Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University
Young people in contact with Queensland justice system 4.2 times more likely to die early, new research shows
Stephen Clarke / Molly Slattery
Balkan Crime Groups Tightening Grip on South American Drug Trade: Report
Azem Kurtic
President’s Message: Embracing AI in Policing
Ken A. Walker, IACP President
‘He’s crazy!’ Here’s what we lose when we pathologize politics
Éléonore Paré Doctoral candidate and lecturer, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Cyprus court acquits five Israeli men accused of raping British woman
Helena Smith in Athens
Inside an urban terror network: book reveals how police finally cracked Pagad gang violence in Cape Town
Irvin Kinnes Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Cape Town
Salafi Muslims are going into politics instead of trying to change the world through religious education or jihadi violence
Guy Robert Patrick Eyre Research Fellow, Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh
Massive breach of Elon Musk's X allegedly leaks over 200 million users' email addresses
Matt Binder
An AI companion chatbot is inciting self-harm, sexual violence and terror attacks
Raffaele F Ciriello Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
Understanding the victimization of people engaged in prostitution
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived.
M. Gessen Opinion Columnist
Shootings Decline after Program that Aims to Reduce Retaliatory Gun Violence
The never-ending sentence: How parole and probation fuel mass incarceration
Lucius Couloute Assistant Professor of Sociology, Trinity College
What parents need to know to talk to their children about the manosphere
Annabel Hoare PhD Student in Gender-Based Political Violence, Anglia Ruskin University
Fake online shops rely on tech skills: what drives Cameroon’s web developers to assist online fraudsters
Suleman Lazarus Visiting Fellow, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science / Jack M Whittaker Criminologist (Cybercrime), University of Surrey
How Islamic State used video to legitimise its caliphate
Moign Khawaja Lecturer, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin City University
‘We thought we could change the world’: how an idealistic fight against miscarriages of justice turned sour
Francisco Garcia
How the ‘manosphere’ spreads through online gaming, influencers and algorithms
Lisa Sugiura Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Gender, University of Portsmouth Frazer Heritage Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
Frequent Exposure to Gun Violence Is Associated with Depression, Suicide and Mental Health
New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with the US hit hardest
Niven Winchester Professor of Economics, Auckland University of Technology
The Trump administration says Tren de Aragua is a terrorist group – but it’s really a transnational criminal organization. Here’s why the label matter
Ernesto Castañeda
Rwanda’s genocide could have been prevented: 3 things the international community should have done – expert
Walter Dorn
Signalgate’: how the US government creates and guards its secrets
Kaeten Mistry
An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren’t having it
AI proves that fingerprints are not unique, upending the legal system
Eric Ralls
From flowers to stalking: how ‘nice guy’ narratives can lead to male entitlement and violence against women
Jamilla Rosdahl
Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Shanti Das
Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat
Hugo Lowell
Dictatorship of the Court vs. Will of the People?
Charlotte Schmitt-Leonardy
Over 90% of women in sex work see it as their only means of survival, says study
Teresa Bau and Rubén Permuy
Animal tranquilizers found in illegal opioids may suppress the lifesaving medication naloxone − and cause more overdose deaths
C. Michael White
What They Found review – Sam Mendes’s debut documentary has the power to change viewers for ever
Jack Seale
Rising biometric threats as criminals target facial and fingerprint ID systems – Europol
This Isn’t Immigration Enforcement. It’s Political Theater.
Jason P. Houser
AI isn’t what we should be worried about – it’s the humans controlling it
Billy J. Stratton
How the small autonomous region of Puntland found success in battling Islamic State in Somaliantrolling it
Ido Levy
3.5 million Australians experienced fraud last year. This could be avoided through 6 simple steps
Gary Mortimer
The Brazilian Judge Taking On the Digital Far Right
Jon Lee Anderson
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Vikram Dodd
AI is making elections weird: Lessons from a simulated war-game exercise
Robert Marinov, Colleen McCool, Fenwick McKelvey, Roxanne Bisson
Cities that want to attract business might want to focus less on financial incentives and more on making people feel safe
Kaitlyn DeGhetto, Zachary Russell
In Syria’s Detention Camps, Fears Grow of an Islamic State Resurgence
Lidia Ginestra Giuffrida, Giammarco Sicur
Executions at 10-year high after huge increases in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia
Jon Henley
New book explains the public health costs of prisons and policing
Allison Arteaga Soergel
He Was Held Captive in His Room for Decades. Then He Set It on Fire
Sarah Maslin Nir
Urgent warning to single mothers on dating apps as shocking study reveals they are more likely to become victims of paedophiles targeting them to gain
SAM MERRIMAN
UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract
Connor Jones
Child sexual exploitation and abuse is a multibillion-dollar industry – new report shows who benefits
Deborah Fry Professor of International Child Protection Research and Director of Data at the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, University of Edinburgh
The Medical Minute: Sexual Violence Against Older Adults: How to Find Help and Healing
Incarcerated individuals and those with recent criminal-legal involvement report significantly higher rates of mental health diagnoses than other comm
How Hungary’s Withdrawal from the International Criminal Court Affects the Credibility of the European Union
Peter van Elsuwege
From school bully to bully pulpit: Empowering adolescents to transform schools and themselves
Cornell University
Location-sharing apps are enabling domestic violence. But young people aren’t aware of the danger
Maria Atienzar-Prieto PhD Candidate, School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University / Silke Meyer Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith Univ
Child sex offenders using dating apps at alarming rates, youth safety group says
Estelle Nilsson-Julien
‘Adolescence’ on Netflix: Evidence-based ways parents can support boys around masculinity norms
Deinera Exner-Cortens
The body remembers: OU researchers publish new study on Oklahoma City bombing survivors’ trauma ‘imprint’
University of Oklahoma
What is dehumanisation? Some want it to replace definitions of antisemitism and Islamophobia
Derya Iner
‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son
Shaun Walker
Right Wing Report: How Germany's AfD Intends to Boost Its Influence
Maria Fiedler, Sophie Garbe, Tobias Großekemper, Christoph Hickmann, Felix Keßler, Paul-Anton Krüger, Peter Maxwill, Severin Weiland und Jean-Pierre Ziegler
Why it matters for European security if an American no longer commands Nato troops – by a former Trident submarine commander
Andrew Corbett
ICE can now enter K-12 schools − here’s what educators should know about student rights and privacy
Brian Boggs
What the Supreme Court’s ruling on man wrongly deported to El Salvador says about presidential authority and the rule of law
Jean Lantz Reisz
“Youth Are Going to Die Because of This”: Trump Defunds Violence Prevention
Schuyler Mitchell
Study challenges assumptions about authoritarianism and punitiveness in criminal sentencing
Eric W. Dolan
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature
George Monbiot
From trauma to anxiety and depression, how online sexual harassment can seriously harm victims’ mental health
Freya O'Brien
‘A man approached him’: parents describe their children’s Roblox problems
Jedidajah Otte
Liberation of Bergen-Belsen: how a lack of protective clothing cost lives
Susan L. Carruthers
This Company’s Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants ‘Easy Pickings’ for Trump
Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano and Aaron Krolik
'It’s all about raw, exaggerated emotion' How Russia's propaganda shows went from demonizing America to praising Trump without blinking
Ilya Shepelin
Europe’s race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online
Johnny Ryan
Busted! Researchers revolutionize fraud detection with machine learning
Florida Atlantic University
French prisons hit by wave of attacks after clampdown on drug traffickers
Kim Willsher
DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs
Rachel Siegel, Hannah Natanson and Laura Meckler
‘It’s between us and gangs’: teachers are on the front line against youth violence
Emma Soye Leverhulme
Ritual murder of children: study in Ghana and Kenya explores who’s doing it and why
Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu
DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs
Rachel Siegel, Hannah Natanson and Laura Meckler
3 in 4 meth users relapse – outcomes could improve if treatments considered the drug’s effect on impulsive behaviour
Rebecca Bodeker, Randolph Grace
New Research Links Gun Violence Exposure to Higher Rates of Depression and Suicidal Ideation
Fairriona Magee
Growing threats faced by women candidates undermine our democracy
Inessa De Angelis
Trumpism echoes Timothy McVeigh’s right-wing extremism, 30 years after the Oklahoma bombing
Kate Cantrell
Researchers introduce a brand-new method to detect gunshot residue at the crime scene
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump
Alan Blinder, Anemona Hartocollis, Vimal Patel and Stephanie Saul
Railways were essential to carrying out the Holocaust – decades later, corporate reckoning continues
Sarah Federman
Irregular migrant crossings into Europe fall 30% in first quarter of 2025
Ashifa Kassam
Toronto’s most recent car attack was a targeted crime, not a mass attack
Jack L. Rozdilsky
Crime is nonpartisan and the blame game on crime in cities is wrong – on both sides
Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Christopher S. Warshaw
Police algorithm said Lina was at 'medium' risk. Then she was killed
Linda Pressly and Esperanza Escribano
Opioid control laws linked to 10% drop in domestic violence cases
University of South Florida
Incel forum users arrive angry—and their language gets more extreme over time
Vladimir Hedrih
Are sheriffs easing off traffic tickets to sway voters? New study says yes
Eric W. Dolan
‘Full-blown meltdown’ at Pentagon after Hegseth’s second Signal chat revealed
Edward Helmore
Exaggerated data about mass shootings, like CU’s 1 in 15 study, dishonors victims like my daughter
Andrew Pollack
The rise of Brazil’s fuel mafias and their gas station money laundering machines
Robert Muggah
How Iran’s government has weaponized sexual violence against women who dare to resist
Mina Fakhravar
Even experts disagree over whether social media is bad for kids. We examined why
Simon Knight, Kristine Deroover
Habeas corpus: A thousand-year-old legal principle for defending rights that’s getting a workout under the Trump administration
Andrea Seielstad
Topical, engaging and rigorous: students and teachers on the appeal of criminology
AI images of child sexual abuse getting ‘significantly more realistic’, says watchdog
Dan Milmo
USF study finds opioid control policies may reduce domestic violence
Cassidy Delamarter
Most school shooters grew up with guns as key part of social life, study suggests
Publication PLOS
Police officers fire more shots than civilians in homicides, research shows
Slaughter of Civilians in Kashmir Shatters an Illusion of Calm
Mujib Mashal
'I was saved as I could recite the kalma': Pahalgam survivor recalls how he escaped terrorists
“The Existence of the ICC Is Largely Due to the Traditions and Experiences of Latin American Countries”
The major parties have announced their plans to address domestic and family violence. How do they stack up?
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Hayley Boxall
What we’ve learnt about lone-actor terrorism over the years could help us prevent future attacks
Ovidiu Craciunas PhD candidate, The Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St Andrews
Memes and conflict: Study shows surge of imagery and fakes can precede international and political violence
Tim Weninger Collegiate Proessor of Engineering, University of Notre Dame Ernesto Verdeja Associate Professor of Peace Studies and Global Politics, University of Notre Dame
A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right
Harry Shukman
