The LSU Police Department has implemented a Project Beloved “soft interview room” for victims of trauma or sexual violence. The new room features comfortable lighting, furniture, weighted blankets and items that are intended to help survivors talk to police about what happened.
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The rise in people seeking emergency medical care after sexual assault outpaces the growth of law enforcement reporting.
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A research team examining 82 mass murders that occurred at least partially in academic settings throughout the world found that most mass murderers and mass shooters did not have severe psychiatric illnesses.
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Maintaining green parks and gardens in cities has the potential to lower the risk of crime, new research suggests.
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A new data visualization tool could assist law enforcement agencies working to combat human trafficking by identifying patterns in online escort advertisements that often indicate illegal activity.
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The funding will allow the university to expand its Fraud and Forensic Accounting Certificate Program with an eye toward providing new opportunities for students to assist Worcester County law enforcement officials in the fight against elder financial and high-tech fraud.
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Maryland will review about 100 autopsies of people who died in police custody involving physical restraint because of concerns about the state’s former medical examiner’s testimony in the death of George Floyd.
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April’s 6-week training program wasn’t focused on searching for human remains or explosives; rather, April is now one of three dogs in the UK trained to detect very small amounts of seminal fluid.
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Black people in the United States are seven times more likely than white people to be falsely convicted of serious crimes, more likely to be the targets of police misconduct, and spend longer in prison before being exonerated, according to a report by the National Registry of Exonerations.
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a partnership with UW-Madison and UW-Platteville to provide the first female focused mentoring program at the two universities for students interested in pursuing a career in criminal justice.
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The models draw on publicly available data to identify massage businesses that are most likely to be violating laws related to sex trafficking and labor trafficking.
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Firearm-related deaths in school-age children are dramatically increasing in the United States where homicide rates are about six- to nine-fold higher than those in comparably developed countries.
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Forty-eight hours after release, amid accusations of racism, the image was removed from the media release as well as social media sites, and the officer in charge of the sexual assault section apologized.
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The New Zealand Police were recently found to have been routinely and illegally photographing young people and adults in public. Many might have expected this to see an end to the practice – but apparently not.
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The reliability of child witnesses is especially important to understand given the large number of children who become involved in the legal system every year.
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