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USA TODAY, 01.03.2024
No, immigrants aren't more likely to commit crimes than US-born, despite Trump's border speech
Terry Collins
The Conversation, 01.03.2024
Should presidents have immunity from the law? The US Supreme Court is to hear Trump’s case
Michelle Bentley
The Conversation, 01.03.2024
The policing of LGBTQ+ people casts a long, dark shadow. Marching at Mardi Gras must be backed up with real change
Justin Ellis, Nicole L. Asquith
American Psychological Association, 01.03.2024
How to leverage psychology to aid a war-torn world
Ashley Abramson
The Guardian, 02.03.2024
The man who tricked Nazi Germany: lessons from the past on how to beat disinformation
Peter Pomerantsev
EurekAlert!, 04.03.2024
The health and economic impact of youth violence in the United States reached $122 billion in 2020
Elsevier
EurekAlert!, 04.03.2024
Firearm access and gun violence exposure are common in Black and native communities
Rutgers University
Newswise, 04.03.2024
MSU study: Key mental health services could reduce jail time
Michigan State University
The Guardian, 04.03.2024
How significant is Russia’s apparent interception of military talks on Ukraine?
Dan Sabbagh
The Conversation, 04.03.2024
Supreme Court says only Congress can bar a candidate, like Trump, from the presidency for insurrection − 3 essential reads
Jeff Inglis
The Conversation, 04.03.2024
Baader–Meinhof group member arrested after 30 years on the run – but Germany still can’t close the chapter on far-left terrorism
Claudia Hillebrand
The Conversation, 04.03.2024
Over-emphasising some things, underplaying others: ASIO’s threat assessment is underpinned by confusing logic
Greg Austin
The New Yorker, 04.03.2024
Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?
Alma Guillermoprieto
The Conversation, 04.03.2024
AI bias: the organised struggle against automated discrimination
Philip Di Salvo, Antje Scharenberg
The Conversation, 04.03.2024
Demand for computer chips fuelled by AI could reshape global politics and security
Kirk Chang, Alina Vaduva
EurekAlert!, 05.03.2024
George Mason University receives $4.85 million gift to increase intimate partner violence detection and reporting
George Mason University
The Guardian, 05.03.2024
Swedish police call for ban on civilians wearing bulletproof vests
Miranda Bryant
The Guardian, 05.03.2024
‘Pimps’ use Instagram to glorify sexual violence and abuse, investigation finds
Katie McQue
The Conversation, 05.03.2024
Non-disclosure agreements are commonplace in sexual harassment cases, but they’re being misused to silence people
Regina Featherstone, Sharmilla Bargon
The Conversation, 05.03.2024
The Martyrdom of Saint Alexei: Navalny’s death is the latest instance of a long tradition of self-sacrifice in Russia
Andreï Kozovoï
New York Times, 05.03.2024
The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: A Grisly Theory and a Renewed Debate
Tracey Tully
Vodafone Group / Vodafone Foundation, 05.03.2024
Many FTSE 100 companies recognise domestic violence and abuse as workplace issue, finds new UN Women research supported by Vodafone Foundation
The Guardian, 06.03.2024
I’m in a Russian prison. This is how my friend Alexei Navalny showed us Putin’s hypocrisy
Ilya Yashin
Verfassungsblog, 06.03.2024
The ECtHR Advances the Battle against Racial Profiling in Wa Baile c. Suisse
Karin de Vries
EurekAlert!, 06.03.2024
Study: Peer pressure susceptibility lasts into adulthood
University of Texas at Dallas
EurekAlert!, 06.03.2024
Study quantifies dramatic rise in school shootings and related fatalities since 1970
American College of Surgeons
EurekAlert!, 06.03.2024
University of Virginia researchers win 2024 Responsible Business Education Award for Police Reform Study in India
University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The Conversation, 06.03.2024
Gaza conflict: rising death toll from hunger a stark reminder of starvation as a weapon of war
Leïla Choukroune
EurekAlert!, 06.03.2024
What drives ‘drug-induced homicide’ prosecutions in North Carolina?
North Carolina State University
The Guardian, 06.03.2024
MH370: one of aviation’s biggest mysteries remains unsolved 10 years on
Oliver Holmes, Haylena Krishnamoorthy
The Conversation, 07.03.2024
Femicide in Italy: A modern phenomenon deeply rooted in country’s cultural past
Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Verfassungsblog, 07.03.2024
The Digital Services Act as a Global Transparency Regime
Natali Helberger, Pamela Samuelson
The Conversation, 07.03.2024
Lord’s Resistance Army: ICC awards reparations to victims of commander Dominic Ongwen - what happens next
Tonny Raymond Kirabira, Miracle Chinwenmeri
The Conversation, 08.03.2024
Flight MH370 is still missing after ten years – forensic experts explain what we know and why we haven’t found the plane
Jamie Pringle, Alastair Ruffell, Ruth Morgan
Newswise, 08.03.2024
Study reveals how sports programmes for young children can combat future youth violence
Loughborough University
The Conversation, 08.03.2024
Insurance is the latest weapon financial abusers use against their partners. Here’s how we fix it
Catherine Fitzpatrick
The Guardian, 08.03.2024
Killed Women Count A project highlighting the toll and tragedy of violence against women in the UK
Alexandra Topping, Rachel Hall and Mabel Banfield-Nwachi
The Guardian, 08.03.2024
Dramatic rise in women and girls being cut, new FGM data reveals
Caroline Kimeu
The Guardian, 09.03.2024
They were killed in the London Bridge terror attack, seconds apart. So why did their families get wildly different payouts?
Jenny Kleeman
Washington Post, 10.03.2024
Killings by police brought reforms. Fear of crime is unraveling them.
Robert Klemko, Emily Davies and Tom Jackman
The Guardian, 10.03.2024
Haiti crisis: gangs attack police stations as Caribbean leaders call for emergency meeting
The Independent, 10.03.2024
Why is Haiti so chaotic? Leaders used street gangs to gain power. Then the gangs got stronger
Michael Weissenstein
The Guardian, 11.03.2024
Detained, trafficked, exploited: the plight of lone child migrants stranded in Tunisia
EurekAlert!, 11.03.2024
‘Study drugs’ set the stage for other drug use and mental health decline
Binghamton University
The Conversation, 11.03.2024
Police get budget money for first responder drones – but new tech won’t solve the issues facing UK forces
John Coxhead
EurekAlert!, 11.03.2024
Permitless open carry laws may lead to more firearm-related suicides
American College of Surgeons
EurekAlert!, 12.03.2024
More than 11% of U.S. 12th graders used psychoactive delta-8-THC last year, study finds
Washington Post, 12.03.2024
What’s happening in Haiti? Leader resigns as gang-led violence worsens.
Adela Suliman, Widlore Mérancourt, Samantha Schmidt and Maham Javaid
The Conversation, 12.03.2024
Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier: the gangster behind the violence in Haiti who may have political aspirations of his own
Amalendu Misra
The Conversation, 12.03.2024
Rishi Sunak’s plan to redefine extremism is disingenuous – and a threat to democracy
Alan Greene
The Conversation, 12.03.2024
Ukraine war: Pope Francis should learn from his WWII predecessor’s mistakes in appeasing fascism
Tim Luckhurst
The Conversation, 12.03.2024
Pennsylvania overhauled its sentencing guidelines to be more fair and consistent − but racial disparities may not disappear so soon
C. Clare Strange
The Guardian, 12.03.2024
‘Nobody would listen to me, so I told the camera’: film of Islamic State survivor’s story premieres in UK
Saeed Kamali Dehghan
New York Times, 12.03.2024
‘Jamming’: How Electronic Warfare Is Reshaping Ukraine’s Battlefields
Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Yurii Shyvala
Mediazona, 12.03.2024
“Or we’ll rape you”. Convicted for attempting to burn a police van at an anti‑war rally in Moscow, activist recounts torture in Siberian detenti
Anna Pavlova
The Conversation, 13.03.2024
Christchurch attacks 5 years on: terrorist’s online history gives clues to preventing future atrocities
Chris Wilson, Ethan Renner, Jack Smylie, Michal Dziwulski
Washington Post, 13.03.2024
On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm
Shawn Boburg, Pranshu Verma and Chris Dehghanpoor
The Conversation, 13.03.2024
Affirmative consent campaign calls for sexual assault law change in England and Wales – but this approach has pitfalls, too
Eithne Dowds
The Conversation, 13.03.2024
The ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ is exposing older Australians to the risk of financial abuse
Julia Cook, Peta S. Cook
TIME, 13.03.2024
America’s Suburban Crime Problem
Thaddeus Johnson, Natasha Johnson, and William J. Sabol
Washington Post, 14.03.2024
A police officer took a teen for a rape kit. Then he assaulted her, too.
Jessica Contrera, Jenn Abelson and John D. Harden
EurekAlert!, 14.03.2024
New simpler and cost-effective forensics test helps identify touch DNA
University of New Hampshire
The Conversation, 15.03.2024
How meth became an epidemic in America, and what’s happening now that it’s faded from the headlines
William Garriott
The Conversation, 15.03.2024
‘Gross negligence’: why a parent like James Crumbley can be found guilty for their child’s crimes
Thaddeus Hoffmeister
The Columbian, 17.03.2024
Why even public health experts have limited insight into stopping gun violence in America
Christine Spolar
The Guardian / The Observer, 17.03.2024
‘It’s an excuse to overreach’: families’ anger over UK police restraint deaths blamed on disputed condition
Shanti Das
The Guardian / The Observer, 17.03.2024
Revealed: disputed medical terms used to explain dozens of deaths after police restraint in UK
Shanti Das
Phys.org, 18.03.2024
Bodycams in court get broad police approval, according to survey
Béatrice St-Cyr-Leroux
The Conversation, 18.03.2024
Profits over patients: For-profit nursing home chains are draining resources from care while shifting huge sums to owners’ pockets
Sean Campbell, Charlene Harrington
The Conversation, 18.03.2024
Victims need to be protected – regardless of whether they are testifying in family court or criminal court
Carrie Leonetti
EurekAlert!, 18.03.2024
The majority of Americans do not support anti-democratic behavior, even when elected officials do
University of Pennsylvania
The Conversation, 19.03.2024
Building fairness into AI is crucial – and hard to get right
Ferdinando Fioretto
The Guardian, 19.03.2024
Ex-Mississippi officer gets 20 years for ‘Goon Squad’ torture of two Black men
spiegel.de, 19.03.2024
Israel Six Months Later The Wrenching Decision to Return to the Site of Horror
Juliane von Mittelstaedt
The Conversation, 19.03.2024
The Humberside funeral home incident shows England and Wales need a better system for dealing with death
Kate Woodthorpe
The Conversation, 20.03.2024
Terrorist content lurks all over the internet – regulating only 6 major platforms won’t be nearly enough
Marten Risius, Stan Karanasios
Mirage News, 20.03.2024
Research Reveals Age-Based Patterns in Domestic Violence Injuries
Brigham and Women's Hospital
The Conversation, 20.03.2024
How ‘himpathy’ helps shield perpetrators of sexual misconduct from repercussions
Samantha Dodson, Rachael Dailey Goodwin
Vancouver Sun, 21.03.2024
B.C. inmates with addiction issues at high risk of reincarceration: study
Darryl Greer
Calgary Herald, 21.03.2024
Study traces background, criminal activity of 934 men who assaulted partners
Hiren Mansukhani
The Guardian, 21.03.2024
Nearly 4,000 celebrities found to be victims of deepfake pornography
Nadeem Badshah
New York Times, 21.03.2024
A Mexican Drug Cartel’s New Target? Seniors and Their Timeshares
Maria Abi-Habib
The Guardian, 23.03.2024
Moscow attack is grim reminder that large-scale acts of terror have not gone away
Dan Sabbagh
The Guardian, 23.03.2024
‘But he didn’t hit you, did he?’: inside the coercive control courtroom
Amelia Gentleman
The Guardian, 24.03.2024
Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age
James Tapper
The Conversation, 24.03.2024
Why would Islamic State attack Russia and what does this mean for the terrorism threat globally?
Deakin University
The Conversation, 24.03.2024
ISIS-K’s attack in Moscow risks escalating the Russia-Ukraine war
Simon Fraser University
The Conversation, 24.03.2024
How Moscow terror attack fits ISIS-K strategy to widen agenda, take fight to its perceived enemies
Sara Harmouch, Amira Jadoon
Washington Post, 24.03.2024
Terrorist attack in Russia exposes vulnerabilities of Putin’s regime
Catherine Belton and Robyn Dixon
The Guardian / The Observer, 24.03.2024
‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family
Thomas Harding
The Guardian, 25.03.2024
Russia lauding torture was unthinkable – now it is proud to do so
Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer
The Conversation, 25.03.2024
Moscow attacks: why the Kremlin may have ignored any terrorist warnings from the CIA
Robert M. Dover
The Conversation, 25.03.2024
Algorithms that predict crime are watching – and judging us by the cards we’ve been dealt
Tatiana Dancy
The Guardian, 25.03.2024
Putin’s lethally negligent failure can’t be covered up. The Moscow attack leaves him weaker than ever
Simon Tisdall
The Guardian, 25.03.2024
Moscow attack explainer: why would Islamic State attack Russia and what will Putin’s response be?
Jason Burke and Jonathan Yerushalmy
The Guardian, 25.03.2024
The Guardian view on terror in Moscow: Putin’s cynical blame game should fool no one
EurekAlert!, 25.03.2024
RaDPi-U: A fast and convenient drug screening with urine samples
Kindai University
The Guardian, 25.03.2024
At four, I was kidnapped and sex-trafficked for years. Now I fight for the powerless – and win every case
Annie Kelly
The Kyiv Independent, 25.03.2024
Opinion: Why ISIS attacked Russia and why Russia blames Ukraine
Omar Ashour
Mirage News, 26.03.2024
Research Examines Fracture Patterns in Fatal Vs. Survived Domestic Abuse
Boston University School of Medicine
New York Times, 26.03.2024
Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza
Patrick Kingsley and Ronen Bergman
EurekAlert!, 27.03.2024
Around 1 in 3 people with insecure migration status report experiencing interpersonal, community and state physical violence ...
PLOS
The Conversation, 27.03.2024
Marielle Franco murder case: arrests of public figures reveals the failure of security policies
Pablo Nunes Doutor
The Conversation, 27.03.2024
‘Bukelism,’ El Salvador’s flawed approach to gang violence, is no silver bullet for Ecuador
Marie-Christine Doran
The Guardian, 27.03.2024
The Zone of Interest is a portrait of guilt. No wonder it has divided opinion in Germany
Fatma Aydemir
The Guardian, 29.03.2024
With Germany legalising cannabis, Europe is reaching a tipping point. Britain, take note
Steve Rolles
New York Times, 29.03.2024
Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
Sarah Mervosh and Francesca Paris
New York Times, 31.03.2024
A Russian Defector’s Killing Raises Specter of Hit Squads
Michael Schwirtz and José Bautista
