crime

Cybersecurity
The company man: US glacial response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents
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man in front of sign
Violence
Gang shootings in Sweden are on the rise. But local communities and former gang members are fighting back.
On May 1, two large marches weaved across San Salvador in commemoration of International Workers Day. 
Leaders
El Salvador president’s popularity soars with controversial approach to crime
A view of a courtroom inside Rome's tribunal Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, during the first hearing of a trial of involving politicians and businessmen.
Critical State
The Italian job: Part I
Flowers lay on a symbolic casket that represents a victims of Colombia's civil conflict, and carries the Spanish words: "Saul. I don't forget. We miss you," at Bolivar square in Bogotá, Colombia, Monday, April 9, 2018. 
Critical State
Discourse of justice: Part II
In this Aug. 22, 2019, file photo, signs on a bank of computers tell visitors that the machines are not working at the public library in Wilmer, Texas. 
Critical State
Checking in on the pandemic: Part II
A woman argues over a pile of yellow lentils at a market.
Top of The World
Tigrayans say food is being used as a ‘weapon of war’
Glen Sjögren, a 40-year police officer in Malmö, Sweden, says he was surprised by a recent report showing the rate of gun violence in the country has gone up. His city has been successful in recent years in tackling gangs and gun violence.  
Violence
Sweden’s gun violence rates have soared. But this Swedish city is bucking that trend.
A police car with red and blue lights flashing
Critical State
When police reform hasn’t worked: Part I
A young man stands in front of media surrounded by other men
Sexual violence
South Korea reels from latest high-tech, online sex trafficking case
A woman sits on a bench in jail.
Justice
Mothers in prison aren’t likely to see their families this Thanksgiving — or any other day
"El Chapo" in blue uniform stands near police.
Justice
‘El Chapo’ trial puts drug lord’s love life, business dealings on full display
Vicente Zambada Niebla takes the witness box, at the trial of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, right, in this courtroom sketch
El Chapo trial shows why a wall won’t stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border
Daniel Alemán wears a black shirt in a room with two paintings on the wall and a blurry bouquet of flowers.
Conflict & Justice
The kids aren’t alright — when being young is a crime in El Salvador
Demonstrators shout slogans during a candlelight vigil in Delhi
India has a sexual assault problem that only women can fix
CIA director nominee Gina Haspel raises her right hand as she is sworn in to testify at her Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation, May 9, 2018.
Conflict & Justice
For some, Haspel for CIA head ‘would be promoting a torturer’
Handwritten notations on a school resource officer's police report tagged Lemus as a member of the 18th Street gang.
Conflict
On Nantucket, a teenage migrant gets swept up in a crackdown on Salvadoran gangs
Beach
Conflict
Violent crime rates in the Caribbean among the highest on Earth, study shows
Juvenile arrests
Conflict
How Florida keeps kids in the criminal justice system
Environment
Cybercrime explored: Journalist documents DarkMarket
Global Politics
When a rape isn’t a rape: FBI statistics ignore many cities’ rapes
13 suspected members of the 18th street gang are presented to the media after being arrested by the police in Soyapango, El Salvador in March.
Conflict
Salvadoran gangs use Facebook to track down victims
A police officer removes a jacket bearing the name of the Bandidos motorcycle gang from a vehicle at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, where nine members of a motorcycle gang were shot and killed on May 19, 2015.
Justice
What’s the reason nine bikers were killed in Texas? A patch.
Activists put banner on pedestrian bridge in Rio
Justice
Brazil’s new idea to fight crime: Sentence teens to adult jails
Men stand next to the wreckage of a tractor-trailer set ablaze by members of a drug cartel in Guadalajara May 1, 2015.
Conflict
A heavily armed ‘paramilitary’ cartel unleashes violence in Mexico’s second-biggest city
Corporal Kevin Watson of Jamaica's Major Organized Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency talks with students during a lottery scamming prevention campaign in Jamaican schools.
Justice
Why some Jamaican kids want to grow up to be lottery scammers
A bloodstain is seen behind police barrier tape at the scene of a fatal shooting in Gothenburg, March 18, 2015.
Conflict
Sweden’s gang activity isn’t reserved for its crime novels
A screenshot from Servando "La Tuta" Gomez's 2014 interview with England's Channel 4 News.
Justice
Mexico captures its most-wanted drug lord, but Mexicans are still angry
Music
Remembering Ariel Camacho, the 22-year-old star of Mexico’s narcocorridos
Russian national Evengiy Bogachev is shown in this Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Wanted Poster in this handout provided by the FBI in Washington, DC, February 24, 2015.
Conflict
This real world hacker has all the elements of a James Bond villain
A woman shouts slogans during a demostration in Istanbul against the murder of a young woman named Özgecan Aslan.
Justice
In Turkey, sometimes it takes a hashtag to be heard
A New York City police officer reacts next to people protesting against the death of Eric Garner during an arrest in July.
Justice
Even the creator of ‘broken windows’ policing thought it could lead to racial problems
Jamaicans take part in a demonstration against the rape of three children and two women in Kingston in 2012.
Justice
Caribbean rape culture is back on display
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) speaks about pending legislation regarding sexual assaults in the military in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on June 4, 2013.
Justice
This senator says the Pentagon is still a ‘complete failure’ on protecting sexual assault victims
People carry photographs of missing students during a march in Acapulco on October 17, 2014. On September 26, police allegedly linked to a criminal gang shot dead at least three students and abducted dozens of others during clashes in the southwestern cit
Conflict
‘If they are going to kill us, let them kill us for a just cause,’ say Mexican citizens
Seized elephant tusks
Environment
One group hopes to end poaching, WikiLeaks-style
New York police detective Joseph Petrosino.  He was gunned down while in Sicily investigating a mafia connection to New York.
Conflict & Justice
A casual boast solves a century-old mafia murder in Sicily
Conflict & Justice
A Canadian news network refuses to broadcast a mass shooter’s name
Delhi protests May 29 2014
Conflict & Justice
Why the vast majority of middle-class Indians didn’t protest after the latest gang rape and murder
Conflict & Justice
Blogging behind bars
Nigerian parents
Conflict & Justice
After two weeks, frustrated parents in Nigeria have no idea where their daughters are
Arts, Culture & Media
Four kidnapped Mexican journalists remain missing
Conflict & Justice
Illinois to set standard for sex crimes DNA testing
Aftermath of the Boston marathon bombing
Conflict & Justice
Solving a triple murder case might have prevented the Boston Marathon bombings
Jerome Kerviel
Business, Economics and Jobs
A disgraced French trader walks home from his meeting with the pope — to Paris
Jerome Kerviel
Business, Economics and Jobs
A disgraced French trader walks home from his meeting with the pope — to Paris
A Guatemalan woman recently deported from the U.S. makes a phone call at a migrant shelter in Guatemala City, In addition to avoiding gang and drug-related violence, Central Americans are also fleeing to the US for economic reasons.
Conflict & Justice
For Central Americans, fear is increasingly the reason for entering the US
Global Scan
How do you capture a drug kingpin without firing a shot?
A demonstrator holds a placard as she attends a candlelight vigil to mark the first anniversary of Delhi gang rape, in New Delhi December 16, 2013.
Conflict & Justice
Indian politicians are changing their attitudes toward rape
Amanda Knox sits before being interviewed on the set of ABC's "Good Morning America" in New York, January 31st 2014, a day after an Italian court upheld guilty verdicts against Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, on charges of murde
Conflict & Justice
Despite her murder conviction, Amanda Knox may never be extradited to Italy
United Nations, Security Council hall.
Conflict & Justice
Part V: The UN Security Council tackles the issue
Housing for patients at Panzi hospital.
Conflict & Justice
Part I: Healing the victims
Conflict & Justice
India plans to sell a handgun designed for women
Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general
Conflict & Justice
The US has long worked to prevent diplomats from mistreating household workers
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs in Brazil in 1992 while a fugitive from Britain.
Conflict & Justice
A Great Train Robber is remembered as ‘kind and generous’ — but not by all
Conflict & Justice
Protests in Kenya aim to spur outrage over violence against women
"Mint", 24, is a former sex worker, now working at NightLight, an organization that hires former prostitutes.
Conflict & Justice
Groups ‘rescue’ Thai sex workers, whether they want it or not
Environment
When you buy ivory, you may be funding al-Shabab terrorists
Health & Medicine
Study finds alarming number of men in 6 Asian countries don’t think rape is rape
Death by Hanging for Men Convicted in Indian Gang Rape-Murder