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Rape myths can affect jurors’ perceptions of sexual assault, and that needs to change
Joanna Pozzulo Chancellor's Professor, Psychology, Carleton University
Southport riots: why social media’s role in unrest is overblown
Paul Reilly Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media and Democracy, University of Glasgow
‘I’m happy for everyone released, but there is also sadness’: film-maker Odessa Rae on today’s momentous prisoner swap
Danny Leigh
Neighbourhood watch 2.0: Guelph police ask businesses, residents to register security cameras
Joe Pavia · CBC News
Inside the dark world of dognapping
Brenda Vose Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of North Florida
JD Vance and the rise of the 'New Right'
Claire Donnelly, Willis Ryder Arnold, Meghna Chakrabarti
Inside the Secret Negotiations to Free Evan Gershkovich
Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw, Bojan Pancevski and Aruna Viswanatha
Communities can increase the prosocial tendencies of their authorities, study finds
Gun permits may be more effective than background checks alone at reducing firearm homicides
Potential terrorists can be identified from social media posts – new research
Southport attacks: what we know about knife crime in the UK and how to solve it
Sue Roberts Senior Lecturer Public Management, and Course Leader Masters in Public Administration, University of Portsmouth
Olympic arson attacks highlight growing danger of low-tech terrorism on public transit systems
Sara Harmouch Ph.D. candidate in Public Affairs, American University
Starmer’s live facial recognition plan would usher in national ID, campaigners say
Dan Sabbagh
Riots in the UK: online propagandists know how to work their audiences – this is what we are missing
Richard Fern Lecturer, media, Swansea University
Men’s behaviour change programs are key to addressing domestic violence. Our new study shows how we can improve them
Kate Fitz-Gibbon Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash University / Jasmine McGowan Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University
Decade since Ferguson unrest has brought changes to criminal justice system and those who study it
Steve Walentik
What life is like for the asylum seekers in hotels being attacked by far right groups
Jenny Phillimore Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), University of Birmingham / Olivia Petie PhD candidate, University of Birmingham
Palestinian prisoners describe systemic abuse in Israel’s jails
Bethan McKernan in Ramallah, Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem, Quique Kierszenbaum and Sufian Taha in Bethlehem
Why are people rioting across England and how many are involved?
Emine Sinmaz
Extrajudicial Killings May Be Frequent in India’s Most Populous State
Saurav Das
Assassination is always unlawful − regardless of who is killed and on whose orders
Mary Ellen O'Connell Professor of Law and International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Middle-aged radicalisation: why are so many of Britain’s rioters in their 40s and 50s?
Sara H Wilford Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
Teenage girls in Africa face shocking rates of physical and sexual abuse in intimate relationships – new global report
Anthony Idowu Ajayi Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
Asylum seekers aren’t ‘taking your jobs’ – but it would be better for all of us if they could work
Katrin Marchand
The hypermasculine far right: how white nationalists tell themselves they are ‘protecting’ women and children when they riot
Elizabeth Pearson
What law enforcement can learn from a new study examining contagious fire in policing
Politicians: there’s an easy remedy to the violence we’re seeing across the UK. Start telling the truth
Diane Taylor
Refusing to call out Islamophobia has emboldened the far right – and the current violence is the result
Chris Allen
For Black Americans, higher police pay doesn’t always mean fewer violent confrontations as it does for other racial groups
Thaddeus L. Johnson, Natasha N. Johnson
White men who have been mistreated at work are more likely to notice and report harassment − new research
Erin A. Cech Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Alleged Taylor Swift terror plot fits a worrying trend as ISIS targets teens online
Nick Paton Walsh
Survivors of childhood maltreatment at heightened risk of dating violence as teens
Vladimir Hedrih
How these Northeastern researchers are rewriting the immigration-crime narrative
Ian Thomsen
Not just an urban problem: new study reports higher rate of shootings by police across suburbs and rural areas
The cancellation of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows is the latest incident in a long history of concert terrorism
Milad Haghani Senior Lecturer of Urban Mobility, Public Safety & Disaster Risk, UNSW Sydney
Social media: Disinformation expert offers 3 safety tips in a time of fake news and dodgy influencers
Fabrice Lollia Docteur en sciences de l'information et de la communication, chercheur associé laboratoire DICEN Ile de France, Université Gustave Eiffel
From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parents
Seanna Leath, Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes
Islamic State’s genocide was not limited to killing and enslaving Yazidis, Christians and other communities − it also erased their heritage
Alda Benjamen
What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet
Jonathan Yerushalmy
What Policing Can Learn From the Military in Using AI
Ygnacio Flores, Don Mason & Tracy Rickman
Why we might regret calling for far-right rioters to be prosecuted as terrorists
Alan Greene
How the altruistic response to far right riots reveals the innate goodness in human beings
Steve Taylor
Uvalde lawsuit reignites conversation around violent video games and real-world violence
Agustin Garfias Austin
‘Two-tier’: UK treats far-right attacks less harshly than Islamist violence, says thinktank
Rajeev Syal
Was the shooting of a nine-year-old girl in Hackney linked to a Europe-wide battle between rival drug gangs?
Mark Townsend, Antonio Baquero, Iurie Sanduta and Kelly Bloss
The roots of the UK’s unrest lie in the warping of genuine working-class grievances
Kenan Malik
‘It’s OK, everyone else is doing it’: how do we deal with role violence on social media played in UK riots?
Tim Adams
Report: Growing demand on dark web for AI abuse images
Anglia Ruskin University
Amazon countries are stepping-up measures to counter illicit financing of nature crime
Robert Muggah, Melina Risso
Study looks at police officers, head injuries and mental health issues
New journal to share evidence for better policing
LGBTQ people have a troubled relationship with police − new survey shows high rates of harassment, abuse and distrust
Stefan Vogler
Childhood maltreatment is associated with greater cognitive difficulties than previously thought
King's College London
Patterns of identity attacks in extremist language uncover their violent intentions
Charles Darwin University
Why we don’t need more policing – even after the riots
Andrea Brock, Amber Huff, Patrick Huff
Policing may play a role in youth mental health crises
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
A world-first law in Europe is targeting artificial intelligence. Other countries can learn from it
Rita Matulionyte
Police in Denmark to implement facial recognition technology to combat violent crimes
Jerry Fisayo-Bambi
Iran's Lebanon-Based Militia: Hezbollah Prepares for Possible War
Christoph Reuter
The UK’s racist mobs horrified us all – but we can’t just imprison our way out of this mess
Ciaran Thapar
Three steps to talking to a loved one at risk of being radicalised into rioting
Anthony English
Real-time crime centers are transforming policing – a criminologist explains how these advanced surveillance systems work
Kimberly Przeszlowski
Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis Is Only Getting Worse
Julian Busch & Vincent Haiges
Study investigates how policing impacts the homeless
University of Technology, Sydney
A TRENDS study warns that terrorist attacks on undersea cables could lead to economic chaos and global military tensions
Gen Z has a trust problem with British institutions – especially the police
Paolo Morini
The Real AI Risks
Daron Acemoglu, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Charles Ferguson, Martin Beraja, David Y. Yang, Noam Yuchtman
The big issue roiling a small town: Does everyone deserve a second chance?
Lateshia Beachum, Salvador Rizzo and Paul Duggan
Extreme misogyny to be treated as terrorism under UK government plans
Nadeem Badshah
Why Hamas's suicide bombing threats don’t lead to quaking knees - analysis
HERB KEINON
NZ’s white-collar crime gap: just 1% of serious fraud complaints result in prosecution
Lisa Marriott
From ‘open hearts’ to closed borders: behind Sweden’s negative net immigration figures
Miranda Bryant
How Russian gender-based disinformation could influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election
Owen Wong
The terrifying moment Grace was dragged into her house by a man she’d fled
Clare Sibthorpe
We need far stronger support systems in the fight against gender-based violence
Lisa Boucher
Review of research on adverse childhood experiences identifies significant differences in size of effects
Crime and Justice Research Alliance
Computer scientists discover vulnerabilities in a popular security protocol
University of California - San Diego
Experts study immigration in relation to jobs, crime and disease
Alex Russell, UC Davis
“They tied me to a tree and said: ‘We’re gonna put you down now.’ There were 30 bodies in a ditch nearby”: Confessions of a Russian deserter
Research: Temporarily Removing Firearms Saves Lives
Duke University Medical Center
Stop and search study in England and Wales ‘casts doubt’ on effectiveness
Vikram Dodd
Study suggests quarter of UK adults commit at least one economic crime a year
Young Black people are disproportionately likely to be strip-searched – one of many ways the justice system treats them as a threat
Shantey Francis
Why we need to approach masculism as a terrorist threat - Q&A with Stephanie Lamy
Stephanie Lamy
‘It looks so real’: amid rise in financial sextortion, Childline is helping teenagers fight back
Dan Milmo
Sir Kim Workman’s major police investigation released: What the seven reports reveal
Julia Gabel
AI ‘nudify’ sites are being sued for victimising people. How can we battle deepfake abuse?
Nicola Henry
Increasing numbers of sexual offences on public transport recorded – but many experiences are still normalised and go unreported
Jennifer Grant
Homicide rates are a major factor in the gap between Black and White life expectancy
PLOS
Study finds nearly 90% of NYC transit workers have been harassed or assaulted
New York University
Why are teenage girls attracted to boys who hurt them? We talked to high school students to find out
Silvia Molina Roldán / Garazi Lopez de Aguileta / Itxaso Tellado / Leire Ugalde Lujambio / Lidia Puigvert Mallart / Miguel Ángel Pulido / Ramón Flecha García / Sandra Racionero-Plaza
The truth about Tasers: what the statistics and research tell us
Sophie Chambers
Treating Nord Stream blasts as a whodunit misses the point – and plays into Russia’s plan to distract and divide
Keith Brown
Gift card scams generate billions for fraudsters and industry as regulators fail to protect consumers − and how one 83-year-old fell into the ‘f
Dr. David P. Weber, Jake Bernstein
If you are outraged by Trump’s use of AI and deepfakes, don’t be – that’s exactly what he wants
Sophia Smith Galer
Want to fight gender inequality? A review of data from 118 counties shows that development aid works
Bedassa Tadesse
AI used by police cannot tell Black people apart and other reasons Canada’s AI laws need urgent attention
Kevin Walby, Gustavo da Costa Markowicz, Oluwasola Mary Adedayo
FBI informant’s book predicts far-right violence: ‘we should be afraid’
Edward Helmore
The internet makes it too easy to ‘fall down a rabbit hole of hate’. So, what works to curb online extremism?
Vivian Gerrand
Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?
SEAN MURPHY and MATT O’BRIEN
People adopt anti-establishment attitudes when they feel threatened, study suggests
Vladimir Hedrih
Research from UTHealth Houston finds parents who recently experienced intimate partner violence had higher potential for parenting stress and child ma
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
The ‘free heroin’ behind thousands of violent crimes in NSW
Perry Duffin
French police have arrested the founder of Telegram. What happens next could change the course of big tech
Timothy Koskie
In domestic violence cases, police are more likely to make arrests when pets are abused, too
Lynn Addington
Police pooches: US schools employ gun-sniffing dogs to curb violence – and bring students joy
Anna Betts
Study finds little evidence linking violent video games to increased aggression in adolescents
Vladimir Hedrih
Red flag laws may reduce the growing burden of firearm homicides
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
5 Things to Know About How Survivors Get Incarcerated for Their Abusers’ Crimes
Shannon Heffernan
Police Shootings in Rural Areas Are Common, But Much Less Visible
Alexander Lekhtman
Geographic differences in US homicide rates have decreased since the 1970s
PLOS
‘It’s either the streets or the fields’: one California farm town’s daily battle with gun violence
Maanvi Singh
Can a 10-year-old be responsible for a crime? Here’s what brain science tells us
Susan M. Sawyer, Nandi Vijayakumar
‘My first thought was that I was going to be led out to be executed’
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Femicide: A summer defined by men killing women and girls. This can’t go on
Frances Ryan
Study links gentrification to reduced crime, but downsides of gentrification can't be ignored
Bert Gambini
State-backed attackers and commercial surveillance vendors repeatedly use the same exploits
Clement Lecigne
Romance fraud doesn’t only happen online – it can turn into real-world deception
Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
Today’s school children practice running for their lives – but there are better ways to keep students safe from shooters
Luke J. Rapa
The trial of Björn Höcke, the ‘real boss’ of Germany’s far right
Alex Dziadosz
Colorado police ended AI review of body cameras. Unprofessionalism plummeted when it was in use, new research shows.
Shelly Bradbury
Belief that U.S. ‘needs’ a civil war is uncommon — but stronger among MAGA Republicans
Eric W. Dolan
