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  • 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

Gender and Crime

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

Corporate Crime

White Collar Crime

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

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 ​“ …