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WFIW Radio, 01.09.2024
Autonomous car bombs, online recruitment: Experts worry how AI can transform terrorism
The Guardian, 02.09.2024
How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers
Amy Hawkins, Chi-hui Lin
Phys.org, 02.09.2024
Researchers call for more tailored approach to dealing with different types of sex offenders
University of Portsmouth
The Conversation, 02.09.2024
Islamic State remains a potent threat five years after its military defeat
Busra Nisa Sarac
The Conversation, 02.09.2024
Locking up young people might make you feel safer but it doesn’t work, now or in the long term
Chris Cunneen, Fiona Allison, James C. Beaufils
Washington Post, 02.09.2024
A school cop was accused of sexual misconduct with kids. He kept his job for years.
Jenn Abelson, Jessica Contrera and Nate Jones
The Guardian, 02.09.2024
The big idea: why we’re getting the immigration debate all wrong
Jonathan Portes
TecScience, 02.09.2024
How Architecture and Urban Planning Can Help Reduce Violence in Cities
Inés Gutiérrez Jaber
Davis Vanguard, 03.09.2024
Study Shows U.S. Police Brutality at 300,000 Yearly: ‘Relentless Violence’ Rising Since George Floyd
Vy Tran
Vision Times, 03.09.2024
‘Algorithms and Terrorism’: How Artificial Intelligence Could Supercharge Terrorist Activity
Todd Crawford
The Conversation, 03.09.2024
How one 83-year-old fell into a fraudster’s fear bubble – and how gift cards played a key role
Dr. David P. Weber, Jake Bernstein
The Pantagraph, 03.09.2024
With marijuana at a new level of scrutiny, here’s what the research says
ROBERT MCCOPPIN
Washington Post, 03.09.2024
A school cop admitted to sexually abusing two students. He got probation.
Jenn Abelson and Jessica Contrera
Stanford University Stanford Law School, 04.09.2024
Groundbreaking SLS Study Documents the Pathways to Prison for Those Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Monica Schreiber
The Conversation, 04.09.2024
Is policing in Australia corrupt and abusive? An eye-opening new book investigates
Clare Farmer
The Guardian, 04.09.2024
Racism? Poverty, drink and social media? We still don’t know why Britons rioted a month ago – and we need answers
Tim Newburn
EurekAlert!, 04.09.2024
Few anti-immigration users dominate most of UK-based anti-immigration content on Twitter with rapid spread and high polarization
PLOS
Newswise, 04.09.2024
New Commission to Address Worldwide Gun Violence Launches Today
George Washington University
EurekAlert!, 04.09.2024
New research has potential to speed up forensic analysis in sexual assault cases
University of Toronto
The Guardian, 04.09.2024
Yes, it sounds like a conspiracy theory. But maybe our phones really are listening to us
Arwa Mahdawi
The Guardian, 04.09.2024
Police under pressure to accelerate criminal investigation into Grenfell fire
Robert Booth and Emine Sinmaz
Washington Post, 04.09.2024
An au pair, a husband’s affair and a double homicide
Olivia Diaz and Marina Dias
The Guardian, 05.09.2024
Georgia high school shooting: student charged with murder after four people killed in Apalachee
Richard Luscombe
Washington Post, 05.09.2024
Georgia school-shooting suspect struggled with mental health, aunt says
Sarah Blaskey and Holly Bailey
Phys.org, 05.09.2024
Study finds nine UK fathers accused of child sexual abuse given legal access to their alleged victims
University of Manchester
The Conversation, 05.09.2024
Gangs'stories: how 15-year-old Jennifer became Honduras’ first female gang leader
Ellen Van Damme Chercheuse
The Conversation, 05.09.2024
Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by death to police ‘turning a blind eye’
Charlotte Wildman
The Guardian, 05.09.2024
Medical provider to US jails failing to keep its patients alive, advocates say
Stephen Starr
The Guardian, 05.09.2024
Woman tells trial of husband who invited men to rape her: ‘I was sacrificed on altar of vice’
Angelique Chrisafis
The Guardian, 05.09.2024
Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?
Zoe Williams
The Guardian, 05.09.2024
‘They’d ask me: “Do you want to die today?”’ How I was kidnapped by pirates – and rescued by US Navy Seals
Anna Moore
The Conversation, 06.09.2024
Georgia high school shooting shows how hard it can be to take action even after police see warning signs
James Densley, Jillian Peterson
The Conversation, 06.09.2024
Grenfell was not a state ‘failure’ – it was institutional violence
Victoria Cooper, David Whyte
EurekAlert!, 06.09.2024
Causing environmental damage should be a criminal offense, say 72% of people surveyed in G20 countries
Earth4All
Mirage News Health, 07.09.2024
Red Flag Laws May Ease Rising Firearm Homicide Rates
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
The Guardian, 07.09.2024
Australian police are warning about ‘sadistic sextortion’. Here’s how it works, and the red flags for parents
Rafqa Touma
LEVEL Man, 07.09.2024
Why Portraying a Black Victim as The Suspect is Media Malpractice
Allison Gaines
The Conversation, 08.09.2024
Planning smart and sustainable cities should not result in exclusive garden utopias for the rich
David Murakami Wood
Washington Post, 09.09.2024
On social media, a bullied teen found fame among child predators worldwide
Shawn Boburg and Chris Dehghanpoor
Leiden University, 09.09.2024
Emotions in the courtroom: research into the impact of victim impact statements on judges
The Guardian, 09.09.2024
Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study finds
Ian Sample
Center for Security Studies | ETH Zürich, 09.09.2024
From Ransomware to Ransom War: The Evolution of a Solitary Experiment into Organized Crime
Max Smeets
Law Society Journal, 09.09.2024
Correlation between money laundering and organised crime under the spotlight
Wendy Yang
The Conversation, 09.09.2024
‘Didn’t care enough’: here’s what the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide found
Ben Wadham, James Connor
The Guardian / The Observer, 09.09.2024
Undercover women: the story of how Victorian female police cracked crime
Donna Ferguson
Washington Post, 09.09.2024
Terrorism warning lights are ‘blinking red again.’ This group is a big reason.
Max Boot
Medical Xpress, 10.09.2024
Intimate partner violence shown to take toll on women's cognitive performance
The North American Menopause Society
The Conversation, 10.09.2024
Families of victims of violent assault have double the risk of anxiety – new study
Elizabeth Cook, Sally McManus
The Conversation, 10.09.2024
The documentary Killjoy captures the personal and the political of family violence and gender activism
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
The Conversation, 10.09.2024
Avoiding man-made disasters like Grenfell could be helped by holding executives more accountable
Akhil Bhardwaj
Phys.org, 10.09.2024
Gaps in online safety act need addressing to protect 'revenge porn' victim-survivors
University of Liverpool
PsyPost, 10.09.2024
Are you a victim of gaslighting? New tool helps identify manipulative behaviors in relationships
Eric W. Dolan
BBC News, 11.09.2024
9/11's long legacy: How the attack on the World Trade Center is still claiming lives
Cindy Augustine
The Conversation, 11.09.2024
A new fentanyl vaccine looks promising – but treating drug addiction needs a more complex approach
Colin Davidson
EurekAlert!, 11.09.2024
Trust in police declined among Black Chicago residents after Jacob Blake shooting
PLOS
The Conversation, 11.09.2024
Open-source imagery is transforming investigations of international crimes – but how do judges know if it’s real?
Sarah Zarmsky, Alexa Koenig, Yvonne McDermott
The Guardian, 11.09.2024
China to train thousands of overseas law enforcement officers to create ‘more fair’ world order
Helen Davidson
Purdue Polytechnic Institute, 12.09.2024
Research explores importance of salons for identifying abuse, trafficking victims
Nick Pompella
The Conversation, 12.09.2024
Beyond the Harris-Trump debate: How politicians use anti-immigrant rhetoric to mask systemic failures
Yvonne Su
Community Care, 12.09.2024
‘Social work, domestic abuse and coercive control: do we know what is going on and why?’
Brid Featherstone and Kate Morris
City Hub Sydney, 12.09.2024
Study Finds 90% Of Australian Women See Sexual Violence As Inevitable
Christine Lai
The Globe and Mail, 12.09.2024
Nearly half of women fans in England and Wales suffer sexist abuse at soccer matches, study says
Catarina Demony
The Guardian, 12.09.2024
‘Disciple’ of accused rapist drugged and raped his own wife, French court told
Angelique Chrisafis
MIT Technology Review, 12.09.2024
Chatbots can persuade people to stop believing in conspiracy theories
Rhiannon Williams
British Psychological Society, 13.09.2024
'We need a reasoned, evidence-based debate about what actually works with prisons'
Simon Fraser University School of Criminology, 13.09.2024
Criminology researchers aim to improve police decision-making and address racial/ethnic sentencing disparities with SSHRC Insight Development Grants
Sofia Ortega
The Guardian, 13.09.2024
Germany’s border clampdown threatens the entire European project
Maurice Stierl
The Guardian, 13.09.2024
‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade
Seán Columb
The Insider, 13.09.2024
“I despise your court and I despise your power”: The complete collection of Alexei Navalny's “last words”
Oleg Pshenichny
Meduza, 13.09.2024
‘Most people have little interest in the truth’ Twenty years after the Beslan school siege, victims’ relatives feel exploited and unheard
The Post: News from Wellington, 14.09.2024
History repeats: Moral panic and the failures of provocative policing
Harry Tam
The Guardian / The Observer, 14.09.2024
Inside Japan’s biggest prison: home to yakuza… and hundreds of old men
Justin McCurry
Tech Times, 14.09.2024
Korea's 'Dejaview' Is an AI for CCTVs That Can Detect, Predict Crimes Using 'Change-Based Approach'
Isaiah Richard
The Guardian, 14.09.2024
Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up
Stephen Starr
The Conversation, 15.09.2024
The best way to regulate AI might be not to specifically regulate AI. This is why
Stephen King
Washington Post, 15.09.2024
Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, and Afghan women despair
Rick Noack
The Conversation, 16.09.2024
How perpetrators of domestic violence use drugs and alcohol to control their victims
Cathy Humphreys, Margaret Kertesz, Van Callaly
ReliefWeb, 16.09.2024
“I am not guilty for what happened to me”: A study on the long-term consequences of war rape in Kosovo
The Conversation, 16.09.2024
New data reveals rates of family violence among those who died by suicide
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Stefani Vasil
The Guardian, 16.09.2024
Political violence and fearmongering bigotry have become too normalized
Robert Reich
The Guardian, 16.09.2024
Nearly one in 10 NSW men have faced legal action for domestic and family violence, study finds
Kate Lyons
The Conversation, 16.09.2024
The second assassination attempt on Donald Trump in 64 days is a troubling turn of events
Jack L. Rozdilsky
The Guardian, 16.09.2024
The world should breathe a sigh of relief that Donald Trump wasn’t harmed in Florida
Simon Tisdall
PsyPost, 17.09.2024
Switzerland and the U.S. have similar gun ownership rates — Here’s why only the U.S. has a gun violence epidemic
Eric W. Dolan
Washington Post, 17.09.2024
The ominous implications of the pager attack against Hezbollah
David Ignatius
The Guardian, 17.09.2024
John Grisham on death row prisoner: ‘Texas is about to execute innocent man’
Ed Pilkington
The Conversation, 17.09.2024
Trump’s second assassination attempt is shocking, but attempts on presidents’ lives are not rare in US history
Shannon Bow O'Brien
The Conversation, 17.09.2024
‘Held at ransom’: victim-survivors open up about the use of child sex abuse material to fight crime
Carol Ronken
The Guardian, 17.09.2024
Is a political settlement between Russia and Ukraine on the cards? I am sceptical
Rajan Menon
The Guardian, 17.09.2024
Far-right conspiracies abound after second apparent Trump assassination attempt
Rachel Leingang
Newswise, 17.09.2024
Central America Could Play Troubling New Role in Cocaine Trade
Ohio State University
The Guardian, 17.09.2024
The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in crimes against humanity?
Samanth Subramanian
Northeastern Global News Northeastern University, 18.09.2024
What caused pagers used by Hezbollah to explode? Northeastern wireless security expert explains what might have happened
Cesareo Contreras
The Conversation, 18.09.2024
Pagers and walkie-talkies over cellphones – a security expert explains why Hezbollah went low-tech for communications
Richard Forno
ConnectProfessional, 18.09.2024
Cohesity-Studie: 86 Prozent der deutschen Ransomware-Opfer zahlten Lösegeld
Jörg Schröper
Global Network on Extremism and Technology, 18.09.2024
The UK Riots, Misinformation and Foreign Interference: A Smoking Gun or Something Else?
Dr. William Allchorn and Elisa Orofino
The Guardian, 18.09.2024
Bloodied, humiliated and knocked off guard by deadly pager warfare – what will Hezbollah do next?
Lina Khatib
The Conversation, 18.09.2024
How the world’s first open-source digital map of mass graves could help bring justice to victims in Ukraine and other war zones
Ellie Smith, Melanie Klinkner
The Guardian, 18.09.2024
Analysis: Israel’s double-punch humiliation of Hezbollah is a dance on the edge of an abyss
Julian Borger
The Conversation, 18.09.2024
What’s the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath? Less than you might think
Bruce Watt, Katarina Fritzon
The Conversation, 18.09.2024
Gangs’stories: From the streets of Dhaka to human-rights advocacy in Bangladesh
Sally Atkinson-Sheppard
UNSW Sydney, 19.09.2024
Can alcohol control policies reduce family and domestic violence?
Dr Michala Kowalski
WTTW News, 19.09.2024
Study Challenges Immigrant Crime Narrative: ‘There’s a Disconnect Between What the Data Shows and What People Think’
Shelby Hawkins
The Conversation, 19.09.2024
How a doubling of sentence lengths helped pack England’s prisons to the rafters
Jessica Gallagher
Newswise, 19.09.2024
NYU Tandon Study Finds Political Views, Not Race, Shape Reactions to Mass Shooting Data
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
The Guardian, 19.09.2024
‘He didn’t do it’: days before South Carolina execution, key witness says he lied
The Conversation, 19.09.2024
Pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah look like war crimes – international legal expert
Giacomo Biggio
The Conversation, 19.09.2024
Lebanon pager attacks: the weaponisation of everything has begun
Mark Lacy
The Conversation, 19.09.2024
Why Microsoft’s Copilot AI falsely accused court reporter of crimes he covered
Simon Thorne
The Conversation, 19.09.2024
Pager attack on Hezbollah was a sophisticated ‘booby-trap’ operation − it was also illegal
Mary Ellen O'Connell
EurekAlert!, 20.09.2024
Study finds family members are most common perpetrators of infant and child homicides in the U.S.
Texas A&M University
The Conversation, 20.09.2024
Trump survived another apparent assassination attempt – but it won’t have the same positive effect on his polling
David Andersen
The Conversation, 20.09.2024
‘Pig butchering’ fraud: the link between modern slavery, torture and online crime
Jack Mark Whittaker, Suleman Lazarus
The Conversation, 20.09.2024
Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Sarah Mayorga
New York Times, 20.09.2024
I’m the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield.
Mike DeWine
The Guardian, 21.09.2024
One in 20 Australian adults found to have suffered reproductive coercion and abuse
Natasha May
Sunday World, 22.09.2024
'FEMICIDE' | Gender-based killings of women and girls are on the rise in Ireland
Nadine Lott and Daniel Murtagh
The Guardian / The Observer, 22.09.2024
Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident
Carole Cadwalladr
Washington Post, 22.09.2024
As Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner
Rick Noack
New York Times, 22.09.2024
These Two Rape Cases Are a Lot Closer to Home Than We Like to Admit
Elizabeth Spiers
PsyPost, 23.09.2024
Study reveals how both bright and dark personality traits predict criminality
Eric W. Dolan
The Conversation, 23.09.2024
Gun violence in Philadelphia plummeted in 2024 − researchers aren’t sure why, but here are 3 factors at play
Carla Lewandowski, John A. Shjarback
Phys.org, 23.09.2024
How can police officers adhere to their own norms? Research links law to technology
Jan-Willem Oomen
Northumbria University, 24.09.2024
Police use of AI more responsible with an independent data ethics advisory committee
The Current, 24.09.2024
Safe storage, minimum age gun laws would curb violence, study says
Amanda Hernández
The Conversation, 24.09.2024
Why do people breach their bail? Our research shows it’s not because they’re committing more crimes
Natalie Gately, Suzanne Rock
NPR, 24.09.2024
Human reviewers can't keep up with police bodycam videos. AI now gets the job
Martin Kaste
The Guardian, 24.09.2024
‘Places to heal, not to harm’: why brutal prison design kills off hope
Yvonne Jewkes
The Conversation, 24.09.2024
War affects girls and boys differently: what we found in our study of children in the DRC
Roos van der Haer, Kathleen J. Brown
Phys.org, 24.09.2024
Study reveals shifting landscape of UN human rights discourse
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Guardian, 24.09.2024
Behind every Al Fayed or Diddy, there is a small army of enablers: this column is dedicated to them
Marina Hyde
The Guardian, 25.09.2024
Local. Left behind. Prey to populist politics? What the data tells us about the 2024 UK rioters
Pamela Duncan, Carmen Aguilar García, Michael Goodier, Olivia Lee and Alex Clark. Graphics by Lucy Swan and Tural Ahmedzade
The Conversation, 25.09.2024
Gangs’stories: Danny’s tales of machismo in Glasgow
Alistair Fraser, Angela Bartie
New York Times, 25.09.2024
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero
Catherine Porter and Ségolène Le Stradic
Jerusalem Post, 26.09.2024
German expert warns: Islamist and European antisemitism now dangerously intertwined
OHAD MERLIN
The Conversation, 26.09.2024
Eric Adams indictment: How campaign finance violations often grow into dramatic scandals
Charlie Hunt Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boise State University Jaclyn Kettler Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
The Conversation, 26.09.2024
Post-election violence is possible in US, political scientist says − and it could be worse than Jan. 6
Alexander Cohen Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clarkson University
Newswise, 26.09.2024
New Study Reveals Which Men Are Most Likely to Commit Sexual Assault
Binghamton University, State University of New York
OCCRP, 26.09.2024
‘Make a Molotov Cocktail’: How Europeans Are Recruited Through Telegram to Commit Sabotage, Arson, and Murder
Carina Huppertz, Artur Izumrudov, Laurin Lorenz, Ilya Lozovsky, Bastian Obermayer, Holger Roonemaa, Fabian Schmid, Marta Vunš
CEPR VoxEU, 27.09.2024
Organised crime, violence, and support for the state
Gian Maria Campedelli Gianmarco Daniele Andrea Martinangeli Paolo Pinotti
Washington Post, 27.09.2024
The far right is using AI to sell Hitler to a new generation
Pranshu Verma and Will Oremus
The Conversation, 27.09.2024
Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets − new study from Chicago
Wenfei Xu, David Levinson, Michael J Smart, Nebiyou Yonas Tilahun
PsyPost, 28.09.2024
Psychopathy tied to unlawful firearm use but not legal gun ownership, study finds
Eric W. Dolan
Washington Post, 28.09.2024
Inside the world of Martin Sellner, millennial influencer of Europe’s far right
Anthony Faiola and Souad Mekhennet
New York Times, 28.09.2024
Israel Tracked Nasrallah for Months Before Assassination, Officials Say
Ronen Bergman and Patrick Kingsley
New York Times, 28.09.2024
The American Drug Mules Smuggling Fentanyl Into the U.S.
Natalie Kitroeff and Robert Gebeloff
The Guardian, 29.09.2024
Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas?
Simon Jenkins
The Guardian / The Observer, 29.09.2024
In tackling Vladimir Putin’s web of troll farms and hackers, we have one advantage: democracy
Peter Pomerantsev
The Insider, 29.09.2024
“He began to complain of sharp pain in the stomach”: Official documents obtained by The Insider confirm Navalny was poisoned in prison
Roman Dobrokhotov
The Conversation, 30.09.2024
Online spaces are rife with toxicity. Well-designed AI tools can help clean them up
Lucy Sparrow, Eduardo Oliveira, Mahli-Ann Butt
News-Medical University of MichiganSep, 30.09.2024
Study reveals impact of adverse childhood experiences on teen mental health
University of Portsmouth, 30.09.2024
Report warns of missed opportunities by police in the fight against economic crime
The Guardian, 30.09.2024
How did the far right win in Austria? To understand, look to its global networks
Julia Ebner
