9 Best Articles in 2021
Guardian Books
Top 10 Scottish crime novels
Guardian Books
5 min read · 2020-05-27 · 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 · 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 · 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 · From 2019 · 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 · 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
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.
The New Yorker
The Trouble with Crime Statistics
The New Yorker
~11 min read · 2020-01-09 · It’s surprisingly hard to say what makes crime go up or down.
projects.tampabay.com
Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families.
projects.tampabay.com
20+ min read · 2020-09-03 · Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime.
The Atlantic
Is America’s Great Crime Decline Over?
The Atlantic
8 min read · Mar 24th · Even before the recent mass shootings, violent crime was surging to its highest rate in 30 years. Patrick Sharkey illuminates what’s happening.
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The New York Times
The Case of the Vanishing Jungle
The New York Times
20+ min read · Aug 11th · It seemed like an easy crime to stop: protected Indonesian rainforest, cut for coffee farms. But a globalized economy can undermine even the best-laid plans.
VICE
Police Announce Huge Bust of Mafia’s Cyber Crime Operations
VICE
2 min read · Sep 20th · European police accused several people of SIM swapping, phishing, and hacking in support of Italian organized crime.
WIRED
Citizen's New Service Helps Paying Users Summon the Cops
WIRED
3 min read · Aug 3rd · The crime-tracking app is charging $20 per month to give subscribers access to their own virtual security service.
Vox
Here’s how police can get your data — even if you aren’t suspected of a crime
Vox
8 min read · Jul 31st · And you may never know they did it.
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medium.com
Abolish the #TechToPrisonPipeline
medium.com
2020-06-23 · Crime-prediction technology reproduces injustices & causes real harm
Pew Research Fact Tank
5 facts about crime in the U.S.
Pew Research Fact Tank
4 min read · From 2019 · Both violent and property crime in the U.S. have declined over the long term, but Americans regularly say crime is up.
Pew Research Fact Tank
5 facts about crime in the U.S.
Pew Research Fact Tank
4 min read · 2019-10-17 · Both violent and property crime in the U.S. have declined over the long term, but Americans regularly say crime is up.
Vox
The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
Vox
7 min read · From 2017 · In the 1920s, auto groups redefined who owned the city streets.
The Guardian
Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’
The Guardian
~20 min read · Apr 28th · The long read: It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain
bbc.com
How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime
bbc.com
7 min read · 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?
GQ Magazine
The Great Chinese Art Heist
GQ Magazine
~17 min read · From 2018 · Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
EFF
EFF to Court: Accessing Publicly Available Information on the Internet Is Not a Crime
EFF
7 min read · 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 New Yorker
How to Fight Crime with Your Television
The New Yorker
7 min read · From 2018 · The would-be criminal is as distractible as anyone else. To prevent his would-be crime, give him something better to do.
