9 Best Articles in 2021
Guardian Books
Top 10 Scottish crime novels
Guardian Books
5 min read · 109 saves · 2020-05-27 · Craig Robertson · Scottish novelists from William McIlvanney to Ian Rankin and Denise Mina deliver all the gut-punch thrills of crime without forgetting its human cost
crimereads.com
The 10 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade
crimereads.com
9 min read · 76 saves · 2019-11-20 · As 2019 comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of the decade that was in crime fiction and mystery. Why? Because we can. Because the books are there to be read and re-read, debated and rec…
WIRED UK
Police built an AI to predict violent crime. It was seriously flawed
WIRED UK
8 min read · 129 saves · 2020-08-06 · A Home Office-funded project that used artificial intelligence to predict gun and knife crime was found to be wildly inaccurate
The New York Times
50 States of True Crime
The New York Times
8 min read · 31 saves · 2019-07-26 · Every state has an infamous crime — and a book about it.
BBC News (World)
How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime
BBC News (World)
7 min read · 57 saves · From 2018 · Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 in the US. What is the secret?
Los Angeles Times
She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?
Los Angeles Times
74 saves · From 2016 · Now she watched as her ruin seemed to unfold before her. It was enough to send her to jail, and more than enough to destroy her name.
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Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families.
projects.tampabay.com
20+ min read · 93 saves · 2020-09-03 · Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime.
medium.com
Abolish the #TechToPrisonPipeline
medium.com
87 saves · 2020-06-23 · Crime-prediction technology reproduces injustices & causes real harm
The New Yorker
The Trouble with Crime Statistics
The New Yorker
~11 min read · 23 saves · 2020-01-09 · It’s surprisingly hard to say what makes crime go up or down.
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Boing Boing
A parody of every single Scandinavian crime drama
Boing Boing
2 min read · 12 saves · Jan 8th · Miss Cellania · Alasdair Beckett-King introduces us to “Nordic Noir,” or Scandinavian crime dramas. I’ve never seen one of these shows, but still found it funny. Those who are familiar with the g…
VANITY FAIR
First Look at Jared Leto's Joker in Zack Snyder's Justice League
VANITY FAIR
2 min read · 31 saves · Feb 9th · Anthony Breznican · In two exclusive images, the villain is more of a walking nightmare than the tattooed crime-lord Leto played before.
mattstoller.substack.com
Facecrook: Dealing with a Global Menace
mattstoller.substack.com
~16 min read · 32 saves · Feb 20th · Matt Stoller · Facebook is engaged in a giant crime spree to steal ad money. A battle over speech in Australia shows what top executives really think of the rule of law.
Los Angeles Times
Netflix's 'The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel' is a salacious true-crime misstep
Los Angeles Times
3 min read · Feb 10th · The first season of the streamer's new anthology docuseries, "Crime Scene," falls too in love with the Cecil's lore to tell its central story effectively.
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Pew Research Fact Tank
5 facts about crime in the U.S.
Pew Research Fact Tank
4 min read · 17 saves · From 2019 · John Gramlich · Both violent and property crime in the U.S. have declined over the long term, but Americans regularly say crime is up.
bbc.com
How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime
bbc.com
7 min read · 28 saves · From 2017 · Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 in the US. What is the secret?
Pew Research Fact Tank
5 facts about crime in the U.S.
Pew Research Fact Tank
4 min read · 18 saves · 2019-10-17 · John Gramlich · Both violent and property crime in the U.S. have declined over the long term, but Americans regularly say crime is up.
GQ Magazine
The Great Chinese Art Heist
GQ Magazine
~17 min read · 84 saves · From 2018 · Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
VICE
Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime
VICE
2 min read · 56 saves · 2020-06-23 · Technologists from MIT, Harvard, and Google say research claiming to predict crime based on human faces creates a "tech-to-prison pipeline" that reinforces racist policing.
EFF
EFF to Court: Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime
EFF
7 min read · 29 saves · From 2017 · EFF is fighting another attempt by a giant corporation to take advantage of our poorly drafted federal computer crime statute for commercial advantage—without any regard for the impact on the rest of…
The Guardian
Why are women obsessed with true crime? Rachel Monroe has some answers
The Guardian
6 min read · 19 saves · 2019-08-20 · Monroe, the author of Savage Appetites, reckons with women, crime and obsession: ‘I like my true crime a bit problematic’
Guardian Books
Top 10 underrated Agatha Christie novels
Guardian Books
5 min read · 74 saves · 2020-10-07 · Sophie Hannah · On the centenary of the godmother of crime fiction’s debut, Sophie Hannah - author of the new Poirot mysteries - picks her favourite lesser-known gems
medium.com
Rise of the New Crypto Mafia
medium.com
~16 min read · 69 saves · 2019-07-26 · Ash Egan · Disclaimer: this is not an article intending to promote organized crime within crypto.
