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The Conversation, 01.02.2018
How serial killers capitalize on chaos, according to an expert
Michael Arntfield
The Conversation, 01.02.2018
How lotto scammers defraud elderly Americans and fuel gang wars in Jamaica
Damion Blake
The Conversation, 01.02.2018
The virtual door to online child sexual grooming is wide open
Michelle McManus, Louise Almond
The Conversation, 01.02.2018
More police stop and search won’t stop knife crime – here’s why
Simon Flacks
The Guardian, 01.02.2018
‘Migrants are more profitable than drugs’: how the mafia infiltrated Italy’s asylum system
Barbie Latza Nadeau
EurekAlert!, 02.02.2018
Algorithm identifies vulnerable people during natural disasters
University of Waterloo
Washington Post, 02.02.2018
A Texas man vowed to forgive whoever killed most of his family. Then he learned it was his son.
Kyle Swenson and Katie Zezima
EurekAlert!, 02.02.2018
Non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents: The prevalence in Germany is high
Deutsches Aerzteblatt International
New York Times, 03.02.2018
As F.B.I. Took a Year to Pursue the Nassar Case, Dozens Say They Were Molested
DAN BARRY, SERGE F. KOVALESKI and JULIET MACUR
The Australian, 03.02.2018
Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Daniel Ellsberg
Paul Monk
PsychCentral.com, 04.02.2018
Same Psychological Factors May Explain Violence Among Muslim and Western Extremists
Janice Wood
The Conversation, 05.02.2018
How cyberbullies overtly and covertly target their victims
Larisa McLoughlin
EurekAlert!, 05.02.2018
BU: Police shootings reflect structural racism
Boston University School of Medicine
The Conversation, 06.02.2018
Teens aren’t just risk machines – there’s a method to their madness
Jessica Flannery, Elliot Berkman, Jennifer Pfeifer
The Conversation, 06.02.2018
From #MeToo to #RiceBunny: how social media users are campaigning in China
Meg Jing Zeng
The Washington Post, 06.02.2018
San Francisco's police force will be under state oversight after Justice Dept. rolls back federal program
Mark Berman
EurekAlert!, 06.02.2018
Children affected by prenatal drinking more numerous than previously estimated
University of California - San Diego
ABC Online, 07.02.2018
Reducing youth crime requires knowing which policies actually work, criminologist says
Hailey Renault
The Conversation, 07.02.2018
The spectre of fascism haunts Italy after attempted massacre forces African migrants to stay indoors
Paolo Novak
The Conversation, 07.02.2018
Citrus fruits, scurvy and the origins of the Sicilian mafia
Alessia Isopi, Arcangelo Dimico
Newswise, 07.02.2018
'Jackpotting' Reaches U.S. Shores, Drains Millions From ATMs
Arizona State University (ASU)
The Conversation, 07.02.2018
What’s the difference between sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape?
Sarah L. Cook, Lilia M. Cortina, Mary P. Koss
The Conversation, 07.02.2018
Listen to abuse survivors and advocates to clear the way to a national redress scheme
Kathleen Daly
The Root, 07.02.2018
Jeff Sessions Won’t Hold Bad Police Departments Accountable, so California Is Doing It on Its Own
Monique Judge
Pacific Standard, 07.02.2018
Henry Green, the Columbus Police, and the Jumpout Boys: How Racism Becomes Institutionalized in Police Departments
Alli Maloney
OUPblog, 08.02.2018
Perpetrator Intervention Programmes – a mechanism to affect positive change?
International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
BuzzFeed News, 08.02.2018
Scientists Are Doubting A Famous Study That Claimed You Can Be Easily Tricked Into A False Confession
Stephanie M. Lee
EurekAlert!, 08.02.2018
How good a match is it? Putting statistics into forensic firearm identification
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
The Spectator, 08.02.2018
So you’re scared of Islam? By that logic, you should be scared of Christianity as well
Gavin Meade
The Conversation, 08.02.2018
Police mugshots: millions of citizens’ faces are now digitised and searchable – but the tech is poor
Martin Paul Evison
The Conversation, 08.02.2018
The James Bulger case should not set the age of criminal responsibility
Sean Creaney, Roger Smith, Stephen Case
Los Angeles Times, 08.02.2018
Trifecta of opioids, alcohol and suicide are blamed for the drop in U.S. life expectancy
Melissa Healy
Pacific Standard, 09.02.2018
A New Book Explores the Commercialization of Far Right Youth Culture in Germany
Peter C. Baker
EurekAlert!, 09.02.2018
Drivers of hate in the US have distinct regional differences
University of Utah
Newswise, 09.02.2018
Cure Violence Rises to No. 10 Spot on List of Top Global NGOs
University of Illinois at Chicago
The Guardian, 10.02.2018
‘If I’d known, I might not have taken a life’: can prisoners defuse their own disputes?
Hattie Garlick
Voice of America, 10.02.2018
Trickle of Returning Foreign Fighters Could Frustrate West for Decades
Jeff Seldin
The Guardian, 11.02.2018
Police urged to ‘follow the gun’ to cut smuggling amid rise in firearm crime
Mark Townsend
The New Yorker - American Chronicles, 12.02.2018
Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus?
Jia Tolentino
The Conversation, 12.02.2018
Predictive algorithms are no better at telling the future than a crystal ball
Uri Gal
EurekAlert!, 12.02.2018
Ideology is not main factor that pushes children to join terrorist groups
United Nations University
The Conversation, 12.02.2018
Oxfam scandal: development work is built on inequality but that’s no reason to cut foreign aid
Luisa Enria
Newswise, 12.02.2018
New Report on MS13: How the World's Most Notorious Street Gang Defies Logic, Resists Destruction
American University
EurekAlert!, 12.02.2018
Hip-hop music influencing more African-Americans to try 'Molly'
University of South Florida (USF Health)
EurekAlert!, 12.02.2018
Researchers discover brain pathway that dissociates opioid addiction from analgesia
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The Conversation, 13.02.2018
NGOs need to step up and keep children safe – here’s what they can do
Rosa Freedman
The Conversation, 13.02.2018
Beyond #MeToo, we need bystander action to prevent sexual violence
Anastasia Powell, Elise Holland
The Conversation, 13.02.2018
NGOs need to step up and keep children safe – here’s what they can do
Rosa Freedman
Salon, 13.02.2018
Terror victims Donald Trump won’t talk about: Americans killed by the “alt-right”
Chauncey DeVega
The Guardian, 13.02.2018
Home Office unveils AI program to tackle Isis online propaganda
Patrick Greenfield
CBC.ca, 13.02.2018
'They like to talk': UNB professor challenges concept of lone-wolf terrorist
Joseph Tunney
Media Matters for America, 13.02.2018
Why is The New York Times publishing discredited gun researcher John Lott?
TIMOTHY JOHNSON
InSight Crime, 14.02.2018
MS13 Case Studies: Hierarchy vs. Federation
Steven Dudley and Héctor Silva Ávalos
The Telegraph, 14.02.2018
Builder probed by police for drug and rape fantasy went on to rape and slit throats of two women, murdering one
Robert Mendick
New York Times, 14.02.2018
How a Police Chief, a Governor and a Sociologist Would Spend $100 Billion to Solve the Opioid Crisis
JOSH KATZ
PolitiFact, 14.02.2018
What we know about mass shootings
Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Miriam Valverde
Newswise, 14.02.2018
U of A Researchers Receive Grant to Study Domestic Terrorism Patterns
University of Arkansas
University of Toronto, 15.02.2018
Sketching serial killers: PhD student creates database to help understand why people kill
The Washington Post, 15.02.2018
Fla. shooting suspect had a history of explosive anger, depression, killing animals
Kevin Sullivan, William Wan and Julie Tate
The Atlantic, 15.02.2018
Why Can't the U.S. Treat Gun Violence as a Public-Health Problem?
Sarah Zhang
The Conversation, 15.02.2018
Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Anthony Gunter
Washington Post, 15.02.2018
FBI’s near-brush with suspect in Florida school shooting draws scrutiny
Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett and Emma Brown
New York Times, 15.02.2018
After Sandy Hook, More Than 400 People Have Been Shot in Over 200 School Shootings
JUGAL K. PATEL
The Conversation, 15.02.2018
Police in schools: helpful or harmful? It depends on the model
Katherine J. McLachlan
The Conversation, 16.02.2018
It’s time to end the debate about video games and violence
Christopher J. Ferguson
Rolling Stone, 16.02.2018
Blaming Video Games for School Shootings Is Misguided, Dangerous
Patrick Markey, Chris Ferguson
The Conversation, 16.02.2018
The American public has power over the gun business – why doesn’t it use it?
Brian DeLay
Sydney Morning Herald, 16.02.2018
Kids in prison with brain disorders: If we can predict it, we should prevent it
Karina Chicote
The Conversation, 16.02.2018
How 21 artists graffitied one man’s property, made it famous, sued him when he knocked it down and won $6.7m
Enrico Bonadio
The Guardian, 16.02.2018
The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s 'lost generation'
Hannah Rae Armstrong
The Conversation, 18.02.2018
Seeing the unseeable: how viewing crime scene photos can be beneficial
Kate Rossmanith, Hugh Dillon, Jane Mowll
Newsweek, 18.02.2018
Trump Branded 'Psychopath' After Blaming FBI's Russia Probe for Failure to Investigate Florida Shooting Tip
Tom Porter
Phys.org Social Sciences, 19.02.2018
Study reveals links between youth victimization, beliefs about government, and political participation
Baylor College of Medicine
The Conversation, 19.02.2018
Life on humanitarian compounds is removed from reality – this can fuel the misconduct of aid workers
Gemma Houldey
The Independent, 19.02.2018
'We must act before another child is killed': Warning over abuse linked to witchcraft and possession beliefs in UK
Lizzie Dearden
Express.co.uk, 19.02.2018
FRAUD WARNING: Elderly UK savers being tricked out of half a million pounds EVERY DAY
Tom Gillespie
Telegraph.co.uk, 20.02.2018
US gun owners destroy rifles in #OneLess response to Florida school shooting
Mark Molloy
Forbes, 20.02.2018
Something Rotten in Denmark? The International Criminalization of Drug Advertising
Robert Radick
Science News, 20.02.2018
Are computers better than people at predicting who will commit another crime?
Maria Temming
The Conversation, 21.02.2018
Sexting: a modern ‘crime’ that could be on a child’s police record for life
Michelle McManus, Louise Almond
Crime Report, 21.02.2018
Cops Weigh Chance of Conviction Before Arresting Rape Suspects: Study
TCR Staff
The Washington Post, 21.02.2018
How reliably does animal torture predict a future school shooter?
Arnold Arluke
News18, 21.02.2018
In The Wrong Hands, AI Can Mean New-Age Terrorism, Automated Cyber Attacks: Report
The Conversation, 21.02.2018
Why is there so little research on guns in the US? 6 questions answered
Lacey Wallace
Chicago Evening Post, 21.02.2018
School Shootings: Mental Health Watchdog Says Psychotropic Drug Use by School Shooters Merits Federal Investigation
Ari Roul
New York Times, 21.02.2018
Numbers Hint at Why #MeToo Took Off: The Sheer Number Who Can Say Me Too
Susan Chira
The Conversation, 22.02.2018
Crimes of solidarity: liberté, égalité and France’s crisis of fraternité
Abi Taylor
The Conversation, 22.02.2018
A record 29,000 Mexicans were murdered last year – can soldiers stop the bloodshed?
Luis Gómez Romero
Vox, 22.02.2018
This cartoon explains why predicting a mass shooting is impossible
Brian Resnick and Javier Zarracina
EurekAlert!, 22.02.2018
Study debunks claim that medical marijuana laws increase recreational pot use for US teens
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
EurekAlert!, 22.02.2018
Survey: more than half of US gun owners do not safely store their guns
Johns Hopkins
McClatchy Washington Bureau, 22.02.2018
Pablo Escobar is old school. Modern global criminal is a hacker.
The Guardian, 22.02.2018
The fascist movement that has brought Mussolini back to the mainstream
Tobias Jones
Washington Post, 22.02.2018
The cost of domestic violence is astonishing
Bjorn Lomborg and Michelle A. Williams
Reykjavik Grapevine, 22.02.2018
Icelandic Police Launches Project To Help Victims Of Sexual Abuse
Alice Demurtas
Washington Post, 23.02.2018
You need two things for a successful anti-violence movement. Post-Parkland activism about guns has both.
Erica Marat
The Conversation, 23.02.2018
How working with men and boys could stop domestic violence
Richard Tolman
EurekAlert, 23.02.2018
Study: Police use of force is rare, as are significant injuries to suspects
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
New York Times, 23.02.2018
Facebook and Google Struggle to Squelch ‘Crisis Actor’ Posts
JACK NICAS and SHEERA FRENKEL
EurekAlert!, 26.02.2018
Reduce crime and gun violence and stabilize neighborhoods: A randomized controlled study
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
EurekAlert!, 26.02.2018
Check offenders for history of head injuries, experts say
University of Exeter
The Conversation, 26.02.2018
After the niqab: what life is like for French women who remove the veil
Agnès De Féo
The Conversation, 26.02.2018
Mental illness and gun laws: What you may not know about the complexities
Arash Javanbakht
The Conversation, 26.02.2018
Why Trump’s idea to arm teachers may miss the mark
Aimee Huff, Michelle Barnhart
The Conversation, 27.02.2018
Online extremism: UK government’s Islamic State blocking tool is neat but incomplete
Raheel Nawaz
The Conversation, 27.02.2018
If you want to know how to stop school shootings, ask the Secret Service
Jeff Daniels
The Conversation, 27.02.2018
Nearly all cannabis seized by UK police is high-strength ‘skunk'– here’s why we should be worried
Marta Di Forti
Newsweek, 27.02.2018
Racial Gap in U.S. Prisons Narrows as White Incarceration Rates Rise and Black Imprisonment Declines, Study Says
Chantal Da Silva
The Verge, 27.02.2018
Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology
Ali Winston
The Conversation, 27.02.2018
Antisemitism: how the origins of history’s oldest hatred still hold sway today
Gervase Phillips
The Conversation, 28.02.2018
Encrypted smartphones secure your identity, not just your data
Susan Landau
The Conversation, 28.02.2018
Can selling weapons to oppressive and violent states ever be justified?
James Christensen
