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New York Times, 01.01.2025
‘No Terrorist to Me’: Relatives and Friends Saw Few Signs Before Attack
Maria Jimenez Moya, Shannon Sims, J. David Goodman and Mike Baker
Study Finds, 01.01.2025
’Disturbing surge in cryptocurrency fraud’ led by young, tech-savvy Nigerian men
Steve Fink
New York Times, 01.01.2025
Vehicle Ramming Attacks: Using Cars and Trucks as Weapons Has Become Common
Eve Sampson
The Conversation, 02.01.2025
Why stopping knife crime needs to start in the kitchen
Graham Farrell, Toby Davies
The Guardian, 02.01.2025
Recordings by New Orleans attack suspect express extreme religious views
Ramon Antonio Vargas
The Intercept, 02.01.2025
U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence
Nick Turse
The Conversation, 02.01.2025
New Orleans attacker’s apparent loyalty to Islamic State group highlights persistent threat of lone wolf terrorism
Sara Harmouch
Newsweek, 02.01.2025
Shamsud-Din Jabbar: Is the Islamic State Terror Threat Growing Again?
Shane Croucher
Leiden University, 02.01.2025
Fifty years of left-wing extremism examined: 'Lenient approach has a positive effect'
The Guardian, 02.01.2025
During the holidays, reports of domestic violence surge. But what if next year could be different?
Frances Ryan
The Nightly, 02.01.2025
New Orleans has revived the spectre of terrorism, but how vulnerable is Australia to attack?
Nicola Smith
Daily Express US, 03.01.2025
Military service is 'strongest predictor of carrying out extremist violence,' study finds
Falyn Stempler
spiegel.de, 03.01.2025
Artificial Intelligence and Deepfakes: The Growing Problem of Fake Porn Images
Max Hoppenstedt, Roman Höfner, Marvin Milatz, Christo Buschek und Markus Böhm
spiegel.de, 03.01.2025
One of the Most Dangerous Routes in the World: The Darién Gap Migrant Highway, Courtesy of the Mafia
Marian Blasberg and Gerald Bermúdez
The Guardian, 04.01.2025
New Orleans attacker fell into extremism after marital and financial woes
Victoria Bekiempis
The Guardian, 04.01.2025
How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page
J Oliver Conroy
Washington Post, 04.01.2025
It’s not just Tesla. Vehicles amass huge troves of possibly sensitive data.
Shannon Najmabadi and Trisha Thadani
PsyPost, 05.01.2025
Donald Trump’s tweets predicted bursts of violence during January 6 Capitol riot, study finds
Eric W. Dolan
The Conversation, 05.01.2025
The City Symposium: How communities can come together to address their problems
James Shelley, C. Nadine Wathen, Jennifer MacGregor
EurekAlert!, 06.01.2025
Risk of domestic abuse increases over time for those exposed to childhood maltreatment
University College London
The Guardian, 06.01.2025
Trump promised pardons for January 6 rioters in ‘first hour’ of his second term. What might this mean?
Martin Pengelly
The Conversation, 06.01.2025
Nearly 54% of extreme conservatives say the federal government should use violence to stop illegal immigration
William McCorkle
Newswise, 06.01.2025
Study Examines Economic Consequences for Pretrial-Detainee Households
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Indian Express, 06.01.2025
The troubling history of UK’s grooming gangs and the politics surrounding it
The Guardian, 06.01.2025
New Orleans attack victim’s fiancee condemns city over security failings
Ramon Antonio Vargas
Jurist.org, 06.01.2025
Former France president Sarkozy faces trial over campaign funds from Libya
Amber Weurding
New Lines Magazine, 06.01.2025
What a Presidential Pardon Could Mean for Jan. 6 Defendants
Alec D’Angelo
The Conversation, 07.01.2025
The New Orleans attack and Las Vegas Tesla explosion are examples of the US military’s violent extremism problem
Mia Martin Hobbs
Mirage.News Science, 07.01.2025
Acoustic Sensors Detect Gunfire on School Routes
Ohio State University
The Conversation, 07.01.2025
Even the much lauded Nordic prisons are facing overcrowding and understaffing
Kaigan Carrie
The Conversation, 07.01.2025
The Pelicot rape case revealed not a group of monsters but a culture that enables the abuse of women
Vanita Sundaram
EurekAlert!, 07.01.2025
Implanting false memories much harder than claimed in court
University College London
The Guardian, 08.01.2025
French police arrest founder of website used by Dominique Pelicot
Kim Willsher
The Conversation, 08.01.2025
‘Cold violence’ – a hidden form of elder abuse in New Zealand’s Chinese community
Ágnes Szabó, Mary Breheny, Polly Yeung
The Guardian, 09.01.2025
Japanese yakuza leader pleads guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar
EurekAlert!, 09.01.2025
Physical neglect as damaging to children’s social development as abuse
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Conversation, 09.01.2025
I worked on the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse – here’s what Elon Musk is missing
William Tantam
The Intercept, 09.01.2025
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Sam Biddle
The Guardian, 10.01.2025
US supreme court rejects Trump bid to call off sentencing in hush-money case
EurekAlert!, 10.01.2025
Tickling the nerves: Why crime content is popular
National Research University Higher School of Economics
The Conversation, 10.01.2025
Trump gets an ‘unconditional discharge’ in hush money conviction − a constitutional law expert explains what that means
Wayne Unger
The Conversation, 10.01.2025
Islamic State: despite the fall of its caliphate, the group is still influencing terrorism
Busra Nisa Sarac
The Conversation, 10.01.2025
What Meta’s move to community moderation could mean for misinformation
Denitsa Dineva
Mediazona, 10.01.2025
“A hell with all its demons”. How a juvenile detention centre in Taganrog was turned into a torture camp for Ukrainian prisoners
Pavel Vasilyev
The Guardian, 11.01.2025
Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, speaks: ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’
Angelique Chrisafis
The Conversation, 12.01.2025
West Africa could soon have a jihadist state – here’s why
Oluwole Ojewale
The Globe and Mail, 12.01.2025
AI-powered scams: Protect yourself in the new era of hyper-personalized phishing
Preet Banerjee
The Straits Times, 13.01.2025
Child abuse victims have much higher risk of being abused by their spouses in adulthood: S’pore study
Theresa Tan
Undark Magazine, 13.01.2025
Opinion: Fixating on Experimentation Could Hinder Gun Violence Prevention
Andrew V. Papachristos
The Conversation, 13.01.2025
The dynamics that polarise us on social media are about to get worse
Colin M. Fisher
The Conversation, 13.01.2025
Mass deportations don’t keep out ‘bad genes’ − they use scientific racism to justify biased immigration policies
Shoumita Dasgupta
The Guardian, 13.01.2025
Mafia Don? Trump and other presidents who flirted with the mob
Martin Pengelly
Washington Post, 13.01.2025
How New Orleans failed to protect Bourbon Street from attack, block by block
Sarah Blaskey, Samuel Oakford, Jarrett Ley and Jonathan O'Connell
The Guardian, 13.01.2025
Most violent or sexual offences went unsolved in crime hotspots in England and Wales last year
Josh Halliday and Michael Goodier
The Guardian, 13.01.2025
We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences
Nesrine Malik
The Conversation, 13.01.2025
From Myanmar to Gaza, Ukraine to Sudan – 2024 was another grim year, according to our mass atrocity index
Collin J. Meisel
Zeit Online, 14.01.2025
Gewalt gegen Frauen: Wer immer Femizid sagt, macht es sich zu leicht
Livia Sarai Lergenmüller
The Conversation, 14.01.2025
Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women
Elizabeth Pearson
The Conversation, 14.01.2025
Terrorist groups respond to verbal attacks and slights by governments with more violence against civilians
Brandon J. Kinne, Iliyan Iliev, Nahrain Bet Younadam
The Conversation, 14.01.2025
West Africa is the world’s new epicentre for terrorism – Nigeria is expanding its air force in response
Samuel Oyewole, Francis Okpaleke, Oluwole Ojewale
EurekAlert!, 14.01.2025
A study identifies the factors that help teens shun drug use
University of Córdoba
The Conversation, 14.01.2025
Can Trump deliver on his promise to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
David Roger Marples
The Guardian, 14.01.2025
More than a million Haitians forced from their homes amid gang violence
Tom Phillips
Leiden University, 14.01.2025
Professor Maartje van der Woude wins Theoretical Criminology Best Article Prize
Axios, 15.01.2025
Growing number of military veterans committing extremist crimes, research shows
Sareen Habeshian
Northeastern University, 15.01.2025
Data is clear that immigrants don’t increase crime in the United States, expert says
Cody Mello-Klein
The Conversation, 15.01.2025
I work with abuse survivors in Rotherham – the current discussion about grooming gangs risks retraumatising them
Rebecca Hamer
The Conversation, 15.01.2025
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire. It doesn’t guarantee a peaceful end to a devastating war
Marika Sosnowski
The Guardian, 15.01.2025
‘Running to danger and saving lives’: 1,100 incarcerated firefighters are on the LA frontlines
Sam Levin
India Education Diary, 15.01.2025
Report Highlights Deepening Distrust in Police Response to Violence Against Women
The Indiana Lawyer, 15.01.2025
Dustin Houchin: It’s a myth to say brains aren’t fully developed until age 25
New York Times, 15.01.2025
N.Y.P.D. Bans High-Speed Chases for Low-Level Offenses
Maria Cramer and Hurubie Meko
EurekAlert!, 16.01.2025
Preventing transition to substance use disorders in teenagers: brief cognitive behavioural program PreVenture shows promising results
University of Montreal
The Conversation, 16.01.2025
Deepfakes of children: how the government can get to grips with them
Sue Roberts
New York Times, 16.01.2025
China Deploys More Security to Try to Reassure a Country on Edge
Vivian Wang
Association of Health Care Journalists, 16.01.2025
Residents in certain ZIP codes are more likely to be fatally shot by police
Kaitlin Washburn
The Guardian, 16.01.2025
‘I came down here to die’: the untold story of the first JFK assassination attempt
David Smith
CEPR VoxEU, 17.01.2025
Learning from the past: How history education shapes support for extreme ideology
Luca Braghieri Sarah Eichmeyer
EurekAlert!, 17.01.2025
What do you think ‘guilty’ sounds like? Scientists find accent stereotypes influence beliefs about who commits crimes
Publication Frontiers
Newswise, 17.01.2025
The Power of Cinema: Study Shows Film Intervention Reduces Violence Against Children
McMaster University
The Conversation, 17.01.2025
The Trump revolution: where it came from and where it’s going
Geoffrey Hodgson
New Lines Magazine, 17.01.2025
In Sri Lanka, the Army Is Engaging in a New War on Drugs
Mimi Alphonsus & Dilushi Wijesinghe
The Guardian, 18.01.2025
Nobody could help me with my psychosis. Then I was sent to jail for holding up a shop with a toy gun
Scout Tzofiya Bolton
Medical Xpress, 20.01.2025
Nurse home visits for first-time mothers target intimate partner violence to boost child health outcomes
Matt Kieltyka
PsyPost, 20.01.2025
The psychological puzzle of Donald Trump: Eye-opening findings from 20 studies
Eric W. Dolan
The Guardian, 20.01.2025
Biden’s last-minute pardons draw ire from both sides of political divide
Edward Helmore
The Conversation, 20.01.2025
How childhood trauma impacts our brains, bodies – and even our genes
Macià Buades Rotger
Montreal CityNews, 20.01.2025
Early exposure to violent content linked to violent tendencies in teen boys: Montreal study
Jean-Benoit Legault
The Conversation, 20.01.2025
Trump’s idea to use military to deport over 10 million migrants faces legal, constitutional and practical hurdles
Cassandra Burke Robertson, Irina D. Manta
New York Times, 20.01.2025
Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture
Ryan Mac
The Conversation, 20.01.2025
Art as resistance: A digital archive documents how protest arts address police violence
Taiwo Afolabi, Gabriel Friday
The Conversation, 21.01.2025
Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency ‘flies in the face of the facts’ of violent insurrection, retired federal judge explains
John E. Jones
Washington Post, 21.01.2025
To get rid of ‘drug-addicted’ rats, Houston police clean up evidence room
Gaya Gupta
Newswise, 21.01.2025
New GW Study Debunks Myths About Mayoral Partisanship and Crime Policy
George Washington University
News-Medical.net, 21.01.2025
Persistent poverty and parental mental illness linked to increased risk of youth violence
The Conversation, 21.01.2025
Lessons from ‘stop and frisk’ can help Philly police use drones to improve safety without compromising civil liberties
Robert Kane, Jordan Hyatt
Washington Post, 21.01.2025
Trump designated drug cartels as terrorists. Here’s what that means.
Mary Beth Sheridan
EurekAlert!, 21.01.2025
Childhood poverty and/or parental mental illness may double teens’ risk of violence and police contact
BMJ Group
PsyPost, 22.01.2025
Adverse childhood experiences linked to increased defensive gun use through heightened threat sensitivity
Eric W. Dolan
The Conversation, 22.01.2025
What is seditious conspiracy, which is among the most serious crimes Trump pardoned?
Amy Cooter
The Conversation, 22.01.2025
Brad Pitt online romance fraud shows how victims are influenced by complex psychological factors
Annie Lecompte
The Guardian, 22.01.2025
Organised crime unit expanded in prisons in England and Wales to fight escalating gang activity
Rajeev Syal
New York Times, 22.01.2025
How Trump Was Persuaded to Pardon an Online Drug Kingpin
David Yaffe-Bellany and Ryan Mac
University of Wisconsin, 22.01.2025
Communities that experience mass shootings drink more alcohol in the aftermath, a new study finds
Chris Barncard
The Conversation, 23.01.2025
Southport attack: changing the definition of terrorism won’t stop the violence
Alan Greene
Newswise, 23.01.2025
Why Incarcerated Firefighters Are a Major Part of Wildfire Response
University of Nevada
The Conversation, 23.01.2025
Many more older people are leaving prison and face unmet needs for housing and health care − as well as a tangle of groups trying to help
Angela S. Murolo, Lena M. Campagna
The Conversation, 23.01.2025
10 years after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, conversations about free speech are still too black and white
Armin Langer
Newswise, 23.01.2025
Cellphone bans spread in schools amid mental health concerns
George Washington University
The Guardian, 23.01.2025
Law enforcement joined meetings of far-right Oath Keepers, leak shows
Jason Wilson
The Guardian, 23.01.2025
Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana jailed for 52 years for murder of three girls
Josh Halliday
EurekAlert!, 23.01.2025
Opioid overdose deaths throughout Midwest most strongly linked to a lack of economic upward mobility, Boston College study finds
Boston College
BMC Public Health, 24.01.2025
Looting and antisocial behavior after disasters: a systematic review
Rahim Ali Sheikhi, Raheleh Javanbakhtian & Mohammad Heidari
New York Times, 24.01.2025
I Prosecuted the Capitol Rioters. They Have Never Been More Dangerous.
Brendan Ballou
ZME Science, 24.01.2025
Machine learning is bringing back an infamous pseudoscience used to fuel racism
Zoe Gordon
The Conversation, 24.01.2025
Sexism linked to social ills for men and women, finds largest cross-cultural study of its kind
Magdalena Zawisza, Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka
The Conversation, 24.01.2025
Trump labels drug cartels as terrorist groups – what it means for Mexico and beyond
Amalendu Misra
The Conversation, 24.01.2025
Trump inherits the Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’
Lisa Hajjar
The Conversation, 24.01.2025
Trump has fired a major cyber security investigations body. It’s a risky move
Toby Murray
The Guardian, 24.01.2025
Surveillance: The EU wants to scan every message sent in Europe. Will that really make us safer?
Apostolis Fotiadis
Psychology Today, 26.01.2025
Why Many Parents Can Be OK With Hitting a Child, but Not a Pet
Robyn Koslowitz
The Conversation, 26.01.2025
80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, amid rising antisemitism, the memory of the Holocaust remains contentious
Jan Lanicek, Avril Alba
EurekAlert!, 27.01.2025
Firearm-related hospitalizations had dropped before the pandemic, then shot up, study finds
University of Michigan
The Conversation, 27.01.2025
Donald Trump’s suggestion of ‘clearing out’ Gaza adds another risk to an already fragile ceasefire
Karin Aggestam
Small Wars Journal, 27.01.2025
The Impact of Terrorist Designation on Mexican Cartels: Implications for Security and Policy
Mahmut Cengiz
Economic Times, 27.01.2025
How Mafia is turning wildfires into weapons of power and profit? Berkeley study reveals
Phys.org, 28.01.2025
Study of basic training of new police hires shows resistance to change
American Society of Criminology
Medscape, 28.01.2025
Global Meta-Analysis Shows Varying Rates of Sexual Violence Against Children, Teens
Mia Sims
The Guardian, 28.01.2025
IS fighters in Syria could break free amid Trump aid cut, terrorism expert warns
Patrick Wintour and Dan Sabbagh
The Conversation, 28.01.2025
Southport attacks: why the UK needs a unified approach to all violent attacks on the public
Barry Richards
Global Network on Extremism and Technology, 28.01.2025
AI Tools and the Alt-Right: A Double-Edged Sword for P/CVE
Aurora Agnolon
spiegel.de, 28.01.2025
Manipulation from Abroad: German Election Campaign Flooded with Fake News and Videos
Maik Baumgärtner, Markus Feldenkirchen, Ann-Katrin Müller, Marcel Rosenbach, Christoph Schult, Severin Weiland und Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt
The Conversation, 28.01.2025
Trump 2.0: the rise of an ‘anti-elite’ elite in US politics
William Genieys, Mohammad-Saïd Darviche
Gaydio, 28.01.2025
'Pick-n-mix' ideologies: Why violent motivations are becoming harder to define
Jason Farrell
The Conversation, 29.01.2025
What is a ‘crime scene’, really? An expert explains how it’s more than just blue police tape
Vincent Hurley
Phys.org, 29.01.2025
Racial disparities persist in US juvenile drug offense cases
Crime and Justice Research Alliance
The Conversation, 29.01.2025
DeepSeek: why the hot new Chinese AI chatbot has big privacy and security problems
Mohiuddin Ahmed
The Guardian, 29.01.2025
‘They don’t want you to see the slave labor’: a new film goes inside Alabama’s prisons
Adrian Horton
The Guardian, 29.01.2025
‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
Becca Lewis
News-Medical, 29.01.2025
Study reveals strong link between childhood trauma and adolescent psychiatric disorders
University of Bath
The Conversation, 30.01.2025
Argentina’s president is vowing to repeal ‘woke’ femicide law. It could have ripple effects across Latin America
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
The Trace, 30.01.2025
‘A Direct Attack on Science:’ Trump’s Return Is Rattling Gun Violence Researchers
Fairriona Magee
EurekAlert!, 30.01.2025
New national study finds homicide and suicide is the #1 cause of maternal death in the U.S.
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
New York Times, 30.01.2025
A U.K. Teen Became Fixated on Extreme Violence. But Was It Terrorism?
Lizzie Dearden
The Conversation, 30.01.2025
Biden targeted the online right-wing terrorism threat − now it’s up to Trump
Jason M. Blazakis
The Conversation, 31.01.2025
Planes have high-tech systems to stop midair crashes. So what went wrong in Washington?
Chrystal Zhang
Newswise, 31.01.2025
Sociological Research Reveals How Immigrants Can Reduce Crime
American Sociological Association (ASA)
The Conversation, 31.01.2025
What happened in the German parliament and why is the far right hailing it as a ‘historic’ moment?
Ed Turner
