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Bloomberg Businessweek, 01.07.2022
The Open House Hunters Who Targeted LA’s Rich and Famous
Claire Martin
Washington Post, 01.07.2022
Vladimir Kara-Murza: Prison doesn’t give me many views of the sun
Vladimir Kara-Murza
The Conversation, 03.07.2022
Plasma gangs: how South Africans’ fears about crime created an urban legend
Nicky Falkof
New York Times, 03.07.2022
The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don’t Count
Pamela Paul
The Cut, 03.07.2022
Amber Heard Asks the Court to Set Aside the Defamation Verdict
Claire Lampen, Olivia Truffaut-Wong, and Danielle Cohen
New York Times, 04.07.2022
The attack in Highland Park was not the only shooting over a violent holiday weekend.
Maggie Astor
The Conversation, 04.07.2022
Sports can help prevent violent extremism in youth
Umair Asif, Simon Rosenbaum, Tegwen Gadais
News-Medical.net, 04.07.2022
COVID pandemic may have hidden a significant increase in child abuse, say doctors
Emily Henderson
Los Angeles Times, 04.07.2022
Researchers use AI to predict crime, biased policing in major U.S. cities like L.A.
Libor Jany
Washington Post, 04.07.2022
Akron police release video of officers shooting Black man dozens of times
Andrea Simakis, Brittany Shammas, Praveena Somasundaram and Kim Bellware
The Conversation, 05.07.2022
Cities: how urban design can make people less likely to use public spaces
Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez
The Conversation, 05.07.2022
‘Quite irreparable damage’: child family violence survivors on how court silenced and retraumatised them
Camilla Nelson
News-Medical.net, 05.07.2022
Study finds four out of ten children in the US live in homes with at least one criminal charge
The Conversation, 05.07.2022
Buying into conspiracy theories can be exciting – that’s what makes them dangerous
Donovan Schaefer
EurekAlert!, 06.07.2022
False beliefs about prevalence of crime could influence jury decisions, new study shows
University of Exeter
Global Voices, 06.07.2022
China: Possible police database breach exposes at least 1 billion citizens’ personal data
Oiwan Lam
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, 06.07.2022
Revenue Over Public Safety
Ram Subramanian, Jackie Fielding, Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Hernandez Stroud, Taylor King
NPR, 06.07.2022
Why the Highland Park suspect represents a different kind of violent extremism
Odette Yousef
NBC News, 06.07.2022
The Taliban have dug up the car their founding leader used to escape after the U.S.-led invasion
Rhoda Kwan and Mushtaq Yusufzai
The Jerusalem Post, 07.07.2022
Gun control alone not enough to combat US terrorism - analysis
YONAH JEREMY BOB
New York Times, 07.07.2022
Killer of George Floyd Sentenced to 21 Years for Violating Civil Rights
Jay Senter and Shaila Dewan
The Conversation, 07.07.2022
The Jan. 6 insurrection showed that performance crime is becoming increasingly popular
Sandra Jeppesen
EurekAlert!, 07.07.2022
Poor physical & mental health among older adults linked to childhood abuse history
University of Toronto
Phys.org, 07.07.2022
Women's help desks in local police stations in India increased registration of cases of gender-based violence
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Washington Post, 08.07.2022
The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings
Mark Berman, Lenny Bernstein, Dan Keating, Andrew Ba Tran and Artur Galocha
EurekAlert!, 08.07.2022
Mass shootings: Diametrically opposed social media users starting to agree — enough is enough
University of Nevada
New York Times, 09.07.2022
Does Abe Shooting Reflect Success of Japan’s Gun Laws, Not Failure?
Max Fisher
New York Times, 10.07.2022
Inside a Uvalde Classroom: A Taunting Gunman and 78 Minutes of Terror
Edgar Sandoval
The Conversation, 10.07.2022
The war in Ukraine shows it’s time for a new way to ensure security in Europe
David Carment, Dani Belo
Wall Street Journal, 10.07.2022
Ukraine War Pushes Millions of the World’s Poorest Toward Starvation
Gabriele Steinhauser
Dallas Morning News, 10.07.2022
Bringing broken windows to Dallas. Lowering crime without adding cops
The Conversation, 11.07.2022
Email scams are getting more personal – they even fool cybersecurity experts
Gareth Norris, Max Eiza, Oliver Buckley
News from Wales, 11.07.2022
Scams and Cryptocurrency – How They Work and What to Watch Out for
Lisa Baker
Phys.org, 11.07.2022
De-prosecution policy associated with rise in homicides in American cities
American Society of Criminology
spiegel.de, 11.07.2022
Can You Speak To a War Criminal?
Florian Gathmann, Matthias Gebauer, Veit Medick, Christoph Schult und Severin Weiland
The Conversation, 12.07.2022
20 years on, the International Criminal Court is doing more good than its critics claim
Matt Killingsworth
The Conversation, 12.07.2022
What makes people willing to risk their lives to save others?
Frank T. McAndrew, Cornelia H. Dudley
ABC News, 12.07.2022
Police 'just dismissed' requests for help from domestic violence murder victim, daughter says
Michael Atkin and Peter McCutcheon
CBC News, 12.07.2022
Stress, burnout among police in Canada 'pretty terrifying,' researcher says
Jason Viau
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, 12.07.2022
When students bring guns to North Carolina schools
Melba Newsome
C2C Journal, 12.07.2022
When the Whole World Goes Mad: Mattias Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism
Margret Kopala
The Conversation, 12.07.2022
Herder-farmer conflict in the Sahel needs a new description: why ‘eco-violence’ fits
Olumba E. Ezenwa, Thomas Stubbs
Worldcrunch, 12.07.2022
Russia Is Triggering A Domino Effect Of Worldwide Conflict
Juan Gabriel Tokatilan
Nature, 13.07.2022
How climate change could drive an increase in gender-based violence
Meghie Rodrigues
News Release India, 13.07.2022
How countries with good public security treat the mental health of their police officers
The Conversation, 13.07.2022
Toronto woman set on fire: Violence against women and girls should be treated as a hate crime
Myrna Dawson
EurekAlert!, 13.07.2022
Safer web surfing with a new method for detecting malicious modes
International Society for Optics and Photonics
The Conversation, 13.07.2022
Cannabis prohibition in France over the past 50 years has disproportionately punished its Muslim minority
David A Guba
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 13.07.2022
Research on the Rise: Professor Margaret Bull Kovera and Ph.D. student Jacqueline Katzman's Study Links Eyewitness Misidentification to Police Procedu
The Independent, 13.07.2022
Mass shooters crave notoriety. Here’s how media plays a major role in that
Washington Post, 14.07.2022
Here’s how to make red-flag laws most effective against gun violence
Veronica Pear
MEMRI Middle East Media Research Institute, 14.07.2022
MEMRI Releases 'The Eye Of The Storm: [Domestic] Terrorists, Neo-Nazis, And White Supremacists Using Cryptocurrency – Part II' –
EurekAlert!, 14.07.2022
Breaking up is hard to do – but many men find healthy ways to cope
University of British Columbia
Police Professional, 14.07.2022
Targeted policing in high-crime areas reduces youth violence, research finds
Paul Jacques
MIC, 14.07.2022
A leaked video shows in painful detail how incompetent the Uvalde response was
Rafi Schwartz
The National, 15.07.2022
How American communities can come together to stop the spread of gun violence
Janine di Giovanni
BiometricUpdate.com, 15.07.2022
Predictably low trust by Black Americans in facial recognition in new poll
Jim Nash
NPR, 16.07.2022
These gun deaths didn't make national headlines, but they left a devastating mark
Connor Donevan
The Union Leader, 17.07.2022
Janet Stevens: Isolation and loneliness are fertile ground for elder abuse
New York Times, 17.07.2022
Report on Uvalde Shooting Finds ‘Systemic Failures’ in Police Response
J. David Goodman and Edgar Sandoval
The Conversation, 18.07.2022
Children are bombarded with violence in the news – here’s how to help them cope
Nicole Martins, Erica Scharrer
EurekAlert!, 18.07.2022
Clinicians who responded to recent mass shootings release recommendations for an effective healthcare response in the future
American College of Surgeons
EurekAlert!, 18.07.2022
Childhood loneliness linked to stress and problem drinking in young adults
Arizona State University
The Straits Times, 18.07.2022
Psychologists study tricks and tactics scammers employ to find ways to protect victims
Osmond Chia
CBC News, 18.07.2022
AI helps researchers identify victims of human trafficking, 'Canada's best-hidden crime'
The Conversation, 18.07.2022
Mass shootings in South Africa are often over group turf: how to stop the cycle of reprisals
Guy Lamb
Louisiana Illuminator, 19.07.2022
Misogyny is fueling the country’s gun violence epidemic, experts say
Anna Gustafson
Digital Journal, 19.07.2022
MEMRI Releases ‘The Eye Of The Storm: [Domestic] Terrorists, Neo-Nazis, And White Supremacists Using Cryptocurrency – Part II’
EL PAÍS English Edition, 19.07.2022
Predictive policing: The pitfalls of crime forecasting
Manuel G. Pascual
EurekAlert!, 19.07.2022
Marijuana use is much more common in US states that have legalized recreational cannabis use
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
EurekAlert!, 19.07.2022
US youth firearm mortality increases over the past decade; trends differ significantly across states
Elsevier
Neuroscience News, 20.07.2022
Psychological Traits of Violent Extremism Investigated Using New Research Tool
EurekAlert!, 20.07.2022
Better outcomes when police, ambulance and mental health services attend 111 mental health emergencies together, NZ study finds
University of Otago
The Conversation, 20.07.2022
Russia’s mass kidnappings of Ukrainians are a page out of a wartime playbook – and evidence of genocide
Alexander Hinton
The Conversation, 20.07.2022
Ukraine war: why Moscow could go nuclear over Kyiv’s ‘threats’ to Crimea
Stefan Wolff, Tatyana Malyarenko
The Conversation, 20.07.2022
Mo Farah: here’s why it is so difficult for trafficking victims to disclose their experiences
Patricia Hynes
The Conversation, 20.07.2022
Debunking the myth of the ‘evil people smuggler’
Yvonne Su, Corey Robinson
Augusta Free Press, 21.07.2022
Study: Violence in U.S. linked to easy access to firearms, not necessarily mental health
Crystal Graham
The Guardian, 21.07.2022
British drugs policy is punitive and contradictory. And now it’ll go backwards
Kojo Koram
The Conversation, 21.07.2022
Russia says peace in Ukraine will be ‘on our terms’ – but what can the West accept and at what cost?
Alexander Gillespie
The Conversation, 22.07.2022
Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched, even if no one is looking for you
Peter Krapp
spiegel.de, 22.07.2022
Panama Papers Whistleblower: "The Russian Government Wants To See Me Dead"
Frederik Obermaier und Bastian Obermayer
New York Times, 24.07.2022
Last Stand at Azovstal: Inside the Siege That Shaped the Ukraine War
Michael Schwirtz
The Nation, 25.07.2022
Journey to Guantánamo: A Week in America’s Notorious Penal Colony
Moustafa Bayoumi
The Conversation, 25.07.2022
‘Narco-drones’ are the newest form of drug trafficking. Our laws aren’t yet ready to combat them
Natalie Klein, Rob McLaughlin
The Conversation, 25.07.2022
Refugee and migrant women are often excluded from mainstream domestic violence services and policy
Jenny Maturi, Jenny Munro
Binghamton University, 25.07.2022
Excess suspicion: Racial profiling in a small city in upstate New York
Jennifer Micale
The Conversation, 25.07.2022
Research shows it’s harmful to smack your child, so what should parents do instead?
Daryl Higgins, Sophie Havighurst
EurekAlert!, 25.07.2022
Religious leaders reduce intimate partner violence in Uganda
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
EurekAlert!, 25.07.2022
Rates of solitary confinement of incarcerated people with mental illness three times higher than those without mental illness
American Society of Criminology
The Conversation, 25.07.2022
Domestic abuse: how survivors can get through family law court
Rima Hussein, Imane El Hakimi
New York Times, 25.07.2022
A U.S. intelligence report finds that Russia’s use of ‘filtration centers’ to detain and deport Ukrainians has intensified.
Marc Santora
spiegel.de, 25.07.2022
The Dystopia of São Paulo Holds the Key To Brazil's Transformation
Nicola Abé and Rogério Vieira
TheHill.com, 25.07.2022
Political violence and the future of democracy: Take a look in the mirror, America
Dr. Garen J. Wintemute
The Conversation, 26.07.2022
From Trump to Putin: Why are people attracted to tyrants?
Agata Mirowska, Raymond B. Chiu, Rick Hackett
Christian Science Monitor, 26.07.2022
Uvalde aftermath: In this policing era, what does leadership look like?
Patrik Jonsson, Henry Gass
The Conversation, 26.07.2022
Top democracy activists were executed in Myanmar – 4 key things to know
Tharaphi Than
Missouri Independent, 27.07.2022
‘Defund the police’ slogan and anti-cop violence debated at U.S. Senate hearing
Jacob Fischler
The Conversation, 27.07.2022
Revealed: untold story of the CIA/Stasi double agent abandoned after 22 years of service
Eleni Braat, Ben de Jong
The Conversation, 28.07.2022
Mexico: new research shows the link between opening schools and falling murder rates in the past
Raul Zepeda Gil
The Conversation, 28.07.2022
Why are strip-searches not a matter of public debate in the UK?
Matteo Tiratelli
Time, 29.07.2022
CBD Could Help Cops Get Relief From Stress, Insomnia, and Chronic Pain. But Using It Puts Their Job in Jeopardy
Katja Ridderbusch
The Independent, 30.07.2022
Debunked stories of police ‘overdosing’ from fentanyl are everywhere. They’re causing real harm
Arkansas Times, 30.07.2022
Police shootings — one-third of those killed were fleeing, study says, and a local judge sees a problem
Max Brantley
Wallpaper, 31.07.2022
Forensic Architecture: can architectural analysis hold power to account?
Will Jennings
The Sunday Times, 31.07.2022
