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Todays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University

The Conversation, 01.02.2023

Tyre Nichols’ death underscores the troubled history of specialized police units

Ian T. Adams, Seth W. Stoughton

Washington Post, 01.02.2023

The tricks used by the powerful, including Trump, to avoid justice

Scott Turow

CBC, 01.02.2023

Why one researcher dubs drug decriminalization in B.C. an 'exciting', if flawed, experiment

Jon Hernandez

Newswise, 01.02.2023

Better eyewitness lineup improves accuracy, detecting innocence

Iowa State University

New York Times, 01.02.2023

A major police reform bill is back in the spotlight.

Remy Tumin

Project Syndicate, 01.02.2023

Death or Glory in Russia

Slavoj Žižek

Atlantic Council (Blog), 01.02.2023

Europe’s last empire: Putin’s Ukraine war exposes Russia’s imperial identity

Botakoz Kassymbekova

The Conversation, 02.02.2023

We’re missing opportunities to identify domestic violence perpetrators. This is what needs to change

Nicola Helps, Kate Fitz-Gibbon

The Guardian, 02.02.2023

‘Like being on a rollercoaster’: the man who caught Sicily’s last mafia boss

Lorenzo Tondo

The Conversation, 02.02.2023

Scammed: why the rich, famous and experts get duped more often than you think

Yaniv Hanoch, Stacey Wood Molly Mason Jones

Newswise, 02.02.2023

Moderate alcohol intoxication does not impair recall of sexual assault

University of Birmingham

Bloomberg, 02.02.2023

Governments and Business Are Key Partners Against Cybercrime

The Guardian, 02.02.2023

Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the limits of justice

Giles Tremlett

The Conversation, 02.02.2023

Beta blockers: how these common heart medications may reduce the risk of violence

Yasmina Molero, Seena Fazel

WIRED, 02.02.2023

The Kremlin Has Entered the Chat

Darren Loucaides

Grid, 03.02.2023

Why the FBI’s attempt to track police violence hasn’t worked

Khaya Himmelman

EurekAlert!, 03.02.2023

Life in a violent country can be years shorter and much less predictable – even for those not involved in conflict

University of Oxford

EurekAlert!, 03.02.2023

Commonly used police diversity training unlikely to change officers’ behavior, study finds

Washington University in St. Louis

The Conversation, 03.02.2023

Police traffic stops can alienate communities and lead to violent deaths like Tyre Nichols’ – is it time to rethink them?

Derek Epp, Megan Dias

The Guardian, 03.02.2023

Italian mob suspect Edgardo Greco found working as pizza chef after 16 years on run

The Guardian, 03.02.2023

‘Gets police out of the lives of drug users’: decriminalization move takes effect in Canadian province

Justin Ling

spiegel.de, 03.02.2023

EU Wants To Seal Itself Off from Refugees

Ralf Neukirch, Anna Reimann, Katrin Elger, Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt, Christoph Schult und Sara Sievert

BBC News, 04.02.2023

Interpol working out how to police the metaverse

Marc Cieslak & Tom Gerken

The Conversation, 05.02.2023

Drinking and suicide: How alcohol use increases risks, and what can be done about it

Simon Sherry

The Conversation, 06.02.2023

Scams, deepfake porn and romance bots: advanced AI is exciting, but incredibly dangerous in criminals’ hands

Brendan Walker-Munro

The Conversation, 06.02.2023

QAnon is spreading outside the US – a conspiracy theory expert explains what that could mean

Robert M. Dover

EurekAlert!, 06.02.2023

Children of overprotective parents tend to live less, study suggests

New York Times, 06.02.2023

Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It’s Been Rough Going.

Michael H. Keller and Kate Conger

The Conversation, 06.02.2023

Link between crime and politics in South Africa raises concerns about criminal gangs taking over

Sandy Africa

The Guardian, 06.02.2023

‘They used our hijabs to gag us’: Iran protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police

Deepa Parent and Ghoncheh Habibiazad

TIME, 06.02.2023

Why We Hate Being Scammed

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

BiometricUpdate.com, 06.02.2023

Netherlands’ face biometrics database for non-EU individuals comes under scrutiny

Alessandro Mascellino

The Conversation, 06.02.2023

What historic executions in London can tell us about our contemporary appetites for pain and vulnerability

Caterina Nirta

Forbes, 06.02.2023

The New Face Of Fraud- Marquee Education And Privileged Access

Roomy KhanContributor

The Conversation, 07.02.2023

Despite the Taliban’s pledge to eradicate opium, the poppy trade still flourishes in Afghanistan

Daniel Simms

The Conversation, 07.02.2023

Waste crime: how online advertising platforms are facilitating illegal dumping

Ray Purdy

The Conversation, 07.02.2023

Women can reliably remember if they gave sexual consent when intoxicated, new study suggests

Heather D. Flowe

The Conversation, 07.02.2023

Memphis police numbers dropped by nearly a quarter in recent years – were staffing shortages a factor in the killing of Tyre Nichols?

Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix, Scott M. Mourtgos

Reuters, 07.02.2023

Analysis: Canada's decriminalization experiment no match for toxic drug supply

Anna Mehler Paperny

Time, 07.02.2023

Why Russia Is So Determined To Capture Bakhmut

Yasmeen Serhan and Tara Law

The Conversation, 08.02.2023

Who is perpetrating domestic, sexual and family violence?

Michael Flood, Chay Brown, Kirsti Mills, Lula Dembele

New York Times, 08.02.2023

Congress Is Investing in Alternatives to Police. Can They Work?

Spencer Bokat-Lindell

The Conversation, 08.02.2023

To prevent child sexual abuse, we need to change our thinking — and stop exploitation before it happens

Ainslie Heasman

Newswise, 08.02.2023

Reforming police culture across nation a ‘shared responsibility’

Cornell University

EurekAlert!, 08.02.2023

Study finds support for second look sentencing

American Society of Criminology

The Independent, 08.02.2023

Bryan Kohberger was fired from WSU teaching job days before Idaho murders arrest, report says

Rachel Sharp

Futurity, 08.02.2023

Bias trainings for police don’t change behavior

Gerry Everding

The Conversation, 08.02.2023

How Black communities cope with trauma triggered by police brutality

Deion Scott Hawkins

The Conversation, 09.02.2023

Putin is now implicated in the downing of flight MH17 – so why is the investigation shutting down?

Amy Maguire

EurekAlert!, 09.02.2023

How a public health program can usher police, prisons into obsolescence

Northwestern University

EurekAlert!, 09.02.2023

'Just as Deadly': Inside the mind of a female serial killer

Book Announcement Penn State

EurekAlert!, 09.02.2023

Putting the brake on risky behaviors

Medical University of South Carolina

EurekAlert!, 09.02.2023

Love bytes: Researchers identify how scammers target victims on dating apps

Georgia State University

The Guardian, 09.02.2023

‘The kids need help’: how young people want adults to tackle gun violence

Abené Clayton

The Conversation, 09.02.2023

Wagner Group in Africa: Russia’s presence on the continent increasingly relies on mercenaries

Alessandro Arduino Affiliate

The Conversation, 09.02.2023

Five years after Parkland, school shootings haven’t stopped, and kill more people

David Riedman, James Densley, Jillian Peterson

EurekAlert!, 09.02.2023

USC Dornsife study shows California counties overseen by a coroner who is also sheriff underreport officer-involved deaths

University of Southern California

CoinGeek, 09.02.2023

Interpol working on policing the metaverse—but what’s a metaverse crime?

Steve Kaaru

The Conversation, 10.02.2023

How video evidence is presented in court can hold sway in cases like the beating death of Tyre Nichols

Sandra Ristovska

spiegel.de, 10.02.2023

A Year After Putin's Invasion: How Might the Violence in Ukraine Come to an End?

René Pfister, Ann-Dorit Boy und Matthias Gebauer

The Marshall Project, 11.02.2023

How Police Traffic Stops May Change After Tyre Nichols’ Death

Jamiles Lartey

The Guardian, 11.02.2023

Well, I never: AI is very proficient at designing nerve agents

John Naughton

Foreign Policy, 11.02.2023

It’s High Time to Decolonize Western Russia Studies

Artem Shaipov

Daily Mail Online, 12.02.2023

Memphis Police Department's 'SkyCop' cameras caught crucial footage of the Tyre Nichols beating: It’s more evidence that America's rapidly growing sur

Lewis Pennock

The Conversation, 12.02.2023

The draw of the ‘manosphere’: understanding Andrew Tate’s appeal to lost men

Ben Rich, Eva Bujalka

The Guardian, 12.02.2023

Prevent doesn’t stop radicalisation, and the Shawcross plan will just make it worse

Kenan Malik

New York Times, 12.02.2023

A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?

Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida

Washington Post, 13.02.2023

AI porn is easy to make now. For women, that’s a nightmare.

Tatum Hunter

InSight Crime, 13.02.2023

All of Colombia's Marijuana is 'Creepy,' Until It Isn't

HENRY SHULDINER AND YAGO ROSADO EN

Study Finds, 13.02.2023

Female serial killers typically motivated by money, chilling research reveals

The Hilltop, 13.02.2023

Police Culture Criticized After Tyre Nichols Murder

Tiasia Saunders

Meduza, 13.02.2023

‘I realized this isn’t my war’: New footage appears to show the sledgehammer murder of another former Wagner Group mercenary

The Conversation, 14.02.2023

Michigan State murders: What we know about campus shootings and the gunmen who carry them out

David Riedman, James Densley

Psychology Today, 14.02.2023

Are Black Cops Always Better for Black Communities?

Michael Pittaro

The Guardian, 14.02.2023

She asked the police to help her husband. They killed him instead

Sam Levin

Axios, 14.02.2023

Mass shootings leave Americans feeling helpless

Keldy Ortiz, Niala Boodhoo, Russell Contreras

Lawfare Blog Hard National Security Choices, 14.02.2023

The Lawfare Podcast: How the Police Became Untouchable

Jen Patja Howell

The Hub, 14.02.2023

‘Policing is failing Canadians’: Law professor Kent Roach on how and why it must change

The Conversation, 14.02.2023

Fear and loathing in New Zealand: an overdue examination of our ‘underworld of extremists’ is valuable but flawed

Chris Wilson

The Conversation, 14.02.2023

‘When he’s not on drugs, he’s a good person’ – one community’s story of meth use and domestic violence

Heith Copes, Fiona Brookman, Jared Ragland

The Nation, 14.02.2023

An Interview With the Taliban

Hasan Ali

The Conversation, 14.02.2023

Five years after Parkland shooting, a school psychologist offers insights on helping students and teachers deal with grief

Philip J. Lazarus

Tablet, 14.02.2023

Sy Hersh Swings and Misses Big

Lee Smith

The Conversation, 15.02.2023

Why do men who kill their families still receive sympathetic news coverage?

Denise Buiten

stuff.co.nz, 15.02.2023

Conspiracies and the climate of fear: Researcher Byron C Clark on the alt-right

Philip Matthews

EurekAlert!, 15.02.2023

Where do stolen bikes go?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

EurekAlert!, 15.02.2023

Being bullied is associated with mental distress and suicide attempts in teens

PLOS

EurekAlert!, 15.02.2023

Proactive policing may contribute to racial gap in preterm births

Drexel University

The Guardian, 15.02.2023

Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Manisha Ganguly, David Pegg, Carole Cadwalladr and Jason Burke

CBC News, 15.02.2023

Dalhousie researcher looks at how intimate partner violence affects older women

Josefa Cameron

The Conversation, 15.02.2023

How records of life’s milestones help solve cold cases, pinpoint health risks and allocate public resources

Paula Fomby

EurekAlert!, 15.02.2023

Long-term view can be effective in reducing dating and relationship violence in schools

University of Exeter

The Conversation, 15.02.2023

Ukraine war: ‘soccer plot’ raises fears of fresh Russian attempts to destabilise neighbouring Moldova

Stefan Wolff

London Review of Books Vol. 45 No. 4, 16.02.2023

Beyond Borders

Adam Shatz on Adolfo Kaminsky

The Conversation, 16.02.2023

What kinds of people ‘catfish’? Study finds they have higher psychopathy, sadism, and narcissism

Evita March

The Guardian, 16.02.2023

Joint enterprise prosecutions to be monitored for racial bias

Simon Hattenstone

The Conversation, 16.02.2023

COVID-19 restrictions unexpectedly reduced Islamic State violence – political science experts explain why

Jóhanna Kristín Birnir, Dawn Brancati

Boing Boing, 16.02.2023

Coded Bias and the Algorithm Justice League

Elías Villoro

Poynter, 16.02.2023

What counts as a mass shooting? The definition varies.

Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman

The Conversation, 16.02.2023

A year on, Russia’s war against Ukraine could go in three different directions

Florent Parmentier, Cyrille Bret

The Atlantic, 16.02.2023

AI Search Is a Disaster

Matteo Wong

The Conversation, 17.02.2023

Expert Q&A: why do people commit murder-suicides?

Sandra Flynn

EurekAlert!, 17.02.2023

Addressing social isolation may be key in preventing mass shootings, study finds

Virginia Commonwealth University

Financial Times, 17.02.2023

‘Not one inch’: unpicking Putin’s deadly obsession with the details of history

Mary Elise Sarotte

Project Syndicate, 17.02.2023

The Russian Way of War

Adam Zamoyski

The Conversation, 17.02.2023

Expert Q&A: why do people commit murder-suicides?

Sandra Flynn

Project Syndicate, 17.02.2023

The Dark Side of Neutrality

Slavoj Žižek

The Conversation, 20.02.2023

How queuing leads to city centre violence and what our research says about preventing night-time brawls

Thomas Woolley, James White, Simon C Moore

The Conversation, 20.02.2023

Machine learning is helping police work out what people on the run now look like

Peter Hancock, Charlie Frowd

spiegel.de, 20.02.2023

How a Covert Firm Spreads Lies and Chaos Around the World

Christo Buschek, Maria Christoph, Jörg Diehl, Roman Höfner, Heiner Hoffmann, Max Hoppenstedt, Roman Lehberger, Ann-Katrin Müller, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer, Marcel Rosenbach u.a.

The Conversation, 20.02.2023

Islamist terrorism is rising in the Sahel, but not in Chad – what’s different?

Helga Dickow

The Conversation, 20.02.2023

Why Ukraine should not become a testing ground for the world’s new weapons

Lauren Sanders

The Conversation, 20.02.2023

Debate: ChatGPT offers unseen opportunities to sharpen students’ critical skills

Erika Darics, Lotte van Poppel

Study Finds, 20.02.2023

Is social isolation the first red flag someone could become a mass shooter?

John Anderer

Neuroscience News, 20.02.2023

Domestic Abuse in Pregnancy Linked to Structural Brain Changes in Babies

University of Bath

New York Times, 20.02.2023

The Problem With Russia Is Russia

Oksana Zabuzhko

Washington Post, 21.02.2023

Fatal police shootings are still going up, and nobody knows why

Steven Rich, Andrew Ba Tran and Jennifer Jenkins

The Conversation, 21.02.2023

How Putin has shrugged off unprecedented economic sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine – for now

Peter Rutland

The New Yorker, 21.02.2023

Russia, One Year After the Invasion of Ukraine

Keith Gessen

Human Rights Watch, 21.02.2023

How To Investigate a War Crime

The Conversation, 21.02.2023

War in Ukraine accelerates global drive toward killer robots

James Dawes

Euronews, 21.02.2023

How the death of an American in the 2015 Paris attacks could change internet law

Jonny Walfisz

New York Times, 21.02.2023

Supreme Court Seems Wary of Limiting Protections for Social Media Platforms

Adam Liptak

EurekAlert!, 22.02.2023

Association of pandemic with unsafe living situations, intimate partner violence among pregnant individuals

JAMA Network

The Conversation, 22.02.2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is proof the EU needs to get better at stopping mass atrocities

Chiara De Franco, Christoph Meyer, Karen E. Smith

Popular Science, 22.02.2023

Police brutality is an unaddressed public health crisis in America

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

The Conversation, 22.02.2023

Ukraine war 12 months on: how Volodymyr Zelensky became the nation’s unlikely hero

Jennifer Mathers

The Hoya, 22.02.2023

The Intersection || A Public Health Approach to the Gun Violence Epidemic

Keerthana Ramanathan

Police1, 22.02.2023

What I see in you: Surviving a toxic police department

Nicholas Greco

The Conversation, 23.02.2023

Violent extremists are not lone wolves – dispelling this myth could help reduce violence

Alexander Hinton

The Trace, 23.02.2023

These Philadelphia Researchers Want Journalists to Tell Better Stories About Gun Violence

Afea Tucker

The Globe and Mail, 23.02.2023

Police-involved fatal incidents on the rise in Canada despite promises to curb violence

Colin Freeze

Axios, 23.02.2023

Loosening limits on police pursuits divides lawmakers

Melissa Santos

The Guardian, 23.02.2023

The ruin of a city

Shaun Walker, Isobel Koshiw, Pjotr Sauer, Morten Risberg, Liz Cookman and Luke Harding

Verfassungsblog, 23.02.2023

ChatGPT in Colombian Courts

Juan David Gutiérrez

Financial Times, 23.02.2023

How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down

Max Seddon, Christopher Miller, Felicia Schwartz

EurekAlert!, 24.02.2023

The far-reaching consequences of child abuse

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

The Conversation, 24.02.2023

How to avoid falling victim to an online scam – research says slow down

Yaniv Hanoch, Nicholas J. Kelley

The Conversation, 24.02.2023

Misogyny in policing: how some male officers abuse their power over female victims and colleagues

Emma Cunningham

Phys.org, 24.02.2023

Algorithms were supposed to reduce bias in criminal justice, but do they?

Molly Callahan

The Guardian, 24.02.2023

How will the war in Ukraine develop during 2023? Our panel look ahead

Emma Ashford, Timothy Garton Ash, Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan, Sevim Dağdelen, Frank Ledwidge and Andriy Yermak

Verfassungsblog, 24.02.2023

What can(’t) international criminal justice deliver for Ukraine?

Andreas Schüller

Meduza, 25.02.2023

‘Russia ends nowhere,’ they say: Sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next

Margarita Liutova

The Conversation, 26.02.2023

Can ideology-detecting algorithms catch online extremism before it takes hold?

Rohit Ram, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

The New Yorker Letter from Israel, 27.02.2023

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of Chaos

Ruth Margalit

EurekAlert!, 27.02.2023

Lum and Koper receive funding for application of evidence-based policing to investigations in Seattle police department

George Mason University

EurekAlert!, 27.02.2023

Gun violence spills into new neighborhoods as gentrification displaces drug crime, according to WVU study

West Virginia University

The Marshall Project, 27.02.2023

What the Panic Over Shoplifting Reveals About American Crime Policy

Lakeidra Chavis

The Guardian, 27.02.2023

Ukrainian Nobel peace laureate calls for special tribunal to try Putin

Jennifer Rankin

The Guardian, 27.02.2023

Iranian officials to investigate ‘revenge’ poisoning of schoolgirls

Stanford HAI, 27.02.2023

How Social Media Shapes Our Perceptions About Crime

Nikki Goth Itoi

The Conversation, 27.02.2023

Can mass atrocities be prevented? This course attempts to answer the question

Mike Brand

Police Professional, 27.02.2023

‘The MPS is too big to govern’

Dr John Fox

The Guardian, 27.02.2023

MPs urge crackdown on pornography to tackle violence against women

Dan Milmo

The Guardian, 27.02.2023

‘This is not unique at all’: inside a devastating film about sexual grooming

Adrian Horton

Verfassungsblog, 28.02.2023

„Like Handing My Whole Life Over“

Francesca Palmiotto / Derya Ozkul

EurekAlert!, 28.02.2023

Internet treatment program to prevent child sexual abuse launched in several languages

Karolinska Institutet

New York Post, 28.02.2023

US murderers stand a 50% chance of getting away with it, new report finds

Lee Brown

Mother Jones, 28.02.2023

The Prison Professor

Toronto Star, 28.02.2023

The path to rebuilding trust between the police and the community

Ahmad Attia

Vox, 28.02.2023

How traffic stops became so dangerous for Black drivers.

Marin Cogan

The Conversation, 28.02.2023

Mocking the police got an Ohio man arrested – and the Supreme Court ignored The Onion’s plea to define the limits of parody

Jane E. Kirtley

Newswise, 28.02.2023

Study Finds Association Between Lifetime Experiences of Discrimination and Incidence of Dementia

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

The Conversation, 28.02.2023

30 years later, Waco siege still resonates – especially among anti-government extremists

Art Jipson, Paul J. Becker

New York Times, 28.02.2023

We’ve Been Talking About the Lab-Leak Hypothesis All Wrong

David Wallace-Wells