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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Conversation, 01.07.2023
he stabbing attack at the University of Waterloo underscores the dangers of polarizing rhetoric about gender
Alysia Kolentsis
The Guardian/The Observer, 01.07.2023
We are seen as less human’: inside Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police
Mark Townsend
The Guardian, 02.07.2023
The Guardian view on El Salvador’s crime crackdown: a short-term, high cost fix
The Guardian, 02.07.2023
‘There is no hope’: simmering anger boils over in poverty-riven French district
Angelique Chrisafis
Wall Street Journal, 02.07.2023
Behind French Riots Lie Years of Anger Over Police Conduct
Matthew Dalton
The Conversation, 03.07.2023
French riots follow decades-old pattern of rage, with no resolution in sight
François Dubet
The Conversation, 03.07.2023
Why schoolchildren are regularly being targeted by terrorist groups in many countries
Brian J. Phillips
New York Times, 03.07.2023
Cracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply Chain
Aaron Krolik, Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano
Japan Today, 03.07.2023
Police body camera ramp-up started a decade ago. How well have they worked?
LINDSAY WHITEHURST
European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, 03.07.2023
History in the making – the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine starts operations at Eurojust
The Guardian, 03.07.2023
Pizzerias, shops, train stations: Russia is bombing civilian targets, and its crimes must be punished
Nataliya Gumenyuk
Newswise, 03.07.2023
Escaping exploitation with nowhere to go: Barriers in accommodating survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery
University of South Australia
The Guardian, 03.07.2023
Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina dies after being wounded in Kramatorsk strike
Emma Graham-Harrison
The Conversation, 04.07.2023
Banks put family violence perpetrators on notice. Stop using accounts to commit abuse or risk being ‘debanked’
Catherine Fitzpatrick
The Conversation, 04.07.2023
Facial recognition technology could soon be everywhere – here’s how to make it safer
Nadia Kanwal
The Canberra Times, 04.07.2023
Dating app danger for underage teenagers, study and police say
Molly Appleton
The Guardian, 04.07.2023
Groping and sexual harassment rife in Melbourne’s live music venues, study finds
Adeshola Ore
The Guardian, 04.07.2023
‘It’s the first thing that they look at’: claims of racial profiling levelled at Victoria police after Covid fines report
Adeshola Ore
EurekAlert!, 05.07.2023
Memories of childhood abuse and neglect has greater impact on mental health than the experience itself
King's College London
The Guardian, 05.07.2023
As AI cheating booms, so does the industry detecting it: ‘We couldn’t keep up with demand’
Joe Marshall
Washington Post, 05.07.2023
Tracing a tragedy: How hundreds of migrants drowned on Greece’s watch
Imogen Piper, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Claire Parker and Elinda Labropoulou
The Conversation, 05.07.2023
Criminals, terrorists and freeloaders: how migrants are portrayed in the European media
David Blanco-Herrero, Javier J. Amores, Patricia Sánchez-Holgado
The Michigan Daily, 05.07.2023
Research into traffic stops finds disproportionate levels of police violence against Black drivers
Chen Lyu
The Trace, 05.07.2023
Fourth of July Mass Shootings Demonstrate a New Shared ‘American Experience’
Sunny Sone
EurekAlert!, 05.07.2023
AI unleashes a Pandora's box: ChatGPT generates convincingly fake scientific article
JMIR Publications
The Guardian, 05.07.2023
‘He lived by the troll, he dies by the troll’: Putin takes on Prigozhin’s business empire
Pjotr Sauer and Jason Burke
The Conversation, 06.07.2023
How the death of Nahel M. inflamed an already embattled France
Virginie Martin
Anadolu Agency, 06.07.2023
French teen shooting: ‘Systemic racism, Islamophobia, license to kill all at play’
Rabia Ali
SaltWire, 06.07.2023
Incels aren’t just sexist, they’re racist too, Dal researcher finds
Mathieu Hebert
New York Times, 06.07.2023
Shootings in New York Drop by a Quarter as Surge of Violence Eases
Hurubie Meko
The Conversation, 06.07.2023
What is ‘fawning’? How is it related to trauma and the ‘fight or flight’ response?
Alix Woolard
University of Colorado Boulder, 07.07.2023
Police, researchers use grant to develop new tools to better assess the risk of targeted violence
Education Week, 07.07.2023
School Police Prevent Some Violence, But Not Shootings, Research Finds
Caitlynn Peetz
The Good Men Project, 08.07.2023
Studies Show a Need for Procedural Justice in ‘Hot Spot’ Policing
Rod McCullom
Verfassungsblog, 08.07.2023
Intertemporal Freedom in the Historic Climate Protection Ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court
Mathias Hong
The Conversation, 10.07.2023
The Islamic State flag hijacks Muslim words of faith. Banning it could cause confusion and unfair targeting of Muslims
Zuleyha Keskin
The Guardian, 10.07.2023
Greek shipwreck: hi-tech investigation suggests coastguard responsible for sinking
Katy Fallon, Giorgos Christides, Julian Busch and Lydia Emmanouilidou
The Conversation, 10.07.2023
AI: why installing ‘robot judges’ in courtrooms is a really bad idea
Rónán Kennedy
The Telegraph, 10.07.2023
Police search rape victims’ personal records in a third of cases
Charles Hymas
Study Finds, 10.07.2023
Words matter: Study reveals the traumatic effect of homophobic name-calling
John Anderer
The Guardian, 10.07.2023
I started work as a prison officer full of optimism, but in a rat-infested jail I saw the ugly, violent reality
Alex South
The Guardian, 11.07.2023
Will Russia target nuclear plants? For Ukrainians, it feels like a ‘when’, not an if
Jade McGlynn
The Guardian, 11.07.2023
My trafficker is behind bars, but if the UK’s new migration bill passes, my story would have ended very differently
Anonymous
The Conversation, 11.07.2023
New report suggests there’s no real effort to end racial profiling in Montréal
Ted Rutland
The Conversation, 12.07.2023
AI scam calls imitating familiar voices are a growing problem – here’s how they work
Oliver Buckley
Niskanen Center, 12.07.2023
Police De-escalation tactics can lead to meaningful improvements in officer and civilian safety
Richard Hahn
Gothamist, 12.07.2023
The NYPD doesn’t report where it deploys police. So scientists used AI, dashcams to find out.
Neil Mehta
The Conversation, 12.07.2023
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is a ‘dirty bomb’ waiting to happen – a nuclear expert explains
Tilman Ruff
The Conversation, 12.07.2023
How the shooting of Ralph Yarl demonstrates the fiction of a colorblind society in America
Barbara Harris Combs
The Conversation, 12.07.2023
How children affected by criminal exploitation in Northern Ireland need better legal protections
Alan McKinstry
University of Colorado Boulder, 12.07.2023
Police to focus on more inclusive, accurate language to describe suspects
The Conversation, 12.07.2023
Canadian law enforcement agencies continue to target Muslims
Basema Al-Alami
The Conversation, 13.07.2023
Mounties in crisis: The systemic failure to address sexual abuse within the RCMP
Jason Walker
EurekAlert!, 13.07.2023
Under representation of women in policing: Study reveals persistent barriers and gender differences in career advancement
University of Portsmouth
EurekAlert!, 13.07.2023
Controlled cruelty: New study from VCU finds aggression can arise from successful self-control
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Guardian, 13.07.2023
New York set up a hotline for police handling mental health cases. Not one officer has called
Wilfred Chan
Newswise, 13.07.2023
Targeted prevention helps stop homelessness before it starts
University of Notre Dame
The Conversation, 13.07.2023
Street gangs in South Africa and Canada are worlds apart - but they have a great deal in common
Dariusz Dziewanski, Robert Henry
Newswise, 13.07.2023
Cop-turned-professor pushes for stronger police-community partnerships
West Virginia University
The Jerusalem Post, 14.07.2023
DNA evidence triples prosecution rates in criminal cases - study
JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Security Magazine, 14.07.2023
How empathy can help prevent violence in the workplace and in schools
Marisa Randazzo
The Conversation, 14.07.2023
More stick, less carrot: Australia’s new approach to tackling fake news on digital platforms
Andrea Carson
Washington Post, 14.07.2023
Burner phones, pizza crust lead police to Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect
Shera Avi-Yonah and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
The Guardian/The Observer, 15.07.2023
Revealed: Metropolitan police shared sensitive data about crime victims with Facebook
Shanti Das
New York Times, 16.07.2023
In Gilgo Beach Killings, an Arrest Bears Out a Decade-Old Prediction
Hurubie Meko and Erin Nolan
Phys.org, 17.07.2023
Study reveals older burglars outperform younger counterparts in virtual burglaries
University of Portsmouth
The Guardian, 17.07.2023
Iran’s ‘morality police’ resume patrols 10 months after nationwide protests
Patrick Wintour
The Conversation, 17.07.2023
A 1-minute gun safety video helped preteen children be more careful around real guns – new research
Brad Bushman, Sophie Kjaervik
EurekAlert!, 17.07.2023
How positive contact with diverse groups reduces conspiracy theories
University of East Anglia
EurekAlert!, 17.07.2023
New findings suggest historical infanticide in Europe likely more widespread than estimated
Book Announcement Taylor & Francis Group
The Guardian, 17.07.2023
Long Island killings ‘the worst I’ve ever seen’, top police investigator says
Edward Helmore
Computing, 17.07.2023
Met Police website sent information about crime victims to Facebook
Dev Kundaliya
The Conversation, 17.07.2023
Impunity over Wagner mutiny signals further degradation of rule of law in Russia
Maxim Krupskiy
EurekAlert!, 17.07.2023
In determining what’s true, Americans consider the intentions of the information source
Boston College
The Guardian, 17.07.2023
The underground Crimean Tatar group taking up arms against Russia
Julian Borger in Kyiv
UKNow, 18.07.2023
UK researcher part of study linking lifetime interpersonal violence to increased risk of diabetes
Lindsay Travis
EurekAlert!, 18.07.2023
Bipolar disorder linked to 6-fold heightened risk of early death from external causes
BMJ
New Pittsburgh Courier, 19.07.2023
Incarceration takes heavy toll on individual and public health. Community programs are lightening the load.
Chain Store Age, 19.07.2023
Bringing Organized Retail Crime Into Focus With Computer Vision AI
Alex Siskos
EurekAlert!, 19.07.2023
Association between markers of structural racism and mass shooting events in major US cities
JAMA Network
Forbes, 19.07.2023
Teen Suicide Plummeted During Covid-19 School Closures, New Study Finds
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs
The Conversation, 19.07.2023
How classic psychology warped our view of human nature as cruel and selfish - but new research is more hopeful
Steve Taylor
The Journalist's Resource, 19.07.2023
In counties where Fox News has a lower channel number, elected judges impose harsher criminal sentences
Clark Merrefield
Forbes, 19.07.2023
Unveiling The Role Of AI Algorithms: Unmasking Societal Inequities And Cultural Prejudices
Cristian Randieri
The Conversation, 19.07.2023
Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system
Anna Nagurney
Washington Post, 19.07.2023
Organized thieves steal locally. Lawmakers should react nationally.
Editorial Board
EurekAlert!, 20.07.2023
Chronic stress suffered by women survivors of gender violence alters their stress response system
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
The Guardian, 20.07.2023
High temps and hot tempers: US road rage boils over as country sizzles
Maya Yang
New York Times, 20.07.2023
Survey of 30 U.S. Cities Shows Nearly 10 Percent Drop in Homicides in 2023
Tim Arango
The Conversation, 20.07.2023
Migrant deaths at sea: the real blame lies with policies created by European states
Kerstin Bree Carlson
spiegel.de, 20.07.2023
CIA Kidnapping Victim Khaled el-Masri 20 Years On
Muzayen Al-Youssef und Martin Knobbe
Wisconsin Law Journal, 21.07.2023
George Floyd’s death impact on health care and law as shootings and crime skyrocket past post-pandemic peak
Steve Schuster
The Guardian / The Observer, 22.07.2023
Video of women attacked in Manipur breaks silence on systematic gang rapes in India
Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan
The Guardian, 22.07.2023
A murdered writer, his secret diary of the invasion of Ukraine – and the war crimes investigator determined to find it
Charlotte Higgins
Small Wars Journal Sun, 23.07.2023
Crime and COVID-19 in Mexico: Some Counterintuitive Results
Sean Fiorella, Tony Payan, Daniel Potter, and Rodrigo Montes de Oca Arboleya
The Conversation, 23.07.2023
Has Russia contained the Prigozhin threat? Its long history of managing violent mercenaries suggests so
Mark Edele Hansen
The Guardian / The Observer, 23.07.2023
Terrorist Anders Breivik’s manifesto was listed for sale on Waterstones website
Mark Townsend
The Conversation, 24.07.2023
When mafia threatens democracy: research shows ordinary people are less honest in countries hit by organised crime
Giovanni A. Travaglino, Alberto Mirisola, Pascal Burgmer
Bloomberg, 24.07.2023
Mass Shootings Disproportionately Victimize Black Americans
Isabel Webb Carey and Fola Akinnibi
The Conversation, 24.07.2023
40 years ago, the US started sending more and more kids to prison without hope of release, but today, it’s far more rare – what happened?
Julie Ellen McConnell
Undark Magazine, 24.07.2023
Police Say Dogs Help Solve Crimes. Little Evidence Supports That.
Peter Andrey Smith
The Conversation, 24.07.2023
Prodrugs: pills your body converts into an illicit drug can evade detection, but we don’t know how big the problem is
Julio de Carvalho Ponce
ZAWYA, 24.07.2023
'Traditional approaches not working with rising crime': World Police Summit reports on future of law enforcement
The Guardian, 24.07.2023
‘I have fought every day since’: Assa Traoré’s campaign for justice after brother died in police custody
Kim Willsher
Dark Reading, 24.07.2023
KillNet's Kremlin Connection Unclear as the Cybercrime Collective Grows
Becky Bracken
Midland Daily News, 25.07.2023
Nashville school shooter's writings reignite debate over releasing material written by mass killers
Travis Loller
National Geographic, 25.07.2023
If you’ve felt like people are getting crueler, you may be right
Daryl Austin
EurekAlert!, 25.07.2023
Study offers objective insights to near-miss collisions between drones, airplanes
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
The Guardian, 25.07.2023
‘A certain danger lurks there’: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Ben Tarnoff
The Conversation, 26.07.2023
A ‘black box’ AI system has been influencing criminal justice decisions for over two decades – it’s time to open it up
Melissa Hamilton, Pamela Ugwudike
Newswise, 26.07.2023
Mapping mass shootings in the United States
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Verfassungsblog, 26.07.2023
The Folly of the Israeli Government in Restricting Reasonableness
Rivka Weill
Phys.org, 26.07.2023
Research shows having police in schools results in fewer fights, but harsher discipline
Margaret Hartley
National Institute of Justice, 27.07.2023
What Has Longitudinal Research on Teen Dating Violence Taught Us?
The Guardian, 27.07.2023
Changing Meta’s algorithms did not help US political polarization, study finds
EurekAlert!, 27.07.2023
Illicit drug use is involved in nearly one in three sudden cardiac deaths in young adults
Elsevier
The Conversation, 27.07.2023
Why the media aren’t helping to solve the ‘youth crime crisis’ they’re reporting
Andrew Hickey, Rachael Wallis
Thought Catalog, 27.07.2023
A Researcher Reveals the Early Warning Signs of Narcissistic and Psychopathic Children
Shahida Arabi
The Conversation, 28.07.2023
Terrorists are using fraud to fund their activities – the UK government needs to act urgently
Nicholas Ryder
New York Times, 28.07.2023
We Know What Happens When We Prosecute Drug Dealers as Murderers
Maia Szalavitz
The Guardian, 28.07.2023
‘Significant’ increase in deaths in police custody in England and Wales
Kevin Rawlinson
Swansea University, 28.07.2023
New study shows the power of linking police and healthcare data to identify the vulnerable
The Conversation, 28.07.2023
Trump faces additional charges – 4 essential reads to understand the case against him for hoarding classified documents
Naomi Schalit
The Conversation, 28.07.2023
Long before women police officers came police ‘matrons’: who were they and what did they do?
Alice Neikirk
The Guardian, 29.07.2023
US officer who put handcuffed woman in car hit by freight train found guilty
New York Times, 30.07.2023
The Secret History of Gun Rights: How Lawmakers Armed the N.R.A.
Mike McIntire
The Guardian, 30.07.2023
‘Excluded from justice’: court prevents family of victim from addressing assailant
Helen Pidd
Washington Post, 31.07.2023
Marijuana addiction is real. Those struggling often face skepticism.
David Ovalle and Fenit Nirappil
Vancouver Sun, 31.07.2023
Policing in B.C.: Is change on the way? Is the RCMP on the way out?
Gordon Hoekstra
The Conversation, 31.07.2023
Justice Department launches civil rights investigation of Memphis police – 4 essential reads about holding police accountable
Lorna Grisby
