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Capital Public Radio, 02.05.2022
How behavioral threat assessment can stop mass shootings before they occur
Dave Davies
University of Michigan News, 02.05.2022
Increased organized activities could help reduce firearm violence among youth
Newswise, 02.05.2022
Researchers’ tools show who is most easily duped by “financial bullshit”
Linkoping University
Newswise, 02.05.2022
Untrained Disaster Responders Are More Prone to Suicide Years After World Trade Center Attack
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Phys.org, 02.05.2022
Weaponized grooming rhetoric is taking a toll on LGBTQ community and child sex abuse survivors
Bill Keveney
University of Missouri–St. Louis, 02.05.2022
Criminologist Richard Rosenfeld helps author new report calling for more nuanced look at recidivism
The Conversation, 02.05.2022
The photographer who fought the Sicilian Mafia for five decades
Robin Pickering-Iazzi
National Public Radio, 03.05.2022
Far-right militant groups align with issue-oriented groups ahead of midterms
University of Michigan News, 03.05.2022
Russia-Ukraine war: What to know about sanctions—their effects and effectiveness
Washington Post, 03.05.2022
Why Ukraine isn’t a ‘proxy war’ (yet?)
Analysis by Olivier Knox with research by Caroline Anders
The Guardian, 03.05.2022
Russia accuses Israel of backing ‘neo-Nazis’ in Kyiv as diplomatic row grows
Andrew Roth and Bethan McKernan
Newsweek, 03.05.2022
What Putin's General Was Doing in Ukraine, According to Top Secret Report
William M. Arkin
EurekAlert!, 04.05.2022
Chicago police data study yields index for identifying networks of criminal cops
Northwestern University
Delaware News Journal, 04.05.2022
How Wilmington is trying to leverage the power of trees in its effort to fight crime
Anitra Johnson
Chicago Sun Times, 04.05.2022
Compassion in policing would help cops, communities
Phil Andrew, Ed Frauenheim
The Conversation, 04.05.2022
Ukraine: the problem with Russia’s sanctions-busting arms industry
Daniel Salisbury
Spiegel.de, 04.05.2022
The Case of a Missing Ton of Cocaine Highlights the Dangers of the Drug Trade
Heiner Hoffmann
WTTW News, 05.05.2022
New Statistical Model Can Help Root Out Misconduct and Crime Among Chicago Police, Northwestern Study Says
Matt Masterson
The Conversation, 05.05.2022
To keep people — and their money — safe online, regulate dating platforms
Carlo Handy Charles
The Conversation, 05.05.2022
Enablers of political extremism: a checklist for West African countries
The University of Western Australia
Newswise, 05.05.2022
U.S. information warfare ‘fundamentally shapes conflict’ in Ukraine
Cornell University
The Conversation, 05.05.2022
How prisons are using COVID-19 containment measures as a guise for torture
Jessica Evans, Linda Mussell
The Conversation, 05.05.2022
Perpetrators of family violence sometimes use threats of suicide to control their partner
Scott Fitzpatrick
The Conversation, 05.05.2022
Wayne Couzens: Sarah Everard’s killer is appealing his whole-life sentence – what does that mean?
Nicole Westmarland
Reuters, 05.05.2022
The Bucha Brigades: Love letter, ID card point to Russian units that terrorised Bucha
spiegel.de, 06.05.2022
Putin's Disaster and What Could Happen Next
Christian Esch, Susanne Koelbl und Fritz Schaap
City of Cambridge, 06.05.2022
Results From National Police Research Study on Procedural Justice Published
The Guardian, 06.05.2022
How Victory Day became central to Putin’s idea of Russian identity
Shaun Walker
The Guardian, 06.05.2022
‘I didn’t believe stories of atrocities in Ukraine. But then I saw the photos’
Oxana Lytvynenko, as told to Weronika Strzyżyńska
New York Times, 06.05.2022
Death Toll During Pandemic Far Exceeds Totals Reported by Countries, W.H.O. Says
Benjamin Mueller and Stephanie Nolen
The Conversation, 06.05.2022
Billions spent on overseas counterterrorism would be better spent by involving ex-terrorists
Bernard Loesi
New York Times, 07.05.2022
Russia’s Grave Miscalculation: Ukrainians Would Collaborate
Andrew E. Kramer
Milwaukee Independent, 08.05.2022
Sociology of Evil: Why Ukraine’s new language of war uses Tolkien’s metaphor to express Russian brutality
Dаnylо Sυdyn
The Atlantic, 09.05.2022
The Overlooked Reason Russia’s Invasion Is Floundering
Phillips Payson O’Brien and Edward Stringer
New York Times, 09.05.2022
Clearview AI settles suit and agrees to limit sales of facial recognition database.
Ryan Mac and Kashmir Hill
Everyday Health, 09.05.2022
For the First Time Ever, Guns Caused More Deaths Than Car Accidents in Children and Teens
Becky Upham
The Conversation, 09.05.2022
Ukraine: Victory Day celebrations can’t mask how badly things are going for Vladimir Putin
Stefan Wolff, Tatyana Malyarenko
politico.com, 09.05.2022
Ukrainians unearth horrors near Kyiv, a month after Russian retreat
Christopher Miller
New York Times, 10.05.2022
What’s Next After California’s Scathing Police Audit?
Soumya Karlamangla and Luke Vander Ploeg
The Conversation, 10.05.2022
We need to pay better attention to the ways people talk about incels
Luc Cousineau
WBEZ, 10.05.2022
A new University of Chicago academy seeks to build better police leaders
Patrick Smith
Newsweek, 10.05.2022
Alexander Subbotin is 7th Russian Oligarch to Mysteriously Die This Year
Khaleda Rahman
New York Times, 10.05.2022
Gun deaths surged during the pandemic’s first year, the C.D.C. reports.
Roni Caryn Rabin and Tim Arango
spiegel.de, 10.05.2022
Inside the Final Days of the Frontex Chief
Giorgos Christides und Steffen Lüdke
NBC News, 11.05.2022
Many cities are putting hopes in violence interrupters, but few understand their challenges
Safia Samee Ali
Washington Post, 11.05.2022
When the sheriff waged a war on drugs in a Mississippi county
Jenn Abelson and Reena Flores
EurekAlert!, 11.05.2022
Study finds link between dropping permit requirement for carrying concealed weapons and increase in officer-involved shootings with civilian victims
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Newsweek, 12.05.2022
Russia Military Losses Could Be Double U.S. In Vietnam in Tenth of Time
Jess Thomson
EurekAlert!, 13.05.2022
UCF developing a scam screener to help protect the elderly
University of Central Florida
Northwestern University, 13.05.2022
‘We could not have anticipated the high mortality rate of our participants’
Stephanie Kulke
Washington Post, 13.05.2022
Wiretapping’s shift from a criminal tactic to a law enforcement tool
Grayson Clary
The Globe and Mail, 13.05.2022
Extreme intoxication can be used as a defence for violent crime, Supreme Court rules
Sean Fine
The Independent, 14.05.2022
‘Look for wires at your feet’: In Ukraine, investigators seek evidence of war crimes
Isabelle Khurshudyan
Rolling Stone, 14.05.2022
Ukraine’s Jewish Community Fights Back Against Russia’s Invasion — and Against Putin’s Lies
Nataliya Gumenyuk
Washington Post, 15.05.2022
Buffalo suspect allegedly inspired by racist theory fueling global carnage
Isaac Stanley-Becker and Drew Harwell
The Conversation, 15.05.2022
More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores – 13% of shooters are motivated by racial hatred, criminologists find
Jillian Peterson, James Densley
Washington Post, 15.05.2022
Hate is not at the root of most mass shootings
James Densley and Jillian Peterson
The Herald Scotland, 15.05.2022
'Unexplained' fires in Russia might not be much of a mystery ...
David Pratt
The Conversation, 16.05.2022
Grooming: an expert explains what it is and how to identify it
Michelle McManus
EurekAlert!, 16.05.2022
Departmental policies key to police officers’ decisions to activate body-worn cameras
Verve Times, 16.05.2022
Unanticipated high mortality rate of participants in multidecade juvenile justice study
Addrew Shawn
New York Times, 16.05.2022
The suspect recorded months’ worth of preparation in an online chat log.
Jonah E. Bromwich, Matthew Haag, Michael Levenson and Kellen Browning
The New Yorker Annals of War, 16.05.2022
The Turkish Drone That Changed the Nature of Warfare
Stephen Witt
Sacramento Bee, 17.05.2022
When will domestic violence turn fatal? California researchers found common thread in killings
Cathie Anderson
The Conversation, 17.05.2022
The UK government wants to crack down on knife crime – research can tell us why young people start carrying weapons
Iain Brennan
The Journalist's Resource, 18.05.2022
White supremacy: Research on cyber-racism and domestic terrorism
Denise-Marie Ordway
Behavioral Scientist, 18.05.2022
Behavioral Jurisprudence: Law Needs a Behavioral Revolution
Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine
EurekAlert!, 18.05.2022
Four-year college students drink more, use marijuana less than community college peers
Washington State University
TIME, 19.05.2022
Anti-Black Violence Has Long Been the Most Common American Hate Crime—And We Still Don't Know the Full Extent
Janell Ross
The Conversation, 19.05.2022
A quest for significance gone horribly wrong – how mass shooters pervert a universal desire to make a difference in the world
Arie Kruglanski
The Conversation, 19.05.2022
Putin could be charged with the crime of aggression for the Ukraine war – but it’s an expensive process with high stakes
Shelley Inglis
Irish Times, 19.05.2022
Nothing bad has ever happened: a tale of two genocides, the Holocaust and the Holodomor
New York Times, 19.05.2022
New Evidence Shows How Russian Soldiers Executed Men in Bucha
Yousur Al-Hlou, Masha Froliak, Evan Hill, Malachy Browne and David Botti
War on the Rocks, 19.05.2022
Intelligence and the War in Ukraine: Part 2
Neveen Shaaban Abdalla, Philip H. J. Davies, Kristian Gustafson, Dan Lomas, and Steven Wagner
wbur, 20.05.2022
How to stop online extremism from becoming offline violence
Nora Saks and Ben Brock Johnson
Pew Research Center, 20.05.2022
Safety concerns were top of mind for many Black Americans before Buffalo shooting
John Gramlich
Newswise, 20.05.2022
Fear, Social Context (Not Mental Illness) Fuel Violent Extremist Views
DePaul University
The Conversation, 20.05.2022
Russia’s blockade could cause mass famine beyond Ukraine – but it’s a crime without a name
Alexander Gillespie
The Conversation, 20.05.2022
Accused Buffalo mass shooter had threatened a shooting while in high school. Could more have been done to avert the tragedy?
James Densley, Jillian Peterson
spiegel.de, 20.05.2022
"Dealing with Horrible Leaders Is Part of the History of International Relations"
Bernhard Zand
Washington Post, 22.05.2022
From Sandy Hook to Buffalo: Ten years of failure on gun control
Ashley Parker, Tyler Pager and Colby Itkowitz
GNET Global Network on Extremism & Technology, 23.05.2022
Examining Incel Subculture on Reddit
Brenna Helm, Dr. Ryan Scrivens, Dr. Thomas J. Holt, Dr. Steven Chermak and Dr. Richard Frank
The Conversation, 23.05.2022
War crimes trial of Russian soldier was perfectly legal – but that doesn’t make it wise
Robert Goldman
The Conversation, 23.05.2022
Ideology matters in unravelling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Richard Meissner
The Conversation, 23.05.2022
The Heard v. Depp trial is not just a media spectacle – it is an opportunity to discuss the nuances of intimate partner violence
Kellie Lynch
Psychiatry Advisor, 23.05.2022
Effects of Experiencing Parental Domestic Violence on Achieving Optimal Mental Health in Adulthood
Jessica Nye
Washington Post, 24.05.2022
Biden voices grief and anger at shooting: ‘I am sick and tired of it’
Matt Viser and Colby Itkowitz
EurekAlert!, 24.05.2022
Teens with access to firearms found to be at higher risk for suicide
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Newsweek, 24.05.2022
'Defund the Police' Is Dead But Other Reform Efforts Thrive In U.S. Cities
Steve Friess
The Guardian, 24.05.2022
Ukraine destruction: how the Guardian documented Russia’s use of illegal weapons
Lorenzo Tondo and Isobel Koshiw
BBC News, 24.05.2022
Xinjiang Police Files: Inside a Chinese internment camp
John Sudworth and the Visual Journalism Team
CNN, 24.05.2022
'They were shooting directly at the journalists': New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces
Zeena Saifi, Eliza Mackintosh, Celine Alkhaldi, Kareem Khadder, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore
The Conversation, 25.05.2022
Niqab bans boost hate crimes against Muslims and legalize Islamophobia — Podcast
Vaishnavi Dandekar, Vinita Srivastava
The Conversation, 25.05.2022
After mass shootings like Uvalde, national gun control fails – but states often loosen gun laws
Christopher Poliquin
The Conversation, 25.05.2022
What we know about mass school shootings in the US – and the gunmen who carry them out
James Densley, Jillian Peterson
The Conversation, 26.05.2022
Mass shootings leave behind collective despair, anguish and trauma at many societal levels
Arash Javanbakht
The Conversation, 26.05.2022
6 charts shows key role firearms makers play in America’s gun culture
Michael Siegel
Newswise, 26.05.2022
Study Finds Link Between Youth Incarceration and Lifetime Suicide Risk
University at Albany
EurekAlert!, 26.05.2022
More young people begin recreational cannabis use illegally in states that legalize it
University of California
Newswise, 26.05.2022
School shooters tend to go down a ‘fatal grievance pathway,’ WVU researcher says
West Virginia University
The Conversation, 26.05.2022
Will the latest shooting of US children finally lead to gun reform? Sadly, that’s unlikely
Brendon O'Connor, Daniel Cooper
The Conversation, 26.05.2022
Death and horror in real time prove our almost limitless capacity for evil
Sanya Osha
Lawfare, 26.05.2022
The Legal Challenges Presented by Seizing Frozen Russian Assets
Scott R. Anderson, Chimène Keitner
The Guardian, 26.05.2022
The cold logic behind Russia’s crude, nihilistic tactics in Ukraine
Jack Watling
Authoritarian Tech, 26.05.2022
‘I felt like I was a prisoner’: The rapid rise of US immigration authorities’ electronic surveillance programs
Erica Hellerstein
The Conversation, 27.05.2022
US shootings: Norway and Finland have similar levels of gun ownership, but far less gun crime
Peter Squires
CNN, 27.05.2022
Exclusive: Leading experts accuse Russia of inciting genocide in Ukraine and intending to 'destroy' Ukrainian people
Ivana Kottasová
The Guardian, 27.05.2022
What hope is there for diplomacy in ending the Russia-Ukraine war?
Patrick Wintour
Washington Post, 28.05.2022
Uvalde: 90 minutes of terror, a failed police response and shattered trust
Tim Craig, Hannah Allam, Annie Gowen and Mark Berman
New York Times, 28.05.2022
Massacres Test Whether Washington Can Move Beyond Paralysis
Michael D. Shear
Washington Post, 28.05.2022
What school shootings do to the kids who survive them, from Sandy Hook to Uvalde
John Woodrow Cox
New York Times, 28.05.2022
Debate Over Guns Unfolds in Uvalde, a Rural Texas Town in Grief
Jack Healy and Natalie Kitroeff
New York Times, 29.05.2022
‘It Was the Wrong Decision,’ Police Say of Delay in Confronting Gunman
J. David Goodman, Edgar Sandoval, Karen Zraick and Rick Rojas
New York Times, 30.05.2022
From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the Violent Images Never Seen
Elizabeth Williamson
Chattanooga Times Free Press, 30.05.2022
Opinion: Why America doesn’t know how to stop school shootings
Julianna Goldman
Jurist, 30.05.2022
Responding to the National Crime Wave: New Framework Needed to Combat Recidivism
Jeffrey J. Clayton
The Conversation, 30.05.2022
The police won’t acknowledge institutional racism in their race action plan – here’s why that matters
Simon Peplow
Vox, 31.05.2022
A study gave cash and therapy to men at risk of criminal behavior. 10 years later, the results are in.
Sigal Samuel
The Conversation, 31.05.2022
The lasting consequences of school shootings on the students who survive them
Maya Rossin-Slater, Bokyung Kim, Hannes Schwandt, Marika Cabral, Molly Schnell
CT Mirror, 31.05.2022
To end gun violence we need to address poverty
Caitlin Elsaesser and Jacquelyn Santiago Nazario
New York Times, 31.05.2022
President Biden: What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
