Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
Street harassment of women in Spain: Frequency increases anxiety and lowers self-esteem, finds study
University of Córdoba
What’s ahead for municipal policing in Canada after B.C. court decision ousts the RCMP in Surrey
Bryce J. Casavant
After a spate of recent stabbings, is knife crime getting worse in Australia?
Vincent Hurley
A third of Swedish cheerleaders tell of psychological abuse
Linköping University
As Mexico’s new president takes office, a renewed battle to contain cartel violence begins
Katia Adimora
Russia’s FSB protected Evil Corp gang that carried out Nato cyber-attacks
Dan Milmo
Mexico has a trailblazing new president. But does she have any new ideas to tackle spiralling crime?
Philip Johnson
Iran’s strikes on Israel are the latest sign that the conflict in the Middle East is spiraling, presenting rising global security threats
Javed Ali
Football can improve wellbeing of people in prison – and could help stop reoffending
Martha Newson Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Greenwich Linus Peitz Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychology, University of Greenwich
Severe climate change may increase violence against women
Peer-Reviewed Publication University College London
‘Survival sex’, ‘mob justice’ and more: the first independent study of abuse in the Australian Defence Force is damning
Mia Martin Hobbs Research Fellow, Deakin University
Russia’s new ideological battlefield: The militarization of young minds
Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
Do child access prevention laws prevent gun violence? Here’s what the research says
Clark Merrefield
Migration during adolescence linked to increased psychosis risk, study finds
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
New article provides orientation to using implementation science in policing
Crime and Justice Research Alliance
The long-feared Middle East war is here. This is how Israel could now hit back at Iran
Ran Porat Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
Friday essay: Are wars and violence inevitable, or is there another way to live?
Marty Branagan Senior Lecturer in Peace Studies, University of New England
Trauma takes its toll at the end of life
Peer-Reviewed Publication University of California - San Francisco
After freeing a man who spent half a century on death row, will Japan keep using the death penalty?
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Northampton researchers help set the course for ethical use of AI in policing
Gavin Moore
‘It Took Over Everything’: Stories of Marijuana’s Little-Known Risks
Megan Twohey, Danielle Ivory and Carson Kessler
One year on from 7 October, our panel considers: what next for the Middle East?
Fawaz Gerges, Leila Seurat, Jason Burke, Orly Noy and Sanam Vakil
At 12 she was abused by a friend’s father. Police told her parents she was asleep so there was no need to let her know. The problem? They were wrong …
Arielle Domb
‘What is it that keeps you wanting to survive?’ Giles Duley and Rwandan genocide survivor Olive Mutetamfura on resilience and forgiveness
Andrew Anthony
Chinese hackers access US telecom firms, worrying national security officials
Sean Lyngaas and Evan Perez, CNN
‘Ecocide’ is being used as a weapon of war in Ukraine. It should be one of the crimes tried in the International Criminal Court
Renéo Lukic Professeur titulaire de relations internationales, Université Laval Sophie Marineau Doctorante en histoire des relations internationales, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
October 7 one year on: the horror of the Hamas terror attack haunts Israel and still guides its security policy
Ori Wertman Research fellow, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales
What Was Possible Before October 7th, and What Remains Possible Now
Isaac Chotiner
These 7 Warning Signs Predict Abuse in Relationships
Arash Emamzadeh Reviewed by Abigail Fagan
The political, social and psychological toll of family deaths in war
Diego Alburez-Gutierrez Group Leader, Kinship Inequalities Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research / Enrique Acosta Demógrafo, investigador en el Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CE
Interpol campaign to identify remains of women in Europe expands to 46 cases
UN extends Kenyan policing mission in Haiti in futile attempt to tackle gangs
UN extends Kenyan policing mission in Haiti in futile attempt to tackle gangs
What are the limits of free speech? We may have arrived at them
Matthew Sharpe Associate Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
As an ethical hacker, I can’t believe the risks people routinely take when they access the internet in public
Christopher Patrick Hawkins Lecturer in Cyber Security and Computer Science, University of Staffordshire
Devolving justice and policing to Wales would put it on par with Scotland and Northern Ireland – so what’s holding it back?
Stephen Clear Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University Chaynee Hodgetts Barrister & Honorary Lecturer in Emergency Medical Law, Queen Mary Unive
How tech-facilitated coercive control can enable stalking and abuse: study
Bernise Carolino
New Research Shows Your ZIP Code Could Make You 27 times More Likely to be Fatally Shot by Police
The dangers of voice cloning and how to combat it
Leo S.F. Lin Senior Lecturer in Policing Studies, Charles Sturt University / Duane Aslett Senior Lecturer in Policing Studies, Charles Sturt University / Geberew Tulu Mekonnen Lecturer, School of Poli
Over 370 million girls and women globally subjected to rape or sexual assault as children – UNICEF
We shouldn’t lock up young offenders with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Here are the alternatives
Elizabeth Jane Elliott Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney Fiona Robards Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
Study: Electronic Screening for Domestic Violence 10x More Effective than Traditional
DEA could reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive category – a drug policy expert weighs the pros and cons
Chris Meyers Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University
They Flew 7,000 Miles to Fight Haiti’s Gangs. The Gangs Are on Top.
Frances Robles
The 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory – An Introduction
Kai Ambos
Interview: ‘He asked me if I wanted to meet a prince’: how Lisa Phillips survived grooming and abuse by Jeffrey Epstein
Emine Saner
Creditors Left High and Dry: The Search for the Vanished Billions of the Benko Empire
Kristina Gnirke
"Mama, Pray for Me" The Women Soldiers Who Warned Israel of the Approaching Attack
Thore Schröder
Three-quarters of sexual violence survivors subjected to rape myths in court
Diane Taylor
Toolkit launched to help spot vulnerable people at risk of ‘cuckooing’
Solutions for modern policing: Unlocking the secrets to healthier, happier cops
Doug Shoemaker
The Myth of the Migrant Crime Wave
Jeremy Odrich, Social Policy & Politics Fellow
Killing in Self Defense: The Legal Complexities of Abuse-Related Crimes and the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Women's Criminal Convictions
Female Nazi concentration camp guards: the true horror lies in their similarities to ourselves
Angharad Hampshire Research Associate, York St John University
Lucy Letby: police and CPS handling of case raises new concerns about convictions
David Conn and Felicity Lawrence
Croatian police accused of burning asylum seekers’ phones and passports
Lorenzo Tondo and Amy Hawkins
Trump speaks on ‘migrant crime.’ The reality: It’s not rampant, but a real concern.
Sarah Matusek
Study links need for closure to traumatic bonding in victims of intimate partner violence
Vladimir Hedrih
Climate emergencies threaten our collective security, but governments are flying blind into the storm
James Dyke, Laurie Laybourn
The Public Health Crisis of Gun Violence
Judith Weinstein, Ronit Rose, and Katie Scarlett Brandt
He spent 50 years fighting to leave prison. Now he helps others get out.
William Wan
Inside Turkey’s EU-Funded Deportation Machine
Melvyn Ingleby, Ylenia Gostoli, May Bulman, Mesut Tatuz
The Medical Minute: Pre-Arrest Diversion-To-Treatment Programs May Reduce Crime, Overdose Deaths
Joanne Bauer
Criminologists debunk claims of 'youth crime crisis' as data shows dramatic declines
Kenji Sato
The Correlation Between Hot Weather and Increased Crime: A Concerning Trend
Emma Starr
Northern Ireland-style policing of protests an alternative model, says Met chief
Two decades after decriminalisation, NZ’s sex workers still need protection from discrimination
Lynzi Armstrong, Te Herenga Waka
Gangs’stories: Soraya, the ‘real’ Queen of the South in Nicaragua
Dennis Rodgers
Does spanking harm child development? Major study challenges common beliefs
Eric W. Dolan
When Abused Women Kill: A Discussion of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center’s New Report, ‘Fatal Peril’
Debbie Mukamal
In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it?
Renate van der Zee
My six-year-old daughter was shot at Sandy Hook – and I faced a torrent of abuse
David Smith
Researchers show link between dating violence and concussion
University of Calgary
Religious hate crimes in England and Wales are at a record high – but many still go unreported
Peter Hopkins
Prison education is vital – but it is neglected and failing
Jonathan Glazzard, Rosalind Hollis
Elite corruption has the power to ignite mass protests in Nigeria – why police corruption doesn’t
Jacob Lewis
Marijuana use is rising. The government needs to correct its mistake.
Leana S. Wen
How Texas understands and mitigates cognitive biases in policing
Richard O. Segovia, Brian Sunderman
Policing and facial recognition: What’s stopping them?
Professor Fraser Sampson
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
David Pegg, Tom Burgis, Hannah Devlin and Jason Wilson
Sexual behaviour being shaped by sexually violent content - Study
Ailbhe Conneely
How images of knives intended to stop youth knife crime may actually be making things worse
Charlotte Coleman, Jess Scott-Lewis
Addressing online gender violence requires both culture and policy change
Jaigris Hodson, Esteban Morales, Kaitlynn Mendes, Yimin Chen
Why calls to review Lucy Letby’s case are so different from other miscarriage of justice campaigns
Sam Poyser
Study finds legalization didn’t increase recreational cannabis use among young adults in country of Georgia
Boston University School of Medicine
Propelled by tech money, the menace of race science is back – and it’s just as nonsensical as ever
Adam Rutherford
How Does Cannabis Legalization Affect Organized Crime? New Research Sheds Light
Rolando García
Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the ‘Stanford Prison Experiment,’ dies at 91
How Tech Billionaires Became the G.O.P.’s New Donor Class
Jonathan Mahler, Ryan Mac and Theodore Schleifer
There Is No Precedent for Something Like This in American History
Jamelle Bouie
When the wife of drug lord El Chapo takes to the catwalk in a wedding dress, she’s sending a message
Roberto Saviano
Fatal overdoses often happen when users are alone. Hotlines, sensors can save lives.
David Ovalle and Elana Gordon
Study finds that Nova survivors' trauma recovery significantly impacted by substance use
JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Radicalized vets present bigger risk, study finds
JASON DEAREN, MICHELLE R. SMITH and AARON KESSLER
Childhood trauma linked to altered fear learning: A potential pathway to PTSD
Eric W. Dolan
A technical fix to keep kids safe online? Here’s what happened last time Australia tried to make a ‘clean’ internet
Rebecca Houlihan
A 37% Drop in Overdose Deaths From Drugs Mixed with Opioids – Fentanyl Included
Ohio State University
What motivates people to take action to prevent crime?
Carnegie Mellon University
Exploring Intersectionality as a Concept to Effectively Combat Racism and Racial and Ethnic Discrimination
Marie-Louise Reuter
The U.S. Spies Who Sound the Alarm About Election Interference
David D. Kirkpatrick
Being part of a ‘civilization’ only reduces violence if you’re a woman in ancient Andes populations
University of California - Davis
Explainer: Immigrants and Crime in the United States
Ariel G. Ruiz Soto
Addressing Racial Discrimination Through International Law
Mehrdad Payandeh
Europe’s far right will look at Austria and say: this is how we do it
Cas Mudde and Gabriela Greilinger
It’s hot pink and smells sweet. But the party drug tusi can prove deadly.
David Ovalle
New research shows problematic community attitudes allow child sexual abuse to continue
Andrea de Silva, Amanda L. Robertson
A soldier, a nurse, a lorry driver and dozens more: who are the men accused over rape and assault of Gisèle Pelicot?
Angelique Chrisafis
Mother says AI chatbot led her son to kill himself in lawsuit against its maker
Blake Montgomery
One in 10 young people don’t know removing a condom without consent during sex is a crime, study shows
Maya Oppenheim
Why Offshore Processing of Asylum Applications is Actually Racist
Shreya Atrey
Why our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
Dan Hancox
‘It’s not bravery’: key points from Gisèle Pelicot’s moving testimony
Jon Henley and Angelique Chrisafis
Residents or undesirables?
Charlotte Corchete & Magda Boutros
Half of young adults support prison time for non-consensual condom removal
University College London
We tried a different preschool curriculum to prevent youth crime. Checking in 20 years later, it worked
Kate Freiberg, Ross Homel
Stalking rates in Australia are still shockingly high – one simple strategy might help
Troy McEwan
Armed police have a dangerous job, but that doesn’t mean they should be less accountable
Gaby Hinsliff
Airbnbs associated with more crime in London, new study shows
University of Pennsylvania
What we’ve learned so far from the Lucy Letby inquiry: ‘cold’ character, missed opportunities and staff shortages
Josh Halliday
"It Already Is War!" A Vast Wave of Drugs and Violence Is Catching Germany Off Guard
Matthias Bartsch, Jürgen Dahlkamp, Jörg Diehl, Tobias Großekemper, Roman Lehberger, Claas Meyer-Heuer und Ansgar Siemens
Gambling poses huge global threat to public health, experts warn
Andrew Gregory
Is Donald Trump a fascist? Here’s what an expert thinks
Benedetta Carnaghi
UK courts are getting it wrong on eyewitness evidence, argues study
University of Aberdeen
Young Black Men Who Carry Guns Provide Insights Into Preventing Violence
Alma Beauvais
A predator used her 12-year-old face to make porn. She helped pass a law to make that a crime
Katie McQue
We analyzed 9 years of Trump political speeches, and his violent rhetoric has increased dramatically
Nikita Savin, Daniel Treisman
Where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Stand on Crime
Maggie Astor, Claire Hogan, David Jouppi and Gabriel Blanco
Patriot by Alexei Navalny review – the man who dared to defy Putin
Carole Cadwalladr
How an English extremist with a Hitler tattoo hid in plain sight – and plotted to kill
Lizzie Dearden
A New European Map of Core International Crimes Accountability Spaces
Kerttuli Lingenfelter
How forensic DNA analysis can falsely link people to crime scenes
Patrick Pester
Is targeting UN peacekeepers in Lebanon a war crime? Here’s what international law says
Giacomo Biggio
The scale of fraud against seniors is huge, and still growing — here’s why
Annie Lecompte
Counter Terror’s High-tech to Low-tech Backfire
Justin Leopold-Cohen
Neo-Nazi group the Base found a safe space to recruit Americans: the Russian internet
Ben Makuch
The Council of Europe as a Preferable and Viable Partner to Ukraine for Prosecuting the Crime of Aggression
Robert Stendel ´
In 2020, talk of “defunding the crime beat.” Where are we four years later?
Sarah Scire
A Caller Told 911 a Bear Had Chased Him Off a Cliff. The Police Say It Was Murder.
James Wagner
Nearly half of Americans think members of the opposing political party are 'evil'
Johns Hopkins University
After the war on drugs: The impacts of cocaine and cannabis regulation in Rio de Janeiro
Carolina Christoph Grillo
Haiti’s gangs turn to starving children to bolster their ranks
Amalendu Misra
Study uncovers alarming patterns in the effects of family violence
Universiteit van Amsterdam
‘Carved on bodies and souls’: survivor tells of Russia’s use of male sexual torture in Ukraine
Emma Graham-Harrison and Artem Mazhulin
We can’t solve family violence until we include violence between siblings in the conversation
Hayley Boxall, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Silke Meyer
Gun violence has shaped the lives of Sandy Hook survivors. Now, they’re old enough to vote.
Kim Bellware
Genetic risk, sexual trauma associated with mental illness: study
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Spain Reclaims Position as Cocaine Gateway to Europe
Beatriz Vicent Fernández
Detecting terrorist influencers using reciprocal human-machine learning: The case of militant Jihadist Da’wa on the Darknet
Dafna Lewinsky, Dov Te’eni, Inbal Yahav-Shenberger, David G. Schwartz, Gahl Silverman & Yossi Mann
The killing of Natalie Shotter: what the death of a beloved mother and daughter reveals about rape
Diane Taylor
Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost
Alexandra Wake
Trump’s ‘grab them’ comment was history. Now TikTok is showing it to young voters.
Tatum Hunter
“For 72 days I was electrocuted, beaten, not allowed to eat or sleep”: how Russian convicts are driven to “meat-grinder assaults”
Victoria Ponomareva
