ‘stampede’ myth
Samantha Lock
ABC News, 01.11.2022
Police's body-worn cameras have both benefits and limitations for domestic violence victims
Sophie Kesteven and Damien Carrick
Lab Manager, 01.11.2022
Study Finds Mass School Shootings Are Not Caused by Mental Illness
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Newswise, 01.11.2022
Study Finds Vascular Neck Restraint Used by Law Enforcement Officers Is Safe and Effective
William P. Bozeman,
The Conversation, 02.11.2022
Burglars steal more gold when the price is high – new research
Arnaud Chevalier, Nils Braakmann, Tanya Wilson
The Conversation, 02.11.2022
Ukraine war: lessons from the Blitz suggest Russia’s targeting of cities could backfire
Tim Luckhurst
The Conversation, 02.11.2022
Cannabis holds promise for pain management, reducing the need for opioid painkillers – a neuropharmacology expert explains how
Benjamin Land
New York Times, 02.11.2022
Russian Military Leaders Discussed Use of Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Officials Say
Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
Stanford University, 02.11.2022
Police Facebook Posts Disproportionately Highlight Crimes Involving Black Suspects, Study Finds
Monica Schreiber, Stephanie Ashe
Verfassungsblog, 02.11.2022
Foreign Agents, Diplomatic Skirmishes and the Law on Diplomatic and Consular Relations
Raphael Oidtmann
New York Times, 02.11.2022
The Untold Story of ‘Russiagate’ and the Road to War in Ukraine
Jim Rutenberg
Foreign Affairs November/December 2022, 03.11.2022
Russia’s Dangerous Decline
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Michael Kofman
The Conversation, 03.11.2022
Eco-activist attacks on museum artwork ask us to figure out what we value
Sally Hickson
EurekAlert!, 03.11.2022
Deprivation may explain the link between early adversity and developmental outcomes in adolescence
Association for Psychological Science
LSE Blogs, 03.11.2022
Community policing may offset declines in Latinx domestic violence reporting when deportation fears are high
Ashley N. Muchow
The Conversation, 03.11.2022
Political violence in America isn’t going away anytime soon
Richard Forno
EurekAlert!, 03.11.2022
Pilot study finds school-based prevention program shows promise educating young adolescents about avoiding child sexual abuse behaviors
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Conversation, 04.11.2022
How can black people feel safe and have confidence in policing?
Clare Torrible
Washington Post, 04.11.2022
Spate of global assassination attempts hints at a violent new era
Adam Taylor
The Conversation, 04.11.2022
Facial recognition: why we shouldn’t ban the police from using it altogether
Asress Adimi Gikay
spiegel.de, 04.11.2022
Beijing's Long Arm: China's Secret Police Stations in Europe
Francesco Collini, Christoph Giesen, Tobias Großekemper, Roman Lehberger, Nadia Pantel, Maik Baumgärtner und Ann-Katrin Müller
The Guardian, 04.11.2022
Sixty years ago, true statecraft avoided a nuclear war. We need that again over Ukraine
Jonathan Steele
The Conversation, 04.11.2022
Iran: hijab protests reflect society-wide anger at regime which trashes rule of law and human rights
Saeed Bagheri
Financial Times, 04.11.2022
Kherson residents describe reign of terror under Russian rule
Christopher Miller
CNN, 06.11.2022
What critics of progressive prosecution get wrong about crime spikes and the reform movement
Eva McKend and Brandon Tensley
SciTechDaily, 06.11.2022
Columbia Mass Murder Database Reveals Mass School Shootings Are Not Caused by Mental Illness
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
The Conversation, 07.11.2022
Armed conflict and climate change: how these two threats play out in Africa
Halvard Buhaug
EurekAlert!, 07.11.2022
At overdose events, arrests by police and combative behavior are rare, study finds
Brown University
University of Sheffield, 07.11.2022
New report reveals link between online and offline violence against women journalists
EurekAlert!, 07.11.2022
Study reveals vaccine confidence declined considerably during COVID-19 pandemic
University of Portsmouth
The Conversation, 07.11.2022
How a divided America, including the 15% who are ‘MAGA Republicans,’ splits on QAnon, racism and armed patrols at polling places
Garen Wintemute
The Conversation, 07.11.2022
Why some people think fascism is the greatest expression of democracy ever invented
Mark R Reiff
Telegraph, 07.11.2022
More jail time not a deterrent as criminals don’t think police will catch them
Charles Hymas
Minnesota Public Radio, 07.11.2022
Could crime prevention begin with addressing childhood trauma? An expert weighs in
Cathy Wurzer and Ellen Finn
The Conversation, 08.11.2022
Jihadism and military takeovers in West Africa: Burkina Faso coup highlights the links
Folahanmi Aina
EurekAlert!, 08.11.2022
New Psychological Science findings link local prejudice to police militarization, offer hope for fostering belief in science
Association for Psychological Science
EurekAlert!, 08.11.2022
Violence on TV: the effects can stretch from age 3 into the teens
University of Montreal
Mirage.News, 08.11.2022
Project TARGET: Fatal firearm violence down by 50% since ’90s of previous century
POLICE Magazine, 08.11.2022
The Case for De-Escalation Training: Doing Right by Officers and Communities
Morgan Steele and Tamara J. Lynn
The Conversation, 08.11.2022
Insurance fraud costs $309 billion a year – nearly $1,000 for every American
Michael Skiba
EurekAlert!, 08.11.2022
Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health
Desert Research Institute
EurekAlert!, 09.11.2022
Nazi propaganda from 1927–1945 reveals role of dehumanization of Jews in the Holocaust
PLOS
MediaNama, 09.11.2022
How Can Surveillance Technologies Perpetuate Police Abuse of Powers? A report explores
Aarathi Ganesan
India Education Diary, 09.11.2022
University of Michigan: Extreme risk protection orders assist in preventing mass shooting events, study shows
The Conversation, 09.11.2022
Crime is lower when cities are greener: evidence from South Africa supports the link
The Conversation, 09.11.2022
Why magical thinking is so widespread – a look at the psychological roots of common superstitions
Dimitris Xygalatas
The Conversation, 10.11.2022
Extremists use video games to recruit vulnerable youth. Here’s what parents and gamers need to know
Helen Young
The Conversation, 10.11.2022
Soup on Van Gogh and graffiti on Warhol: climate activists follow the long history of museums as a site of protest
Kylie Message
Newswise, 10.11.2022
Transparency, amnesty may boost reports of sexual violence
University of Washington School of Medicine and UW Medicine
EurekAlert!, 10.11.2022
New study suggests evolutionary forces are behind collective discrimination
MIT Sloan School of Management
Coda Story, 10.11.2022
As anxiety about crime peaks, US cities look to surveillance tech. But does it actually work?
Erica Hellerstein
Business Wire, 10.11.2022
New Esri Book Shows How Law Enforcement Agencies Can Take a Geographic Approach to Policing
The Conversation, 10.11.2022
Seoul Halloween crush: understanding the science of crowds could help prevent disasters – here’s how
Martyn Amos
PsyPost, 10.11.2022
Disproportionate experiences with sexual violence help explain gender differences in mental health problems
Eric W. Dolan
The Conversation, 11.11.2022
Survey reveals worrying trend in conspiracy theories that deny terrorist attacks ever happened
Bobby Duffy
The Conversation, 11.11.2022
Cybercrime insurance is making the ransomware problem worse
Subhajit Basu
EurekAlert!, 11.11.2022
Study explored the impact of the Russian invasion on mental health in Ukraine 2014
University of Turku
The Conversation, 11.11.2022
What do we know about REvil, the Russian ransomware gang likely behind the Medibank cyber attack?
Andrew Goldsmith
The Conversation, 13.11.2022
Abuse is widely accepted as part of organized sports culture but it should not be tolerated
Joanna Pozzulo, Emily Pica
KSLTV, 14.11.2022
Violent sexual predators use dating apps as ‘hunting grounds,’ BYU study finds
Daniella Rivera
EurekAlert!, 14.11.2022
Recent research analyzes complex criminal networks with new statistical tools
Bocconi University
The Pew Charitable Trusts Stateline, 14.11.2022
Health Harms of Mass Shootings Ripple Across Communities
Michael Ollove
The Conversation, 15.11.2022
Seoul crowd crush: history suggests authorities may try to blame the victims
Toby Butler
EurekAlert!, 15.11.2022
To reduce racial inequality in the criminal justice system, government should explore ways to reduce police stops, detention, and long sentences, says
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
EurekAlert!, 15.11.2022
Patented new technology creates 'digital alibis' by combining voice and location data
University of South Florida
politico.eu, 15.11.2022
Hey Putin, where you gonna run to?
Tristan Fiedler, Wilhelmine Preussen and Zoya Sheftalovich
Courthouse News Service, 15.11.2022
A long-awaited verdict for passenger plane atrocity blamed on Russia
Molly Quell
The Conversation, 16.11.2022
Antisemitism isn’t just ‘Jew-hatred’ – it’s anti-Jewish racism
Dov Waxman
The Conversation, 16.11.2022
317,793 people were arrested for marijuana possession in 2020 despite the growing legalization movement
Katharine Neill
EurekAlert!, 16.11.2022
Unsecured handguns account for the majority of firearm suicide deaths in the United States
The Guardian, 16.11.2022
Arrest of mafia drug-trafficker on Europol’s most wanted list shrouded in mystery
Angela Giuffrida
Phys.org, 16.11.2022
Police encounters get moment-by-moment analysis in new study
Jessica Taylor Price
EurekAlert!, 17.11.2022
Pregnant trauma patients with certain injury patterns should be screened for intimate partner violence during their hospital stay
American College of Surgeons
The People’s Vanguard of Davis, 17.11.2022
Jailing People for Minor Drug Offenses Hasn’t Worked, Study Claims – Now Illinois Hopes to Avoid Dead-End Drug Arrests
Michael McCutcheon and Citlalli Florez
Vanity Fair, 17.11.2022
Inside Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Gilded Florida Paradise—Far From Donald Trump or 2024
Emily Jane Fox
The Conversation, 17.11.2022
Even a limited nuclear war could devastate the world’s oceans: here’s what our modelling shows
Tyler Rohr , Cheryl Harrison , Kim Scherrer , Ryan Heneghan
The Conversation, 18.11.2022
Diverting children away from the criminal justice system gives them a chance to ‘grow out’ of crime
Faith Gordon
The Conversation, 18.11.2022
Locking up kids has serious mental health impacts and contributes to further reoffending
Pat Dudgeon
Sidney Morning Herald, 20.11.2022
This is not spoken about’: Gold, cars, property demanded in cases of dowry abuse
Wendy Tuohy
New York Times, 20.11.2022
Videos Suggest Captive Russian Soldiers Were Killed at Close Range
Malachy Browne, Stephen Hiltner, Chevaz Clarke-Williams and Taylor Turner
National Institute of Justice, 21.11.2022
The Safe Communities Safe Schools Model: An Assessment of Model Implementation and Outcomes
The Conversation, 21.11.2022
Red flag laws and the Colorado LGBTQ club shooting – questions over whether state’s protection order could have prevented tragedy
Alex McCourt
The Conversation, 21.11.2022
Rappers are victims of an epidemic of gun violence – just like all of America
A.D. Carson
CNN November, 21.11.2022
How Iran's security forces use rape to quell protests
Tamara Qiblawi, Barbara Arvanitidis, Nima Elbagir, Alex Platt, Artemis Moshtaghian, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Celine Alkhaldi and Muhammad Jambaz
The Conversation, 22.11.2022
Why do kids bully? And what can parents do about it?
Mandie Shean, Edith Cowan
The Conversation, 22.11.2022
The criminal justice system is retraumatizing victims of violent crime
Jeffrey Bradley Ph.D.
EurekaAlert!, 22.11.2022
It is still too early to use artificial intelligence for criminal justice, says Concordia PhD student
The Conversation, 23.11.2022
Eyewitness misidentification is the leading cause of known wrongful convictions
Joanna Pozzulo , Emily Pia
The Appeal, 23.11.2022
Youth Curfews Feed Kids into the Criminal System. But Cities Keep Expanding Them.
Tara Francis Chan
Washington Post, 23.11.2022
Flow of Russian gas and cash entangled German state in dependent web
Loveday Morris, Kate Brady and Souad Mekhennet
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/602757233/new-center-takes-aim-at-rising-community-violence, 23.11.2022
New Center Takes Aim at Rising Community Violence
Maryland Today
The Conversation, 24.11.2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the impacts of gender-based violence worse
Watetu wa Gichuki
The Conversation, 24.11.2022
Ukraine war: EU parliament names Russia a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ – but it won’t stop the missiles
Scott Lucas
The Conversation, 24.11.2022
Why do so many people get away with rape? Police officers, survivors, lawyers and prosecutors on the scandal that shames the justice system
John Fox Senior
The Conversation, 24.11.2022
Autism and ADHD: the youth justice system is harming neurodivergent children
Anne-Marie Day
The Conversation, 25.11.2022
The Qatar World Cup is beaming misogyny around the world
Sophie King-Hill
The Guardian, 26.11.2022
Revealed: half of English police forces fail to meet standards in crime investigations
Chaminda Jayanetti and Mark Townsend
Washington Post, 26.11.2022
Ukrainians remember suffering inflicted by Stalin, Putin 90 years apart
David L. Stern and Francesca Ebel
The Stylist, 26.11.2022
Women have been “systematically failed” by the criminal justice system, admits senior police chief following reporting into misogyny and misconduct
Amy Beecham
The Guardian, 26.11.2022
The power of women: acclaimed Italian author Elena Ferrante on patriarchy and protest in Iran
Shiva Akhavan Rad
Washington Post, 27.11.2022
America’s homicide rate has surged. In 9 cities, loved ones tell the story of lives lost.
Washington Post Staff
The Conversation, 28.11.2022
Workplace killers: people kill their colleagues for different reasons than other shooters
Laura Robinson
EurekaAlert!, 28.11.2022
Legalization of recreational cannabis linked with increased alcohol drinking
University of Pittsburgh
The Guardian, 28.11.2022
If the secret police had a file on you, why wouldn’t you want to see it? Ask the Germans spied on by the Stasi
Laura Spinney
Poynter, 28.11.2022
19 states have red flag laws, but they are rarely used to stop gun violence
Al Tompkins
The New Yorker A Reporter at Large December 5, 2022, 28.11.2022
How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle
Ava Kofman
The Conversation, 28.11.2022
Cannabis is no better than a placebo for treating pain – new research
Filip Gedin
Newswise, 29.11.2022
Pregnant women’s cannabis usage in legalized US states raises calls for screening
Taylor & Francis
The Conversation, 29.11.2022
Child sexual abuse review: how research can help to tackle growing online abuse
Samantha Lundrigan
Riverfront Times, 29.11.2022
Missouri Executes Kevin Johnson, 37, for 2005 Slaying of Kirkwood Officer
Monica Obradovic
EurekaAlert!, 30.11.2022
Individuals’ cognitive transformations key to understanding desistance from crime
American Society of Criminology
ZME Science, 30.11.2022
San Francisco police will be allowed to use killer robots (when all else fails)
Tibi Puiu
The Conversation, 30.11.2022
20 years of tracking sexual harassment at work shows little improvement. But that could be about to change
Lisa Heap
The Conversation, 30.11.2022
Oath Keepers convictions shed light on the limits of free speech – and the threat posed by militias
Amy Cooter
The Journalist's Resource, 30.11.2022
Can red flag laws curb gun violence? Here’s what the research says.
Clark Merrefield
Carolina Public Press, 30.11.2022
A conversation on AI-powered gunshot detection with a police technology expert
Ben Sessoms
The Conversation, 30.11.2022
Black Twitter’s expected demise would make it harder to publicize police brutality and discuss racism
Deion Scott Hawkins
