Criminology
- Black History Month: WHIO celebrates all who have pushed our nation forward February 13, 2024 9:52 pm WHIO TV - Ohio Every February, Black History Month gives us the opportunity to learn about the rich and, oftentimes, forgotten pieces of American history. Black Americans helped build this country physically, culturally, diplomatically, and philosophically. They have …
- Public Practice and the Origins of Sociology: New Thoughts on an Old Issue January 30, 2024 1:28 pm Contexts by Marcus A. Brooks | January 30, 2024 As sociology faculty nationwide counted down the days to winter break, heated debate again erupted on Academic Twitter (ahem, X). The point of contention? Praxis-oriented, justice-focused sociology. The debate was …
- Identifying and Treating Incarcerated Women Experiencing Substance Use Disorders: A Review November 13, 2023 4:33 am Dove Medical Press Introduction Rates of substance use in the United States (US) continue to rise, with the number of individuals endosing past month illicit substance use increasing from approximately 27 million in 2015 to more than 37 million in 2020.1 Nationally …
- Celia Donert: Invention of the Trickster October 25, 2023 4:26 pm London Review of Books In August 1992, violent riots in the former East German port city of Rostock culminated in arson attacks on a tower block housing Roma and Vietnamese asylum seekers. Neo-Nazis threw Molotov cocktails while local residents looked on. The surrounding estate …
- Pregnancy and childbirth should not be deadly for Black women in CT July 6, 2023 4:16 am The Connecticut Mirror Tori Bowie, the former fastest woman in the world and three-time Olympic medalist, tragically died at age 32. Recent news revealed that her death was due to complications from childbirth while being eight months pregnant. The Associate Medical Examiner …
- Book Review: Gender, Race, Identity & Batman in Gotham City Living June 22, 2023 3:30 pm The Geek Anthropologist By Alissa Whitmore McCrystal, Erica. 2021. Gotham City Living: The social dynamics in the Batman comics and media. New York: Bloomsbury. Erica McCrystal’s ambitious Gotham City Living: The Social Dynamics in the Batman Comics and Media (2021) aims to trace …
- FactChecking Ron DeSantis’ Presidential Announcement May 26, 2023 9:39 am FactCheck.org Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made his presidential candidacy official on May 24, first with a glitch-delayed livestream on Twitter Spaces, followed by an interview on Fox News. Making his pitch for the Republican nomination, DeSantis leaned heavily into his …
- ‘The sexism was so blatant, as if officers felt irreproachable’: my year on the streets with the Met police May 6, 2023 9:15 am The Guardian Putting on a police uniform for the first time is a peculiar experience. It feels like fancy dress, like a joke taken too far. Boots, trousers, shirt, necktie, kit belt, stab vest, hat – and a face hidden somewhere in the middle of it all, lost among the …
- DeSantis vs. diversity: Blacklists have universities playing defense as Republicans attack March 19, 2023 4:13 pm The Rockdale Citizen - Georgia MIAMI — When she visited Florida Polytechnic University with a group of girls from her middle school class last month, Sarah imagined herself in college learning how to use the beakers and Bunsen burners she saw while touring the chemistry lab. As a sixth …
- Black People Are Six Times More Likely To Be incarcerated For Violent Offenses, Study Suggests March 14, 2023 3:20 pm NewsOne CLOSE Black men disproportionately make up the US prison population. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli Racial disparities in state imprisonment rates dropped significantly during the first two decades of the 21st century. That’s one of the main findings from a …
Critical Criminology
- Canada deporting highest level of migrants in a decade, despite promises to let more stay March 27, 2024 6:46 pm The Breach The Liberal government is deporting migrants at an unprecedented pace compared to the last decade, despite pledging to allow more undocumented people to stay in the country, according to numbers obtained by The Breach. In 2022 and 2023 alone, Canada …
- Why Augustana University brought back a major dissolved 35 years ago March 27, 2024 4:50 pm Argus Leader - South Dakota Augustana University has had five students declare their major as criminal justice this spring, the first full semester the major's been available after a 35-year hiatus. The major was officially approved by the Higher Learning Commission in October, …
- Department, Council Honor Police Detective Scott Conley March 27, 2024 8:54 am Chelsea Record - Massachusetts The police department, and the city as a whole, is mourning the death of Chelsea Police Detective Scott Conley on March 15 at the age of 52 following a lengthy illness. “After he served our nation in the United States Army between 1991-2000, Detective …
- From self-doubt to state finalist: Dana Diamataris’ inspiring journey to Miss Universe Australia March 26, 2024 9:13 am Neos Kosmos Confidence has not always come easy for Dana Diamataris, a beautiful Greek girl from Melbourne, who is today one of the State Finalists for Miss Universe Australia 2024. “More than anything, I wanted to do this, to prove to myself that I can be confident …
- Ottawa woman warned BMO of suspected bank fraud, still lost $15k March 25, 2024 8:25 pm CTV News Carole Lemay first opened an account with the Bank of Montreal when she was in her early twenties. Now 75 years old, Lemay says she is shocked and frustrated by the bank's security measures after cybercriminals accessed her account and stole $15,000. …
- Confronting the surge of crime in Turks and Caicos Islands: A call for progressive action March 25, 2024 7:50 pm Turks and Caicos Sun The Turks and Caicos Islands, once heralded as a beacon of tranquility within the Caribbean, now finds itself at a pivotal juncture, grappling with a surge in violent crime, primarily fueled by the infiltration of illegal firearms. The idyllic narrative of …
- Vincenzo Ruggiero obituary March 24, 2024 5:14 pm The Guardian My husband, Vincenzo Ruggiero, who has died aged 73, was an expert in the academic field of critical criminology, a discipline that examines the genesis of crime and the nature of justice, particularly in relation to class structures. He wrote 23 books on …
- Okuama tragedy worse than treason – Nigerians lament March 24, 2024 12:42 pm Pulse They said such attacks are unacceptable and must be condemned by all well-meaning citizens. They added in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that example must be set of those who killed the military personnel at Okuama in Delta, so …
- Drawing in the diaspora March 23, 2024 5:00 am The News International It has been estimated that our diaspora, numbering over 10 million, has a combined earning per annum comparable to Pakistan’s GDP of $340 billion. Given the vastly superior income level, their saving capacity, and hence capacity to invest, is perhaps …
- More effective police–community relations March 22, 2024 1:13 pm American Police Beat Magazine The COPS Office says, “Without trust between police and citizens, effective policing is impossible.” (iStock.com/DnHolm) Did you know that local sporting events, jack-o’-lanterns and Christmas music, along with the focused use of public messaging …
Crime Theory
- The unexpected dynamic that could decide the Trump-Biden rematch March 28, 2024 4:24 am CNN CNN — Democrats have been growing increasingly anxious about public polls showing former President Donald Trump making unprecedented inroads among Black and Hispanic voters. But there may be reasons for Republicans to feel uneasy about these polls too. …
- The abortion pill battle is heading to the Supreme Court. Here's what to know. March 25, 2024 10:38 am CBS News Washington — Twenty months after the Supreme Court ruled to return abortion policy to the states, the issue will be before the justices again on Tuesday, when they weigh a case that threatens to curtail access to a commonly used drug taken in a medication …
- Global Population Crash Isn’t Sci-Fi Anymore March 23, 2024 12:35 pm The Reporter Ethiopia (This article first published on Bloomberg) We used to imagine humanity populating the universe. In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation (1952), mankind has established a vast multi-planetary empire by the year 47000. “There were nearly twenty-five million inhabited …
- Identification of Psychosis Risk and Diagnosis of First-Episode Psychosis: Advice for Clinicians March 21, 2024 4:56 am Dove Medical Press Introduction Psychotic-spectrum disorders such as schizophrenia have been recognized globally as among the most severe and debilitating health conditions that humans can experience.1,2 Psychotic symptoms consist of positive symptoms such as hallucinations …
- A Conservative Thought Experiment on a Liberal College Campus March 20, 2024 1:54 pm Boston Magazine Longform Last fall semester, professor Eitan Hersh and a class of undergrads embarked on a mission to understand conservative thought. Here's what happened. Hersh jots down a few notes on the blackboard for his American Conservatism course at Tufts …
- How Children Acquire Racial Biases March 19, 2024 11:20 am The MIT Press Reader - Massachusetts Sometimes the lessons that stick the most are the ones never intended to be taught. Child development research shows that young children are finely attuned to cues about prestige, power, and social status. Photo: Adobe Stock By: Andrew N. Meltzoff & …
- How the media facilitates climate criminality March 18, 2024 10:41 pm Prism A climate protester named Mama Julz spent February 1 locked to a grounded helicopter, the kind usually used to transport construction workers to remote portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the rushed and ecologically destructive pet project of West …
- 4 years, 1.2 million lives and trillions of dollars later, a rematch March 13, 2024 10:55 pm KTVZ - Oregon Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — Americans may feel like they’re reliving 2020, with a general election rematch set for 2024. But while the politicians’ faces are the same, life is much different. On March 13, 2020, then-President Donald Trump …
- Is friendship, not romance, the key to a happy and fulfilled life? March 13, 2024 10:04 am The Guardian Rhaina Cohen was at a party one night when, on the other side of the room, she saw another woman she found magnetic. “In her pastel sleeveless blouse and snug pencil skirt, she had the posture of a dancer, if that dancer was also running a boardroom …
- How dangerous is New York City, anyway? March 12, 2024 12:15 pm Vox Last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new policy that made headlines across the country: Following a handful of high-profile violent crimes, she’s sending 750 members of the National Guard and hundreds of state troopers into the city’s subway …
Black Lives Matter
- Being branded as ‘extremist’ won’t deter Palestine Action March 28, 2024 9:12 am Al Jazeera The United Kingdom is plummeting into a paranoid deluge of authoritarianism. Since October, our government’s steadfast support for Israel has ushered in a new age of state coercion, exposing in its wake the artifice of democracy in Britain. list of 4 …
- Trump the blasphemer: During Holy Week, Trump compares himself to Jesus and hawks a white Christian nationalist Bible March 28, 2024 7:39 am Baptist News Global For the approximately two-thirds of Americans who identify as Christian, this is Holy Week, a solemn time of participation in worship services that encourage reflection and repentance ahead of the resurrection celebrated on the holiest day on the Christian …
- Local advocacy group, WKU students protest Kyle Rittenhouse speaking on campus March 28, 2024 5:52 am College Heights Herald - Kentucky For The People, a student advocacy group, and the Bowling Green Freedom Walkers, a community advocacy group, protested outside Downing Student Union during the WKU Turning Point USA chapter event with Kyle Rittenhouse speaking on Wednesday, March 27. …
- Kyle Rittenhouse speaks at WKU to share experience, answer questions March 28, 2024 5:52 am College Heights Herald - Kentucky Kyle Rittenhouse responds to a question asked during the Rittenhouse Recap by Turning Point USA in the Downing Student Union Nite Class on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Kyle Rittenhouse spoke on campus at an event hosted by the WKU Turning Point USA chapter, …
- Divisive concepts: Proclaimed white guilt driving anti-diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the land of the free, home of the brave March 28, 2024 5:41 am The Mississippi Link By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey gave a commendation to Ashley M. Jones, in the storied state Capitol building, December 1, 2021. Jones had been named Poet Laureate of Alabama by the Alabama Writers Cooperative. The very …
- Three Centenarians Look Back at Their Lives While Enjoying Today March 28, 2024 5:39 am The Examiner - New York Three centenarians living at Waterstone of Westchester, a senior living community in White Plains. Standing is Madelyn Silverstein, the facility’s life enrichment director. Seated are, from left, Phil Potash who turned 100 on Feb. 7, Kurt Goldschmidt, who …
- Fact check: Which claims during this week's governor debates were true March 28, 2024 4:59 am Indianapolis Star - Indiana The debate stage is an arena of quips, slogans and attacks ― with varying degrees of truth. Indiana's Republican candidates for governor sparred two nights in a row this week, and IndyStar is fact checking some of the claims they made. Only four of the …
- Parklife people March 28, 2024 4:57 am The Critic This article is taken from the March 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Under the hornbeams is a strange book, but then it’s a book about a strange situation in a very …
- Days Of Our Lives Spoilers Thursday, March 28: Melinda’s Reminder, Roman’s Support, Jude’s Christening, Holly’s Rough Start March 28, 2024 4:44 am Celebrating The Soaps Days of Our Lives spoilers for Thursday, March 28 reveal Melinda Trask (Tina Huang) gives Leo Stark (Greg Rikaart) a reminder. Nicole Walker (Arianne Zucker) and EJ DiMera (Dan Feuerriegel) have a rough start with Holly Jonas (Ashley Puzemis). Brady Black …
- Friday 4/26: San Jose: Peace Vigil - Call for Ceasefire Not More Weapons for Israel or Ukraine! March 28, 2024 4:39 am Indybay - California From the Open-Publishing Calendar From the Open-Publishing Newswire Indybay Feature Date: Friday, April 26, 2024 Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Event Type: Vigil/Ritual Organizer/Author: Angela Location Details: in front of MLK Library 4th and San …
Gender and Crime
- A Conservative Thought Experiment on a Liberal College Campus March 20, 2024 1:54 pm Boston Magazine Longform Last fall semester, professor Eitan Hersh and a class of undergrads embarked on a mission to understand conservative thought. Here's what happened. Hersh jots down a few notes on the blackboard for his American Conservatism course at Tufts …
- Resilience in robes: Women’s triumphs in legal practice March 8, 2024 9:54 am The Leaflet On International Women’s Day, a look at the powerful trailblazers who have forged a path for women in the legal profession. — LOOKING around this Women’s Day, I attempted to pen down the celebrated symbols that women hold. The list goes long: We call this …
- Duchess of Edinburgh praises 'brave' survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine as she urges the world 'not to turn our backs on the horrors of this crime' March 4, 2024 1:25 pm Daily Mail The Duchess of Edinburgh has called for an end to conflict related sexual violence as she praised 'brave' survivors from Ukraine for sharing their experiences. Speaking in a pre-recorded video for a conference in the war-torn nation, which was …
- Lea Melandri: ‘Love has been a veil’ for domestic violence March 4, 2024 9:34 am Vox Europ Lea Melandri (1941) is an essayist, writer and journalist. She is an established figure in Italian feminism. Her latest book is Love and Violence: The Vexatious Factors of Civilization (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019). More of her …
- Opinion: Power, patriarchy, sexual violence February 25, 2024 6:31 pm Telengana Today Women themselves must be empowered to speak out against injustice and claim their rightful place in society By Sushiila Ttiwari, D Samarender Reddy India, a vibrant democracy, proudly showcased its egalitarian ideals on the 26th of January, 2024. The all- …
- Why the Most Educated People in America Fall for Anti-Semitic Lies February 15, 2024 3:40 pm The Atlantic This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. By now, December’s congressional hearing about anti-Semitism at universities, during which the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT all …
- ‘Variety Confidential’ Revisits the Errol Flynn Trial That Became a Media Circus January 24, 2024 7:07 pm Variety After starring in the 1935 film “Captain Blood,” actor Errol Flynn became the big screen’s foremost swashbuckler. Seven years later, two underage girls accused the golden age movie star of statutory rape. In “When You’re A Star,” the sixth episode of …
- Human Trafficking Prevention Needs A Public Health Approach January 11, 2024 4:59 pm Forbes January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Children make up 1 in 4 victims of human trafficking ... [+] including forced labor, early marriage and sexual exploitation.getty January 11th is recognized as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and …
- Triple killer, multi-millionaire rapist and 'Brixton R Kelly' among 42 notorious criminals jailed in the UK in December January 6, 2024 10:36 am Manchester Evening News A double-killer who committed his third murder while on licence and an extremist who planned a terror attack at London's Hyde Park were among the worst offenders sent to jail in the UK in the final month of last year. Other criminals facing lengthy …
- Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 12.13.23 December 13, 2023 9:51 am Florida Politics Good Wednesday morning. A top-of-Sunburn happy birthday shoutout to the best state Party Chair in Florida, Nikki Fried of the Florida Democratic Party. Nikki Fried celebrates another trip around the sun. ___ Breaking overnight — “School Board urges Moms …
Prison Privatization
- Abolish ICE! Fighting for Humanity over Profit in Immigration Policy March 28, 2024 10:38 am North American Congress on Latin America In its less than 20 years of existence, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has amassed an extensive and shocking record of human rights violations. The current administration’s anti-immigrant sentiment has radicalized the agency, emboldening it to …
- AdWatch: Gloves come off in guv’s race, with ad rapping Otter over prison scandal March 28, 2024 10:38 am The Spokesman-Review - Washington State The gloves have come off in Idaho’s governor’s race, with Democratic challenger A.J. Balukoff launching a hard-hitting new ad faulting GOP Gov. Butch Otter’s handling of a scandal involving the state’s largest prison. You can read my full AdWatch story …
- Pa. election 2024: Your guide to the primary candidates for treasurer March 26, 2024 9:44 am Spotlight PA - Pennsylvania Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvanians …
- What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? March 25, 2024 10:31 am The New Yorker My life divides, evenly enough, into three political eras. I was born in 1980, a year after Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street with the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi on her lips: “Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair …
- Query on PDA with emergency lifted March 24, 2024 10:41 am Daily Express Malaysia Continued from last week Why the Borneo delegates changed their minds at the CPA remains an enduring question. Ghazali in his “Memoir” gives a clue; he said he picked Stephens to head a consultative committee as: “I became convinced that the move to form a …
- A Moroccan town protests water management plans March 22, 2024 12:38 pm Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Regional and local leaders in eastern Morocco met this week with residents and civil society groups after months of protests over a water management plan set to take effect later this year. Thousands in the town of Figuig stopped …
- 'Budget in an echo chamber': Stakeholders react to N.L. 2024 provincial budget March 22, 2024 9:56 am SaltWire - Prince Edward Island ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corp. (NLHC) will no longer be a Crown corporation. Finance Minister Siobhan Coady announced in her 2024 budget speech that NLHC will be integrated into the government. Sherry Hillier, president …
- Labor pains March 21, 2024 6:09 pm Africa is a country Over the past weeks, Nigerians have trooped out to the streets, protesting the unprecedented level of hunger and hardship in the country. In places like Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, and Osun, protesters were heard screaming, “Ebi n pa wa o,” meaning, “We are hungry.” …
- Democratic View On State Senate Issues - March 20, 2024 March 20, 2024 2:27 pm The Chattanoogan - Tennessee Potty Police: Republican bill criminalizes transgender people using public restrooms 9 a.m. Judiciary – SB 2781 by Sen. Janice Bowling makes it a criminal offense for “a person to knowingly enter into and remain in a public restroom that does not …
- Here's how Edi Rama, through Úngjëll Agaç, tried to buy the character who opened "Pandora's Box" for the Saranda Naval Base scandal, the ultimatum left by Yuri Kim to the Albanian Prime Minister's office for the affair that SPAK is investigating is… March 20, 2024 1:52 pm SotNews Former Deputy Commander of the Naval Forces, Artur Meçollari, the person who opened "Pandora's Box" in the Special Prosecutor's Office for the affair at the Saranda Naval Base in which very high officials are involved, has shown that …
Prison Abolition
- Labor’s deportation bill will only create an endless roundabout between immigration detention and prison March 27, 2024 5:32 am The Guardian In the five months since the high court delivered its landmark ruling in NZYQ, the Albanese government has introduced a patchwork of hasty and ill-considered laws that aim to skirt around an inescapable reality: that it is unlawful for governments to …
- The Youngest Electorate: Engaged and Aware March 25, 2024 8:46 pm Tufts Observer - Massachusetts ART BY JAYLIN CHO This November, 8 million newly eligible young people will have the opportunity to cast their vote in the 2024 presidential election. With each election, as new waves of young people age into the voting population, we can better understand …
- BARONESS FOX: A mobile phone thief has spent 12 years in prison with no prospect of release - thanks to a Blair policy that's a stain on our justice system March 20, 2024 11:21 pm Daily Mail Thomas White was 28 years old when, in 2012, he was sent to prison for stealing a mobile phone. It was not his first offence for theft, and few would disagree that a custodial sentence was perfectly justified, although there was no weaponry or violence …
- A Pianist Takes On Prison Reform, Police Brutality and More Injustices — How Samora Pinderhughes Makes His Music Matter March 20, 2024 1:28 am Paper City Magazine - Texas Pianist-composer Samora Pinderhughes embodies the idea of speaking truth to power through his open-minded, unapologetically conscious approach to music. He embraces the idea of music that transcends structure and aural soundscapes to become a safe harbor …
- Jowie's death sentence: 40 years since Kamiti Prison’s hanging chamber was used March 19, 2024 3:37 am Nation Africa Kenya It will be 40 years on Tuesday, March 19, since the hanging chamber within Kamiti Maximum Prison was used. That was where Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka and Sgt Pancreas Oteyo Okumu were hanged for leading the mutiny that almost toppled the dictatorial …
- It’s Time to Compost the Prison Plantation March 12, 2024 10:30 am The Nation Satellite images of prisons with agriculture. The Pivot / March 12, 2024 This article appears in the March 2024 issue, with the headline “It’s Time to Compost the Prison Plantation.” At Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Mo., stone buildings …
- 50 Political Prisoners in Jaw Prison Continue Protest against Security Isolation Punishment for Fellow Inmates March 11, 2024 2:33 pm Bahrain Mirror Bahrain Mirror: Fifty political prisoners held in the Jaw Central Prison persisted in their protest by refusing to enter their cells, rejecting the prison administration's implementation of the security isolation punishment on several of their fellow …
- The abolition of slavery in Mauritania March 11, 2024 2:14 pm Pressenza By the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international conventions denounce and prohibit the enslavement of human beings. They have been ratified by every state in the world. However, despite these treaties, some states continue to practice …
- 'Partizani'/ He was released by the judge in a conflict of interest, SPAK demands the return to prison of Berisha's son-in-law, the Supreme Court decides today March 5, 2024 10:31 am SotNews The Special Prosecutor's Office requests the return to jail of Jamarbë Malltez, in the investigation of the 'Partizani' affair. The request of SPAK, which opposes the measure of house arrest for Malltez and the change of the measure to prison …
- Exclusive: Met Police sacks just 5 firearms officers despite 2,000 complaints March 4, 2024 10:37 pm OpenDemocracy More than 2,000 complaints and misconduct allegations have been made about the Metropolitan Police’s disgraced firearms squad in the past six years – but only five officers have been sacked. MO19 was one of two units given a damning assessment in last year …
Corporate Crime
- Graffiti tower debate shows Los Angeles' contradictory relationship with street culture March 28, 2024 10:37 am Los Angeles Times Los Angeles has always had a contradictory relationship with graffiti and the street cultures that birthed it. The city spends more than $11 million painting over graffiti each year, according to the Office of Community Beautification. Last year alone, the …
- REVIEW - Futuristic Minority Report at the Birmingham REP is FX-filled sci-fi at its best March 28, 2024 10:36 am The Droitwich Standard MINORITY Report is a new adaptation of a short story by 1950s Sci-Fi writer Philip K. Dick. This one is by David Haig, a brave venture to follow the blockbuster Stephen Spielberg film version. Brave and exciting too and Haig’s vision succeeds on many …
- Chevron owns this city's news site. Many stories aren't told March 28, 2024 10:31 am NPR Chevron operates a major refinery in Richmond, Calif., a community with high childhood asthma rates. It also owns the city's dominant news site, putting its own spin on events, and runs similar websites in Texas and Ecuador. Tracy J. Lee for NPR hide …
- Justice Minister says online harms bill would blunt Supreme Court ruling making child pornography investigations harder March 28, 2024 10:27 am The Globe and Mail Justice Minister Arif Virani is playing down concerns that a Supreme Court of Canada ruling around internet privacy could hamper police investigations into child sexual exploitation, arguing that the federal government’s new Online Harms Act would help …
- Closing for good on April 2, Tropicana Las Vegas leaves behind a legacy of showmanship and reinvention March 28, 2024 9:11 am Las Vegas Sun - Nevada The Tropicana is dead; long live the Tropicana. The storied hotel-casino closes its doors April 2, just two days shy of its 67th birthday, to make way for a Major League Baseball stadium and a new Bally’s resort. Over the next year, the land the Tropicana …
- FinTech Global FS Regulatory Round-up - w/e 22 March 2024 March 28, 2024 8:00 am Lexology In this regular post, we round-up FinTech-related financial services regulatory developments for the week ending 22 March 2024. ICYMI UK HMT policy paper: Approach to designation of critical third parties to the financial sector HM Treasury (HMT) has …
- Rising racial tensions cost German businesses skilled foreign labour March 28, 2024 7:27 am The Hindu Manager Joerg Engelmann says he has pulled out all the stops to attract skilled foreign workers to his chemical engineering company in Chemnitz, east Germany. But once they arrived, the racial slurs and exclusion they experienced in the town have driven …
- Rashelle Seiden SC Appointed To District Court Of NSW March 28, 2024 7:11 am The National Tribune Ms Seiden brings almost 30 years of legal expertise to the bench, with her experience ranging from constitutional and administrative law, trusts, corporate and commercial law, insolvency and revenue, including tax crime. Regarded as an astute strategist, …
- Business News | SBI Life & Lucknow Super Giants Unveil the Spectacular Larger-Than-Life 'Helmet' Installation at Ekana Cricket Stadium March 28, 2024 6:30 am Latestly PRNewswire Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 28: SBI Life Insurance, one of the most trusted private life insurers in the country, along with Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), inaugurated the spectacular 'larger-than-life' helmet installation at the …
- ‘I knew I could be killed’: This cash van guard is just one of South Africa’s crime wave victims March 28, 2024 4:47 am KTVZ - Oregon By David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) — For South Africans, normality is a sliding scale. Record electricity blackouts and sustained water outages have crushed businesses, and caused havoc in hospitals and schools …
White Collar Crime
- White collar crime: 3 men who died as the law was closing in March 28, 2024 10:39 am Independent on Saturday In light of disgraced businessman Markus Jooste’s suicide, IOL has placed a spotlight on men who died under suspicious circumstances as the law was closing in. These three men are Markus Jooste, Brett Kebble and Gavin Watson. Markus Jooste The former chief …
- REVIEW - Futuristic Minority Report at the Birmingham REP is FX-filled sci-fi at its best March 28, 2024 10:36 am The Droitwich Standard MINORITY Report is a new adaptation of a short story by 1950s Sci-Fi writer Philip K. Dick. This one is by David Haig, a brave venture to follow the blockbuster Stephen Spielberg film version. Brave and exciting too and Haig’s vision succeeds on many …
- What was found in P Diddy’s mansion raid? March 28, 2024 10:00 am Film Daily Ready for a deep dive into the life of music mogul Sean Combs? Last Tuesday, in a scene that could be straight out of an episode of Narcos, authorities descended on the P Diddy mansion. Gurl, the drama unfolded like the climax of a gritty HBO mini-series. …
- Every candidate standing for London Mayor in 2024 and what their policies are March 28, 2024 9:01 am MyLondon The candidates standing to be London's mayor are to be formally announced today (Thursday, March 28). The deadline for submitting the required paperwork was yesterday. There are certain things that those who want to run have to do. These include …
- On-demand webinar: Inside EMS LIVE! Eat smart, respond strong: Nutrition insights for first responders March 28, 2024 7:01 am EMS1 Access this on-demand webinar by completing the “Watch this EMS1 on-demand webinar” box on this page! In this special live episode of the “Inside EMS” Podcast — part of First Responder Wellness Week — our host, Chris Cebollero, welcomes nutrition experts …
- Migration Advocates Use Bridge Deaths to Push for More Migration March 28, 2024 1:11 am Breitbart Advocates for more migration are exploiting the deaths of six migrant workers in the Baltimore bridge disaster to argue that more migration is essential for America. “We know we can and we will rebuild,” said a statement from Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, the …
- Sam Bankman-Fried Submits Last Minute Letters Of Support In Hopes Of Sentence Leniency, Court Filings Show March 27, 2024 10:30 pm Cryptonews Last updated: March 27, 2024 17:20 EDT | 2 min read Sam Bankman-Fried is pushing for lenient jail time ahead of his sentencing Thursday by submitting several letters of support to the court. Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal team has submitted several last-minute …
- ADWEEK Announces Chief of Staff Appointment, Plus Promotions Across Company March 27, 2024 9:14 pm Adweek This afternoon, ADWEEK CEO Will Lee announced the appointment of Condé Nast veteran Mike Beyman as chief of staff/head of strategy and business operations, a new role at the brand. In a memo, Lee also shared a number of promotions across the newsroom …
- Beyond Whistleblowing: Additional Highlights from the Department of Justice at the 2024 ABA White Collar Conference March 27, 2024 9:06 pm National Law Review As we wrote earlier this month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) made significant news at the recent American Bar Association White Collar Conference. But the Department didn’t stop at announcing its pilot whistleblower incentive program — Deputy Attorney …
- Vanishing Seattle reminds the city who we truly are March 27, 2024 8:17 pm Real Change - Washington As Seattle begins to reawaken from the slumber the COVID-19 pandemic put many of the city’s aspiring plans into, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: the Emerald City still has a problem. Seattleites are noticing an alarming number of spaces and small …
State Crime
- Riot Erupts in Guayaquil Amid State of Emergency, Choneros Leader Still at Large March 28, 2024 9:54 am BNN Breaking Less than two weeks before the scheduled end of a state of emergency, including police and military intervention in prisons, Guayaquil regional prison became the epicenter of a riot on the evening of Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Initial reports and social …
- Ecuador Battles Spiraling Violence: Mayors Targeted, State of Emergency Declared March 28, 2024 9:54 am BNN Breaking Ecuador is grappling with an alarming surge in violence, prompting fears among mayors and leading to the declaration of a 90-day state of emergency by President Daniel Noboa. The country has witnessed a significant increase in extortion, kidnapping, and …
- Kansas Senate creates distinct crime for organized theft from stores March 28, 2024 9:42 am The Topeka Capital-Journal - Kansas The Kansas Senate passed a bill criminalizing organized retail crime, a form of organized theft from a retailer for the purpose of reselling the stolen items. The term typically refers to thefts by groups of people and includes stealing cargo trucks, …
- Lebanon mayor says state of the city is 'strong and promising' March 28, 2024 9:19 am Lebanon Daily News - Pennsylvania Low crime rates and new infrastructure projects were some of the highlights Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello shared with residents during her annual State of the City address Wednesday. Speaking to a packed house at a luncheon in the Hebron Social Hall, …
- UN: India launches new database to promote accountability for crime against peacekeepers March 28, 2024 9:07 am Times of Oman New York: In a bid to promote accountability for crimes against peacekeepers, the India-led Group of Friends (GOF) comprising 40 member states, convened its second meeting to deliberate on strategies to strengthen legal frameworks against perpetrators of …
- State law enforcement officials weigh in on Prop. 47 March 28, 2024 7:36 am Wave Newspapers - California By Antonio Ray Harvey Contributing Writer SACRAMENTO — San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Proposition 47, a controversial ballot measure that has been inflaming debates and influencing law enforcement action in the state for 10 years, has …
- Interpol head praises SG’s anti-scam efforts, says global crime rings now make US$3 trillion a year March 28, 2024 6:46 am The Independent Singapore SINGAPORE: In Singapore news today, Mr Jürgen Stock, the secretary-general of Interpol, said on Mar 27 (Wednesday) that organised crime rings around the globe are now able to make as much as US$3 trillion (S$4.04 trillion) a year, what with an “explosion” …
- Edge Hill, Cairns: State school locked down amidst 'emerging incident' - as public are urged to avoid the area March 28, 2024 6:16 am Daily Mail By Freddy Pawle For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:47 EDT, 28 March 2024 | Updated: 02:15 EDT, 28 March 2024 A primary school has been locked down as police frantically search for a gunman on the run. Emergency services were called to a property on …
- Two cashiers bust for allegedly defrauding Free State pharmacy March 28, 2024 6:16 am Sowetan Two female cashiers at a pharmacy in Welkom in the Free State are facing fraud and theft charges after allegedly deceiving and stealing from their employer. The women, aged 33 and 45, are expected to appear in the Welkom magistrate's court on April 29 …
- Letters: Education is the key to reducing crime March 28, 2024 6:15 am The Advocate - Louisiana Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees, so much so that we are blind to the obvious. States with higher levels of educational attainment have crime rates lower than the national average. The likelihood of a person to commit a criminal act …
Environmental Crime
- Earth Matters: Republican energy-transition saboteurs; Biden's eco-work; are EVs truly green? March 17, 2024 3:18 pm Daily Kos At Sierra magazine, in a no-paywall article, veteran investigative reporter Rebecca Burns writes on Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition. Two or three paragraphs cannot do …
- Earth Matters: No technological miracles needed to address climate; Green New Deal push relaunches March 3, 2024 5:08 pm Daily Kos Rod Lamberts wrote a decade ago: If there’s one thing decades of advertising, public relations, psychology research and science communication have taught us, it’s that throwing facts at opposing opinions with the hope of changing people’s minds is like …
- Why Is the US Producing More Oil and Natural Gas Than Ever Under Biden? February 20, 2024 11:48 pm Truthout The current year has a one-in-three chance of being even hotter than 2023, which was already the world’s warmest year on record, according to analyses conducted by scientific organizations such as NASA and Copernicus Climate Change Service. And there is a …
- 'This is what money smells like:' $2.2M fine is latest entry in Clairton's air pollution history February 4, 2024 2:21 am Pittsburgh Tribune Review - Pennsylvania Melanie Meade monitors plumes of pollution. Her hilltop home overlooks Clairton Coke Works, the largest coke-manufacturing facility in North America — and Allegheny County’s top source of air pollution. From that tree-dotted perch, Meade uses her iPhone …
- Earth Matters: Endangering the Endangered Species Act; 'new denial' on climate change at YouTube January 21, 2024 4:08 pm Daily Kos Half a century ago last month, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act, which, in a move that would be unthinkable today, the Senate had passed unanimously and the House of Representatives approved in a 390-12 vote. As President Joe Biden …
- The decades-long fight in a community treated as a dumping ground January 19, 2024 2:15 pm The Center for Public Integrity Reading Time: 9 minutes Protecting people’s health from environmental hazards, Maricela Mares-Alatorre and her family found out the hard way, is a never-ending fight. She was in high school in the late 1980s when her parents, both farmworkers, organized …
- Letters to the editor: January 17, 2024 (mega warehouse, democracy, nuclear weapons and more) January 17, 2024 6:09 am Hudson Valley One - New York The views and opinions expressed in our letters section are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Hudson Valley One. You can submit a letter to the editor here. Letter guidelines: Hudson Valley One welcomes …
- Accra’s e-waste quagmire - An existential threat January 15, 2024 11:23 am Graphic Thick, dark and foggy smoke made its way into the atmosphere. The dense clouds of smoke containing toxic gasses spread across the Old Fadama slum, located at Agbogbloshie in the Greater Accra Region, impeding vision beyond 30 metres. The emissions emanated …
- Residents call Chicago report that maps neighborhood pollution flawed because calculations don’t include industrial corridors November 20, 2023 11:29 am Chicago Tribune - Illinois A recent report on the distribution of pollution and industry across Chicago could be a first step to addressing decades of discriminatory planning, zoning and land-use policies in Chicago. But, some residents on the South and West sides say their …
- Weekend reads: A fiscal warning, growing hate crimes, and cleaning-up a toxic legacy November 5, 2023 4:40 pm News from the States 1. Veteran State Auditor issues stern warning, announces she will not seek re-election By Clayton Henkel Beth Wood, the first woman to hold the office, has held agencies accountable since 2009. One of the most recognizable figures in the North Carolina …
Critical Theory
- Interview – Darcy Leigh March 20, 2024 9:10 pm E-International Relations Dr Darcy Leigh is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex, with a background in International Relations. Darcy’s research addresses the legacies of European settler colonialism and eugenics for today’s international politics of race, gender and …
- Challenge to 'Critical Theory' doesn't come from right-wing conspiracy March 17, 2024 3:31 pm Palladium-Item - Indiana The debate over ideological diversity on campus won’t end with Senate Bill 202. Also, the heart of the issue isn’t what most people think. It doesn’t fit easily into ideological labels of conservative or liberal, and it isn’t about political party. The …
- The Left's control of language is the first step toward tyranny March 17, 2024 1:23 pm The Christian Post - Washington, D.C. By Bill Connor, Op-ed Contributor Sunday, March 17, 2024 | Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty ImagesDuring Joe Biden’s State of the Union and its aftermath, Americans were again shown the attempts of the Progressive Left to control our language. For three years, …
- Sri Lankan Trotskyists hold critical meetings on the Tamil translation of Trotsky’s <em>The Revolution Betrayed</em> March 15, 2024 8:07 am World Socialist Web Site The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Sri Lanka held a successful meeting on March 7 at the Colombo Tamil Sangam Hall in Wellawatte to promote the recently published Tamil translation of Leon Trotsky’s seminal work, The …
- The life and work of Edward Webster March 8, 2024 2:04 am Africa is a country It is exactly 50 years since C. Wright Mills (1959) penned his rendition of the sociological imagination as the interplay of biography and history, or, more actively, as transforming private troubles into public issues. Given the currency of Mills’s pithy …
- Why I am a Christian: From Marxian feminism to faith March 2, 2024 12:49 pm The Christian Post - Washington, D.C. By Kelley Keller, Op-ed contributor Saturday, March 02, 2024 iStock/Adrian VidalI learned I was an adopted kid in 1978, the year I turned five. Mom read The Chosen Baby by Valentina Wasson to my older sister and me (she is also adopted) every night …
- Rooting out 'woke': One church leader's mission to rescue Christianity from cultural Marxism March 1, 2024 4:56 pm WND - Washington [Editor's note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.] By Tyler O'Neil The Daily Signal NASHVILLE, Tenn.—An Indiana pastor has launched an effort to connect Christian leaders across the country and root out the influence of a “ …
- David Ryazanov, a Revolutionary Scholar of Marxism February 28, 2024 7:01 pm Jacobin In 1870, David Ryazanov, one of the most committed, humane, and relevant figures of Marxism, was born in Odessa, the great cosmopolitan Ukrainian city, into a well-to-do Jewish family. The city was home to a large Jewish community — 37 percent in 1897 — …
- Chinese immigrant running for Congress fears Marxism followed her to US February 22, 2024 12:29 pm Fox News Join Fox News for access to this content Plus get unlimited access to thousands of articles, videos and more with your free account! Please enter a valid email address. By entering your email, you are agreeing to Fox News Terms of Service and Privacy …
- The War on Education—in Gaza and at Home February 15, 2024 3:41 pm In These Times - Illinois On January 17, after having first occupied it as a military base and interrogation center, the Israeli army employed scores of landmines to blow up Israa University, the last institution of higher learning then left standing in Gaza. While the terms “ …