ICYMI... We were featured in nature for innovations in forensic quantitative matching (incl using topography and statistical learning). National Institute of Justice: Moving the field forward internationally! nature.com/articles/s4146… #NFSW2024

Today, my dad got a phone call no parent ever wants to get. He heard me tell him I was in a serious car accident, injured, and under arrest for a DUI and I needed $30,000 to be bailed out of jail. But it wasn't me. There was no accident. It was an AI scam.

Research assistant wanted for #RCT of Functional Family Therapy-Gangs: jobs.gre.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r… #CriminologyJobs #FFT #CountyLines #YouthJustice

Idag lärt mig att en fast scanner i Helsingborgs hamn (50+ M SEK) skulle innebära att samtliga sydamerikanska containrar där kan kontrolleras. I princip stoppa den införsel av kokain som sker idag. Kartellerna skulle såklart hitta nya smuggelvägar, men ändå intressant!

A student from a different university emailed me because they saw the traffic stop racial disparity work our team has done recently. They wanted to know if there were any "shortcuts" to acquiring such data. In typing my response, I wanted to share my thoughts with y'all too. 🧵

Peter Esaiasson and I spent a lot of time on this newly published paper. It was NOT one of those papers that wrote itself. (Is there ever?) We make two bigger points.

CBI - cognitive behavioral interventions - have a broad base of evidence supporting their effectiveness in reducing criminal and violent offending. I'm looking forward to this UChicago Urban Labs webinar. crimelab.uchicago.edu/2024/10/untapp…

Preliminary findings from problem oriented intervention against open drug markets in six south Sweden municipalities . No effect om key informant perceived disorder or reported crime identified relative to controls.

New study - did #AI significantly reduce the time #police spent writing reports? TLDR: In a pre-registered RCT...no. Lots of talk, claims, and worries about AI in policing, but very little evidence. We aimed to provide high quality experimental evidence as more and more

Svenske tilstander kommer aldri hit! Når man hører justisdepartementet si at Norge har full kontroll på grensen, er det fint å se kontrolltiltakene selv. Her er en «bakvei» virkelig avstengt.

Swedish ’Foxtrot’ gang carries out terror attacks on behalf of Iran: (Oct 1) Shots fired at Israeli embassy in Stockholm at the same time as IR missile attack (Oct 2) Two grenades detonate near Israeli embassy in Copenhagen. Three Swedes arrested expressen.se/nyheter/sverig…

I wish I had this evidence in hand when I tried to convince my parents to buy me an Xbox 360 in 2005.

På plats i kulturhuset Stockholm för Framåtblick debatt om kommunernas brottsförebyggande arbete och vilka åtgärder som ger effekt. Seminariet kommer också att sändas i Svt forum

Congrats to professor Stijn Ruiter who is now an endowed chair in evidence based policing. Very well deserved.

My replication of Cook (2014) has been published in Econ Journal Watch. Quick thread: 1/ #EconTwitter

Reportertips: Verkar vara många handgranater i år. Försök sammanställa antal. Är detta det värsta året sedan 2016 då vi dokumenterde 39 detonerade? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…