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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
PsyPost, 01.12.2025
Young people underestimate their exposure to misinformation, new research shows
Yvonne Skipper
The Guardian, 01.12.2025
‘It was extremely pornographic’: Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career
Anna Moore
The Guardian, 01.12.2025
‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI
Robert Booth
Liberty Investigates, 01.12.2025
Police forces use facial recognition to track children as young as 12
Mark Wilding
The Guardian, 02.12.2025
Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
Tess McClure
The Conversation, 02.12.2025
Copper theft is hitting building sites, street lights – and now phones. How do we stop it?
Terry Goldsworthy
International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), 02.12.2025
lurred Boundaries: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Limits in Detecting and Moderating Terrorist, Illegal and Implicit Extremist Content Online while Re
Bibi van Ginkel, Tanya Mehra, Merlina Herbach, Julian Lanchès, Yael Boerma
EurekAlert!, 02.12.2025
Almost half of all nursing home staff witness elderly abuse by relatives
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
EurekAlert!, 02.12.2025
Intimate partner violence injury patterns linked with suicidal behavior
Radiological Society of North America
New York Times, 02.12.2025
120,000 Home Cameras Were Hacked for Sexual Videos, South Korean Police Say
John Yoon
The Conversation, 02.12.2025
Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study
Tony Butler, Emaediong I. Akpanekpo, Lee Knight, Peter William Schofield, Rhys Mantell
The Conversation, 02.12.2025
Why protecting Colorado children from dying of domestic violence is such a hard problem
Kaitlyn M. Sims
Newsweek, 03.12.2025
Pentagon Knew Survivors Remained Before Second Caribbean Boat Strike
Gabe Whisnant
The Conversation, 03.12.2025
Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms
Melinda Haas
Newswise, 03.12.2025
FAU Study Finds Connection Between Poor Mental Health and Dark Web Use
Florida Atlantic University
The Guardian, 03.12.2025
Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress
Pjotr Sauer and Andrew Roth
The Conversation, 03.12.2025
Yes, the government can track your location – but usually not by spying on you directly
Emilee Rader
The Conversation, 03.12.2025
Florida’s new open carry ruling combines with ‘stand your ground’ to create new freedoms – and new dangers
Caroline Light
National Tribune Australia, 04.12.2025
New report uncovers perpetrator and victim perspectives on sexualised deepfake abuse
Monash University
The Conversation, 04.12.2025
Why art is a prime target for organised crime
Guergana Guintcheva, Bertrand Monnet
Newswise, 04.12.2025
New Study Finds Strong Link Between Intimate Partner Violence and Firearm Ownership
University of California San Diego
The Guardian, 04.12.2025
Analysis: Killing of survivors sparks outrage – but entire US ‘drug boat’ war is legally shaky
Robert Tait
The Guardian, 04.12.2025
‘I don’t take no for an answer’: how a small group of women changed the law on deepfake porn
Anna Moore
The Guardian, 04.12.2025
The snail farm don: is this the most brazen tax avoidance scheme of all time?
Jim Waterson
The Conversation, 05.12.2025
It’s important for criminal sentences, but how do we know if someone’s remorseful?
Maggie Hall, Matt Victor Dalziel
EurekAlert!, 05.12.2025
The presence of a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide by three to five times
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
The Conversation, 05.12.2025
Far-right extremists have been organizing online since before the internet – and AI is their next frontier
Michelle Lynn Kahn
South Florida Media, 05.12.2025
Understanding the Real Dangers of the Surveillance State Palantir Is Constructing
Patrick Zarrelli
The Guardian, 07.12.2025
‘What choice do we have?’: no end in sight for Ukraine’s war-weary frontline troops
Dan Sabbagh
New York Times, 07.12.2025
Cold Case Inquiries Stall After Ancestry.com Revisits Policy for Users
Corey Kilgannon
The Conversation, 08.12.2025
The law meets its limits – what ‘Nuremberg’ reveals about guilt, evil and the quest for global justice
B.B. Blaber
The Guardian, 08.12.2025
A year after fall of Assad, a divided Syria struggles to escape cycle of violence
William Christou
The Conversation, 08.12.2025
Premier League football matches can be crime hotspots – but community sports centres have the opposite effect
Yijing Li, Rui Wang
The Conversation, 08.12.2025
Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade?
Nick Lehr
The Conversation, 08.12.2025
Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds
Torkel Klingberg, Samson Nivins
The Conversation, 08.12.2025
What the US national security strategy tells us about how Trump views the world
Andrew Gawthorpe
The Guardian, 08.12.2025
Jeffrey Epstein’s most powerful ally was silence
Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky
EurekAlert!, 08.12.2025
New study charts how cartel violence increases risks for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border
University of California - Davis
Scientific American, 08.12.2025
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
Dan Vergano
Verfassungsblog, 08.12.2025
Automating International Human Rights Adjudication in Strasbourg and Beyond
Veronika Fikfak / Laurence R. Helfer
The Conversation, 09.12.2025
Banning kids from social media doesn’t make online platforms safer. Here’s what will do that
Joel Scanlan
The Conversation, 09.12.2025
How crime in Brazil drags down the economy and heaps economic pain on the nation’s poor
Robert Muggah
Newswise, 09.12.2025
Yale Study Assesses Sex Differences in Lethality Risk Screening Among IPV Victims
Yale School of Medicine
The Guardian, 09.12.2025
Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI
Edward Siddons
The Conversation, 10.12.2025
‘Rage bait’ is the Oxford Word of the Year, showing how social media is manufacturing anger
Laurence Grondin-Robillard
Newswise, 10.12.2025
New Gamified Tool Helps Defend Satellite Supply Chains From Cyber Threats
University of South Australia
The Guardian, 10.12.2025
Half of people recently arrested by Met police may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds
Rachel Hall
The Conversation, 10.12.2025
From violence to sexism, the manosphere is doing real-world harm
Stephanie Wescott, Steven Roberts
The Conversation, 10.12.2025
Why is Trump so obsessed with Venezuela? His new security strategy provides some clues
Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres, Shannon Brincat
EurekAlert!, 10.12.2025
UC Irvine professor wins criminology’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize
University of California - Irvine
EurekAlert!, 10.12.2025
Gen Z views world as "scary place" with growing cynicism about ability to create change
Society for Risk Analysis
The Conversation, 11.12.2025
More focus is needed on childhood sexual abuse to combat Australia’s suicide problem
Paul Wyles, Patrick O'Leary, Tracy Wilde
The Guardian, 11.12.2025
Venezuela decries ‘act of piracy’ after US forces seize oil tanker off country’s coast
Tom Phillips
New York Times, 11.12.2025
How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed
Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai
The Conversation, 11.12.2025
What does international law tell us about the US seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela?
Mark Chadwick
The Conversation, 11.12.2025
Donald Trump’s strikes against narcoterrorists are new but the logic behind them isn’t
Elisabeth Schweiger
The Conversation, 11.12.2025
What’s the safest way to walk home at night? We’ve created an AI-powered app that shows you
Ilya Ilyankou
The Conversation, 11.12.2025
Kidnapping for ransom in the Sahel: analysis of 24 years of data shows a new trend
Alexander M. Laskaris, Olivier Walther
The Conversation, 11.12.2025
Donald Trump’s national security strategy puts America first and leaves its allies to fend for themselves
Stefan Wolff, David Hastings Dunn
The Guardian, 11.12.2025
US lawmakers condemn seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker: ‘Trump is sleepwalking us into a war’
Joseph Gedeon
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners AJGP Clinical Volume 54, 12.12.2025
Coercive control: Recognising relational patterns that affect patient wellbeing
J. Lynch, J. Klieve-Longman, E. McLindon, P. Cullen, F. Giles, K. Hegarty
The Independent, 12.12.2025
Why is Trump going after Venezuela? His administration has so far floated these three reasons for its pressure campaign
Graig Graziosi
