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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
rabble.ca, 01.10.2015
The tough-on-crime strategy has not made our communities safer
Elizabeth Comack Cara Fabre Shanise Burgher
Calgary Herald, 01.10.2015
'Without the Internet, the depth of the (terrorism) message would never have been so great'
Dylan Robertson
EurekAlert!, 01.10.2015
Coincidence or conspiracy? Studies investigate conspiracist thinking
Association for Psychological Science
USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog), 01.10.2015
We are still largely in the dark as to whether incarceration reduces recidivism.
Daniel Mears, Joshua Cochran, Francis Cullen
EurekAlert!, 01.10.2015
Ballistics imaging systems effective with good management
Sam Houston State University
Australian Journal of Pharmacy, 02.10.2015
More kids die from domestic violence than accidents: UQ research
Janet Doyle
The Conversation, 05.10.2015
Parramatta shooting: how much do we really know about ‘lone-wolf’ terrorists?
Ramon Spaaij, Mark S. Hamm
The Conversation, 06.10.2015
If lawful firearm owners cause most gun deaths, what can we do?
Philip Alpers
politico.eu, 07.10.2015
5 takeaways from the death of safe harbor
The ruling could dramatically redraw the balance of power among European privacy regulators.
Nicholas Hirst
The Conversation, 07.10.2015
Are today’s standards for being a ‘real man’ leading to violence against women?
Stefano Verrelli, Eileen Chu
The Conversation, 07.10.2015
Is the Kunduz hospital strike a war crime? Don’t jump to conclusions
Laurie R Blank
The Conversation, 07.10.2015
Why wearing sagging pants on a college campus becomes a criminal offense
John J Sloan
London Review of Books Vol. 37 No. 19, 08.10.2015
Some Tips for the Long-Distance Traveller
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
The Conversation, 09.10.2015
The Channel programme: helping vulnerable people or nudging them towards radicalisation?
Stephanie Petrie
The Conversation, 10.10.2015
Ankara bombs: Turkey is being torn apart by bad leaders and bad neighbours
Alpaslan Ozerdem
theguardian.com, 11.10.2015
Police cuts blamed for 23% rise in youth gang offences in London
Mayor’s controversial ‘collective punishment’ Shield scheme lacking community support despite worrying increase in youth violence
Alexandra Topping
The Trace, 12.10.2015
What Caused the Two-Decade Dip in Crime Rates? Not ‘Good Guys with Guns.’
Gun rights advocates claim concealed carry is the answer to stopping criminals. The data says that's simply not possible.
Evan Defilippis and Devin Hughes
Telegraph.co.uk, 12.10.2015
Social media is driving the rise of hate crime, but it can also stop it
Technology makes it easier for trolls, but also allows society to become more resilient to them
Carl Miller
Al-Arabiya, 12.10.2015
Social media behind most cases of domestic violence, says Saudi study
Saudi Gazette
Mother Jones, 13.10.2015
Why No One Really Knows a Better Way to Train Cops
A spate of officer-involved killings is provoking reforms. Will they work?
Jaeah Lee
EurekAlert, 13.10.2015
Inhalant use linked to head injuries, traumatic experiences and mental illness
Georgia State University
The Conversation, 13.10.2015
Explainer: what is the Turkish ‘deep state’ and why is it in the frame for the Ankara bombings?
Simon Waldman
theguardian.com, 13.10.2015
Whoever shot down flight MH17, Russia’s reputation is in tatters
Mary Dejevsky
Boston Magazine, 14.10.2015
Police Chief Leonard Campanello’s New Fight Against the Heroin Crisis
Chris Sweeney
The Conversation, 14.10.2015
Fortress Europe continues to treat migrants as criminals
Dimitris Dalakoglou, Antonios Alexandridis
The Conversation, 14.10.2015
Why disciplining kids can be so tricky for parents and teachers
Jennifer Keys Adair
EurekAlert!, 14.10.2015
Lower recidivism rates through improved education programs for female inmates
Completion of the EU-funded FEFI -- Finding Education for Female Inmates project on educational options provided for female inmates in various European countries.
Johannes Gutenberg
The Conversation, 14.10.2015
Australian Muslim role models could be the missing link in countering ‘radicalisation’
Andrew Jakubowicz
EurekAlert!, 14.10.2015
Different types of child abuse: Similar consequences
In the long run, emotional abuse might hurt a child as much as violence or neglect.
McGill University
Expert passport officers better at detecting fraud using face recognition technology, 14.10.2015
Expert passport officers better at detecting fraud using face recognition technology
Face-matching experts at the Australian Passport Office are 20 per cent more accurate than average people at detecting fraud using automatic face recognition software, new research shows.
University of New South Wales
EurekAlert!, 14.10.2015
School absenteeism and early behavioral problems in kindergarten
Deutsches Aerzteblatt International
The Conversation, 15.10.2015
Missing the mark: we don’t need more anti-terror summits or pressure on Muslim community leaders
Clarke Jones
The Conversation, 15.10.2015
Clampdown on madrassas misses the point of why parents send children for extra study
Saeeda Shah
The Conversation, 15.10.2015
MH17 crash report establishes the cause, but only criminal investigation can find those responsible
David Stupples
EurekAlert!, 15.10.2015
When punishment doesn't fit the crime
New research reveals traumatic brain injury patients struggle with discipline in social, family and work life.
EurekAlert!, 15.10.2015
Yoga in jails helps make better fathers
WSU study also finds improved physical and mental health.
Emergency Management, 15.10.2015
Police Body Cameras Offer Sense of Trust, Study Shows
A new study found that officers had fewer complaints filed against them and resorted to force less often when equipped with body cameras.
Mark Wolfenbarger
New Statesman, 15.10.2015
Crime isn't falling - it's online
Since 1995, recorded crime has fallen. But much of it hasn't vanished - it's just on the Internet.
Rick Muir
The Conversation, 16.10.2015
‘Ungoverned space’: the concept that puts humanitarian aid in the firing line of the War on Terror
Janosch Prinz
Vanity Fair, 16.10.2015
There’s Just One Problem with Those Bin Laden Conspiracy Theories
They have no factual basis, despite what you may have read in The New York Times Magazine, argues the reporter who pieced together the story from dozens of on-the-record interviews.
Mark Bowden
The Economist, 17.10.2015
Parsing sentence
The Supreme Court considers reversing life sentences handed to minors
New York Times, 18.10.2015
What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death?
The history of Obama’s most important foreign-policy victory is still being written.
JONATHAN MAHLER
The Conversation, 19.10.2015
Report from Lesvos: without safe access to asylum, people will keep risking their lives in the Aegean
Heaven Crawley
The Conversation, 19.10.2015
Milwaukee case could encourage gun stores to reduce illegal sales
Timothy D Lytton
The Conversation, 19.10.2015
Could MBAs for prisoners stop them re-offending?
Mike Marinetto, Jenna Pandeli
Pacific Standard, 19.10.2015
Stand Your Ground Convictions Reveal Clear Racial Bias
An analysis of 204 Florida cases finds defendants are far more likely to be convicted if the victim is white.
Tom Jacobs
telegraph.co.uk, 20.10.2015
Bobbies on the beat could vanish, warns police watchdog
Uniformed police officers less likely to be seen by the public due to widespread flaws in police budget forecasting, say inspectors.
David Barrett
The Conversation, 20.10.2015
British government to fight all ‘extremists’ – but mainly Muslims
Alan Greene
The Conversation, 20.10.2015
It’s about time cybercrimes appeared in crime figures if we are to take the problem seriously
David S. Wall
Huffington Post, 20.10.2015
Prosecutors Are Uniquely Positioned to Drive Criminal Justice Reform
Cyrus Vance, Jeremy Travis,
Pacific Standard, 20.10.2015
The Most Unusual Marijuana Battle in America
Behind the push to legalize pot in Ohio.
Daniel J. McGraw
Pacific Standard, 20.10.2015
The Unanswerable Questions of Jonestown
Nearly 37 years after the mass suicide in Guyana, South America, researchers are using thousands of government documents to try to paint a clearer picture of what happened.
Rick Paulas
The Conversation, 20.10.2015
The metropolis and mental health: are big cities making us sick?
Nikolas Rose, Des Fitzgerald
Police News, 20.10.2015
Pulse of Policing: How individual cops are overcoming injuries of the mind, body, and spirit
Because virtually everything in policing begins with the individual officer, we decided that our first series of pieces would address the issues these cops face.
EurekAlert!, 20.10.2015
Does living in the United States promote teenage risk taking?
Study finds where you grow up may influence sensation-seeking behaviors.
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
The Conversation, 21.10.2015
The security benefits of warrantless surveillance are as clear as mud
Daniel Baldino
TakePart, 21.10.2015
Police and Prosecutors: It's Time to Stop Locking Up Nonviolent Drug Offenders
Rebecca McCray
The Conversation, 21.10.2015
The endless whodunnit: why conspiracy theorists will never accept who shot JFK
Matthew Ashton
The Conversation, 21.10.2015
Two decades after death of Stephen Lawrence, questions remain about police racism
Simon Holdaway
EurekAlert!, 21.10.2015
Dartmouth led study shows ISIS is not the only culprit in war-related looting in Syria
Dartmouth College
EurekAlert!, 21.10.2015
Prevalence of marijuana use disorders rises as marijuana use more than doubles in the US
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia Journalism Review, 21.10.2015
The Timothy McVeigh case and its impact on media law
Jonathan Peters, CJR
Toronto Star, 21.10.2015
Unconscious bias plays role in policing, author says
Diversity equity educator and consultant Shakil Choudhury has written a book on the subject called Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them.
Pacific Standard, 21.10.2015
The Paradox in America's Treatment of Gun Violence
Where we worry most, we can help the least; and where we could help most, we care the least. Stopping gun violence is all about knowing where to start.
Stephen Lurie
Penn: Office of University Communications, 22.10.2015
Penn Professor Adrian Raine Unlocks the Criminal Mind Using Biological Keys
Jacquie Posey
theguardian.com, 22.10.2015
Theresa May: police forces are 'too white'
Home secretary attacks Bernard Hogan-Howe’s view that rise in knife crime linked to fall in stop and search, and criticises police’s record on race
Vikram Dodd
New York Times, 22.10.2015
Why the Police Want Prison Reform
“We need less incarceration, not more, to keep all Americans safe.”
Tech Times, 23.10.2015
Glowing Fingerprints Could Be The Future Of Crime Scene Investigations
Katherine Derla
Atlanta Black Star, 23.10.2015
‘Law Enforcement Leaders’ Convene to Stop Mass Incarceration, President Obama Defends #BlackLivesMatter as Victims Rally Against Police Violence
Pacific Standard, 23.10.2015
Boo! Now, Do What I Say
A new meta-study finds fear-based appeals are consistently effective.
Tom Jacobs
theguardian.com, 24.10.2015
Law & Order fans understand consent better than CSI and NCIS viewers – study
Washington State University research looked at how college freshmen processed sexual consent and rape myths based on popular crime drama story lines
Mahita Gajanan
New York Times, 24.10.2015
F.B.I. Chief Links Scrutiny of Police With Rise in Violent Crime
MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZO
New York Times, 25.10.2015
The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black
An examination of traffic stops and arrests in Greensboro, N.C., uncovered wide racial differences in measure after measure of police conduct.
SHARON LaFRANIERE and ANDREW W. LEHREN
The DPost, 25.10.2015
Studies assess gun laws’ impact
Do states with stricter gun laws have less gun violence than those with few restrictions?
EurekAlert!, 25.10.2015
Dartmouth study illustrates how game design can reduce stereotypes and social biases
'Embedded design' approach strengthens impact of prosocial games
Dartmouth College
Wall Street Journal, 26.10.2015
FBI Lends Local Police a Hand
Oakland and Baltimore are getting help, but defense attorneys worry about federalizing local law enforcement
Zusha Elinson
theguardian.com, 26.10.2015
Number of US police officers charged in fatal shootings hits 10-year high
Research shows a dozen officers have been prosecuted this year, yet proportion of deaths leading to charges remains small, experts note.
The Conversation, 26.10.2015
Stolen TalkTalk customer details: time bombs that may tick a while before being triggered
Gert Jan van Hardeveld
Salon, 26.10.2015
Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word
"Diversity" sounds polite and hopeful. It's how we talk when we can't talk about race, or when whites get nervous
Ellen Berrey
The Conversation, 27.10.2015
Police can play a greater role in community-based efforts to tackle radicalisation
Adrian Cherney
The Conversation, 27.10.2015
When gang violence goes viral
Scott H Decker, David Pyrooz, Richard K Moule Jr
Slate, 27.10.2015
Gun Myths Die Hard
Gun Violence Is a Public Health Problem: What’s Been Learned in the Past Three Years
Paul D. Thacker
Deutsche Welle, 27.10.2015
Ten years on, still seeking answers to Oury Jalloh's death
In 2005, an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone burnt to death in a police cell. Prosecutors maintain he set fire to the mattress he was lying on. But activists continue to believe in a cover-up
Naomi Conrad
The Conversation October 28, 2015 3.21pm GMT, 29.10.2015
The TalkTalk hack story shows UK cybersecurity in disarray
Author David S. Wall, Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
The Conversation October 28, 2015 1.18pm GMT, 29.10.2015
Amnesty alleges criminal activity in border control
Author Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Daily Dot Oct 27, 2015, 4:37pm CT, 29.10.2015
Why the death of the iPod was the end of privacy
By Ben Branstetter
New York Times October 29, 2015, 3:22 AM, 30.10.2015
Safety and Justice Complement Each Other
Glenn E. Martin
The Independent 30.10.2015, 30.10.2015
Private forensics firms use scientific advances to combat crime and cuts
The private sector has provided a riposte to claims that research and innovation is being stifled by outsourcing
PAUL PEACHEY Crime Correspondent
Salon - Thursday, Oct 29, 2015 07:59 PM +0100, 30.10.2015
The truth about mandatory minimums: The left’s painful—but necessary—conversation about crime & punishment
Michael Javen Fortner's "Black Silent Majority" overstates its case but sparks important conversation about crime
Daniel Denvir
