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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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New Scientist

APRIL 22, 2024

Forensic investigators can reliably measure drug and explosive residue using gels that lift fingerprint samples

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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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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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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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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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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 →

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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