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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Atlantic ( USA), 01.12.2013
Machiavelli Was Right
The shocking lesson of The Prince isn’t that politics demands dirty hands, but that politicians shouldn’t care.
Michael Ignatieff Nov 20 2013, 9:07 PM ET
Hartford Courant online, 01.12.2013
In Lanza's Chilling Book, A Search For Psychological Clues
By ALAINE GRIFFIN and JOSH KOVNER, agriffin@courant.com; jkovner@courant.com The Hartford Courant
Huffington Post, 01.12.2013
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Bombing Suspect, Has Life Or Death Resting In Attorney General
Sebastian Murdock
MetroNews Canada, 01.12.2013
Why Canada banned pot (science had nothing to do with it)
Staff Torstar News Service
theguardian.com, 01.12.2013
Restorative justice pilot scheme to begin at 10 courts
Project aims to cut reoffending rates and help victims move on from crime
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
Toledo Blade, 01.12.2013
We’re locked and loaded with fear
Most Americans think gun violence is more of a problem now than ever before
Corrections.com, 02.12.2013
Juvenile Injustice
By James Alan Fox, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy, Northeastern University
Ninemsn-, 02.12.2013
Corruption risk rises with police success
Law enforcement success in tackling organised crime could drive criminals to make more efforts to corrupt public officials to gain inside information, a new study says.
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 02.12.2013
Prescription opioid abusers prefer to get high on oxycodone and hydrocodone
Researchers investigate factors that influence the choice of abused drugs, reports PAIN®
Metro Monday, 02.12.2013
Metro Monday
The introduction of 24-hour drinking failed to reduce rates of alcohol-related violence, researchers say.
Mancunian Matters, 02.12.2013
All-night drinking law fails to reduce street violence in Manchester, study reveals
Tim Hyde
Herald Sun, 02.12.2013
Crime gangs could target public officials using social networks to corrupt them, Australian Institute of Criminology study finds
Peter Mickelburough Freedom of Information Editor Herald Sun
The Guardian, 02.12.2013
Work and surveillance in a post-Snowden world
How does spying affect us all? Security expert Ross Anderson puts on different hats and imagines what it's like to work in this new world
Ross Anderson
EurekAlert!, 02.12.2013
Energy drinks plus alcohol pose a public health threat
ANN ARBOR—Mixing energy drinks with alcohol is riskier than just drinking alcohol alone, according to a new study that examines the impact of a growing trend among young adults.
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, 02.12.2013
Rap Lyrics a Critique of ‘Racist’ Law Enforcement: Drexel U. Law Professor
Chicago Bureau Staff and Eliza Larson
Haaretz, 02.12.2013
How decriminalizing addiction and prostitution could save a Tel Aviv neighborhood
After studying the denizens of one of the most derelict spots in Israel two researchers recommend providing the down-and-out with safe spaces for 'deviant' behavior.
By Ilan Lior
Los Angeles Times, 03.12.2013
Immigrants less prone to violence, 'antisocial' behavior, study says
Emily Alpert Reyes
Eurasia Review, 03.12.2013
The Relationship Between Italian Mafias And Mexican Drug Cartels: A Comparison
Sergio Corrado
The Star-Ledger, 03.12.2013
Study: Parolees less likely to commit new crimes than prisoners who 'max out'
Ex-inmates who were released on parole were 36 percent less likely to commit new crimes than those who served their full sentence behind bars, a study released Monday found.
Ryan Hutchins/The Star-Ledger
TIME, 03.12.2013
The Downside of Corporate Social Responsibility
Beware today's do-gooding companies or CEOs. They're often most likely to do-bad tomorrow.
Express.co.uk-, 03.12.2013
Young fans used as flare 'mules'
A new campaign is being launched to warn of the dangers of fans using flares and smoke bombs after it was revealed children as young as eight have been used as 'mules' to smuggle pyrotechnic devices into football grounds.
BBC News-, 03.12.2013
Met to look into its handling of sexual assault reports
The way rape and sexual assault reports are looked into by the Metropolitan Police is to be investigated following allegations that officers have fiddled crime figures to meet targets.
Business Insider, 03.12.2013
Why Bitcoin (And Other Cryptocurrencies) Will Inevitably Become Tools Of The Rich, Powerful, and Criminal
E.J. Fagan
Huffington Post, 03.12.2013
The FBI COINTELPRO Program and the Fred Hampton Assassination
G. Flint Taylor
BBC New, 03.12.2013
Why violent crime is so rare in Iceland
Police in Iceland have shot dead a gunman - the first time armed police have killed someone in the country.
SPIEGEL ONLINE, 04.12.2013
Germany May Revise Up Statistics in Far-Right Killings
German authorities may have to sharply revise statistics for the number of people killed by right-wing extremists since 1990. The official figure is around 60, but police combing through unsolved cases have identified a further 746 suspicious slayings or attacks.
The Verge, 04.12.2013
The Death Dealer
'Secret' guru James Arthur Ray led three people to their deaths... and now he's at it again
By Matt Stroud on December 4, 2013 10:14 am Email @ssttrroouudd
Sunshine State News, 04.12.2013
Congressional Study: Murder Rate Nearly Halved from 1994 as Gun Ownership Soared
A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that while gun ownership climbed from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009, crime fell—and fell sharply.
Washington Post, 04.12.2013
Social networks can help predict gun violence
Andrew V. Papachristos is an associate professor of sociology at Yale University.
Andrew V. Papachristos,
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, 04.12.2013
In mass killings, smallest victims bear biggest burden
Adam Lanza killed his mother and then 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012. / AP
The Epoch Times, 04.12.2013
A New Approach to Dealing with Gun Violence
'From Virginia Tech to the Navy Yard' recommends state policy changes
By Mary Silver
CNN-December, 04.12.2013
After Snowden, we're self-censoring and we don't care
Since Edward Snowden released more than 200,000 classified documents, some writers say they have censored theSuzanne Nosselmselves.
Suzanne Nossel
CNN (blog), 04.12.2013
Did America learn anything from Newtown tragedy?
Watch Global Lessons on Guns, a Fareed Zakaria GPS primetime special, this Sunday at 7 p.m. ET on CNN
Baltimore Sun (blog), 04.12.2013
Safe Streets prevention program faces questions after indictment
Nathan Barksdale was anti-violence outreach worker, now accused of dealing heroin
By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun
Rolling Stone, 04.12.2013
Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
How two alienated, angry geeks broke the story of the year
Janet Reitman
The Nation December 4, 2013, 04.12.2013
The Rise of the Islamic Feminists
Muslim women are fighting for their rights from within Islamic tradition, rather than against it.
Elizabeth Segran
Sacramento News & Review, 05.12.2013
Desperately seeking justice
When a Sacramento sex worker is assaulted, the system often By Raheem F. Hosseini and Scott Thomas Andersontreats her like a criminal instead of a victim
New York University, 05.12.2013
Study Points to Differences in High-School Crack, Powder Cocaine Use
The use of crack and powder cocaine both varies and overlaps among high school seniors, researchers at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center have found.
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 05.12.2013
More alcohol and traffic laws mean fewer traffic deaths, NYU Steinhardt study concludes
States with a higher number of alcohol- and traffic-related laws have a lower proportion of traffic deaths than do states with fewer such laws on the books, a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development has found.
The Guardian, 05.12.2013
We need to get tough on extremism – in all its forms
A taskforce set up after the death of Lee Rigby takes a much-needed muscular approach to both the far right and Islamist extremism
Matthew Goodwin
theguardian.com, 05.12.2013
Say no to late-night venues using biometric surveillance
The introduction of ID-scanning programs in Sydney clubs should set alarm bells ringing. The ability to use new technology is a wholly insufficient reason to implement it
Asher Wolf
Huffington Post, 05.12.2013
The Rich And Educated Believe Wealth Correlates With Virtue, Says Study
Eric Zuesse, Investigative historian
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 05.12.2013
When it comes to peer pressure, teens are not alone
It is well known that teenagers take risks—and when they do, they like to have company. Teens are five times likelier to be in a car accident when in a group than when driving alone, and likelier to commit a crime or drink alcohol when with a group of peers.
PopMatters-, 06.12.2013
The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America
By Todd R. Clear, Natasha A. Frost 5 December 2013
Excerpted from Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America (footnotes omitted) by Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost.
New York Times, 06.12.2013
Prosecutors Draw Fire for Sentences Called Harsh
Federal prosecutors in Baltimore offered Roy Lee Clay a stark choice.
ERIK ECKHOLM
Buffalo News, 08.12.2013
When everything is on the line
Police officers often have only seconds to decide whether they need to use deadly force. Thanks to the FBI’s Firearms Training Simulator, a Buffalo News reporter discovered how complex such life-and-death decisions really are.
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 08.12.2013
Peer-review science is taking off on Twitter, but who is tweeting what and why?
Phys.Org, 09.12.2013
One percent of the population is responsible for 63 percent of violent crime convictions
The majority of all violent crime in Sweden is committed by a small number of people.
The Province (blog), 09.12.2013
E-Street: Should or will pot ever be legal?
A petition drive to force a referendum promoting more liberal marijuana laws in B.C. will likely fail due to a lack of support. Should or will pot ever be legal?
Chicagomag.com, 09.12.2013
The Small Social Networks at the Heart of Chicago Violence
If you run with a bad crowd, statistically speaking, you’ll get in trouble.
Whet Moser
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 09.12.2013
Prolonged viewing of Boston Marathon bombings media coverage tied to acute stress
6 or more daily hours associated with more symptoms than direct exposure to blasts
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 09.12.2013
Communities across US reduce teen smoking, drinking, violence and crime
Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care prevention system during the teens' middle school years.
Toronto Star-, 09.12.2013
Federal government seeks to study police use of force
Ottawa is looking to study police use-of-force, collecting data that could be used to better train frontline officers.
The Independent, 10.12.2013
Family of Sean Rigg welcome reopening of police investigation into death
Helen William , Ellen Branagh
Science Daily (press release), 10.12.2013
Global Study Reveals Gender-Based Violence Vastly Underreported
RedOrbit - , 10.12.2013
Communities Across US Reduce Teen Smoking, Drinking, Violence And Crime
Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care prevention system during the teens’ middle school years.
Boston magazine's Boston Daily (blog), 10.12.2013
Study: Watching Wall-to-Wall Coverage of the Marathon Attack Was More Stressful than Being There
A new UC-Irvine study suggests we should limit our TV exposure after mass violence, even if it didn’t impact us personally.
Eric Randall | Boston Daily
SantaCruz.com, 10.12.2013
Analyzing the Public Safety Findings
5 things you need to know about the task force's recommendations
Jacob Pierce
Infosurhoy, 11.12.2013
Honduras: Organized crime forces children to commit crimes
Ángel Servellón for Infosurhoy.com
theguardian.com,, 11.12.2013
Prostitution: why Swedes believe they got it right
Country held up as model for reform across Europe after targeting the men who pay for sex
Hazel Thompson in Stockholm
4-traders (press release)-, 11.12.2013
Sandy Hook + One Year: Are Schools Safer?
SAN CLEMENTE, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 11, 2013) - As we approach the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy that resulted in the deaths of 20 children and seven adults, there's an unavoidable question: Are our schools any safer today than they were a year ago?
PR Newswire (press release), 11.12.2013
Crime and Punishment: UMD Researchers Explain 'Third Party' Evolution
Psychologist and computer scientists use powerful mathematical models to explain behavior
Science Daily (press release), 11.12.2013
Spanking Children Slows Cognitive Development and Increases Risk of Criminal Behavior, Expert Says
A new book by Murray Straus, founder and co-director of the Family Research Lab and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, brings together more than four decades of research that makes the definitive case against spanking, including how it slows cognitive development and increases antisocial and criminal behavior.
EurekAlert!, 11.12.2013
Is peer-review systemically misogynist?
Women's presence in science is not reflected in peer-review authorship or citations
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 11.12.2013
Trained airport checkpoint screeners miss rare targets
Study suggests prevalence effect as the cause
SN (blog)-, 11.12.2013
Finding the Urban Crisis Tipping Point
By IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Networks
Irish Times-, 11.12.2013
Sex offenders least likely to commit further crimes
Four in 10 offenders spared prison commit crime again within three years
NOLA.com, 11.12.2013
Baton Rouge DA Hillar Moore is BRAVE-ly driven in the fight against crime
Emily Lane, NOLA.com
theguardian.com,, 11.12.2013
Internet age should not undermine our jury system, says Dominic Grieve
Attorney general backs Law Commission recommendation that jurors who search web for case details should be jailed
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 12.12.2013
Reconceptualizing the study of population aging
Age is not just the number of years one has lived, argue IIASA population researchers. A new study from the group provides a set of tools for measuring age in all its dimensions.
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 12.12.2013
Is smoking cannabis and driving the new drinking and driving?
Use of prescription, over-the-counter medications also of concern in CAMH's latest Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 12.12.2013
Simple mathematical formula describes human struggles
University of Miami physicist and his collaborators discover a mathematical law that explains a wide variety of human confrontations
NBCNews.com (blog)-, 12.12.2013
Newtown anniversary: Daily drumbeat of child homicides gets little notice
The Independent, 12.12.2013
Legal highs: Producers may have to prove substances are harmless before they can be sold
Home Office review will assess moves in New Zealand that put the onus on manufacturers to demonstrate their safety
Nigel Morris Deputy Political Editor
Bloomberg, 12.12.2013
Gun Violence Not Predictable by Personality, Study Finds
Mass shootings can’t be reliably predicted by any single personality profile, according to the largest group of U.S. psychologists.
Elizabeth Lopatto
Times Higher Education-, 12.12.2013
Jock Young, 1942-2013
One of the world’s leading criminologists has died
Matthew Reisz
NOLA.com, 12.12.2013
Baton Rouge cop turned BRAVE leader finds reward offering criminals way out
Emily Lane, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
NOLA.com, 13.12.2013
LSU criminologist on mission to help 'take back' Baton Rouge with BRAVE work
Emily Lane
University of California - Davis Health System NEWS, 13.12.2013
Pilot study finds ways to better screen and recover guns from domestic violence offenders
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 13.12.2013
Scientists and practitioners don't see eye to eye on repressed memory
Skepticism about repressed traumatic memories has increased over time, but new research shows that psychology researchers and practitioners still tend to hold different beliefs about whether such memories occur and whether they can be accurately retrieved.
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 13.12.2013
Scientists and practitioners don't see eye to eye on repressed memory
Skepticism about repressed traumatic memories has increased over time, but new research shows that psychology researchers and practitioners still tend to hold different beliefs about whether such memories occur and whether they can be accurately retrieved.
Sydney Morning Herald, 13.12.2013
'Risk-based' licence fees in proposed liquor law changes
Nicole Hasham
Spokesman Review, 13.12.2013
Panel says Idaho wastes millions jailing nonviolent offenders
Betsy Z. Russell The Spokesman-Review
The Guardian, 14.12.2013
'Epidemic of self-mutilation' in women's prisons in England and Wales
Oxford University study reveals women prisoners are four times more likely to self-harm than their male counterparts
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Columbia Daily Herald, 14.12.2013
FBI: Active shooting incidents triple in recent years
Mark Greenblatt, Scripps News
CNN (blog), 14.12.2013
The real tragedy of America's gun violence
Watch Global Lessons on Guns, a Fareed Zakaria GPS special, this Sunday at 2 p.m. ET on CNN
Fareed Zakaria
The New Republic BOOKS, 14.12.2013
One Country Saved Its Jews. Were They Just Better People? The surprising truth about Denmark in the Holocaust
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
Jackson Sun, 15.12.2013
30 mass killings, 137 victims: A typical year
William M. Welch and Meghan Hoyer, USA TODAY
New York Times, 15.12.2013
The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder
The Number of Diagnoses Soared Amid a 20-Year Drug Marketing Campaign
ALAN SCHWARZ
Wall Street Journal, 15.12.2013
California's Prison Break
A study says a judicial order has led to higher crime rates.
The Observer, 15.12.2013
Segregation: our secular values need to be protected
A fearless debate should be encouraged to protect the fundamental values of a secular society
The New Yorker, 16.12.2013
State of Deception
Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?
by Ryan Lizza
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/12/16/despite-headlines-chicago-crime-at-lowest-levels-in-decades/, 16.12.2013
CBS Local
New York Times (blog)-, 16.12.2013
Terrible Twos Who Stay Terrible
To understand the violent criminal, says Richard E. Tremblay, imagine a 2-year-old boy doing the things that make the terrible twos terrible — grabbing, kicking, pushing, punching, biting.
DAVID DOBBS
EurekAlert! PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 16.12.2013
5 effective parenting programs to reduce problem behaviors in children
All parents want what's best for their children. But not every parent knows how to provide their child with the tools to be successful, or how to help them avoid the biggest adolescent behavior problems: substance use, delinquency, school dropout, pregnancy and violence.
PR Web (press release) -, 16.12.2013
Unresolved Trauma Drives Addictive Behavior, According to New Study
Ladybud Magazine, 16.12.2013
Catching Up With Drug War Activist Diane Wattles Goldstein
Diane Fornbacher
The Atlantic Dec, 17.12.2013
I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
A former prosecutor fights the law and lets it win.
Bobby Constantino
Broadway World, 17.12.2013
NAPCO's Sophisticated Security Products Deter Burglaries and Address Increases in Property Crimes
Huffington Post-, 17.12.2013
White Men and Their Guns
Leonard Steinhorn, Author and Professor of Communication at American University
PR Newswire (press release)-, 18.12.2013
Typical Fraudster Is An Experienced, Tenured Manager Or Executive With No Criminal History: KPMG Report
Police Oracle, 18.12.2013
Research to establish 'ideal police service size'
Authority poised to commission a study to establish how many officers are needed to police communities in Scotland.
Jasmin McDermott - Police Oracle
EurekAlert PUBLIC RELEASE DATE, 18.12.2013
Mass shootings will not substantially decrease with more armed guards or background checks
Criminology scholars debunk 11 myths about mass murder in a special issue of Homicide Studies
Irish Mirror, 18.12.2013
Over half of prisoners released in 2008 re-offended within three years
Cathal McMahon
Slate Magazine (blog)-, 19.12.2013
Everything You Think You Know about Mass Murder Is Wrong
Justin Peters
Michigan State University, 19.12.2013
Studying the black-white infant mortality gap
Andy Henion , Todd Elder , John Goddeeris , Steven Haider , Nigel Paneth
Huffington Post-, 19.12.2013
Stop-Question-and-Frisk With Respect
Michael J. Jenkins, Assistant Professor, University of Scranton
PsychCentral.com, 20.12.2013
Mass Murder: Price We Pay for Personal Freedoms?
Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
HealthCanal.com, 20.12.2013
Report calls for better police-family partnership in the search for missing people
Better communication between the police and families of missing people is one of the key recommendations of a new report from the University of Glasgow.
U.S. News & World Report - December 18, 2013, 20.12.2013
Murderabilia: When Does a Fascination With Crime Go Too Far?
Inside the minds of those involved in collecting and selling murderabilia
Kimberly Leonard
