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Have been watching the election coverage for 4 days straight, and of course missed calling it for Joe Biden

Can you guess what happens when you provide homeless people with housing? ... ... ... You reduce crime, increase employment, improve health, and do not increasing reliance on social benefits. 80% of costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18mos. drive.google.com/file/d/1H9oD3z…

Dean Dabney spoke to CBS 46 about a recent rise in "slider crimes" and how you can stay safe at the gas station: ow.ly/IQ9o50ChZx1 cbs46.com/news/police-se…

“I can’t trust science because science has been wrong” <- That’s ... actually how science works. It gets better over time. And it’ll continue getting better with the hard work of scientists and experts. That’s THE POINT of science. That is all.

Amanda Gorman, 22 years old: "Being American is more than a pride we inherit. It's the past we step into and how we repair it."

Congratulations to Marie Ouellet, who has received an Early Career Development Program grant from the National Science Foundation! ow.ly/7XG950DMDZn

PhD student: Can you take a look at my first draft and let me know if I should cut down anythi... Adviser:

Congratulations to Marie Ouellet, of the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology, on receiving the Dean's Early Career Award for 2021!

Beyond the "Ferguson Effect" on crime: Examining its influence on law enforcement personnel · CrimRxiv crimrxiv.com/pub/crxhapxm/r…

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New study of web tracking data indicates a) Google does not push people into filter bubbles, but b) does find evidence that Republicans self-select into echo chambers. Interesting work by Katherine Ognyanova (@ognyanova.bsky.social) 🇺🇦 [email protected] and co-authors

Latest paper published in PLOS One uses #NetworkScience and #MachineLearning tools to detect “crews” of criminal cops in the Chicago Police Department (thread) Rajiv Invisible Institute @N3Initiative Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern NU Sociology a thread🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

New paper in JQC looks at whether officer networks shape firearm use. We find connections w/ weapon-prone prone peers structures officers’ risk of using their firearm Sadaf Hashimi George G Vega Yon

After a long and unsuccessful search for a statistical inference and regression textbook at the right level for our PhD students, I finally decided to write up my lecture notes as a book. The book is publicly available if you are interested: mattblackwell.github.io/gov2002-book/

👉Have you heard of the #PONET (The Police Networks Project) led by Marie Ouellet and funded by U.S. National Science Foundation and Gun Research Collaborative? PONET explores how informal relationships and workplace interactions guide #police work. For more info and a look at their research: ponet.netlify.app

👉Our very own Logan Ledford Logan Ledford, recently accepted an assistant prof position in the Criminal Justice & Criminology Department at East Tennessee State University (his home institution!) ETSU. Congratulations Logan! #TheStateWay Andrew Young School

📢It's out! Our new study (w. Marie Ouellet Logan Ledford) in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency explores the use of force networks of seven departments, seeking similarities and variations in (1) structural network effects and (2) officer-level attributes! Check it out! 👇 doi.org/10.1177/002242…

Ever wonder why certain officers tend to use force together? Our study dives into police "force partnerships" by analyzing 12,000+ reports from NJ police departments, revealing that force is often concentrated within tightly connected groups. Sadaf Hashimi Logan Ledford