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Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
Newswise, 01.04.2020
Crime trends during COVID-19 pandemic will shift beyond common street crime, says WVU sociologist
West Virginia University
The Conversation, 01.04.2020
Porch piracy: Here’s what we learned after watching hours of YouTube videos showing packages being pilfered from homes
Ben Stickle
Boston Standard, 01.04.2020
CORONAVIRUS: A new reality in Boston as police patrol quiet streets of town
Damian Holmes
Oxford University Press, 01.04.2020
Police enforcement measures to control social disorder in the midst of COVID-19
Clifford Stott and Stephen Reicher
The Conversation, 01.04.2020
Coronavirus: Europeans introduced devastating novel diseases to the Indigenous Americas – here’s what the survivors learned
Felice S. Wyndham
EurekAlert, 02.04.2020
Climate-related disasters increase risks of conflict in vulnerable countries
University of Melbourne
The Conversation, 02.04.2020
Facing the coronavirus crisis together could lead to positive psychological growth
Lowri Dowthwaite
The Guardian, 02.04.2020
'It’s a place where they try to destroy you': why concentration camps are still with us
Daniel Trilling
New York Times, 03.04.2020
Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Denise Lu and Gabriel J.X. Dance
The Conversation, 03.04.2020
We spoke to hundreds of prison gang members – here’s what they said about life behind bars
David Pyrooz, Scott H. Decker
The Conversation, 03.04.2020
Coronavirus: why the Nordics are our best bet for comparing strategies
Paul W Franks
New York Times, 04.04.2020
A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low
Katrin Bennhold
The Conversation, 06.04.2020
Coronavirus versus democracy: 5 countries where emergency powers risk abuse
Ramya Vijaya, Anthony Bebbington Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins, Austin Sarat, Chipo Dendere, Gisselle Vila Benites, John Shattuck, Paul Friesen
EurekAlert, 06.04.2020
Religious believers think God values lives of out-group members more than they do
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Newswise, 06.04.2020
Public Health Week Violence Prevention– How to Prevent Domestic Violence During COVID-19
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
The Conversation, 06.04.2020
Coronavirus: extra police powers risk undermining public trust
Alex Oaten, Chris Allen
The Conversation, 06.04.2020
Coronavirus: location-tracking apps could stop the disease – here’s how
Eivor Oborn
netzpolitik.org, 06.04.2020
Why is contact tracing useful?
Johannes Abeler, Matthias Bäcker and Ulf Buermeyer
The Conversation, 07.04.2020
Coronavirus is showing us how we’ve failed to manage the logistics of death
John Troyer
The Conversation, 07.04.2020
How conspiracy theories spread online – it’s not just down to algorithms
Marc Tuters
msn news - The Washington Post, 07.04.2020
New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it.
Anna Fifield
The Conversation, 08.04.2020
Quarantine used to be a normal part of life – and wasn’t much liked then, either
Olivia Durand
The Conversation, 08.04.2020
Coronavirus: why we must tackle hard questions about police power
Ian Loader
EurekAlert, 08.04.2020
False memories of crime appear real when retold to others
University College London
The Intercept, 09.04.2020
Watch: Are We Vesting Too Much Power in Governments and Corporations in the Name of COVID-19? With Edward Snowden.
Glenn Greenwald
The Conversation, 10.04.2020
Terrorists, militants and criminal gangs join the fight against the coronavirus
Jori Breslawski
The Conversation, 10.04.2020
Muslim women who cover their faces find greater acceptance among coronavirus masks – ‘Nobody is giving me dirty looks’
Anna Piela
The Conversation, 10.04.2020
The unintended consequences of marijuana decriminalization
Nikolay Anguelov
The Guardian, 10.04.2020
Blaming China for coronavirus isn’t just dangerous. It misses the point
Andrew Liu
The Conversation, 13.04.2020
How the ancient Israelites dealt with epidemics — the Bible tells of prophecy and rituals
Hanna Tervanotko
The Conversation, 13.04.2020
Digital surveillance can help bring the coronavirus pandemic under control – but also threatens privacy
Jennifer Daskal
The Conversation, 13.04.2020
Party on! Why some young people are more concerned about their reputations than catching coronavirus
Pardis Mahdavi
The Conversation, 13.04.2020
Cold War-style preparedness could help fight future pandemics
Alex Bitterman, Daniel Baldwin Hess
The Conversation, 14.04.2020
Unravelling why some democracies – but not all – are better at fighting pandemics
Steven Friedman
EurekAlert, 14.04.2020
Public policies that target crime reduction around parks can directly benefit communities
University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
The Conversation, 14.04.2020
Transmitting COVID-19 to another person could send you to prison for life. Here’s why this is worrisome
Felicity Gerry, Lorana Bartels
The Conversation, 14.04.2020
How a virus brought New York to a standstill in the summer of 1916
Gareth Williams
The Conversation, 15.04.2020
Prisons and jails are coronavirus epicenters – but they were once designed to prevent disease outbreaks
Ashley Rubin
The Conversation, 15.04.2020
What policing during the pandemic can tell us about crime rates and arrests
Tom Nolan
Newswise (press release), 15.04.2020
WashU Expert: Decrease in abuse hotline calls not a good sign
Washington University in St. Louis
New York Times, 16.04.2020
What Do You Owe Your Neighbor? The Pandemic Might Change Your Answer
Alexander W. Cappelen, Ranveig Falch, Erik O. Sorensen, Bertil Tungodden and Gus Wezerek
The University of Texas at Austin, 16.04.2020
COVID-19 Shows Why We Need Misdemeanor Criminal Justice System Reform
Annika Olson
The Conversation, 16.04.2020
This isn’t the first global pandemic, and it won’t be the last. Here’s what we’ve learned from 4 others throughout history
David Griffin, Justin Denholm
EurekAlert, 16.04.2020
System to locate rescue forces in distress
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
The Conversation, 17.04.2020
Green zones: a mathematical proposal for how to exit from the COVID-19 lockdown
Miquel Oliu-Barton, Bary S. R. Pradelski
The Conversation, 17.04.2020
Why prisoners are at higher risk for the coronavirus: 5 questions answered
Martha Hurley
The Conversation, 17.04.2020
Massive spending in a crisis brought bloody consequences in ancient Athens
Mark Munn
Eagle Radio, 18.04.2020
"People look for someone to blame" says University of Surrey professor on coronavirus-related hate crime
Maple Ridge News, 19.04.2020
Harsh policing and big fines don’t make people safer from COVID-19: criminologists
EurekAlert, 20.04.2020
Police training reduced complaints and use of force against civilians
Northwestern University
EurekAlert, 20.04.2020
Gender-based violence in the COVID-19 pandemic
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
The Conversation, 20.04.2020
Why did women vote for Hitler? Long-forgotten essays hold some answers
Sarah R. Warren, Daniel Maier-Katkin, Nathan Stoltzfus Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels
New York Times, 20.04.2020
How a teenager’s video upended the police department’s initial tale
Azi Paybarah
The Conversation, 21.04.2020
How South Korea flattened the coronavirus curve with technology
Michael Ahn
The Conversation, 21.04.2020
Canada deals with mass shooting in Nova Scotia in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
Jack L. Rozdilsky
EurekAlert, 21.04.2020
Protecting yourself from the latest internet sex crime
Michigan State University
New York Times online, 21.04.2020
How Scientists Could Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts
Jennifer Kahn
The Conversation, 22.04.2020
Coronavirus: a history of pandemics in prison
Hilary Marland, Clare Anderson, William Murphy
The Conversation, 22.04.2020
Decriminalizing drug use as we contain the coronavirus is the humane thing to do
Matthew Bonn
The Conversation, 22.04.2020
Coronavirus: why the world must monitor response of countries that have had mass atrocities
Adrian Gallagher, Garrett Wallace Brown
EurekAlert, 22.04.2020
Research highlights racism concerns in schools and the community
Staffordshire University
EurekAlert, 22.04.2020
Growing volume of gun policy research creates basis for policy decisions
RAND Corporation
YES! Magazine, 23.04.2020
Policing During the Pandemic Shows That a Hands-Off Approach Works
Tom Nolan
Bloomberg, 23.04.2020
Inside the Dystopian, Post-Lockdown World of Wuhan
Sharon Chen and Matthew Campbell, with Claire Che and Sarah Chen
The Conversation, 24.04.2020
Let’s call the Nova Scotia mass shooting what it is: White male terrorism
Robyn Bourgeois
Jacobin Magazine, 24.04.2020
Fifty Years Ago This Spring, Millions of Students Struck to End the War in Vietnam
Steve Early
The Conversation, 24.04.2020
Cyber threats at home: how to keep kids safe while they’re learning online
Paul Haskell, Ismini Vasileiou
The Guardian, 24.04.2020
Revealed: leader of group peddling bleach as coronavirus 'cure' wrote to Trump this week
Ed Pilkington
The Conversation, 26.04.2020
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed how fragile everyday life is
Carol Linnitt
The Guardian, 26.04.2020
Germany's Covid-19 expert: 'For many, I'm the evil guy crippling the economy'
Laura Spinney
The Conversation, 27.04.2020
We are all niqabis now: Coronavirus masks reveal hypocrisy of face covering bans
Katherine Bullock
The Conversation, 27.04.2020
When the state of exception becomes the norm, democracy is on a tightrope
Leïla Choukroune
The Walrus, 27.04.2020
Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons. Why Are They Still Full?
Simon Lewsen
Newsweek, 27.04.2020
The Controversial Experiments and Wuhan Lab Suspected of Starting the Coronavirus Pandemic
Fred Guterl, Naveed Jamali AND Tom O'Connor
The Conversation, 28.04.2020
How do we keep family violence perpetrators ‘in view’ during the COVID-19 lockdown?
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Jessica Burley, Silke Meyer
The Guardian, 28.04.2020
Convicted terrorists less likely to reoffend than other criminals – study
Jason Burke
The Conversation, 28.04.2020
Why refugees are an asset in the fight against coronavirus
Evan Easton-Calabria, Kate Pincock
EurekAlert, 28.04.2020
Study indicates artificial intelligence could help stem tide of school violence
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
The Guardian, 29.04.2020
Darknet investigation finds hundreds of coronavirus 'cures', 'vaccines' and expensive PPE
Josh Taylor
Global News, 29.04.2020
Nova Scotia mass shooting investigation unprecedented in scope, say criminologists
Jesse Thomas
The Conversation, 29.04.2020
Psychology of why some people are deliberately spitting, coughing and licking food in supermarkets
Craig Jackson
The Conversation, 30.04.2020
How Apple and Google will let your phone warn you if you’ve been exposed to the coronavirus
Johannes Becker, David Starobinski
The Guardian, 30.04.2020
Revealed: the inside story of the UK's Covid-19 crisis
David Conn, Felicity Lawrence, Paul Lewis, Severin Carrell, David Pegg, Harry Davies and Rob Evans
