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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Conversation, 01.07.2025
What are police allowed to do at protests and who keeps them in check?
Kelly Hine, Dominique Moritz, Hena Prince
The Law Society Gazette, 01.07.2025
Victims of crime prefer police action over court, study reveals
Bianca Castro1
Time Magazine, 01.07.2025
Today’s AI Could Make Pandemics 5 Times More Likely, Experts Predict
Billy Perrigo
The Conversation, 01.07.2025
Trauma is carried in your DNA. But science reveals a more complicated story
Tara-Lyn Camilleri
The Guardian, 01.07.2025
‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France
Angelique Chrisafis
The Guardian, 01.07.2025
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia
Amanda Coakley
EurekAlert!, 01.07.2025
Study reveals impact of crime exposure on Arab men in Israel: power, isolation, and a call for change
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
spiegel.de, 01.07.2025
Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
Max Hoppenstedt und Marvin Milatz
The Conversation, 02.07.2025
What damage did the US do to Iran’s nuclear program? Why it’s so hard to know
Joshua Rovner
The Guardian, 02.07.2025
‘The ground shook’: drone attacks help Haitian government wrest control of capital from criminal gangs
Etienne Côté-Paluck, Manisha Ganguly and Tom Phillips
The Conversation, 02.07.2025
Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why
Lisa M. Given
The Conversation, 03.07.2025
Childcare sexual abuse is mostly committed by men. Failing to recognise that puts children at risk
Delanie Woodlock, Lenka Olejnikova
New York Times, 03.07.2025
Democrats Denied This City Had a Gang Problem. The Truth Is Complicated.
Ted Conover
The Conversation, 03.07.2025
Speedballing – the deadly mix of stimulants and opioids – requires a new approach to prevention and treatment
Andrew Yockey
The Conversation, 03.07.2025
Military force may have delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions – but history shows that diplomacy is the more effective nonproliferation strategy
Stephen Collins
The Conversation, 03.07.2025
10 steps governments can take now to stamp out child sexual abuse in care settings
Ben Mathews
The Guardian, 03.07.2025
Israel-Gaza war: Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur
Julian Borger
Ohio University, 03.07.2025
New study coauthored by OHIO researcher finds intimate partner violence leaves lasting brain injuries and mental health issues
Graciela Muniz-Terrera
Nature - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Articles, 05.07.2025
Factors influencing the spatial distribution of police stops and their efficacy in crime prevention and control
Zhuoying Fan, Xuewei Zhang, Guangwen Song & Chunxia Zhang
The Guardian, 05.07.2025
Diddy’s trial is more proof the legal system can’t handle domestic violence
Arwa Mahdawi
PsyPost, 06.07.2025
New study finds link between sexism and denial of male victimhood in relationships
Eric W. Dolan
The Guardian, 06.07.2025
Kevin Nunn has spent 20 years in prison for a horrifying murder. Was he wrongly convicted?
Simon Hattenstone
New York Times, 06.07.2025
She Wanted to Save the World From A.I. Then the Killings Started.
Christopher Beam
The Conversation, 07.07.2025
A Shakespearean, small-town murder: why Australia became so obsessed with the Erin Patterson mushroom case
Xanthe Mallett
The Conversation, 07.07.2025
What research on sexting reveals about how men and women think about consent
Rikke Amundsen
The Conversation, 07.07.2025
Social media can support or undermine democracy – it comes down to how it’s designed
Lisa Schirch
EurekAlert!, 07.07.2025
Findings of study on how illegally manufactured fentanyl enters U.S. contradict common assumptions, undermining efforts to control supply
Carnegie Mellon University
News-Medical.net, 08.07.2025
Research reveals alarming rates of abuse in home-based dementia care
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
The Conversation, 08.07.2025
Some young people sexually abuse. Here’s how to reduce reoffending by up to 90%
Jesse Cale, Benoit Leclerc, Francisco Perales, Tyson Whitten
Newswise, 08.07.2025
Gun Violence Likely to Increase During Summer Months
George Washington University
New York Times, 08.07.2025
The Wild Russian Plot to Burn a London Restaurant and Kidnap Its Owner
Lizzie Dearden
The Trace, 08.07.2025
Most Medical Schools Don’t Require Gun Violence Prevention Training. This Group Wants to Change That.
Cat Carroll
EurekAlert!, 08.07.2025
Study shows more support needed for police mental health
University of Technology Sydney
POLITICO, 08.07.2025
German far right’s strategy for seizing power: Foment US-style polarization
James Angelos, Pauline von Pezold and Nette Nöstlinger
Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), 09.07.2025
Washing away crime: Money laundering in the Western Balkans
Anesa Agovic
Observer Voice, 09.07.2025
How Childhood Chaos Shapes Adult Relationships: New Research on Intimate Partner Violence
The Conversation, 09.07.2025
We interviewed 205 Australians convicted of murder and manslaughter. Alcohol’s role was alarming
Li Eriksson, Paul Mazerolle, Richard Wortley, Samara McPhedran
EurekAlert!, 09.07.2025
Understanding childhood maltreatment and its effect on biological aging
University of Fukui
EurekAlert!, 09.07.2025
Fraud, ageism and fear: Understanding the unique risks faced by senior citizens online
University of Surrey
The Guardian, 09.07.2025
Trump administration: Ice is about to become the biggest police force in the US
Judith Levine
The Conversation, 09.07.2025
Marco Rubio impersonator contacted officials using AI voice deepfakes – computer security experts explain what they are and how to avoid getting foole
Matthew Wright, Christopher Schwartz
The Conversation, 09.07.2025
Charges against Canadian Army members in anti-government terror plot raise alarms about right-wing extremism
Kawser Ahmed
The Conversation, 09.07.2025
Trump administration’s lie detector campaign against leakers is unlikely to succeed and could divert energy from national security priorities
Brian O'Neill
The Conversation, 10.07.2025
Cyber crime and real-world crime are converging in a dangerous new way – here’s how to stay safe
Jongkil Jay Jeong, Ashish Nanda, Peter Thomas
The Conversation, 10.07.2025
Devil worship, muti and murder: what’s behind the growth of occult gangs in South Africa?
Ashwill Ramon Phillips
EurekAlert!, 10.07.2025
‘Support, not judgement’: Study explores links between children’s social care involvement and maternal deaths
King's College London
HSToday, 10.07.2025
Too Young to Drive, Old Enough for Extremism: Youth Radicalization’s New Reality
Megan Norris
TechCrunch, 10.07.2025
Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions
Maxwell Zeff
Yahoo News, 11.07.2025
Inside the 'Incel Theory' of Idaho Murders: Did Bryan Kohberger Use Avatar of Mass Killer Online?
Christine Pelisek
Eureka Alert!, 11.07.2025
State gun laws and firearm-related homicides and suicides
JAMA Network Open Peer-Reviewed Publication
New York Times, 11.07.2025
Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part.
Zeynep Tufekci
PsyPost, 12.07.2025
Psychopathic personality and weak impulse control pair up to predict teen property crime
Eric W. Dolan
The Conversation, 13.07.2025
‘You become a target’: research shows why many people who experience racism don’t report it
Mario Peucker, Franka Vaughan, Jo Doley, Tom Clark
The Guardian, 13.07.2025
What if Ukraine falls? This is no longer a hypothetical question – and it must be answered urgently
Simon Tisdall
The Guardian, 13.07.2025
A chance encounter threw me into the campaign to expose the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. What happened next changed my life
Yasmin Khan
BBC News, 13.07.2025
South African police minister suspended over organised crime allegations
Nomsa Maseko, Jaroslav Lukiv
The Guardian, 13.07.2025
Metropolitan police: ‘Shameful’ that black boys in London more likely to die by 18 than white boys, says Met chief
Jamie Grierson
The Guardian, 13.07.2025
Social media: Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
Jay Van Bavel
The Conversation, 14.07.2025
Don’t blame toxic masculinity for online misogyny – the manosphere is hurting men too
Kate Cantrell
The Conversation, 14.07.2025
Pig butchering’ scams have stolen billions from people around the world. Here’s what you need to know
Bing Han
CBC, 14.07.2025
Majority of people arrested in U.S. immigration raids have no criminal record, data shows
Eureka Alert!, 15.07.2025
AI and satellites against environmental crimes: detecting illegal waste dumping with 90 per cent accuracy
The Conversation, 15.07.2025
Genocide’s legal limitations: what the Srebrenica massacre can teach us about Gaza
Pilar Eirene de Prada
The Conversation, 15.07.2025
How universities can keep protests from turning violent: 3 lessons from the 2024 pro-Palestinian encampments
Matthew J. Mayhew, Hind Haddad, Renee L. Bowling
Rolling Stone, 15.07.2025
Inside the Grassroots Fight Against Trump’s Deportation Machine
David Peisner
PBS Politics, 15.07.2025
How Trump spent years stoking dark theories, and why he’s facing Epstein case blowback now
Ali Swenson
The Guardian, 15.07.2025
A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
Sophie Elmhirst
The Nation Politics, 15.07.2025
Trump’s Deep-State Conspiracy Theories Are Getting Beyond His Control
Chris Lehmann
The Conversation, 16.07.2025
Paolo Borsellino: the murder of an anti-mafia prosecutor and the enduring mystery of his missing red notebook
Felia Allum
New York Times, 16.07.2025
Everyone’s Obsessed With True Crime. Even Prisoners Like Me.
John J. Lennon
The Guardian, 16.07.2025
America’s famed ‘checks-and-balances’ governance system is failing
Jan-Werner Müller
msn.com, 16.07.2025
How Bryan Kohberger Got New Identity Days After Murders — and Used that to Fly Under Cops' Radar
Chris Spargo
Eureka Alert!, 16.07.2025
A “silent epidemic” of stimulant use is shadowing the most recent opioid epidemic
Publication PLOS
The Conversation, 16.07.2025
Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why
Skeie Hermansen, Andrew Penner, / Marta M. Elvira
spiegel.de, 16.07.2025
The Case Before the ICJ: Is Israel Committing Genocide in the Gaza Strip?
Juliane von Mittelstaedt
New York Times, 17.07.2025
What to Know About the Epstein Files, a Perfect Recipe for Conspiracy Theories
Devlin Barrett
The Conversation, 17.07.2025
Trump’s changing stance on Epstein files is testing the loyalty of his Maga base
Robert Dover
The Conversation, 17.07.2025
Sex education in England to include warnings about choking – what parents need to know
Alexandra Fanghanel
The Conversation, 17.07.2025
Incels, misogyny, role models: what England’s new relationships and sex education lessons will cover – and how young people will benefit
Sophie King-Hill
The Conversation, 17.07.2025
Friday essay: ‘nothing quite like it in the history of espionage’ – the Russian spies who pretended to be American
Alexander Howard
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 17.07.2025
Program: Where have all the serial killers gone?
Sana Qadar
New York Times, 17.07.2025
What to Know About the Epstein Files, a Perfect Recipe for Conspiracy Theories
Devlin Barrett
The Conversation, 18.07.2025
Separated men are nearly 5 times more likely to take their lives than married men
Michael Wilson, Jacqui Macdonald, Zac Seidler
NEWSnet, 18.07.2025
New APA-Published Study by Dr. Jodi LaMothe Offers Breakthrough Insights to Predict and Prevent School Shootings
EurekAlert!, 18.07.2025
Fewer head injuries, not less abuse: COVID's hidden toll
Chongqing Medical University
The Conversation, 18.07.2025
Cognitive warfare: why wars without bombs or bullets are a legal blind spot
David Gisselsson, Alberto Rinaldi
The Conversation, 18.07.2025
‘I just couldn’t stop crying’: How prison affects Black men’s mental health long after they’ve been released
Helena Addison
New York Times, 19.07.2025
Vance Boelter’s Life Before the Minnesota Shootings
Dan Barry, Ernesto Londoño and Ruth Graham
Newsweek, 19.07.2025
The Rare But Terrifying Risk of Pilot Murder-Suicides in Air Travel
Jesus Mesa and Kaamya Krishnan
The Conversation, 19.07.2025
How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the silence on Epstein files matters
Art Jipson
Washington Post, 20.07.2025
Trump survived many scandals, but the Epstein story poses a new test
Natalie Allison
New York Times, 20.07.2025
An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files
Mike Baker, Michael S. Schmidt
EurekAlert!, 21.07.2025
How social media can help abuse survivors heal
University of Texas at Arlington
EurekAlert!, 21.07.2025
Global study of more than 100,000 young people latest to link early smartphone ownership with poorer mental health in young adults
Taylor & Francis Group
The Verge, 21.07.2025
Microsoft SharePoint servers are under attack because of a major security flaw
Jess Weatherbed
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, 21.07.2025
Crime-Prevention Efforts Face Setbacks After Federal Cuts
Nicole Ndumele, Ames Grawert
The Conversation, 21.07.2025
Teenagers aren’t good at spotting misinformation online – research suggests why
Yvonne Skipper
The Conversation, 21.07.2025
Comparing ICE to the Gestapo reveals people’s fears for the US – a Holocaust scholar explains why Nazi analogies remain common, yet risky
Daniel H. Magilow
The Conversation, 21.07.2025
In a world first, The Hague wants to arrest Taliban leaders over their treatment of women – what happens next?
Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria
The Guardian, 21.07.2025
US immigration: Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Richard Luscombe
The Conversation, 21.07.2025
More than just a bad date: Navigating harms on LGBTQ+ dating apps
Christopher Dietzel, André Matar
Rhode Island Current, 22.07.2025
Stand-your-ground laws linked to higher homicide rates, new report finds
Amanda Hernández
EurekAlert!, 22.07.2025
UTA study links police fatigue to performance risks
University of Texas at Arlington
The Conversation, 23.07.2025
Understanding the violence against Alawites and Druze in Syria after Assad
Güneş Murat Tezcür
The Independent, 23.07.2025
Four slain students, a weeks-long manhunt but no motive: Everything we know as Idaho mass murderer sentenced
EurekAlert!, 23.07.2025
This temporary tattoo could detect an unwanted drug in your drink
American Chemical Society
The Guardian, 23.07.2025
From Canada to Finland, a US neo-Nazi fight club is rapidly spreading across the globe
Ben Makuch
The Conversation, 23.07.2025
US and European economies depend heavily on immigrants – decades of data reveal just how much
Deniz Torcu
The Conversation, 23.07.2025
How Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok could be helping bring about an era of techno-fascism
Jonathan Durand Folco
The Conversation, 23.07.2025
‘Maybe this is the last minutes you are living’: how the war is impacting young Ukrainians
Ashley Humphrey, Helen Forbes-Mewett
Washington Post, 23.07.2025
Interrogating a cold-case killer: ‘Honey, your DNA was in the crime scene’
Dan Morse
Meduza, 23.07.2025
‘This is about the people’ A law targeting anti-corruption agencies sparked major protests in wartime Ukraine. Now, Zelensky is promising to reverse c
The Conversation, 23.07.2025
How the nature of environmental law is changing in defense of the planet and the climate
Dana Zartner
New York Times, 24.07.2025
After Surge During Pandemic, Homicides Fall Significantly
Ashley Wu and Tim Arango
Illinois Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau, 24.07.2025
Research: Police uses of lethal force dropped dramatically in US from 2021-23
Phil Ciciora
EurekAlert!, 24.07.2025
New study reveals critical link between neighborhood violence, youth fighting, and perceived firearm availability
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
The Conversation, 24.07.2025
3 reasons young people are more likely to believe conspiracy theories – and how we can help them discover the truth
Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau
The Conversation, 24.07.2025
High-profile sex assault cases — and their verdicts — have consequences for survivors seeking help
Lisa Boucher
The Guardian, 24.07.2025
Why are Ukrainians angry with Zelenskyy? Because even during wartime, some red lines must not be crossed
Nataliya Gumenyuk
The Guardian, 24.07.2025
Why Trump’s political playbook is failing in the Epstein case
Jan-Werner Müller
Washington Post, 24.07.2025
A timeline of how the Epstein controversy became a headache for Trump
Victoria Bisset and Dylan Wells
The Conversation, 25.07.2025
Fear of crime is a useful political tool, even if the data doesn’t back it up
Emily Gray, Stephen Farrall
The Guardian, 25.07.2025
My life has been hell since mafia bosses blamed me for their downfall. Finally, justice has been done
Roberto Saviano
The Conversation, 25.07.2025
Gangs are going global and so is the illegal gun trade – NZ can do more to fight it
Alexander Gillespie
The Guardian, 27.07.2025
Survivors of coercive control are being criminalised in England, research finds
Hannah Al-Othman
The Conversation, 27.07.2025
The celebrity halo effect: why abuse allegations against powerful men like Brad Pitt are so easily forgotten
Jamilla Rosdahl
The Conversation, 28.07.2025
Poor mental health often plays a role in adults killing children. But it is primarily about violence
Sam Teague, Chad Morrison
The Conversation, 28.07.2025
‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
The Conversation, 28.07.2025
School shootings leave lasting scars on local economies, research shows
Muzeeb Shaik, Adithya Pattabhiramaiah, John Costello, Mike Palazzolo, Shrihari Sridhar Joe Foster
CBC News, 28.07.2025
Police in Nunavik involved in 73 times more fatal shootings than provincial average
Samuel Wat
Daily Mail, 28.07.2025
Forensic psychologist analyzes the 'psychosexual' motive Idaho murder Bryan Kohberger's real motive
JOSEPH PALMER
Newsweek, 28.07.2025
Donald Trump Says His Name May Have Been Planted in Jeffrey Epstein Files
Gabe Whisnant
FinTech Futures, 28.07.2025
Denmark's deepfake disruption: Redefining identity and preventing fraud in the AI age
Sujata Dasgupta
The Conversation, 28.07.2025
Yazidi genocide victims offered glimmer of hope for justice – but challenges remain
Busra Nisa Sarac
Police1, 28.07.2025
Artificial Intelligence: What Trump’s AI Action Plan means for policing and public safety
Philip Lukens
Newswise, 29.07.2025
An Increase in Suicides Follows Rising Homicide Rates Throughout the U.S.
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
HuffPost, 29.07.2025
Trump Administration Slashed Federal Funding For Gun Violence Prevention
Bianca Flowers
The Conversation, 29.07.2025
Genocide is a fundamentally political crime – here’s why that matters for Gaza
Antonio Míguez Macho
The Conversation, 30.07.2025
People smugglers adapt to attempts to shut them down – financial sanctions won’t stop the boats
David Suber
EurekAlert!, 30.07.2025
Study reveals importance of culture in intimate partner violence recovery
University of California - Riverside
EurekAlert!, 30.07.2025
He Said, She Said - How misinformation clouds the memory of accuser and accused in sexual assault cases
University College Dublin
EurekAlert!, 30.07.2025
Cyberstalking growing at faster rate than other forms of stalking
University College London
EurekAlert!, 31.07.2025
Hidden violence: Murder-suicide events more common than previously known
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
PsyPost, 31.07.2025
Landmark study sheds light on the psychological roots of incel beliefs and behaviors
Eric W. Dolan
The Guardian, 31.07.2025
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Emma Graham-Harrison
