Why We Believe the Myth of High Crime Rates
Scientific American
APRIL 10, 2024
The crime issue, a focus of the 2024 presidential election, is sometimes rooted in the misplaced fears of people who live in some of the safest places
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Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand
Scientific American
JANUARY 25, 2024
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?
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Guest Contributor Kate Mackintosh: 200 Words to Save the Planet—The Crime of Ecocide
Legal Planet
JULY 13, 2021
Last month, a panel of international lawyers chaired by Philippe Sands and Dior Fall Sow launched our proposal for a new crime of ‘ecocide’ – an international crime of environmental destruction that would sit alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression at the International Criminal Court.
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Launch of the Nature Crime Alliance
Greenbuilding Law
AUGUST 27, 2023
Last week saw the launch of the Nature Crime Alliance, a new, multi sector approach to fighting criminal forms of logging, mining, wildlife trade, land conversion, crimes associated with fishing, and the illegal activities with which they converge. Nature crimes threaten our collective security. Jennifer R.
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Missing bullets can be identified by ricochet residue at crime scenes
New Scientist
JANUARY 22, 2024
Investigating gun crime is challenging if bullets have been removed from the scene – a tool that can identify bullets from the shavings they leave as they ricochet off surfaces could help
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Virtual Bar Scenes Are a New Tool to Study Why People Commit Crimes in the Heat of the Moment
Scientific American
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Virtual-reality could assist researchers in decoding how emotions spur a decision to commit a crime
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AI predicts crime a week in advance with 90 per cent accuracy
New Scientist
JUNE 30, 2022
An artificial intelligence that scours crime data can predict the location of crimes in the coming week with up to 90 per cent accuracy, but there are concerns how systems like this can perpetuate bias
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Mental health emergency responder programme cut crime rates in Denver
New Scientist
JUNE 8, 2022
A six-month pilot programme in Denver, Colorado, that had mental health specialists instead of police respond to non-violent emergency calls reduced non-violent crime by 34 per cent
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Yemeni Activist Sues Oil Companies at ICC for Crimes Against Humanity
Corp Watch
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Yemeni Activist Sues Oil Companies at ICC for Crimes Against Humanity OCCRP PaulaR Fri, 02/02/2024 - 20:39 Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Read more Selma Mhaoud An environmental activist from Yemen filed a lawsuit against two oil companies at the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) in The Hague, Netherlands, claiming that their pollution has caused diseases (..)
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Microplastics quantified with crime scene adhesive tape
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 9, 2021
Adhesive tape designed to recover trace evidence from crimes scenes is being adopted to analyse microplastics, an effort that could prove more efficient than removal by filtration. Read the full story at The Engineer. Read more →
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Cryptocurrency crimes have got too big for the US government to ignore
New Scientist
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
As more money pours into cryptocurrency crimes and scams, government agencies are increasingly cracking down, as the launch of dedicated Department of Justice and FBI enforcement teams demonstrates
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U.S. Attorney: Families Might Be Eligible For Crime Victims’ Compensation For Hardships Caused By The Indictment Of Former Erie Coke (Coal) Plant For Environmental Crimes
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 19, 2022
A crime victim can file for benefits immediately following the crime, even if no arrest has been made. For more information, contact the Crime Victims Compensation Program at 1-800-233-2339 or 717-783- 5153 in Pennsylvania. These expenses include medical bills, counseling costs, funeral bills, and lost wages.
Planting Clues review: Intriguing tales about plants’ role in crime
New Scientist
AUGUST 31, 2022
Gibson has some great tales about how plants help solve crimes – and are used to commit them From working out a dead person's last meal to the possible poisoning of the Buddha, a new book from David J.
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Do Video Doorbells Really Prevent Crime?
Scientific American
DECEMBER 14, 2023
More people are using doorbell cameras and sharing the footage with the police, but there are few data showing their effectiveness
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Drug residue can be detected in fingerprints left at crime scenes
New Scientist
APRIL 22, 2024
Forensic investigators can reliably measure drug and explosive residue using gels that lift fingerprint samples
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Decarceration and Crime Do Not Go Hand in Hand
Scientific American
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Former oil firm executives go on trial in Sweden over Sudan war crimes
Corp Watch
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
Former oil firm executives go on trial in Sweden over Sudan war crimes Anna Ringstrom pratap Sat, 09/09/2023 - 19:35 Tuesday, September 5, 2023 [link] STOCKHOLM, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The former CEO and the former chairman of a Swedish oil firm went on trial in Sweden on Tuesday, accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan between 1999 and 2003 - charges (..)
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New DNA Tests Are Identifying Missing Persons and Solving Crimes
Scientific American
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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What Happens when People with Dementia Commit Crimes?
Scientific American
AUGUST 17, 2023
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Private Security: Scams, Harm, Scandals, Crimes, Failures and Crisis (Global Recap)
Corp Watch
MAY 10, 2023
Private Security: Scams, Harm, Scandals, Crimes, Failures and Crisis (Global Recap) LinkedIn PaulaR Wed, 05/10/2023 - 17:27 Saturday, August 1, 2020 Read more Tony Ridley Public awareness and concern is growing in relation to a seemingly random, unrelated string of 'private security' failures and scandals.
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A plea to make widespread environmental damage an international crime takes center stage at The Hague
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 11, 2022
During the International Criminal Court’s annual meeting, three nations threatened by climate change promoted a fifth international crime, called ecocide. Read the full story at Inside Climate News. Read more →
Harris Quoted in Law360 on Corporate Crime Cases to Watch in 2022
Arnold Porter
JANUARY 7, 2022
Arnold & Porter partner Kathleen Harris, who heads the firm's London office and co-chairs the firm's Anti-Corruption practice, was quoted in an article from Law360 discussing upcoming white collar crime cases and trends for the year ahead. » Read the full article (subscription required).
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Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty
Scientific American
MARCH 19, 2024
It does not deter crime, is not humane and has no moral or medical basis Capital punishment must come to an end.
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'Ecocide' movement pushes for a new international crime: Environmental destruction
Environmental Law Reporter
MAY 28, 2021
In 1948, after Nazi Germany exterminated millions of Jews and other minorities during World War II, the United Nations adopted a convention establishing a new crime so heinous it demanded collective action. April 2021. read more
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Brazil's Attorney General Urges Investigation of Environmental Progress Founder Michael Shellenberger
Environmental Progress
APRIL 23, 2024
Statement by Environmental Progress Founder and President Michael Shellenberger: “Brazil's Attorney General has just accused me of having committed a "probable" crime because I published the "Twitter Files - Brazil." It's a monstrous lie. President Lula is persecuting me because I exposed the government's illegal censorship.
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AG Shapiro Charges Energy Transfer Partners With Environmental Crimes Over Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
In October, the Office of Attorney General charged another Energy Transfer Partners company with 48 counts of environmental crimes in 11 counties related to the construction of the Mariner East Pipeline. Read more here.] Read more here.] “The All charges are accusations and the defendant is innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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Dubai police will use citywide network of drones to respond to crime
New Scientist
JULY 16, 2021
Dubai police will be able to respond to an incident anywhere in the United Arab Emirates city within a minute, thanks to a network of pre-positioned drone bases
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Wild Crimes review: Shocking illegal wildlife trade exposed in podcast
New Scientist
JULY 14, 2021
From pangolins to elephant tusks, trafficking in animals and animal parts nets $23 billion a year as it pushes species to the brink of extinction. This big-money, murky world is the subject of a new podcast series
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Gwen Adshead interview: Why ordinary people commit heinous crimes
New Scientist
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Three decades spent working as a psychotherapist with the most violent offenders has convinced Gwen Adshead that they aren't the monsters we portray them as
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DOJ’s Updated Corporate Crime Policies: Practical Considerations in the Environmental Context
E2 Law Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The 2022 Monaco Memo highlights two “core principles” regarding voluntary self-disclosure. First, absent aggravating factors, DOJ will not “seek a guilty plea when a company has voluntarily self-disclosed, cooperated, and remediated misconduct.”
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On the eve of COP26, the UK is accused of climate crimes
A Greener Life
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Heather is set alight on peatlands in the North York Moors National Park for grouse-shooting. Photo credit: Unearthed. By Anders Lorenzen. As the UK prepares to host COP26 , their actions at home could be embarrassing and contradictory at best.
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Crimes of the Future review: Is Cronenberg sci-fi compelling or chaos?
New Scientist
JUNE 15, 2022
David Cronenberg’s latest outing is a fascinating sci-fi tale that sets out to be a transgressive exploration of human evolution, but ends up sunk by flaws in its internal logic
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Bad Guys in Energy 2022
Energy & the Law
MARCH 7, 2023
Break like the wind Perps: Joey Douglas Davis and Philip Vincent Ridings of Arkansas Crimes: fraud, wire fraud, aiding and abetting wire fraud, money laundering, aiding and abetting money-laundering How they did it: Told investors that the money would be used to build a prototype wind turbine and develop wind farms in Iowa and other states.
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The Stream, October 7, 2021: Global Water Stress Will Rise, WMO Report Finds
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Pennsylvania will charge an energy company with four dozen environmental crimes committed during the construction of a natural gas pipeline. There is a duty to protect our air and water, and when companies harm these vital resources through negligence — it is a crime.” – Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
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Hold Erie Coke Accountable Calls On EPA, DEP, Erie County & City To Form Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Community Working Group On Site Cleanup, Revitalization
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 8, 2023
As part of the case, families impacted by the Clean Air Act violations have been asked to provide statements to determine if they are eligible for crime victims' compensation for hardships caused by the environmental crimes. Read more here. Visit DEP’s Erie Coke Corporation webpage for the latest information on site cleanup.
Addressing Corruption In Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chains
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Ultimately, corruption is not a victimless crime. Advocates could push for governments to incorporate strong anticorruption provisions into sustainability criteria for mining projects , in policies and legislation addressing responsible sourcing or due diligence, and in partnerships or trade deals with mineral-producing countries.
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Men and women's hands can be distinguished just from their scent
New Scientist
JULY 5, 2023
Scent compounds released by your hands can be used to determine gender, which may be useful in figuring out information about crime scenes
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Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2021
E2 Law Blog
JULY 18, 2022
Greenberg Traurig Tampa office Shareholders David Weinstein and Christopher Torres and Associate Kayli Smendec co-authored the chapter titled “Environmental Enforcement and Crimes” in Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2021, published by the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources.
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Mathematical Alarms Could Help Predict and Avoid Climate Tipping Points
Inside Climate News
DECEMBER 27, 2022
By Charlie Miller When New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell published the best-selling book The Tipping Point in 2000, he was writing, in part, about the baffling drop in crime that started in the 1990s. A new study finds that mathematical tools can find early warning signals that can accurately predict climate tipping points.
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New study finds half of people released from jail before trial in SF re-offend
Environmental Progress
JULY 13, 2021
A new study finds that, of the people released from jail before trial in San Francisco, half committed new crimes and 1 out of 6 committed a violent crime "San Francisco’s observed safety rate is substantially lower than local & national validated rates." Link to new study.
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ESA at COP28: Day 1 Continued
ESA
DECEMBER 5, 2023
My final session was one of the last listed for the day at 6.30pm but was well worth hanging around for as it was hosted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) entitled “Crimes That Affect the Environment on Natural Carbon Sinks and Ecosystem Resilience” and did not disappoint.
Stavroula Lambrakopoulos on SEC Whistleblower Practice
Corp Watch
MARCH 8, 2024
Stavroula Lambrakopoulos on SEC Whistleblower Practice Corporate Crime Reporter PaulaR Fri, 03/08/2024 - 16:20 Wednesday, March 6, 2024 Read more Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought an enforcement action against JP Morgan Securities (JP Morgan) for impeding hundreds of advisory clients and brokerage customers from reporting (..)
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The Revealed Preference of Porch Pirates
Environmental and Urban Economics
APRIL 4, 2021
A case study about petty crime. A risk neutral thief will steal if the expected benefits are greater than the expected cost. The expected cost of theft (for those without a guilty conscience) equals the probability of detection multiplied by the $ punishment if caught. The expected benefits depend on what the person steals.
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Still Life With Bones review: Harrowing account of exposing genocide
New Scientist
MARCH 15, 2023
TV dramas use tidy, cleaned-up bones to crack crimes in minutes, but an unvarnished account by forensic anthropologist Alexa Hagerty shows the slow horror of exhuming people killed by repressive regimes
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