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The Atlantic, 01.11.2015
Playing Defense Against the Drones
We’ve managed to create armies of flying robots. Can we control them?
Amanda Ripley
The Conversation November 1, 2015 7.08pm GMT, 02.11.2015
Police perpetrators of domestic violence: what do we know and what can be done?
Authors Heather Douglas, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland
The Conversation November 2, 2015 3.26am GMT, 02.11.2015
Accountability and the viral video: there are still no guarantees
Author Nick Enfield, Professor and Chair of Linguistics, University of Sydney
EurekAlert! Public Release: 30-Oct-2015, 02.11.2015
The lying game
Dr. Chris Street's research is leading towards a clearer understanding of how humans behave when they bend the truth. University of Huddersfield
Huffington Post UK Posted: 02/11/2015 15:28 GMT Updated: 02/11/2015 15:59 GMT, 03.11.2015
Youth, Violence and Extremism: The Urgency of a Counter-narrative
Simon O'Connell, Executive Director of global humanitarian organisation Mercy Corps Europe
, 03.11.2015
Crime and Corruption Commission targets privately funded Queensland Police anti-fraud project
By the National Reporting Team's Mark Solomons and Mark Willacy
The Conversation November 2, 2015 3.41pm GMT, 03.11.2015
Proposed powers in surveillance bill will dictate the shape of society to come
Author William Webster, Professor and Director, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy, University of Stirling
The Conversation November 3, 2015 2.00pm GMT, 04.11.2015
Stoked by Bond and other fiction, our fear of surveillance is worse than the real thing
Author Brandon Valeriano, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Global Security, University of Glasgow
The Independent 3.11.2015, 04.11.2015
The Only Way is Ethics: The Government’s attempt to ‘balance’ competing rights is slightly off-kilter
Will Gore
London Review of Books Vol. 37 No. 21 • 5 November, 04.11.2015
2015 » Patrick Cockburn » Too Weak, Too Strong pages 3-6 | 3180 words
Too Weak, Too Strong
Patrick Cockburn on the state of the Syrian war
Pacific Standard, 04.11.2015
The Guidebook for 21st-Century Police Work
Can a former police officer effect greater reforms from outside the force?
John Lingan
theguardian.com Wednesday 4 November 2015 07.00 GMT, 05.11.2015
Research highlights how police and courts protect
perpetrators while exposing millions of women and girls to abuse.
Peter Leonard for EurasiaNet.org, part of the New East Network
The Atlantic 4.11.2015, 7:15 AM ET, 05.11.2015
In Defense of Civility on Twitter
In Defense of Civility on Twitter
Fear of tone-policing shouldn’t trump the basic norms that are crucial to a healthy public discourse.
Conor Friedersdorf
The Conversation November 4, 2015 11.30am GMT, 05.11.2015
Why the Sinai Peninsula is so dangerous – and why the rest of us should care
Author Julie M. Norman, Research Fellow in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queen's University Belfast
The Conversation November 5, 2015 10.47am GMT, 06.11.2015
Is there a link between youth poverty and crime? The answers may surprise you
Author Ross Fergusson, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, The Open University
EurekAlert! Public Release: 5-Nov-2015, 06.11.2015
MSU study finds surprises about drug use
Michigan State University
New York Times 5.11.2015, 06.11.2015
There is no way to fully process the betrayal by Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, a police lieutenant in Illinois who an investigator said Wednesday had com
Suicide of a Dishonest Officer
Al Jazeera America, 06.11.2015
Good policing hinges on good police pay, reformers say
Reform activists say bad pay contributes to worsening police-community relations
Wilson Dizard
The Conversation, 06.11.2015
Albert Pierrepoint: a ‘haunted hangman’ and the death penalty today
Lizzie Seal
Christian Science Monitor, 06.11.2015
Microsoft says its software can tell if you're going back to prison
Microsoft is pitching its software and cloud data storage to law enforcement agencies. Researchers say that using data to find crime patterns can help stop burglaries, but using data analysis to 'predict' violent crimes is highly problematic.
Max Lewontin
The Conversation, 06.11.2015
Why judicial review is valuable to society’s most vulnerable
Lucinda Platt, Maurice Sunkin
Pacific Standard, 06.11.2015
Sexual Assault Against Servicemen Is Worse Than We Thought
A new report highlights the troubling reality of sexual assault for men in the military.
Madeleine Thomas
EurekAlert!, 06.11.2015
People attribute moral obligation and blame, regardless of ability
University of Waterloo
The Atlantic, 07.11.2015
Body Cameras and The Death of a 6-Year-Old Boy
Police say footage of an officer-involved shooting contributed to prosecutors’ decision to press charges.
Marina Koren
theguardian.com, 07.11.2015
Plague of cheap ‘spice’ strengthens its grip on homeless and jobless in northern towns
Use of the synthetic cannabinoid is soaring in Blackpool, but the town is far from alone
The Conversation, 08.11.2015
Crimes against the environment: the silent victim of warfare
Steven Freeland
New York Times, 08.11.2015
The Displaced: Introduction
Nearly 60 million people are currently displaced from their homes by war and persecution — more than at any time since World War II. Half are children. This multimedia journey in text, photographs and virtual reality tells the stories of three of them.
JAKE SILVERSTEIN
EurekAlert!, 09.11.2015
The power of magical thinking: Why superstitions are hard to shake
Believing what we don't believe
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Advocate.com, 09.11.2015
Does Criminalizing the Red Light Do More Harm?
Though there are many objections to the legalization of prostitution, does criminalization do more harm than good?
Brenden Shucart
Telegraph.co.uk, 09.11.2015
Cyber attacks threatening national security double in past year, GCHQ reveals
Intelligence agency now identifies 200 major cyber attacks every month as officials warn hacking technology increasingly available 'off the shelf'
Tom Whitehead
The Conversation, 09.11.2015
From dissident to decorative: how street art sold out and gentrified our cities
Rafael Schacter
The Conversation, 09.11.2015
Our web history reveals what we think and do. Shouldn’t that remain private?
Paul Bernal
International-The Local.se, 10.11.2015
Sweden hands prize to child crime stoppers
Three researchers have been awarded the prestigious 2016 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for showing how parents can prevent a child from becoming delinquent.
The Conversation, 10.11.2015
Won’t somebody think of the children? Five reasons why drug panics are counterproductive
Stephen Bright
EurekAlert!, 10.11.2015
Virginia Tech shooting has lessons for strengthening college mental health services
The Conversation, 10.11.2015
Flight 9268: Wilayat Sinai and the evolution of a global terror threat
Cindy May
Yahoo Health, 11.11.2015
Are Mass Shootings Really On the Rise — Or Do We Just Think They Are?
Jenna Birch
Rutgers Newark, 11.11.2015
A Criminal Justice Professor Sees Ways to Reduce Both Crime and Police-Community Tensions
Rob Forman
Mic, 11.11.2015
Police Are Sweeping Up Tweets and Friending You on Facebook, Whether You Know It or Not
Jack Smith IV
theguardian.com, 11.11.2015
Nathan Matthews case reignites debate over violent sexual images
Murderer of Becky Watts joins list of men who viewed abuse images and killed, which raises the question of how the two are linked
Sandra Laville
The Intercept, 11.11.2015
Not So Securus
Massive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Indicates Violations of Attorney-Client Privilege
Jordan Smith, Micah Lee
The Conversation, 12.11.2015
TalkTalk hack: perhaps we’ll finally take cybersecurity seriously
Keith Martin
The Boston Globe, 12.11.2015
Police Body Cameras Alone Won’t Build Trust
Crime drops, respect grows when officers and community know each other
EurekAlert!, 12.11.2015
Psychiatric assessments for predicting violence are ineffective
Standard approaches for investigating risk of violence in psychiatric patients and prisoners are inaccurate and should be abandoned in all future studies, according to researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
Queen Mary, University of London
Politico Magazine, 12.11.2015
‘The Attacks Will Be Spectacular’
An exclusive look at how the Bush administration ignored this warning from the CIA months before 9/11, along with others that were far more detailed than previously revealed.
Chris Whipple
The Conversation, 13.11.2015
Change the story: how the world’s first national framework can help prevent violence against women
Anastasia Powell
The Conversation, 13.11.2015
Coming to a field near you? The ‘body farms’ where human remains decompose in the name of science
Anna Williams
The Conversation, 13.11.2015
‘Jihadi John’ strike: the legal and moral questions around targeted drone killings
Fiona de Londras
The Conversation, 13.11.2015
The life of ‘Jihadi John’: how one man became the symbol of Islamic State
Scott Lucas
New Statesman online, 13.11.2015
Why don’t we learn from our mistakes – even when it matters most?
Matthew Syed
Toronto Star, 14.11.2015
Analysts blame Paris attacks on intelligence failures, not refugees
Analysts say French intelligence is overwhelmed by both homegrown and foreign terror suspects.
Marco Chown
Washington Post (Blog), 14.11.2015
A very questionable response to the attacks in Paris
Roberto A. Ferdman
Washington Post (Blog), 14.11.2015
The Paris attack is a tragic reminder that terrorism just isn’t going away
Max Ehrenfreund
The Conversation, 14.11.2015
Paris terror attacks: France now faces fight against fear and exclusion
Aurelien Mondon
theguardian.com, 14.11.2015
France: the secular seat of Europe that has lost so many to radical Islam
Anti-radicalisation campaigns have failed to prevent young and disaffected from turning to Isis in country with strong secular tradition.
Jon Henley, Emma Graham-Harrison, Jason Burke
The Conversation, 15.11.2015
Paris attacks: there is no simple explanation for acts of terror
Matthew Francis
The Conversation, 15.11.2015
Paris attacks: closing migration routes into France won’t stop terrorism – resisting xenophobia might
Durukan Kuzu
Quartz india, 15.11.2015
The 2008 Mumbai strikes have now become the global blueprint for terror
Saikat Datta
The Conversation, 15.11.2015
Paris attacks: France has long been a target of extreme terror factions
Chris Millington
The Conversation, 16.11.2015
Paris attacks: terrorism, trafficking – and the enduring curse of the AK-47
Peter Squires
The Conversation, 16.11.2015
How social media shaped our understanding of the Paris attacks
Arnaud Mercier
New Statesman online, 16.11.2015
Burning the earth: Isis and the threat to Britain
Nearly 14 years on from the start of the so-called war on terror, the global jihad movement is deepening and expanding.
Shiraz Maher
theguardian.com, 16.11.2015
I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes
In Syria I learned that Islamic State longs to provoke retaliation. We should not fall into the trap
Nicolas Hénin
theguardian.com, 17.11.2015
Loretta Lynch: no data to support 'Ferguson effect' policing theory
US attorney general tells House there is only ‘anecdotal evidence’ to support idea that officers are policing less aggressively in wake of high-profile police killings.
Ciara McCarthy
The Conversation, 17.11.2015
Islamic State versus Da'ish or Daesh? The political battle over naming
Russell E Lucas
EurekAlert!, 17.11.2015
What leads to the local adoption and implementation of recreational marijuana policies?
The Conversation, 17.11.2015
Passing knee-jerk laws in the wake of terrorist attacks will not make us safer
Fiona de Londras
EurekAlert!, 18.11.2015
Gunshot survivors in high-crime community face elevated risk of early death, study shows
After-effects of firearm violence acute in first year post injury
theguardian.com, 18.11.2015
‘There is zero control’: report on Freddie Gray protests feeds crisis of confidence in police
Baynard Woods, Jamiles Lartey
The Conversation, 18.11.2015
When couples co-offend: who’s to blame in criminal relationships?
Siobhan Weare
The Conversation, 18.11.2015
West’s crisis of communication will make terrorist atrocities more likely
Emma L Briant
The Conversation, 18.11.2015
Catch up: why Islamic State targeted Paris, and why it’s changing tack
Cindy May
SPIEGEL ONLINE, 18.11.2015
Murderous Hatred in the City of Love
The attacks hit Paris where it is most vulnerable, in those places where young people go to have fun. But they were aimed at all of us. What can we do to defend ourselves?
theguardian.com, 18.11.2015
Turkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it?
David Graeber
Politico.eu, 18.11.2015
The French way of war
Bet on it: Hollande’s counterattack against the terrorists is going to hurt them.
Michael Shurkin
The Conversation, 18.11.2015
Anonymous hackers could be Islamic State’s online nemesis
Athina Karatzogianni
Pacific Standard, 18.11.2015
Five Keys to Understanding ISIS
Despite the media floodlight and intense scrutiny by governments around the world, the organization is still poorly understood.
Jordan Olmstead
New York Review of Books, 19.11.2015
Even Worse Than We Thought
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
EurekAlert!, 19.11.2015
Email security improving, but far from perfect
University of Illinois College of Engineering
EurekAlert!, 19.11.2015
Youth violence undermines social and economic development in poorest corners of the world
Most comprehensive look at youth violence on a global scale
McGill University
The Conversation, 19.11.2015
After Paris, it’s traditional detective work that will keep us safe, not mass surveillance
Pete Fussey
Pacific Standard, 19.11.2015
The Jamar Clark Case Shows How Far We’ve Come With Police Camera Policy
Francie Diep
The Conversation, 19.11.2015
A warmer embrace of Muslims could stop homegrown terrorism
Sarah Lyons-Padilla, Michele Gelfand
The Conversation, 20.11.2015
What police can learn from a terrorist’s discarded mobile phone
David Stupples
The Conversation, 20.11.2015
What is it about Molenbeek? The bit of Belgium that was a base for Paris terror attacks
Martin Conway
The Conversation, 20.11.2015
Corporal punishment of children linked to lower school grades
Kirrily Pells
theguardian.com, 22.11.2015
Why do Islamist groups in particular seem so much more sadistic, even evil?
Kenan Malik
The Conversation, 22.11.2015
Reactive anti-terror laws risk further eroding freedoms without making us safer
Tamara Tulich, Jessie Blackbourn
New York Times, 22.11.2015
ISIS Wives and Enforcers in Syria Recount Collaboration, Anguish and Escape
AZADEH MOAVENI
New York Times, 22.11.2015
The Doomsday Scam
For decades, aspiring bomb makers — including ISIS — have desperately tried to get their hands on a lethal substance called red mercury. There’s a reason that they never have.
C. J. CHIVERS
The Conversation, 23.11.2015
Little evidence to show that prisons have become ‘universities of terror’
Sarah Marsden
The Conversation, 23.11.2015
Solidarity after Paris means being more attentive to suffering elsewhere
Ben Saul
Open Democracy (UK), 23.11.2015, 23.11.2015
We could have stopped the Paris attacks
William Binney , Mary Fitzgerald and Kirk Wiebe
The Conversation, 24.11.2015
Could downing of Russian jet over Turkey really lead to a wider war?
David J Galbreath
The Conversation, 24.11.2015
Anonymous can’t defeat Islamic State, but here’s what it could achieve
Andres Guadamuz
The Independent, 25.11.2015
Why do people join Isis? Expert says foreign fighters are almost never recruited at mosque
Adam Withnall
EurekAlert!, 25.11.2015
Contact with nature may mean more social cohesion, less crime
Human exposure to nature is linked to safer communities with better social and community interactions
American Institute of Biological Sciences
The Conversation, 25.11.2015
Why do women need special laws to protect them from violence?
Dabney P Evans
The Conversation, 25.11.2015
Hitting Home: why separation is often the most dangerous time for a victim of domestic violence
Silke Meyer
The Conversation, 25.11.2015
Why do American cops kill so many compared to European cops?
Paul Hirschfield
The Conversation, 25.11.2015
It’s not just the young who suffer sexual violence – older people get raped too
Hannah Bows
BBC News, 25.11.2015
Body-worn cameras 'cut allegations' against police
Most uniformed Met Police officers are to be equipped with body-worn video cameras after a trial found they cut allegations against the force by 33%.
Network World, 25.11.2015
Digital forensics market set to double, report says
'Increasing crime, terrorist attack threats and rising security concerns' are among the drivers behind new demand for digital forensics, a report says.
Pacific Standard, 25.11.2015
Five Studies: Mental Health Courts Are Finding Their Footing
Can judges work with psychiatrists to help solve mass incarceration?
Maia Szalavitz
Pacific Standard, 25.11.2015
History on the Tracks: The Berlin-Baghdad Railway
The current refugee crisis taking place across Europe is playing out on the railways, as it has before.
Peter Christensen
theguardian.com, 25.11.2015
The struggle for Mali
Last week’s deadly attack on a Bamako hotel was only the latest example of the government’s weakness, which has fostered a dangerous climate of sectarianism
Jack Watling and Paul Raymond
ANSA, 25.11.2015
Mafia in business with jihadis - Saviano
Belgium the cradle of jihadism because of lower capital controls
The Conversation, 25.11.2015
Many young people blame female victims, excuse male aggressors: report
Michelle Grattan
The Conversation, 26.11.2015
Domestic violence leave gains support, but let’s do it right
Ludo McFerran
The Conversation, 26.11.2015
The next war will be an information war, and we’re not ready for it
David Stupples
The Age, 26.11.2015
Sex and drugs on the road to jihad
Many Islamic State recruits have been far from devout Muslims, despite claiming that their victims' lives are decadent and obscene.
Leonid Bershidsky
The Conversation, 27.11.2015
We count what matters, and violence against people with disability matters
Anne Kavanagh, Sally Robinson
Quartz, 27.11.2015
Tasers may not kill like real guns, but they’re not a cure for police brutality either
Noah Berlatsky
Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 27.11.2015
Paris Attacks Reveal Tangles in Belgium’s Convoluted System of Government
Country’s complex overlay of local, federal and other authorities makes it hard to nail down security responsibilities
Gabriele Steinhauser and Natalia Drozdiak
The Conversation, 29.11.2015
FactCheck Q&A: have any refugees who came to Australia gone on to be terrorists?
Clarke Jones, Nicola McGarrity
The Conversation, 30.11.2015
Domestic violence and Facebook: harassment takes new forms in the social media age
Susan Hopkins, Jenny Ostini
The Conversation, 30.11.2015
Domestic violence and Facebook: harassment takes new forms in the social media age
Susan Hopkins, Jenny Ostini
EurekAlert!, 30.11.2015
Threats against children during the separation process for women in abusive relationships
Sam Houston State University
The Conversation, 30.11.2015
Asking whether porn causes sexual violence is the wrong question – here’s why
Meg-John Barker
The Conversation, 30.11.2015
Germany needs to rethink what it means to be German to resolve refugees and ISIS
Jon M Jachimowicz
The Conversation, 30.11.2015
How Belfast riots helped us shed light on the nature of human cooperation
Ruth Mace
The Washington Post, 30.11.2015
Want to help the Islamic State recruit? Treat all Muslims as potential terrorists.
Richard Maass
The Washington Post, 30.11.2015
This might be the most controversial theory for what’s behind the rise of ISIS
Jim Tankersley
