Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Thursday 1 December
Can The Hague court provide Mexico with justice?
It is simultaneously easy and difficult to come to the conclusion that Mexico is at war.
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Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Sunday 30 January
Australia’s lawless underbelly surfaces
Crime, for better or worse, is in Australia’s DNA. The country’s famously laid-back residents view their origin as a British penal colony almost as a point of pride, and venerate celebrity toughs such as hitman Mark “Cho…
Affairs / Crime
On the hook
The world’s shipping is being held to ransom by a band of Somali pirates in battered launches. As yet another new president tries to take control of the failed state, perhaps it’s time we stopped playing nice and took…
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Monday 8 August
UK Riots Part 1: Who’s in charge? Riots expose a lack of leadership
“Welcoming the world” is an increasingly overworked phrase tumbling from the lips of anyone remotely associated with the London Olympics of late.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Monday 5 July
The odds stacked against the street kids
Gangs of teenage boys skulk on badly lit corners and outside pitifully dingy convenience stores in Mexico’s border city of Ciudad Juárez.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Tuesday 1 December
Back to the bad old days
Just a few years ago, Medellín, Colombia’s second city, was hailed as a beacon of urban regeneration in Latin America and praised for its steep drop in violent crime.
Affairs / Crime
Don't judge
Having issued an arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi, will the International Criminal Court ever bring the Libyan leader to justice? Here, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo responds to critics who say the ICC is ineffectual.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Thursday 13 October
Face to face with ETA
When the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent ceasefire in January, Spaniards were understandably wary.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Tuesday 9 August
UK Riots Part 2: Learn to love your high street
As the London riots rolled into their third day, businesses across the capital were shutting up shop.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Monday 8 August
UK Riots Part 2: Rethinking the security forces’ response
It was clear during last night’s mayhem in London that the police were woefully under-equipped, both in terms of apparatus and numbers.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Friday 4 February
Pressure builds to fight the pirates
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) yesterday launched its global initiative to “orchestrate the response” to piracy.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Tuesday 20 October
Fear fans the flames
Corporal Daniel da Cruz is 31 and a member of Rio de Janeiro’s military police.
Affairs / Crime
No. 1 lady detective
Forensic scientist Porntip Rojanasunan is loved by the Thai public for her fearless exposing of corruption in high places – and also for her unconventional dress sense.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Sunday 2 January
Forecast 2011: The perceived crime threat in Japan
It was not just the news itself, but the sickening familiarity of it all: a Japanese bus station in the morning rush hour, buses jammed with passengers and a 27-year-old man with a knife.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Monday 15 November
Piracy – a land-based problem
Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates while sailing their yacht in the Indian Ocean, were released yesterday after just over a year in captivity.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Thursday 22 April
The drugs don’t work
In 2005 it was voted the safest city in Latin America and shortly before that the best city in the region to do business in. But it would win some very different titles this year. The wave of drug-related violence in Mexico…
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Thursday 18 February
The plot thickens
The Mossad or not the Mossad – that is the question on everyone’s lips here, following the identification by the police in Dubai of at least seven Israeli citizens who also hold European passports as suspects in the killing…
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Wednesday 30 December
2010: Somalia’s forgotten civilians
A year which began with a tiny sliver of hope for Somalia has ended in yet another tragedy.
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Monday 5 October
Copping the flak
The European Union has just confirmed what anyone manning a checkpoint, and dodging bullets, in Kandahar or Lashkar Gah could have told you already: that policing in Afghanistan is probably the most dangerous job in the…