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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
The Conversation, 01.05.2025
Terrorists weigh risks to their reputation when deciding which crises to exploit − new research
Seden Akcinaroglu, Yusuf Evirgen
History Extra, 01.05.2025
Why it was more dangerous to steal a loaf of bread than commit murder in medieval England
Kev Lochun
The Guardian, 01.05.2025
Bondi Junction stabbings: A Sydney police officer confronted a mass murderer. Her backup was a carpenter and construction worker wielding bollards
Daisy Dumas
Phys.org, 01.05.2025
Supporting young boys in violent homes could prevent relationship violence
University of Bristol
Washington Post, 01.05.2025
The Diddy allegations are shocking. Were they also business as usual?
Geoff Edgers
The Conversation, 01.05.2025
Guns in America: A liberal gun-owning sociologist offers 5 observations to understand America’s culture of firearms
David Yamane
The Conversation, 01.05.2025
US-Ukraine minerals deal looks better for Kyiv than expected – but Trump is an unpredictable partner
Andrew Gawthorpe
The Guardian, 01.05.2025
I witnessed US cruelty as a Guantánamo lawyer. Trump’s deportations are disturbingly familiar
Mark Denbeaux
The Conversation, 01.05.2025
How can Mark Carney reduce violent crime in Canada? Through prevention and youth outreach
Jeffrey Bradley, Irvin Waller
LADbible, 02.05.2025
Criminologist reveals why killers leave a digital trail of evidence behind knowing the police will discover it
Olivia Burke
The Marshall Project, 03.05.2025
There’s a Lot to Learn About Crime. Trump’s Orders Are Making It Harder to Get Answers.
Jill Castellano
RudeBaguette.com, 03.05.2025
“Future Cop Turned Cyber Crook”: At Just 19, Criminology and Computer Science Students Built Massive Digital Scam Empire
Eirwen Williams
New York Times, 03.05.2025
Father Whose Son Was Shot by Police Hits Deputy With Car, Killing Him
Claire Fahy and Aimee Ortiz
The Guardian, 04.05.2025
French police investigate spate of cryptocurrency millionaire kidnappings
Angelique Chrisafis
The Guardian, 04.05.2025
‘These people are disposable’: how Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe
Shaun Walker
The Conversation, 04.05.2025
We talk a lot about being ‘resilient’. But what does it actually mean?
Peter McEvoy
The Conversation, 04.05.2025
Truth and lies, trust and doubt: how should we be navigating the misinformation crisis?
Jane Goodall
InSight+ Issue, 05.05.2025
Health sector could address high prevalence of intimate partner violence
Kelsey Hegarty / Ben Mathews
The Conversation, 05.05.2025
‘I got sent something of people shooting themselves’ – research shows young people can’t avoid harmful content online
Dougal Sutherland
EurekAlert!, 05.05.2025
Study: Neighborhood stress may impact kids' brains -- and increase depression risk
Binghamton University
EurekAlert!, 05.05.2025
Spanking and other physical discipline lead to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries
New York University
The Guardian, 05.05.2025
Explosive sex toys and cosmetics: the story behind the DHL parcels plot
Pjotr Sauer and Shaun Walker
The People’s Vanguard of Davis, 05.05.2025
New U.S. Attorney Challenges Jury Verdict in Police Brutality Case
Neha Suri
The Conversation, 05.05.2025
City police in South Africa’s capital have a bad image – how to fix it
Azwihangwisi Judith Mphidi
Economic Times Online, 06.05.2025
India-Pakistan war: A chilling 2019 study had predicted a nuclear war in 2025 and what could happen
Phys.org, 06.05.2025
Leadership-backed training is key to better policing, according to research
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
The Conversation, 06.05.2025
Predictive policing AI is on the rise − making it accountable to the public could curb its harmful effects
Maria Lungu
The Guardian, 06.05.2025
Analysis: How Trump’s walkaway diplomacy enabled Israel’s worst impulses
Andrew Roth
The Conversation, 06.05.2025
Why a hotline is needed to help bring India and Pakistan back from the brink of a disastrous war
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery, Nicholas John Wheeler
New York Times, 06.05.2025
Could Columbia Change Who Gets to Set the Rules on Protests?
Sharon Otterman
The Conversation, 06.05.2025
Being honest about using AI at work makes people trust you less, research finds
Oliver Schilke, Martin Reimann
New York Times, 07.05.2025
India and Pakistan May Have an Off-Ramp After Their Clash. Will They Take It?
Mujib Mashal and Salman Masood
The Telegraph, 07.05.2025
Fifth of girls and one in seven boys sexually assaulted globally, says study
Maeve Cullinan
EurekAlert!, 07.05.2025
Could forensic scientists soon reconstruct facial 3D images from DNA at crime scenes?
EurekAlert!, 07.05.2025
People displaying high problematic (excessive and dependent) social media use are more likely to engage with and believe fake news
PLOS
EurekAlert!, 07.05.2025
The Lancet: Nearly half of sexual abuse first happens at age 15 or younger
Health Metrics and Evaluation
Washington Post, 07.05.2025
A killer hid in plain sight for 23 years. This is how police found him.
Dan Morse
Pew Research Center, 07.05.2025
Views of Race, Policing and Black Lives Matter in the 5 Years Since George Floyd’s Killing
Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Kiana Cox and Kiley Hurst
The Conversation, 07.05.2025
India and Pakistan have fought many wars in the past. Are we on the precipice of a new one?
Ian Hall
The Conversation, 07.05.2025
Italy’s areas of wartime fascist resistance remain less susceptible to the far right today
Juan Masullo, Simone Cremaschi
The Conversation, 07.05.2025
By VE Day in 1945, Stalin had got what he wanted in Poland – now Putin may get what he wants in Ukraine
Wendy Webster
spiegel.de, 07.05.2025
Breaking the Silence: Looking Back at World War II Family Histories
Susanne Beyer
The Conversation, 08.05.2025
Girls’ voices are needed to tackle misogyny and the manosphere – but they are being ignored
Chiara Fehr, Jessica Ringrose
The Conversation, 08.05.2025
‘Everyone lives in fear’: trapped between two warring nuclear giants, the people of Kashmir continue to suffer
Leoni Connah
News-Medical.net, 08.05.2025
Study finds early sexual abuse common among male and female survivors
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Phys.org, 08.05.2025
Virtual reality study reveals how burglars weigh risk and reward in response to environmental features
Caitlin Kizielewicz
New York Times, 08.05.2025
Why Do More Police Officers Die by Suicide Than in the Line of Duty?
Jamie Thompson
New Lines Magazine, 09.05.2025
Women Released From Syria’s Prisons Share Their Stories of Incarceration
Amélie Zaccour
The Guardian, 10.05.2025
If India and Pakistan’s ceasefire holds, the coming weeks will see a new battle: of narratives
Jason Burke
The Guardian, 10.05.2025
AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control
Dan Milmo
The Conversation, 10.05.2025
India-Pakistan ceasefire shouldn’t disguise fact that norms have changed in South Asia, making future de-escalation much harder
Farah N. Jan
GIGAZINE, 11.05.2025
It turns out that violent criminals are more likely to recognize ambiguous facial expressions as 'angry'
The Guardian, 11.05.2025
FBI opens inquiry into 764, online group that sexually exploits and encourages minors to self-harm
Stockholm University, 12.05.2025
How Research Can Strengthen Social Services as a Crime Prevention Platform
The Conversation, 12.05.2025
In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value
Austin Sarat William Nelson Cromwell
The Guardian, 12.05.2025
UK special forces veterans accuse colleagues of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan
Ben Quinn
The Conversation, 12.05.2025
From defenders to skeptics: The sharp decline in young Americans’ support for free speech
Jacob Mchangama
Phys.org, 12.05.2025
Researchers warn marginalized young adults in low- and middle-income countries face 'growing online abuse'
University of Warwick
The Conversation, 13.05.2025
Don’t click without thinking – and 4 other ways to keep yourself safe from scams
Meena Jha
The Guardian, 13.05.2025
A worshipper is murdered in a French mosque. How can this be ‘just another crime’?
Rokhaya Diallo
New York Times, 13.05.2025
Six Ways Cities Are Trying to Keep Rental Properties and Tenants Safe
Ben Austen
New York Times, 13.05.2025
Finding Stats, and Stories, About ‘Crime-Free Housing’ Laws
Sidnee King Pineda
EurekAlert!, 13.05.2025
New study reveals economic ripple effects of mass shootings on local businesses
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Monash University, 14.05.2025
New research highlights hidden patterns of harm associated with intimate partner violence involving alcohol and other drugs
The Conversation, 14.05.2025
Young detainees often have poor mental health. The earlier they’re incarcerated, the worse it gets
Emaediong I. Akpanekpo, Tony Butler
The Conversation, 14.05.2025
M&S cyberattacks used a little-known but dangerous technique – and anyone could be vulnerable
Hossein Abroshan
The Conversation, 14.05.2025
Lady Gaga bomb plot: Thwarted plan lifts veil on the gamification of hate and gendered nature of online radicalization
David Nemer, Arthur Coelho Bezerra
Newswise, 14.05.2025
1 in 4 Kids Live with Parents Who Have Alcohol or Other Drug Problems
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
The Guardian, 14.05.2025
The good news from Kyiv: with or without a ceasefire, Ukraine has a newfound confidence
Nathalie Tocci
spiegel.de, 14.05.2025
Compendium of Extremism: A Look inside the Report Documenting the AfD's Right-Wing Radicalism
Maik Baumgärtner, Ann-Katrin Müller, Ansgar Siemens und Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt
The Conversation, 14.05.2025
Peter Sullivan murder conviction quashed after 38 years in jail – it would be a mistake to see his case as a bizarre one-off
Brian Thornton
ABC News, 15.05.2025
Location-sharing apps linked to increased risk of digital coercive control, eSafety Commission research finds
Arianna Levy and Alison Xiao
Medical Xpress, 15.05.2025
Violence between parents or in the community increases risk of child punishment
Jared Wadley
PsyPost, 15.05.2025
Surprisingly strong link found between neighborhood greenness and police shootings
Eric W. Dolan
The Conversation, 15.05.2025
Banning young people from social media sounds like a silver bullet. Global evidence suggests otherwise
Jasleen Chhabra, Vita Pilkington, Zac Seidler
EurekAlert!, 15.05.2025
Cyberbullying in any form can be traumatizing for kids
Florida Atlantic University
EurekAlert!, 15.05.2025
Helping families financially could reduce child maltreatment
University of Georgia
The Guardian, 15.05.2025
Keep calm (but delete your nudes): the new rules for travelling to and from Trump’s America
Arwa Mahdawi
CNET, 15.05.2025
How to Stop a Home Invasion: Criminologist Reveals Top Tips to Stop Burglars
Tyler Lacoma
The Conversation, 15.05.2025
‘I will not eat the bugs’: examining a right-wing narrative about scarcity and insect consumption
D. D. Moore, Max Weber
