North Carolina Supreme Court rejects redistricting map as unconstitutional wapo.st/3uzNUDw

New paper considers the effect of police presence on crime in Germany. The paper only studies property crime and finds that residential burglaries and car thefts rise when police presence falls. Other forms of property crimes are unchanged. Thread👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

1. Replicate a top-journal article 2. Found a huge coding error overturning all results 3. Inform the top-journal editors 4. Top-journal editors said that they do not review, consider, or publish any replication. -- What an accumulation of scientific knowledge!

If you're gonna listen to any speech about #Ukraine 🇺🇦, let it be this one. The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.

A nice diagram illustrating the search stage to the inclusion stage of reviewing documents for analysis (e.g., of illegal logging in frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…)

New PhD paper alert! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… It's a dream come true-the culmination of many years of thinking & R&D-to publish in the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling my new method for #geographicprofiling in crime investigations: GP-SMART 1/

Meeting with the Mayor-elect of Florianopolis, Guarda Municipal and Policia Militar of Santa Catarina to discuss plans for bid hot spot policing experimental trials blogs.iadb.org/brasil/pt-br/p… UCL Crime Science

New article with Patricio R Estevez-Soto Gaston Pezzuchi Rodrigo Serrano-Berthet Evaluation of hot spot policing Argentina. Dedicated to the memory of Oscar Terminiello Municipalidad de La Plata who died of Covid-19 in 2021 (pictured in maroon) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @SAGEcriminology UCL Crime Science UCL JDI Latin America and Caribbean Unit Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Nuevo artículo con Patricio R Estevez-Soto Gaston Pezzuchi Rodrigo Serrano-Berthet Evaluación policiamiento de puntos calientes en Argentina. Dedicado a la memoria de Oscar Terminiello Municipalidad de La Plata quien murió de Covid-19 en 2021 (se muestra en la imagen en la chaqueta granate) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Publicación con referato. Libre para descargar!!!

No need to defund police. Just make it so unattractive you depolulate it.

Why does Global North criminology fail to explain organized crime in Mexico? This is the question I examine in my latest article published in Theoretical Criminology. bit.ly/3mw2XsY

New article with Gonzalo Crocci in which we show how institutional ineffectiveness and poor controls for corruption are key factors (rather than structural conditions) that explain the persistently high levels of homicide in Latin America academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-ar…

News article in the Uruguay press in which I comment about changes and levels of crime in the country and Montevideo UCL JDI Latin America and Caribbean Unit UCL Crime Science elobservador.com.uy/nota/barrio-a-…

Acompáñanos al lanzamiento de la Plataforma de Evidencias en #Seguridad y #Justicia, el primer banco de evidencias en portugués y español que sistematiza conocimientos sobre lo que ha funcionado para reducir el crimen y la violencia. Regístrate aquí: bit.ly/3GA76q7

From two of the most highly-cited crime control scholars in the world: vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the-v…

Ending racism, discrimination, xenophobia & intolerance is our shared responsibility. Everyone, everywhere, can take action to spread compassion & acceptance. Here's how you can take action to #FightRacism: un.org/en/fight-racis…

This may be a bit niche, but if you care about crime science and environmental criminology, you are going to enjoy this one.

A cautionary tale for anyone doing research with police data. [grabs megaphone, clears throat] 📢 To properly analyse administrative data you need someone who understands how the data was produced 📢