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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Conversation, 01.02.2025
The far-right is rising at a crucial time in Germany, boosted by Elon Musk
Matt Fitzpatrick
The Conversation, 02.02.2025
Syrian regime change: How rebel victories often lead to unstable, non-inclusive governments
Sally Sharif
The Conversation, 02.02.2025
How political polarization informed Mexico’s protests against femicide
Arturo Tejeda Torres
The Conversation, 03.02.2025
Addicted: how the world got hooked on illicit drugs – and why we need to view this as a global threat like climate change
Ian Hamilton
The Conversation, 03.02.2025
Musk’s inauguration salute is not the only apparent fascist signal from Trump’s administration
Matthew Kriner
EurekAlert!, 03.02.2025
Alcohol-related deaths up 18% during pandemic
Canadian Medical Association Journal
The Conversation, 03.02.2025
Kinshasa’s traffic cops run an extortion scheme generating five times more revenue than fines
Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra, Albert Malukisa Nkuku, Haoyang (Stan) Xie, Kristof Titeca
The Guardian, 03.02.2025
‘Crisis communications’: emails show how NFL’s Saints and NBA’s Pelicans helped New Orleans church spin abuse scandal
Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer
The Guardian, 03.02.2025
Coercive control to be put on par with other types of domestic abuse in England and Wales
Eleni Courea
The Conversation, 03.02.2025
‘A dark masterpiece’: Foucault’s Discipline and Punish at 50
Matthew Sharpe
Newswise, 04.02.2025
Sociological Research Reveals How Immigrants Can Reduce Crime
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Newswise, 04.02.2025
Declining US Drug Overdose Deaths: Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment Working
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
International Policy Digest, 04.02.2025
Rebirth and Ruin: Understanding Fascism’s Appeal with Roger Griffin
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
The Conversation, 04.02.2025
Features like iPhone’s and Facebook’s ‘Memories’ can retraumatize survivors of abuse
Nicolette Little
Simon Fraser University SFU News, 04.02.2025
Incarceration reduces reoffending rates in British Columbia, SFU study finds
Will Henderson
Northeastern Global News, 05.02.2025
Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting highlights global reality of gun violence, Northeastern criminologist says
Ian Thomsen
Försvarshögskolan Swedish Defence University, 05.02.2025
When the boundaries blur between terrorism and organised crime
The Conversation, 05.02.2025
Violent crime in South Africa happens mostly in a few hotspots: police resources should focus there – criminologist
Guy Lamb
The Guardian, 05.02.2025
Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire
Joost Bastmeijer, Saskia Houttuin and Mark Townsend
New York Times, 05.02.2025
‘It Was My School’: Sweden Shooting Site Was at Heart of a Diverse Community
Christina Anderson and Lynsey Chutel
LSE Blogs, 05.02.2025
Homeland Insecurity: The Rise and Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law – review
Prakash Rote
The Conversation, 05.02.2025
She was 15. He was 26. Sonia Orchard’s Groomed proves her abuser was wrong: age isn’t ‘just a number’
Kate Cantrell
The Conversation, 06.02.2025
Mandatory minimum sentencing is proven to be bad policy. It won’t stop hate crimes
Lorana Bartels, Rick Sarre
The Guardian, 06.02.2025
Aspiring autocrats like Trump are always more dangerous the second time in office
Jan-Werner Müller
The Conversation, 06.02.2025
Female genital mutilation is a leading cause of death for girls where it’s practised – new study
Heather D. Flowe, Arpita Ghosh, James Rockey
Christian Science Monitor, 06.02.2025
Better policing, safer protests? Our writer gets up close to a ‘dialogue unit.’
Clayton Collins
Daily Mail, 06.02.2025
Top criminologist reveals the most common reason why men in Britain kill
John Ely
The Guardian, 06.02.2025
Swedish police investigate possible racist motive for school shooting
Miranda Bryant
The Conversation, 06.02.2025
Why Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger’s new plan to tackle extremist violence is likely to fail
Folahanmi Aina
Sydney Criminal Lawyers, 06.02.2025
The Brave New and Inaccurate World of Artificial Intelligence Policing in New South Wales
Paul Gregoire
The Conversation, 07.02.2025
Ecuador’s tough on crime approach is popular, but major challenges remain
Robert Muggah, Katherine Aguirre
EurekAlert!, 07.02.2025
Many adults report inaccurate beliefs about risks and benefits of home firearm access
Rutgers University
The Conversation, 07.02.2025
‘There has never been a more dangerous time to take drugs’: the rising global threat of nitazenes and synthetic opioids
Philip A. Berry
The Atlantic, 07.02.2025
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Charlie Warzel and Ian Bogost
PsyPost, 09.02.2025
Individual traits, not environment, predict gun violence among gun-carrying youth
Eric W. Dolan
The Guardian, 09.02.2025
Trump’s claim that Mexican cartels and government are allied is not reality
Thomas Graham
Phys.org, 10.02.2025
How gender shapes perceptions of safety in urban parking spaces
Seoul National University of Science & Technology
The Conversation, 10.02.2025
Lawlessness and disorder: The hypocrisy of Donald Trump’s exile threats after the Jan. 6 pardons
Ako Ufodike
Verfassungsblog, 10.02.2025
The Looming Enforcement Crisis in European Digital Policy
Simona Demková, Giovanni De Gregorio
The Guardian, 10.02.2025
‘Finally this is justice’: the Assad torture survivors who guard their former jail
Ruth Michaelson and Obaida Hamad
EurekAlert!, 10.02.2025
Majority of kids who die in mass shootings killed by family members, Stanford Medicine-led study shows
Stanford Medicine
The Conversation, 10.02.2025
While the world is distracted by Trump, here’s how Putin and Musk are weakening European democracies
Stefan Wolff
The Guardian, 11.02.2025
Donald Trump has declared war on international justice. Australia must speak up
Geoffrey Robertson
Washington Post, 11.02.2025
The Islamic State has regrouped in Somalia — and has global ambitions
Katharine Houreld
Small Wars Journal, 11.02.2025
El Salvador and the Bukele Anti-Crime Experiment: Is it Working?
Howard Campbell
The Conversation, 11.02.2025
Legal fight against AI-generated child pornography is complicated – a legal scholar explains why, and how the law could catch up
Wayne Unger
Newswise, 11.02.2025
MSU Expert: How to Avoid Falling Victim to Romance Fraud
Michigan State University
The Conversation, 11.02.2025
Online romance scams: who Nigeria and Ghana’s fraudsters are, how they operate, and why they do it
Suleman Lazarus
Medical Xpress, 11.02.2025
Study highlights post-terror-attack challenges faced by mothers of young children
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Conversation, 11.02.2025
How opioid deaths tripled in Philly over a decade − and what may be behind a recent downturn
Ben Cocchiaro
Stockholm University Department of Economics, 12.02.2025
Police invests in more cameras – research shows impact on crime
The Conversation, 12.02.2025
Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research
Michael Jensen
The Conversation, 12.02.2025
We interviewed hundreds of Israelis and Gazans – here’s why we fear for the ceasefire
Nils Mallock, Jeremy Ginges
The Guardian, 12.02.2025
I was part of the panel that reviewed the Lucy Letby case. I believe the trial was fundamentally flawed
Neena Modi
New York Times, 12.02.2025
I Survived a Kidnapping in Mexico. Now I Tell the Stories of Those Who Didn’t.
Manuel Bayo Gisbert
spiegel.de, 12.02.2025
The Phantom Terrorists: Searching for Islamic State in Syria
Christoph Reuter and Johanna Maria Fritz (Photos) in Syria
CNN, 13.02.2025
US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin
Stephen Collinson, CNN
The Guardian, 13.02.2025
Trump’s senseless capitulation to Putin is a betrayal of Ukraine – and terrible dealmaking
Timothy Garton Ash
The Guardian, 13.02.2025
He wanted his father’s killer to be executed. Until his wish was granted
Ed Pilkington
The Guardian, 13.02.2025
‘I want more joy, less killing’: Jamaicans say police alone cannot quell gang crime
Natricia Duncan and Anthony Lugg in Kingston
Phys.org, 13.02.2025
New study of effect of CCTV cameras on crime in Newark, NJ, highlights value of longer-term evaluations
American Society of Criminology
The Conversation, 13.02.2025
What we learned from Trump and Putin’s phone call – editor’s briefing
Jonathan Este Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor
New York Times, 14.02.2025
Vance Shocks Europe With a Message That He Has Long Promoted at Home
Michael C. Bender
New York Times, 15.02.2025
The Radical Legal Theories That Could Fuel a Constitutional Crisis
Mattathias Schwartz
The Conversation, 16.02.2025
Unrest in Bangladesh is revealing the bias at the heart of Google’s search engine
Abdul Aziz Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University
New York Times, 16.02.2025
Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It.
Paul Sonne
Mediazona, 16.02.2025
Post from an Arctic prison. Alexei Navalny’s final letters which reached recipients after his murder
The Conversation, 17.02.2025
‘Faced with the unthinkable, we must fight back’: Gisele Pelicot’s daughter is combating drug-facilitated sexual abuse
Catherine Kevin Associate Professor in Australian History, Flinders University
The Guardian, 17.02.2025
Syrian delivery driver who rammed car into attacker hailed as hero in Austria
Ashifa Kassam
Charles Sturt University CSU News, 17.02.2025
Cryptocurrencies need better regulation and accounting practices: new study
The Conversation, 18.02.2025
Online violence and misogyny are still on the rise – NZ needs a tougher response
Cassandra Mudgway Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canterbury
Newsweek, 18.02.2025
Trump Orders DOJ to Fire All Remaining Biden-Appointed US Attorneys
Gabe Whisnant
Conspiracy Watch | The Conspiracy Observatory, 18.02.2025
Do Conspiracy Theories and Online Hate Fuel Violence?
Stephanie Share
News-Medical.net - University College London, 18.02.2025
New treatment cuts aggression in male offenders with antisocial personality disorder
The Guardian, 18.02.2025
Triangle of death’: will Italy finally tackle mafia’s toxic waste dumping?
Angela Giuffrida
New York Times, 18.02.2025
Anne Marie Hochhalter, Paralyzed in Columbine Shooting, Dies at 43
Michael Levenson
Eureka Alert!, 18.02.2025
Use of child sexual abuse material is often associated with other forms of violence – researchers gathered unique data from users of child sexual abus
Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Eastern Finland
BBC News, 19.02.2025
'You could have made a deal': Trump blames Ukraine after US-Russia talks
Bernd Debusmann and George Wright
AOL, 19.02.2025
Rounded blades ‘safer alternative’ to pointed kitchen knives, research suggests
Anahita Hossein-Pour and Stephanie Wareham
The Conversation, 19.02.2025
Trolling feels like a new phenomenon. But it existed long before the internet
Robert Phiddian
Eureka Alert!, 19.02.2025
Democracy in crisis: Trust in democratic institutions declining around the world
University of Southampton
Newswise, 19.02.2025
Study Suggests Drunk Witnesses Are Less Likely to Remember a Suspect’s Face
University of Portsmouth
The Conversation, 19.02.2025
Police are failing to deliver a minimum standard of service, according to the UK public
Adam Crawford
The Guardian, 19.02.2025
Thousands rescued from illegal scam compounds in Myanmar as Thailand launches huge crackdown
Leila Goldstein
The Guardian, 19.02.2025
Factchecking Donald Trump’s claims about the war in Ukraine
Jakub Krupa and Pjotr Sauer
Eureka Alert!, 19.02.2025
About 740,000 global deaths from suicide occur annually--that's one death every 43 seconds
Peer-Reviewed Publication Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
The Conversation, 19.02.2025
Deportation fears create ripple effects for immigrants and their communities
Kristina Fullerton
The Conversation, 20.02.2025
Our research on dark web forums reveals the growing threat of AI-generated child abuse images
Samantha Lundrigan
The Guardian, 20.02.2025
My life as a prison officer: ‘It wasn’t just the smell that hit you. It was the noise’
Alex South
Censor.NET, 20.02.2025
Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy
Financial Times
Verfassungsblog, 21.02.2025
The Claim of Hybrid Attacks
Alison Jolynn Beuscher, Johanna Bücker, Laura Goller, Lina Sophie Möller, Marlene Stiller, Sarah Isabel Pfeiffer
The Conversation, 21.02.2025
Ukraine war three years on: the bloodiest battles may be still to come
Alexander Titov
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-lack-global-diversity-criminology.html Phys.org, 21.02.2025
Research indicates a lack of global diversity in criminology education
Lara Pacillo
The Conversation, 21.02.2025
We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants
Brittany Friedman, Raquel Delerme
The Conversation, 23.02.2025
Scam Factories: the inside story of Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds
Ashlynne McGhee, Gemma Ware, Justin Bergman, Matt Garrow
PsyPost, 23.02.2025
Unattractive faces may get a break: Study reveals “ugly leniency effect” in guilt judgments
Eric W. Dolan
Washington Post, 24.02.2025
Your face could be in this database. How will it be used?
Thaddeus L. Johnson and Natasha N. Johnson
The Conversation, 24.02.2025
Wales wants to punish lying politicians – how would it work?
Stephen Clear
NBC4, 24.02.2025
Ohio economy loses more than $1 billion each year due to domestic violence, per study
Anna Hoffman
The Guardian, 24.02.2025
Putin plays the long game. He has punished Ukraine – and he won’t stop there
Yaroslav Hrytsak
The Conversation, 24.02.2025
Ukraine war: Trump is not trying to appease Putin – he has a vision of a new US-China-Russia order
Stefan Wolff
The Conversation, 24.02.2025
Sanctions rarely achieve their goals – here’s why they failed in Russia and Myanmar
Sergey Sosnovskikh, Anton Klarin, Htwe Htwe Thein
The Conversation, 24.02.2025
The murder rate in Venezuela has fallen − but both Trump and Maduro are wrong about why
Rebecca Hanson
The New Yorker Letter from Ukraine, 24.02.2025
The Adventures of a Ukrainian Intelligence Officer
Joshua Yaffa
The Conversation, 24.02.2025
Why justice for Ukraine must be at the forefront of peace negotiations
Oleksa Drachewych
WIRED, 24.02.2025
Inside the Telegram Groups Doxing Women for Their Facebook Posts
Anna Wolfe and Sarah Cammarata
The Independent, 25.02.2025
From Ukraine’s minerals to the Gaza Riviera – why Trump’s foreign policy is all about money
EurekAlert!, 25.02.2025
Life’s hardest moments shouldn’t be exploited online, say researchers of new online safety tool
University of Surrey
The Conversation, 25.02.2025
Mexico’s drug corruption has more to do with US demand than crooked politicians
Nathaniel Morris
Newsweek, 25.02.2025
Donald Trump Strikes Rare Earth Minerals Deal with Ukraine: Reports
Gabe Whisnant
Monash University, 25.02.2025
Domestic and Family Violence: New book by Silke Meyer and Andrew Frost out now
The Conversation, 25.02.2025
Ukraine war: game theory reveals the complexities (and fragility) of a nuclear deterrent
Renaud Foucart
The Conversation, 25.02.2025
Why Trump really wants Ukraine’s minerals – China has put theirs off limits
Dafydd Townley
The Conversation, 26.02.2025
‘They’re meant to help and did the complete opposite’: many children feel silenced by family courts
Georgina Dimopoulos
The Guardian, 26.02.2025
Trump says no significant security guarantees in Ukraine minerals deal
Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth
PsyPost, 26.02.2025
Mass shootings lead to years of increased alcohol sales in communities
Bianca Setionago
GNET Global Network on Extremism and Technology, 26.02.2025
Policing Extremism on Gaming-Adjacent Platforms: Awful but Lawful?
Dr. William Allchorn and Elisa Orofino
The Conversation, 26.02.2025
There’s a new ‘rapid review’ into school bullying. Research shows we need to involve the whole school to stop it
Fiona MacDonald, Nina Van Dyke
New York Times, 26.02.2025
What an F.B.I. Under Patel and Bongino Might Mean for America
Michelle Goldberg
The Conversation, 26.02.2025
States that impose severe prison sentences accomplish the opposite of what they say they want
John Leverso
The Guardian, 26.02.2025
The world is listening to Russia again. From the ruins of Ukraine, it makes me want to scream
Oleksandr Mykhed
Johns Hopkins University, 26.02.2025
Research helps survivors of intimate partner violence get support they need
Michele Decker
The Conversation, 26.02.2025
How Trump the ‘master deal-maker’ failed when it came to negotiating with the Taliban in Afghanistan
Philip A. Berry
EurekAlert!, 27.02.2025
Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover
University of Florida
The Conversation, 27.02.2025
Domestic abuse: how it escalates and why that makes it so hard to leave
Tirion E. Havard
U.S. News and World Report Logo, 27.02.2025
Law and Order or Bystander Safety? Police Chases Spotlight California’s Competing Priorities
Don Thompson
The Conversation, 27.02.2025
Revealed: the profound economic impact on women who experience domestic violence
Anne Summers
The Conversation, 28.02.2025
‘He knows how to make sure that there is no evidence’: when your domestic violence abuser is a police officer
Ellen Reeves, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate Eleanor Rathbone, Silke Meyer
New York Times, 28.02.2025
In Showdown With Zelensky, Trump Takes Offense on Putin’s Behalf
Peter Baker
New York Times, 28.02.2025
Behind the Collision: Trump Jettisons Ukraine on His Way to a Larger Goal
David E. Sanger
The Conversation, 28.02.2025
Raised voices and angry scenes at the White House as Trump clashes with Zelensky over the ‘minerals deal’
Stefan Wolff, Tetyana Malyarenko
