Beccaria Portal: Your directory and knowledge network in crime prevention and criminology in Europe and worldwide.
Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
Yorkshire Post, 01.01.2019
Why violent video games like Grand Theft Auto can bring out the best in players
European Eye on Radicalization, 02.01.2019
An Interview with Daniel Koehler, German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies
Sara Brzuszkiewicz
Calgary Herald, 02.01.2019
History’s oldest woman a fraud? Researchers claim Jeanne Calment, 122, was actually a 99-year-old imposter
Tristin Hopper
The Conversation, 03.01.2019
What Britons get wrong about immigration – and how to fix these misperceptions
Bobby Duffy
The Atlantic, 03.01.2019
Germany’s Leading Magazine Published Falsehoods About American Life
James Kirchick
The Independent, 04.01.2019
Domestic killings are often foreseeable, so why is the US failing to protect women?
The Conversation, 04.01.2019
Two New Year’s stabbings and an urgent lesson in how to react to terrorism
Steve Hewitt
New York Times, 05.01.2019
China Targets Prominent Uighur Intellectuals to Erase an Ethnic Identity
Austin Ramzy
The Guardian online, 06.01.2019
Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers
Mark Townsend
Deseret News, 06.01.2019
Most ISIS recruits in the U.S. aren't immigrants. They're actually native-born Americans, new study suggests
Gillian Friedman
Just Security, 07.01.2019
Research Shows Terrorists Aren’t Necessarily Uneducated. So How Can Education Prevent Terror?
Liam Duffy
The Conversation, 07.01.2019
3D-printed guns may be more dangerous to their users than targets
Jeremy Straub
The Conversation, 07.01.2019
Knife crime: children are not the problem, they are part of the solution
Kevin Haines
New Republic, 07.01.2019
The Ugly, Illiberal, Anti-Semitic Heart of the Yellow Vest Movement
Alexander Hurst
BMC Blogs Network (blog), 08.01.2019
Hate is in the air! But where? Introducing an algorithm to detect hate speech in digital microenvironments
Phys.Org, 08.01.2019
How police body cam videos impact jurors differently than dashcam videos
Bob Yirka
European Eye on Radicalization, 09.01.2019
A Talk with the European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
Sara Brzuszkiewicz
Health & Medical, Psychological, Society & Culture, Violence, 09.01.2019
Violent Crime Can Break Hearts, Literally, For Those Even In Safest Neighborhoods
Calum Mckinney
The Conversation, 09.01.2019
Are women escaping family violence overseas considered refugees?
Tamara Wood, Andrew and Renata Kaldor
The Conversation, 10.01.2019
Sex offender registries don’t prevent re-offending (and vigilante justice is real)
Maggie Hall
EurekAlert!, 10.01.2019
Top statistical society issues guidance on statistical statements for forensic evidence
American Statistical Association
The Conversation, 10.01.2019
Hearing hate speech primes your brain for hateful actions
Arthur Glenberg
The Conversation, 10.01.2019
Should cyber officials be required to tell victims of cyber crimes they’ve been hacked?
Greg Austin
Newsweek, 10.01.2019
Donald Trump's Mafia Connections: Decades Later, Is He Still Linked to the Mob?
Jeff Stein
Imperial College London, 10.01.2019
Spending six weeks with the Metropolitan Police Service and their data
Jan Povala, Hayley Dunning
The Conversation, 11.01.2019
Why we shouldn’t take selfies at disaster-affected areas
Rizqy Amelia Zein
The Conversation, 11.01.2019
The prosecution of pirates was a model for today’s system of international justice
Mark Chadwick
New York Times, 11.01.2019
Trump Claims There Is a Crisis at the Border. What’s the Reality?
JOE WARD and ANJALI SINGHVI
Berkshire Eagle, 11.01.2019
At-home DNA test results could solve cold cases
Daron Taylor and Taylor Turner
The New Yorker, 14.01.2019
The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist
Jake Halpern
Newswise, 14.01.2019
Hostage Negotiation Competition simulates stress, challenges faced by law enforcement
Telegraph.co.uk, 15.01.2019
Victims of crime to be given dogs to stroke to help keep them calm in police interviews
Telegraph Reporters
Georgia State University, 15.01.2019
Software To Identify Islamic State Propaganda Developed By Georgia State Researcher, Collaborators
EurekAlert, 15.01.2019
Cop voice: Jay-Z, Public Enemy songs highlight police tactic to frighten people of color
Binghamton University
The Guardian, 15.01.2019
'We're dealing with a black market': is taking pills becoming more dangerous?
Michael McGowan
EIN News, 15.01.2019
"Conducting Legal Research in the Age of the Internet" review published by K Todd Wallace, Esq.
PublicTechnology, 15.01.2019
How the police wants to use AI and analytics to ‘adopt a public-health approach to crime’
Sam Trendall
The Conversation, 15.01.2019
Venezuela is fast becoming a ‘mafia state’: here’s what you need to know
Anthea McCarthy-Jones
Middle East Eye, 16.01.2019
UK government fighting to keep details of counter-extremism radio shows secret
Ian Cobain
The Conversation, 16.01.2019
It’s time for a new way to regulate social media platforms
Natasha Tusikov, Blayne Haggart
The Conversation, 16.01.2019
Garbage collection in Syria is crucial to fighting the Islamic State
Mark Ward
The Conversation, 16.01.2019
Why al-Shabaab targets Kenya, and what can be done to stop attacks
Brendon J. Cannon, Martin Plaut
The Conversation, 16.01.2019
Amazon, Facebook and Google don’t need to spy on your conversations to know what you’re talking about
Jason Nurse
war on the rocks, 16.01.2019
Death in the Air: Revisiting the 2001 Anthrax Mailings and the Amerithrax Investigation
Glenn Cross
The Conversation, 16.01.2019
Australians lost more than $10 million to scammers last year. Follow these easy tips to avoid being conned.
Damien Manuel
Washington City Paper, 17.01.2019
As Homicides Continue to Rise in D.C., Parents of Gun Violence Victims Reflect on Their Open Wounds
Candace Y.A. Montague
Washington Post, 17.01.2019
An arson conviction that throws into doubt the science of criminal investigation
Dennis Drabelle
University of Texas at Dallas, 18.01.2019
Who Is a Terrorist? Perceptions of Identity, Ethnicity Come into Focus
Irish Times, 18.01.2019
How to target juvenile crime gangs? Hit them in the middle management
Conor Gallagher
The Conversation, 18.01.2019
Albanian mafia: the dangerous myth that distorts our view of the global drugs trade
Anna Sergi
VentureBeat, 18.01.2019
AI Weekly: Companies and lawmakers need to agree on facial recognition policies before it’s too late
Kyle Wiggers
Illinois State University News, 18.01.2019
Juvenile justice across continents: Research compares youth centers in Japan and the U.S.
Rachel Hatch
The Guardian, 21.01.2019
Domestic abusers may face lie-detector tests on release from prison
Jamie Grierson
The Sydney Morning Herald, 21.01.2019
Why there are more prisoners but fewer crimes being committed
Nigel Gladstone
The Conversation, 21.01.2019
Biased algorithms: here’s a more radical approach to creating fairness
Tom Douglas
New York Times, 21.01.2019
In California, Criminal Justice Reform Offers a Lesson for the Nation
Tim Arango
North Yorkshire Police, 21.01.2019
North Yorkshire Police launch ‘No matter how small’ stalking campaign
York Press, 21.01.2019
'94 per cent of women murdered by men were stalked before their deaths' - North Yorkshire Police step up campaign against stalking
Dan Bean
The Conversation, 22.01.2019
Paedophile hunters: how citizen-led policing is putting people’s lives at risk
Joe Purshouse
The Independent, 22.01.2019
UK's Prevent counter-extremism programme to be independently reviewed, government says
Lizzie Dearden
The Conversation, 22.01.2019
The Riz Test: how Muslims are misrepresented in film and TV
Zahra Khosroshahi
New York Magazine, 23.01.2019
‘Build the Wall and Crime Will Fall’: Trump’s New Rhyming Slogan Is Not True
Adam K. Raymond
British Politics and Policy at LSE, 23.01.2019
Countering violent extremism: a left-realist critique of ‘Prevent’
Tahir Abbas
Vulture - the crime scene, 23.01.2019
I Write Fiction About Border Crime, But Unlike Trump I Tell the Truth.
Don Winslow
European Eye on Radicalization, 23.01.2019
An Unholy Alliance: Turkey’s Tacit Relations with Terrorist Groups in Northern Syria
Dr. Shady Abdelwhab Mansour
Financial Times, 23.01.2019
Inside Prevent, the UK’s controversial anti-terrorism programme
Helen Warrell
The Conversation, 23.01.2019
Instadrugs: new research reveals hidden dangers when young people use apps to buy illicit substances
Andrew Childs, Leah Moyle, Monica Barratt, Ross Coomber
Newswise (press release), 24.01.2019
Modeling terrorist behavior with Sandia social-cultural assessments
The Conversation, 25.01.2019
How corruption in forensic science is harming the criminal justice system
Jessica S. Henry
The Conversation, 25.01.2019
Domestic abuse bill: proposed changes to protect victims explained
Marian Duggan
The Washington Post, 25.01.2019
Amazon facial-identification software used by police falls short on tests for accuracy and bias, new research finds
Drew Harwell
SPIEGEL ONLINE, 25.01.2019
'He Is Absolutely Aware of the Earthquake He Triggered'
Rafael Buschmann, Christoph Winterbach and Michael Wulzinger
theguardian.com, 25.01.2019
George Soros: China is using tech advances to repress its people
Larry Elliott
New Statesman, 25.01.2019
State of paranoia: How the Irish Question returned to destabilise the UK
Colin Kidd and Ian McBride
Augusta Review, 26.01.2019
35% rise in extremist murders in U.S., motivated by far Right politics – ADL
The Conversation, 27.01.2019
Why two people see the same thing but have different memories
Julian Matthews
The Sydney Morning Herald, 27.01.2019
Organised criminals more likely to commit first offence later in life
Andrew Brown
EurekAlert!, 27.01.2019
Parents worried about risks, still think opioids are best for kids' pain relief
American Society of Anesthesiologists
SIU News, 28.01.2019
Crime prevention organizations may serve as helpful liaisons between police and communities
Hannah Erickson
The Conversation, 28.01.2019
Why changing the Good Friday Agreement because of Brexit is such a dangerous idea
Kristin M. Bakke, Kit Rickard
The Conversation, 28.01.2019
Two years after Québec mosque killings, Islamophobia continues to rise
Jasmin Zine
Journalist's Resource, 28.01.2019
Preschool children exhibit racial and gender biases: Findings from two experiments
Denise-Marie Ordway
Mother Jones, 29.01.2019
Trump and Social Media Could Be An Even More Dangerous Combination in 2019
Monika Bauerlein
The Conversation, 29.01.2019
Racism in a networked world: how groups and individuals spread racist hate online
Ana-Maria Bliuc, Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn
Vox.com, 29.01.2019
We don’t know the motive for the Las Vegas shooting. But we do know why it happened.
German Lopez
Security Boulevard, 29.01.2019
The Growing Surface of Attack and What Cybercrime has in Common with Street Crime [Q&A with Steve Morgan of Cybersecurity Ventures]
The Conversation, 30.01.2019
Explainer: what is an Interpol red notice and how does it work?
Lorraine Finlay
Verfassungsblog ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL, 30.01.2019
The EU Regulation on Terrorist Content: An Emperor without Clothes
Martin Scheinin
The Conversation, 30.01.2019
History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren’t
Nicole Lee, Jarryd Bartle
The Conversation, 31.01.2019
Banks are enabling economic abuse. Here’s how they could be stopping it
Becky Batagol, Marcia Neave
Newswise, 31.01.2019
Study shows marijuana dispensaries reduce local opioid mortality rates
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
University of Sussex, 31.01.2019
How the 2011 riots spread: new evidence shows sense of identity was key
The Intercept, 31.01.2019
Police Make More Than 10 Million Arrests a Year, but That Doesn’t Mean They’re Solving Crimes
Alice Speri
The Crime Report, 31.01.2019
U.S. Cops Make an Arrest ‘Every Three Seconds,’ New Study Finds
TCR Staff
theguardian.com, 31.01.2019
If the police step up stop-and-search tactics, trouble will follow
John Drury
