Smaller escort websites are vying for the lucrative online sex-for-hire market Backpage.com dominated before U.S. authorities shut it down earlier this year, a move that fractured the industry and forced law enforcement to ...
Internet
Nov 28, 2018
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A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University is suggesting in a Policy Forum piece published in the journal Science that it might be time to start building a universal genetic database. They suggest doing so would help ...
Billions of euros worth of critically endangered eels are being trafficked each year from Europe, ending up on tables in China and Japan in what campaigners say is "the largest wildlife crime on Earth."
Ecology
Nov 20, 2018
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The fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, generated political and media backlash that continues to erode law enforcement legitimacy today. As a result, the Taskforce on Twenty-first Century ...
Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2018
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Donald Trump has waved the words "stop and frisk" around like a banner call to cure violent crime in American cities.
Social Sciences
Nov 13, 2018
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Their anger is all over social media for the whole world to see, with rants about minorities, relationships gone bad or paranoid delusions about perceived slights.
Internet
Oct 31, 2018
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Investment in education, healthcare, sports, road infrastructure and transportation, rather than national defense and, to a lesser extent, national security and law enforcement, is what drives economic growth rates and GDP ...
Economics & Business
Oct 31, 2018
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Fatal police shootings of blacks receive considerable media attention, along with debate about the merits of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Media coverage can be divisive, reflecting views held by the American public. ...
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2018
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An investigator's belief that a person is guilty may be the reason innocent people get convicted, according to a recent study.
Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2018
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The notion of using genetic ancestry databases to solve crimes recently crossed from hypothetical into credible when police used an online genealogical database to track down the alleged Golden State Killer, a serial criminal ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 11, 2018
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