Interactive map of mass uprisings around the world shows nonviolence works
Harvard-developed tool for studying mass uprisings shows that nonviolent uprisings are more successful than violent onesMapping Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns ...
Tag: Violence/Criminals
Keeping guns away from potential mass shooters
Credit: Photo by Derwin Edwards from Pexels EAST LANSING, Mich. - The United States currently averages 20 mass shootings per ...
Residues in fingerprints hold clues to their age
Credit: Adapted from Analytical Chemistry 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b04765 Police have long relied on the unique whorls, loops or arches encoded ...
Organized cybercrime — not your average mafia
Credit: Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash EAST LANSING, Mich. - Does the common stereotype for "organized crime" hold up ...
How vulnerable is your car to cyberattacks?
Even the smartest of smart cars have issuesCredit: Free via Px Here: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/655303 EAST LANSING, Mich. - The emergence of ...
Here’s what police know about digital evidence
Credit: Photo by kat wilcox from Pexels In today's criminal justice system, a Play Station and iPhone are just as ...
George Mason receives NIJ grant to develop bruise identification protocol
Dr. Katherine Scafide and collaborators will develop protocol and curriculum for bruise identification using alternate lightCredit: George Mason University Dr. ...
Drug dust
New technology could help law enforcement detect smaller amounts of fentanyl with a higher degree of accuracy than any other ...
WVU researcher to help target victims of rural sex trafficking through new mobile app
Credit: West Virginia University A West Virginia University School of Medicine researcher is developing an app to train key personnel ...
Study identifies 5 patterns of gun ownership by motivation, practices, other features
Credit: University of California Regents A study of 429 firearm owners who answered the 2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey ...
US firearm death rate rose sharply in recent years across most states & demographic groups
New analysis of 1999-2017 firearm deaths looks at changes in each state and within age, gender and racial/ethnic groupsCredit: Health ...
Decoding how kids get into hacking
New research is first to uncover gender-specific traits leading boys and girls to hackingCredit: Michigan State University Is your kid ...
Big cities breed partners in crime
New model shows it is easier to find partners in high populationCredit: Rafael de Nadai EVANSTON, Ill. -- Your intuition ...
New research: More than every second female homicide is committed by the partner
Intimate partner homicide -- that is women who are killed by their partner -- constitutes a significant proportion of the ...