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EurekAlert!, 01.09.2023
Deprived teens with poor learning skills at greatest risk from email scams, says expert
Taylor & Francis Group
Energy Monitor, 01.09.2023
Exclusive: police forces across Europe are increasingly cracking down on climate protesters
Polly Bindman and Isabeau van Halm
University of Southern California Dornsife, 01.09.2023
AI meets policing: USC leads LAPD body cam study
USC Dornsife News
The Conversation, 01.09.2023
Trump’s mug shot is now a means of entertainment and fundraising − but it will go down in history as an important cultural artifact
Jonathan Finn
New York Times, 02.09.2023
Why Did a Drug Gang Kill 43 Students? Text Messages Hold Clues.
Natalie Kitroeff and Ronen Bergman
Financial Times, 03.09.2023
Ukraine cannot win against Russia now, but victory by 2025 is possible
Richard Barrons
Foreign Policy, 03.09.2023
Analysis: New Russian Schoolbooks Preach Hatred of Ukraine and the West
Alexey Kovalev
AP News, 03.09.2023
Dying and disabled Illinois prisoners kept behind bars, despite new medical release law
Carlos Ballesteros, Shannon Heffernan and Amy Qin
The Guardian / The Observer, 03.09.2023
Blasphemy law is no answer to bigotry in the wake of Denmark’s Qur’an burnings
Kenan Malik
The Conversation, 04.09.2023
What is institutional misogyny in policing? Our research shows what it looks like – and why it matters
Catherine Durose, Vivien Lowndes
The Conversation, 04.09.2023
Police-academic partnerships could help tackle the crime of coercive control
N. Zoe Hilton, Sandy Jung
BBC News, 04.09.2023
Family courts: Children forced into contact with fathers accused of abuse
Ed Thomas
The Conversation, 04.09.2023
Poor police practices are endangering 2SLGBTQ+ survivors of intimate partner violence
Kendra Nixon, Ashley Haller
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, 04.09.2023
The Global Organized Crime Index 2023
EurekAlert!, 05.09.2023
Scammers can abuse security flaws in email forwarding to impersonate high-profile domains
University of California - San Diego
The Conversation, 05.09.2023
4 ways to rein in China and Russia, alleged superpower perpetrators of atrocity crimes
Kyle Matthews
The Conversation, 05.09.2023
Universities and their students are vulnerable to money laundering – new research
Nicholas Ryder, Henry Hillman, Sam Bourton
The Conversation, 05.09.2023
‘No woman in the usual sense’: Ilse Koch, the ‘Bitch of Buchenwald’, was a Holocaust war criminal – but was she also an easy target?
Olivera Simic
The Conversation, 06.09.2023
What BAE’s Ukraine deal shows about the risks and opportunities of setting up a business in a war zone
Martin Owens
The Conversation, 06.09.2023
Charms and rituals are used by criminals in Nigeria – should police deploy spiritual security too?
Usman A. Ojedokun
The Global Herald, 06.09.2023
Criminologist David Wilson Explains The Rise Of The Armchair Detectives
Vox, 06.09.2023
The criminal justice system is broken. Restorative justice can help fill the gap.
Erika Sasson
Dallas Morning News, 06.09.2023
‘Policing has to be legitimate’: Ex-Dallas police chief backs reform efforts
Miles Moffeit and Ari Sen
EurekAlert!, 07.09.2023
Cyberbullying linked to eating disorder symptoms in US adolescents
University of Toronto
The Conversation, 07.09.2023
How to support someone who is experiencing domestic abuse
Karen Schucan Bird
The Conversation, 07.09.2023
How students are developing solutions to the problem of campus sexual and gender-based violence
Rebecca Hall
The Conversation, 07.09.2023
Do unbiased jurors exist to serve at Trump’s trials in the age of social media?
Thaddeus Hoffmeister
The Conversation, 11.09.2023
How we uncovered the shared personality profile of violent extremists
Joanna Lindström
Newswise, 12.09.2023
Escaping justice: A flawed investigative body fails to curb RCMP sexual misconduct
Adler University
EurekAlert!, 13.09.2023
Researchers identify lesser-known factors associated with firearm violence
American College of Surgeons
The Conversation, 13.09.2023
Offering treatment to drug users instead of arresting them reduces crime and addiction – new research into police diversion program shows
Josephine Korchmaros
EurekAlert!, 14.09.2023
High rate of mental health problems & political extremism found in those who bought firearms during COVID pandemic
University of Michigan
The Guardian, 14.09.2023
How the Italian mafia makes millions from tinned tomatoes – video
Josh Toussaint-Strauss Stefania Orlando Ali Assaf Joseph Pierce Ryan Baxter
New Lines Magazine, 14.09.2023
Women on the Run From Abusers Face Being Returned From Denmark to Syria
Mais Katt
The Conversation, 15.09.2023
Mahsa Amini: a year into the protest movement in Iran, this is what’s changed
Afshin Shahi
New York Times, 15.09.2023
Her Father Is the B.T.K. Killer. She’s Helping to Close More Cases.
Remy Tumin
The Guardian, 16.09.2023
Eight men sentenced over 2016 Brussels bombings, ending Belgium’s largest-ever criminal trial
The New Daily, 17.09.2023
Conversations with killers: Criminologist’s $350k grant to learn what makes murderers tick
Cassandra Morgan
The Conversation, 18.09.2023
Violence against workers increased during the pandemic – our research shows how it affected them
Kara Ng, Sheena Johnson
Newswise, 18.09.2023
Incarceration rates, falling in every US state, drive significant shifts in risk of prison for marginalized groups
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Global Network on Extremism & Technology, 18.09.2023
Mapping Extremist Discourse Communities on Telegram: The Case of the Russian Imperial Movement
Sara Morrell
EL PAÍS Madrid, 18.09.2023
Inside a drug lab: Trafficking rings import chemists to teach ‘cooks’ how to disguise cocaine
Patricia Peiró
Deutsche Welle, 18.09.2023
Toxic masculinity expert: 'Andrew Tate is a disaster'
Gabriel Borrud | Conor Dillon
New York Times, 18.09.2023
Alabama Has a Horrible New Way of Killing People on Death Row
Bernard E. Harcourt
The Conversation, 18.09.2023
Racial trauma has profound mental health consequence - a Black clinical psychologist explains and offers 5 ways to heal
Char Newton
The Guardian, 18.09.2023
The nasty noughties: Russell Brand and the era of sadistic tabloid misogyny
Zoe Williams
The Conversation, 19.09.2023
What are ‘mule addresses’? Criminologists explain how vacant properties serve as depots for illegal online purchases
David Maimon, Saba Aslanzadeh
The Conversation, 19.09.2023
Albania: how one of the most corrupt countries in Europe is tackling crime at the highest level
Andi Hoxhaj
The Conversation, 19.09.2023
Discriminatory policing is denying Black youth their childhood
Veronica Escobar Olivo, Marsha Rampersaud
The Conversation, 19.09.2023
US policy of ‘pragmatic engagement’ in Afghanistan risks legitimatizing Taliban rule
Sher Jan Ahmadzai
The Conversation, 19.09.2023
Russell Brand: how the comedy industry uses humour to abuse and silence women
Ellie Tomsett
The Guardian, 19.09.2023
‘Size of a small police force’ of Met officers are suspended or on restricted duties
Jamie Grierson
The Guardian, 19.09.2023
I spent nine years in a Colombian women’s prison. This is what I learned
Claudia Cardona
Newswise, 20.09.2023
Safer Neighborhoods May Mitigate Risk of Child Abuse
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Newswise, 20.09.2023
Study finds firearm injuries increased in gentrified neighborhoods
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The Conversation, 20.09.2023
How local police could help prevent another January 6th-style insurrection
Matthew Valasik, Shannon Reid
The Guardian, 20.09.2023
‘It’s almost every day’: foreign delivery riders face gang attacks in Dublin
Rory Carroll
The Conversation, 21.09.2023
Paying for hostages’ release involves moral risks − a political philosopher explains
Michael Blake
EL PAÍS, 22.09.2023
Study reveals organized crime is the fifth-largest employer in Mexico
Jorge Vaquero Simancas
Psy Post, 22.09.2023
Fear of social change and political illiberalism mediate populism’s link to support for violence
Eric W. Dolan
The Conversation, 22.09.2023
Ukraine war: beware all the talk of ‘breakthroughs’ or ‘gamechangers’ – it’s going to be a long, bloody and costly struggle
Frank Ledwidge
New Lines Magazine, 22.09.2023
A Syrian in Germany Finds Lessons in the Past and Present
Asser Khattab
New York Times, 24.09.2023
A Day Care Death and the Dilemma Over How to Crack Down on Drugs
Sharon Otterman, Maria Cramer and Wesley Parnell
The Guardian, 24.09.2023
War crimes dossier to accuse Russia of deliberately causing starvation in Ukraine
Dan Sabbagh
New York Times, 24.09.2023
F.B.I. Investigating Charges of Abuse by Baton Rouge Police in ‘Brave Cave’
Livia Albeck-Ripka
The Conversation, 25.09.2023
The UK just passed an online safety law that could make people less safe
Benjamin Dowling
The Conversation, 25.09.2023
How popular music videos drove the fight against the Islamic State
Benjamin Isakhan, Ali Akbar
The Conversation, 25.09.2023
Ukraine war: mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies hint at growing conflict fatigue
Stefan Wolff, Tetyana Malyarenko, Jean Monnet
The Guardian, 25.09.2023
Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century?
Zoe Williams
WION, 25.09.2023
Did Russia intentionally starve Ukraine? New war crime dossier to the ICC to provide damning evidence
U.S. News and World Report, 25.09.2023
Unsafe Neighborhoods Have Higher Levels of Child Abuse
Cara Murez
Psychiatric Times, 25.09.2023
Cannabis and Schizophrenia: Implications in the Legalization Era
Victor Ajluni, MD
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2023/09/25/for-minorities-biased-ai-algorithms-can-damage-almost-every-part-of-life/, 25.09.2023
For minorities, biased AI algorithms can damage almost every part of life
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
The Guardian, 26.09.2023
‘I just want justice’: Ukrainians struggle with hidden war crime of sexual violence
Liz Cookman
The Conversation, 26.09.2023
How rape myths and unconscious biases prejudice the judicial system against women – and rape survivors in particular
Pragya Agarwal
The Guardian, 26.09.2023
TechScape: AI-made images mean seeing is no longer believing
Chris Stokel-Walker
The Guardian, 26.09.2023
‘How did he die and I didn’t?’: Hungary’s spate of car crashes involving police and migrants
Marlene Auer
CBS News, 26.09.2023
New study links tear gas exposure to adverse reproductive health outcomes
Kirsten Mitchell
The Conversation, 27.09.2023
Harassment and abuse perceived to harm poor women less − new research finds a ‘thicker skin’ bias
Nathan Cheek
The Guardian, 27.09.2023
Five key takeaways from Donald Trump’s financial fraud case ruling
Lauren Aratani
Washington Post, 27.09.2023
Troops stormed a prison. They found inmates had built a luxury resort.
Ana Vanessa Herrero, Diana Durán, Samantha Schmidt
The Conversation, 28.09.2023
The UK has relatively few armed police – but their specialist squads are hotbeds of ‘warrior culture’
Tara Lai Quinlan
University of Cambridge, 28.09.2023
How students made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England
Fred Lewsey
The Conversation, 28.09.2023
Juries that don’t understand forensic science can send innocent people to prison − a short training video could help
Devon LaBat, Deborah Goldfarb, Jacqueline R. Evans, Nadja Schreiber
Newswise, 28.09.2023
UAlbany Expert Available to Discuss The Risks of Existential Terrorism and AI
University at Albany
The Guardian, 28.09.2023
Sweden reports highest number of monthly fatal shootings since records began
Miranda Bryant
Science News, 29.09.2023
Curbing pedestrian stops might not reduce police-civilian encounters
Sujata Gupta
The Conversation, 29.09.2023
How to challenge toxic behaviour and help someone being bullied or harassed at work
Louise Crowley
The Insider, 29.09.2023
Assisted dying: New law strips what's left of Russian care home residents' rights
New York Times, 30.09.2023
Police Chief Who Ordered Raid on Kansas Newspaper Is Suspended
Orlando Mayorquin
