Criminology

Students at Columbia University published an editorial complaining about Greek myths being studied in one of their classes. They said that the texts “can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color or a student from a low-income background.” They stated that the texts trigger toxicity. Specifically, the students wrote:

Greece’s relevant on Tuesday reverted to his criminologist background in predicting that a man charged this week with killing his four-year-old daughter will either commit suicide or die “a violent death”!

The Greek Police?s drug squad announced on Saturday the arrest of 21 suspects believed to belong to two drug-trafficking gangs who were active in the Peloponnese and Attica, dealing at least 170,000 euros? worth of heroin.

Authorities have also issued charges against an additional 123 people who are suspected of involvement.

A bill aimed at decongesting Greece?s overcrowded prisons, which includes a provision foreseeing house arrest instead of detention in some cases, has prompted the vehement opposition of prosecutors who fear it will lead to the uncontrolled release of inmates, but has cheered convicts.

Preliminary results showing that Vangelis Giakoumakis committed suicide by slashing his wrist were boosted this week, after tests showed that DNA on a knife found next to his body contained only his genetic material.

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said Wednesday that Serbia would in a month and a half from now adopt its first strategy for investigation of financial crime, which will introduce a series of measures to improve and strengthen the implementation of financial investigations.

Firearms amnesty and legalization campaign starts

BELGRADE -- A campaign aimed at encouraging citizens to hand in illegal firearms, referred to as "legal legalization", has kicked off in Serbia.

The Ministry of the Interior (MUP) announced on Wednesday that the campaign started on March 4 and will last three months.

Police in Bosnia's Federation entity may be on the point of uncovering who set the explosive device which killed a respected 61-year old lawyer, Jasmina Koricic, in Bihac, Bosnian media reported on Thursday, adding that the Center for Forensic and Information Support was providing important support to the probe.

Forensic science, which has fascinated generations with its unravelling of gruesome crime mysteries, is being put under the microscope in an exhibition of real criminal investigations in London.
      

Özgehan Arslan was a 20-year-old female university student living in Tarsus, Mersin, a town close to the Mediterranean Sea. Last week, she took a minibus as usual to go from her home to school. But she never came back. Three days later, her dead body was found in an empty field. It was mutilated and burnt.