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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Conversation, 01.05.2015
From Tottenham to Baltimore, policing crisis starts race to the bottom for justice
Provocative, violent and discriminatory policing has sparked riots in both the UK and America.
Imogen Tyler, Jenna Loyd
Pacific Standard, 01.05.2015
The Hidden Intelligence Breakdowns Behind the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
After Edward Snowden, the government said its controversial surveillance programs had stopped a terrorist—David Coleman Headley. The claim is largely untrue.
Sebastian Rotella
The Conversation, 02.05.2015
The slow poisoning of Freddie Gray and the hidden violence against black communities
Freddie Gray had high levels of lead as a child, one of the environmental injustices suffered by poor and minority groups.
Rita Turner
The Marshall Project Originally, 02.05.2015
Baltimore’s Polite Police Reform
The softer side of Justice Department intervention.
Simone Weichselbaum
New York Times Sunday Magazine, 03.05.2015
Re: Her Majesty’s Jihadists
It was, in the words of Mika Brzezinski on “Morning Joe,” “revelatory”: In her April 19 cover story, Mary Anne Weaver reported that more British Muslims had joined Islamist militias like ISIS and the Nusra Front than are serving the British Army.
USA TODAY, 03.05.2015
Want a lawless police force? Federalize it: Column
Accountability comes from having law enforcement under multiple umbrellas.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
USA TODAY, 03.05.2015
What Aurora mass shooting teaches us: Column
A national center assessing the threat can prevent future attacks.
Gregory J. Wallance
Mother Jones, 04.05.2015
87 Reasons to Rethink the Death Penalty
Execution was meant for the worst of the worst. Research shows that's far from the reality.
Stephanie Mencimer
EurekAlert!, 04.05.2015
Keeping legalized marijuana out of hands of kids
Researchers suggest regulators could learn lessons from tobacco and alcohol industries to keep harmful products away from young people.
New York Times online, 04.05.2015
Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us
How a group of black social-media activists built the nation’s first 21st-century civil rights movement.
JAY CASPIAN KANG
Washington Post, 05.05.2015
Why Islamist insurgents are so difficult to coerce
Monica Duffy Toft and Yuri Zhukov
The Nation, 05.05.2015
5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists
From Ferguson to Baltimore, the message is clear: protest at your peril.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-lotke/baltimore-burning-foreseen_b_7214282.html, 05.05.2015
Baltimore Burning - Foreseen in the Data
Eric Lotke
Daily Beast, 05.05.2015
The Freddie Grays of West Baltimore Who Can’t Vote
Under Maryland law, ex-felons can’t vote even while on probation and parole. That soaks up lots of minor offenders and can last years.
Wired, 05.05.2015
The Untold Story of Silk Road
How a 29-year-old idealist built a global drug bazaar and became a murderous kingpin.
Joshua Bearman and Tomer Hanuka
theguardian.com, 06.05.2015
Latin America leads world on murder map, but key cities buck deadly trend
EurekAlert!, 06.05.2015
Carrot or stick? Punishments may guide behavior more effectively than rewards
Washington University School of Medicine
The Conversation, 06.05.2015
Explainer: does the EU need its own intelligence agency?
The president of the European Commission has called for the EU to maintain its own spy agency.
David J. Galbreath
Akron Beacon Journal, 06.05.2015
Exploring the role of race in police shootings: ‘How to Stay Alive in an Unconsciously Racial Society’ at The House of the Lord
Colette M. Jenkins
Pacific Standard, 06.05.2015
Racism and Discrimination Kill—Literally
Experiencing discrimination has been shown to have both acute and long-term effects on the body.
Lisa Wade
The Atlantic, 06.05.2015
Calling Someone Other Than the Cops
Many kinds of urban disorder would be better addressed by people who aren't police officers.
Conor Friedersdorf
Washington Post, 06.05.2015
This isn’t 1968. Baltimore isn’t Watts. And Hillary Clinton isn’t Michael Dukakis.
Radley Balko
The Marshall Project, 06.05.2015
The Case for Violent Video Games
A new book says kids know they’re a fantasy — even a healthy one.
Dana Goldstein
The Nation, 07.05.2015
How to defeat terrorism? Call it by its TRUE NAME
Political violence should be recognised as a reflection of deep-seated social, economic and political problems - rather than demonised with terms like 'terrorism' or 'evil'.
James Dorsey
The Conversation, 07.05.2015
France, ‘cradle of liberty’, struggles to balance anti-terrorism law and rights
Legislation is passed in France that would see state surveillance powers scale towards those in the US and UK.
Eglantine Raux
Vox, 07.05.2015
How systemic racism entangles all police officers — even black cops
Neill Franklin is a black man. But he'll admit that after decades of working at the Baltimore Police Department and Maryland State Police, he harbored a strong bias against young black men.
German Lopez
Raw Story, 07.05.2015
More white people see systemic problems in policing after Freddie Gray — But racial gulf remains
Terrell Jermaine Starr
The Conversation, 07.05.2015
Frontex can’t solve the Mediterranean migration crisis on its own – here’s why
The EU has pledged to triple money to the search-and-rescue mission in the Mediterranean. But simply throwing money at the problem won't work.
Satoko Horii
Pacific Standard, 07.05.2015
Our Very Real Problem With Human Trafficking
If we want to fight human trafficking, we should start by understanding it more clearly.
Tom Kecskemethy
The Conversation, 08.05.2015
Why the VE Day narrative in Germany is becoming even more complicated
Commemoration and memory is being re-politicised, and this could have worrying consequences.
James Koranyi
The Conversation, 08.05.2015
Texas shooting is a pointless chapter in the story of intolerance and extremism
In the strange parallel world where free speech means causing offence and taking offence means revenge, life and death go on ad nauseam.
David Tollerton
The Washington Post, 09.05.2015
In Germany, are anti-Muslim terrorists the real threat?
While U.S. agencies continue to focus on anti-Western Islamist terrorists, their German counterparts have recently been forced to investigate the opposite: anti-Muslim terrorism.
Rick Noack
The Baltimore Sun, 09.05.2015
Freddie Gray among many suspects who do not get medical care from Baltimore police
Mark Puente and Meredith Cohn
The Conversation, 10.05.2015
Is Australia as bad as IS? Skewed criticism may leave you wondering
Australia's human rights record isn't perfect, but it still good. if Australians aren't able to take some pride in that and be inspired to do even better, over-the-top criticism could backfire.
Hugh Breakey
USAPP American Politics and Policy (blog), 10.05.2015
Book Review: Critical Approaches to International Security, 2nd Edition
New York Times Magazine, 10.05.2015
‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us’
How a group of black social media activists built the nation’s first 21st-century civil rights movement.
JAY CASPIAN KANG
The New Yorker, 11.05.2015
The Milwaukee Experiment
What can one prosecutor do about the mass incarceration of African-Americans?
Jeffrey Toobin
The Conversation, 11.05.2015
With jihadists among us, is IS more of a threat than communism was?
Dire government warnings and counter-terrorism raids in our suburbs paint a picture of the worst threat Western nations have ever faced. A little historical perspective is in order.
Matt Fitzpatrick
The Conversation, 11.05.2015
Hundreds of women rescued from the Nigerian Islamist group are pregnant after being held in sexual slavery.
Violent crime as old as the Bible: Boko Haram uses rape as a weapon of war.
Helen Gavin
Sydney Morning Herald, 11.05.2015
Treat teenage extremists like young drug users, experts say
Australian Muslims trying to address religious extremism in their family need the same type of support given to parents dealing with their children's drug addiction, terrorism experts say.
Patrick Hatch
Telegraph.co.uk, 11.05.2015
Revenge porn: 'Street tactics' can stamp out this industrial scale sexual crime
Lawyer Dr Ann Olivarius is at the forefront of new laws to tackle revenge porn in the UK and US. Here, she explains why it's vital the government acts now to prevent it becoming an established form of sexual violence.
Dr Ann Olivarius
Telegraph.co.uk, 11.05.2015
Pornography: Young children and teens who send sex images risk mental problems
Leading psychiatrist warns 'sexting' and cyberbullying could have unforeseen consequences in later life.
David Barrett
theguardian.com, 11.05.2015
Abolishing the death penalty was less popular than we care to remember
Richard Ackland
The Conversation, 11.05.2015
Rombertik ‘kamikaze virus’ is inventive and aggressive, but it’s not the end of the world
Rombertik malware will happily take the nuclear option on your hard drive.
Andrew Smith
n+1, 11.05.2015
On Becoming More Human
A version of this speech was prepared for a student rally at Emory University on December 4, 2014, in the wake of national protests over the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Lawrence Jackson
Pacific Standard, 11.05.2015
The power of public shaming can't be controlled. Can it save the planet?
Matt Feeney
The Conversation, 12.05.2015
How chaos in Libya spawned a security nightmare in the Mediterranean
Ioannis Chapsos
The Atlantic, 12.05.2015
The Zoolander Theory of Terrorism
Jihadists are often portrayed as brainwashed dupes. They're not.
Simon Cottee
The Atlantic, 12.05.2015
The Wedding Sting
How a police department tried to save a failing Rust Belt town by luring all the local drug dealers to one Party.
Jeff Maysh
The Nation, 13.05.2015
Entering the Mind of My Rapist: An Exercise in Extreme Empathy
What would it be like, I suddenly wondered, to put myself in the head of my rapist?
Deborah Copaken
The Conversation, 13.05.2015
Germs on shoes and mobile phones are a good way of tracing criminal suspects, finds study.
Stefano Vanin
The Atlantic, 13.05.2015
Long-Range Iris Scanning Is Here
An engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon says he’s invented technology that can identify someone from across the room with the precision of a fingerprint.
Robinson Meyer
Montreal Gazette, 13.05.2015
Why do so many Quebec towns want to make it illegal to insult police?
Catherine Solyom
The Baltimore Sun, 13.05.2015
Freddie Gray shows us it's time to lead in Baltimore and beyond
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
The Conversation, 13.05.2015
Budget brief: where is the new help for domestic violence?
A national domestic violence crisis hotline is still under-funded and unable to keep up with demand, after the 2015 federal budget delivered only a few short-term measures on domestic violence.
Jane Wangmann
EurekAlert!, 14.05.2015
Study finds those who believe in pure evil support more harsh criminal punishments
Kansas State University
Pacific Standard, 14.05.2015
Shackling Juveniles in the Courtroom
Pediatricians and psychologists say unnecessary restraints can traumatize kids and encourage worse behavior.
Lauren Kirchner
The Independent, 15.05.2015
Police forces redefining what constitutes a crime as they struggle to cope with budget cuts
Hannah Fearn
Voice of America, 15.05.2015
Some Policing Aims to Arrest Causes of Crime
In Baltimore, Maryland, as in other U.S. cities, some are looking for ways to improve relations between police and community members. VOA's Chris Simkins reports from the city.
Chris Simkins, Carol Guensburg
Pacific Standard, 15.05.2015
Start Sending Parolees to New Neighborhoods
They'll stay out of trouble longer, a new study suggests.
Nathan Collins
The Conversation, 15.05.2015
The implications of the death sentence for the Boston Marathon bomber
Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev now faces the death penalty for his actions. A panel of scholars weighs in on the jury's decision.
EurekAlert!, 18.05.2015
When citizens disobey
New study suggests people use 'constructive noncompliance' to enact change.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The White House (blog), 18.05.2015
Launching the Police Data Initiative
Megan Smith and Roy L. Austin, Jr.
EurekAlert!, 18.05.2015
RAND study finds association between teen sleep patterns and alcohol or marijuana use
The Conversation, 18.05.2015
Could the Boston Marathon bomber receive a fair trial in Boston?
All of Boston was traumatized by the attacks on the Boston Marathon in 2013. A legal scholar suggests that this meant the man accused of the bombing could not receive a fair trial here.
Karen Pita Loor
The Conversation, 18.05.2015
How organised crime in the UK has evolved beyond the mafia model
Gangs of career criminals in Britain look very different to the stories told by Scorcese or Coppola. They are fluid, multi-cultural and recent research sheds new light on how they use the dirty money.
David S. Wall, Yulia Chistyakova
Pacific Standard, 18.05.2015
How America Overdosed on Drug Courts
Hailed as the most compassionate way for the criminal justice system to deal with addicts, drug courts were designed to balance punishment with rehabilitation. But after 25 years, the verdict is in: Drug courts embolden judges to practice medicine without a license—and they put lives in danger.
Maia Szalavitz
The Conversation, 18.05.2015
What the accidental drone killing of an American ‘traitor’ says about the power of visual weapons
The death of al-Qaida propagandist and "traitor" Adam Gadahn, known as Azzam the American, got scant attention – just what the US government wanted. A scholar examines the definition of treason.
Rebecca A Adelman
University of Texas at Austin News, 19.05.2015
Waco Shooting Shows Why We Need to Question an Armed Society
John Traphagan
Pacific Standard, 19.05.2015
The Psychological Reason Local Police Don’t Need the Military's Left-Over Weapons
President Obama’s new ban on military equipment for local law enforcement is about more than just excessive force.
Jared Keller
The Conversation, 19.05.2015
How our obsession with cheap flights is sparking a security risk beneath our feet
When reports surface that a drugs syndicate might control an airport's baggage handlers, it's time to look at the pressure points for what is a precarious job – and a serious security threat.
Geraint Harvey, Peter Turnbull
The Conversation, 20.05.2015
Osamacide, ‘justice’ and the deadly legacy of Bin Laden
Memories of the killing of Osama bin Laden are fading, but the legacies of al-Qaeda and the war on terror's many 'own goals' haunt us in the form of multiplying threats and lost civil liberties.
Tristan Dunning
EurekAlert!, 20.05.2015
Gun violence restraining orders: A promising strategy to reduce gun violence in the US
Law would give family members and law enforcement tool to temporarily remove guns from someone believed dangerous.
Johns Hopkins
UPI.com, 20.05.2015
Contract killers bury their feelings to complete the kill
"The motivation for most people who become hitmen is economic, so the reframing shows their resourcefulness as individuals," said researcher Mohammed Rahman.
Brooks Hays
ZDNet, 21.05.2015
A practical history of plane hacking: Beyond the hype and hysteria
Controversy over a security researcher's alleged hacking into a plane's engine mid-flight raises serious questions as to why years of public research on airline hacking has gone ignored.
Violet Blue
The Guardian, 21.05.2015
What are cities doing so right – and so wrong? The experts go head to head
Simon Jenkins
The Conversation, 22.05.2015
Explainer: how to solve a jewel heist (and why it takes so long)
CSI lied to you: investigating a crime scene is long, complicated and often boring.
Emma Rixon
The Conversation, 22.05.2015
Damage caused by incompetent rape response shows just how vital specialist teams are
Hampshire constabulary has paid £20,000 in damages, but the underlying problems will take much more to solve.
Nicole Westmarland
The Conversation, 22.05.2015
Logjam isn’t the only reason your computer might be more vulnerable to internet threats
A new threat to secure online communication could be a symptom of a wider cyber security problem.
Andrew Smith
OUPblog (blog), 22.05.2015
Believing victims
A leading policy and practice publication aimed at senior police officers, policy makers, and academics, Policing contains in-depth comment and critical analysis on a wide range of topics including current ACPO policy, police reform, political and legal developments, training and education, specialist operations, accountability, and human rights.
By P.A.J. Waddington
The Daily Beast, 22.05.2015
Where ISIS Gets Its Bombs
How does the so-called Islamic State get new recruits and supplies from abroad? With amazing ease. An eyewitness report.
The Conversation, 22.05.2015
The ISIS takeover of Ramadi means hard choices face the Iraqi and US governments
David Alpher
Telegraph.co.uk, 23.05.2015
Genocidal video game 'Hatred' approved for UK release
The video game is set to be released in Britain with an aged-
Rozina Sabur
The Japan Times, 23.05.2015
Shifting the scales of juvenile justice
In light of 13-year-old Ryota Uemura’s recent murder in Kawasaki, the country is once again split over whether or not to revise the law governing crimes committed by minors.
Masami Ito
Herald Sun, 23.05.2015
Parents fearing lure of Islamic State cancel children’s passports
Carly Crawford
theguardian.com, 24.05.2015
Cleveland acquittal highlights high bar to challenging police use of force
‘Over generations of legal decisions, we have decided in this country, that we will favor law enforcement,’ says Ohio ACLU chief after Michael Brelo walks free.
Sydney Morning Herald, 24.05.2015
Internet of hackable things: wired world wide open to new age of cyber crime
Mark White
Quartz, 24.05.2015
This man came from Rome to show Americans why the death penalty is wrong
Cosimo Bizzarri
Counterterrorism: Is it working?, 25.05.2015
Counterterrorism: Is it working?
Special to The Globe and Mail
Wesley Wark
Pacific Standard, 26.05.2015
I Spy, U. Spy?
The strange case of higher education espionage.
Kate Wheeling
Courier Mail, 26.05.2015
Agenda: The 100-year war on drugs has failed — does Portugal have the answer?
Mike Bruce
New York Times, 27.05.2015
Police in Cleveland Accept Tough Standards on Force
MITCH SMITH and MATT APUZZO
The Conversation, 27.05.2015
Could better tests have predicted the rare circumstances of the Germanwings crash? Probably not
Even if we could develop a test or a screening process to find a pilot who would intentionally crash a plane, and that system was very, very good, virtually all positives would be false positives.
The Conversation, 27.05.2015
Remind me again, how does cannabis affect the brain?
The legislative changes poised to increase the availability of cannabis are outpacing our understanding of the impact that the drug has on the brain.
The New Republic online, 27.05.2015
Did This Acclaimed Sociologist Drive the Getaway Car in a Murder Plot? The questionable ethics of Alice Goffman's "On the Run"
Steven Lubet
The Conversation, 28.05.2015
Counting crowds is a start – but we also need to understand them
A new study rejoices at being able to predict crowd movements and size with phone data. But those methods won't keep us safe.
Chris Cocking
The Conversation, 28.05.2015
Lessons for FIFA from the Salt Lake City Olympic scandal
Charges of corruption by US prosecutors against FIFA have parallels to the IOC's problems in the 1990s.
Will Jennings
The Conversation, 28.05.2015
EU’s refugee relocation plans desperately need a reality check
The EU's proposal to relocate 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean nationals from Greece and Italy to other EU Member States is not what it seems.
Katharine Jones
KU Today, 28.05.2015
Research to map organized crime, terrorism hotspots in Eurasia
As organized crime plays an increasing role in funding terrorism, research at the University of Kansas aims to pinpoint hotspots in Eurasia where drug trafficking, human trafficking and terrorism coincide.
EurekAlert!, 28.05.2015
The new normal? Addressing gun violence in America
American Psychological Association
The Conversation, 29.05.2015
The ‘train wreck’ continues: another social science retraction
Another retracted paper in the social sciences underscores the need for greater vigilance and reflection upon the causes of scientific fraud.
Jonathan Borwein
The Conversation, 29.05.2015
Team UN, world police: why we need an emergency peace service
The UN's peacekeeping efforts are all very well, but they take too long to mount and are unevenly spread across member states. It's time to build something less ad hoc.
Peter Langille
The Washington Post, 30.05.2015
Fatal police shootings in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide
Kimberly Kindy
University Herald Saturday, 30.05.2015
Marijuana Use Among Teens Could Be Delayed, Prevented With School Interventions
New research suggests that marijuana use among teens can be delayed or prevented using school-based interventions, Medical News Today reported.
theguardian.com, 30.05.2015
The Tsarnaev Brothers: The Road to a Modern Tragedy by Masha Gessen – extract
Masha Gessen writes the motivation of the Boston marathon bombers, the theories about what might have happened, and our understanding of terrorism
Masha Gessen
The Conversation, 31.05.2015
Oskar Groening and our own guilt for crimes committed collectively
Oskar Groening has declared his moral guilt as an Auschwitz accountant. His trial, currently underway, points to difficult questions about the implications of our own participation in collective activities.
Janna Thompson
