Ten years ago, Adeline Morel accompanied an inmate on a therapeutic outing. Fabrice A., twice convicted of aggravated rape, slit her throat. The killer was sentenced to life imprisonment, and joined ...

Juvenile justice usually has to choose between punishing and educating. In Switzerland, judges can do both. Swiss juvenile law requires that young offenders who have dropped out and have family ...

It has never been easier to buy your dog online.But a dirty business of dog smuggling spreading allover Europe lies behind thousands of internet ads.The unsuspecting buyers often have no clue ...

In January 2019, a 22-year-old man was stabbed to death in a Geneva parking lot, his attacker himself barely 18 years old. The tragedy is all the more shocking as the teen murderer was already under ...

Russia is about to elect its president, and the lack of suspense is matched by the terror that reigns in this campaign. While crowds have turned out to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin's ...

Sentimental scams leave in their wake men and women both ruined and sentimentally broken. Bernard dreamed of a tender retirement alongside a young Frenchwoman. Julie thought she had found love with ...

When exactly does a flattering comment breaks up the limits of sexism? How does one say loud and clear what is acceptable and what is not? Is a zero-tolerance policy towards harassment possible in ...

Unsolved crimes or cold cases benefit the ongoing advances in forensic medicine. But in Switzerland, the 30-year statute of limitations that de facto puts an end to investigations often leaves the ...

How could being an orphan mean forced commitment to psychiatric hospitals for young adults? In Switzerland, in the 1950s, a psychiatric clinic could have one third of so-called "socially ill" ...

Not a week goes by without a woman dying at the hands of her partner. However, domestic violence is not necessarily synonymous with battered women. Men are also concerned and intimate partner ...