Springer Nature #transformativeagreements are driving #OA growth globally. Discover how three agreements in the USA, South Africa, and Slovenia are enhancing accessibility and fairness of research for institutions and their researchers. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4ioCrMn

"The speed & intensity of the expansion of fear of crime research & how it managed to penetrate many segments of Swedish governance must be considered remarkable," points out an illuminating new #OpenAccess piece. Read it in full: tinyurl.com/2xuwpuve #SDG16 The Division

What happens when political activists & protesters are treated like criminals? Per new #OpenAccess research from Critical Criminology, the impacts are nuanced, far-reaching, & worthy of close attention. In full: tinyurl.com/y26vvj26

Springer Nature has provided the STM Integrity Hub with its AI tool for identifying AI-generated nonsense text in research manuscripts. This initiative supports the publishing community's efforts to uphold research integrity and credibility. bit.ly/4jMjpBl

New publications by Mahir Hazım! "Transnational Crime and the Collapse of State in Afghanistan" doi.org/10.1007/s43576… and "Executive Authoritarianism in Lawmaking in the Afghan Republic" in Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (2025): 33:1.

We are proud to have signed our first unlimited and uncapped OA agreement in the Americas with Big Ten Academic. Through this two-year deal, participating authors can publish their work openly in all Springer hybrid journals without paying APCs. Learn more: spklr.io/6018hNuy

That "online peer support for violence can enhance the apparent influence of offline violent peers" is among the numerous findings of new, #OpenAccess research from the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course #Criminology: tinyurl.com/ye59t4az

The Special Issue of Criminal Law Forum, "Celebrating the Career of Michael Tonry", co-edited with Julian Roberts (Oxford Criminology), is now officially published. link.springer.com/journal/10609/…

With Sebastian Fossati and Nico Trajtenberg 🐝 @nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social, we leverage the staggered rollout of Montevideo’s itinerant street markets as a quasi-experimental setting to identify the causal effect of retail activity on crime. Now out in JQC (Springer Nature): link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Happy to share this new article in Crime, Law & Social Change led by my doctoral student Kylie McCarthy - the study explores media conceptualizations of the first investigated rape in the metaverse. Well done, Kylie! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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🔓 We have published our fourth annual Open Access (OA) report, providing a data-led overview of developments in OA publishing and access across Springer Nature. 🔗 Read the press release here: spklr.io/6010B1zwy

Can at-home electronic monitoring, a.k.a. house arrest, be more effective than jail? New findings "show that introducing the possibility to transform a prison stay to EM at home reduced 10-year reconviction and reincarceration rates". In full: tinyurl.com/35fuzmw9 #OA

🚨 Police #visibility = impt metric for many #policing activities. It’s often assumed that physical presence of 🚔 = ppl see the 🚔. But do ppl always see the 🚔 when they're present? In my new JOEX article, I find the answer is *no*: doi.org/10.1007/s11292…. A 🧵: 1/5

Last year, an avatar was viciously mass-assaulted in virtual reality. Behind the avatar was a real 16-year-old, & U.K. police stepped in. New research describes the unprecedented case & analyzes questions around crime, technology, & victimhood it unleashed:

Peer reviewers play a crucial part, together with journal editors and publishers, in helping to ensure the quality and credibility of published journal articles. But a lack of time and review guidance can limit reviewers’ ability to raise concerns. spklr.io/6015BygY1

Early this year, Crime, Law and Social Change—a journal both prolific & profound—used data from 500 athletes in 49 countries to report on & analyze "sextortion" in women's sports. Six (& counting) major news stories featured the findings. Read in full: tinyurl.com/cer9e57z #OA

🚨 Excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology! Big thanks to my co-authors and supervisors Gian Maria Campedelli & Michele Tizzoni 🇺🇦 for their guidance. Looking forward to continuing to explore the intersection of criminology and AI! 🕵

Undeniably, #AI is affecting scholarly research & Publishing in ways we're still exploring. At Springer Nature, one thing's clear: our journey forward must be led by human-centered values – and we walk the walk. Read about it here: tinyurl.com/44fvc8ze

Criminologists: your thoughts?