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New nanotechnology tagging system to help solve gun crime

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (24) | comments 7

Criminals who use firearms may find it much harder to evade justice in future, thanks to an ingenious new bullet tagging technology developed in the UK.


US guns fuel Canada and Mexico crimes, UK gun crime remains rare

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Guns smuggled from the US arm criminals in Canada and Mexico, contributing to a higher murder rate in Canada and more intense drug crime conflict near the Mexican border, according to a study published today in a special ...


Myth, reality and gun crime

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The assumption that gangs are at the root of gun crime in the UK is overstated, according to a study published today in a special issue of Criminology and Criminal Justice, published by SAGE.





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Regulation and oversight of gun sales reduces trafficking to criminals

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Comprehensive regulation of gun sellers appears to reduce the trafficking of guns to criminals, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


NYPD looking at futuristic weapons technology

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

(AP) -- The New York Police Department is looking into adapting futuristic technology that would allow officers' guns to recognize one another in an effort to avoid the type of friendly fire incident that left a cop dead ...


National anti-gun violence program largely successful, study finds

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Project Safe Neighborhoods - a community-based policing effort launched in 2001 - has been largely successful in its goal of reducing violent crime, according to an analysis by Michigan State University, the national research ...


Report exposes loopholes in gun-control laws

Report exposes loopholes in gun-control laws

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Gun shows and the lack of uniform gun-control laws provide easy access to guns that can be used for criminal purposes, according to a new report released today from the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research ...


New Fingerprint Breakthrough by Forensic Scientists

Chemistry /

created Jun 02, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (50) | comments 0

Forensic scientists at the University of Leicester, working with Northamptonshire Police, have announced a major breakthrough in crime detection which could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened.


Protection or Peril? Gun Possession of Questionable Value in an Assault

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (25) | comments 45

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The ...


Doctors are key to tackling knife violence, says expert

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Every hospital emergency department should share information about violent incidents with local crime reduction agencies to tackle the problem of knife crime, says an expert in this week's BMJ.


Trial beginning over New Orleans' crime cameras

Technology / Other

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Jury selection is under way in the civil trial over New Orleans' problem-plagued crime camera system.


Researchers rest their case: TV consumption predicts opinions about criminal justice system

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

People who watch forensic and crime dramas on TV are more likely than non-viewers to have a distorted perception of America's criminal justice system, according to new research from Purdue University.


Wealth link to alcohol crime

Wealth link to alcohol crime

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rich rural towns show higher levels of alcohol-related crime than poorer communities, according to new research from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.



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