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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 2d

👉"The compounding effect: how neighbourhood dynamics shape police deployment and use of force"

Amal Ali, Jasmine Oware, @jacksojp.bsky.social, @benbradford.bsky.social show that calls for service are concentrated in disadvantaged neighbourhoods- where they're more likely to experience police force🚓

The compounding effect: how neighbourhood dynamics shape police deployment and use of force - Crime Science

Background Calls for service are a major driver of police activity, yet their role in shaping the neighbourhood distribution of police use of force remains under-explored. Understanding where and why…

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 3d

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 6d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 7d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 7d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 17d

Global review of research from 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 finds almost all studies show no difference between the rates at which immigrants and local people commit crime, with only a few studies from 🇩🇪/🇮🇹 finding higher immigrant offending.

Immigration and crime around the globe: key findings across a diverse range of contexts · CrimRxiv

This chapter reviews the ever-growing body of empirical research on the immigration-crime link around the globe, focusing on studies across a diverse range of contexts: the United States, Canada, Australia,...

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Sep 9

#AcademicWriting be like

Screenshot of a tweet with the text, “Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.” The image accompanying the tweet is a photograph of a pizza that is half traditional, and half topped with a roasted chicken and colorful candies

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Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nice one Thiago!

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨We are hiring 2 Lecturers/Assistant profs in Quant Social Science at UCL🚨

What we look for:
🐍 R/Python proficiency
🤖 Teaching and/or doing ML and/or social networks
🌍 Research on inequality, climate, education, social norms & more

Circulate this or apply by 10-Oct 👉 tinyurl.com/5djcc35z

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · Sep 1

University of Surrey is hiring:
Lecturer in Criminology (Teaching Track)

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Adam Crawford @adamcrawford.bsky.social · Jul 27

Thoughtful review of our recent paper in Policing & Society by San Gilmour.
From our minimum policing standard research project @vp-centre.bsky.social @benbradford.bsky.social @drcaweirich.bsky.social @davejrowlands.bsky.social

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Community Wisdom and Democratic Policing: A Practitioner-Academic Response to Bradford et al.'s Minimum Policing Standard†

"The most profound finding of this research is not what communities want from police, but how their sophisticated understanding of their policing needs exposes the poverty of both technocratic experti...

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Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social · Jul 25

More the latter I suspect, although presumably a bit of both. To switch it round, it's clear that many people don't (can't) know the answers to these types of items, but are willing to act as if they do - to answer the survey question - which is itself an indicator of confidence ....

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Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social · Jul 25

And more to come on this I hope!

Adam Crawford @adamcrawford.bsky.social · Jul 25

Delighted to share first 2 articles from @vp-centre.bsky.social Minimum Policing Standard research @benbradford.bsky.social @drcaweirich.bsky.social & Dr Rowlands Open access:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
More:
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/minimum-poli...

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Adam Crawford @adamcrawford.bsky.social · Jul 25

Delighted to share first 2 articles from @vp-centre.bsky.social Minimum Policing Standard research @benbradford.bsky.social @drcaweirich.bsky.social & Dr Rowlands Open access:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
More:
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/minimum-poli...

www.tandfonline.com

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · Dec 2

Nice, short summary by my colleague @benbradford.bsky.social of what’s driven changes in public confidence in police (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) over the past 25 years. A useful reminder of the factors behind the short-term noise of media coverage.

https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557241298858

Public trust in the police is an almost ever-present feature of United Kingdom policy, political and indeed cultural debates, and this has been true right across the past quarter century. Concentrating on the population-level picture, and on England and Wales, in this article I outline what we know about changes in ‘trust and confidence’ over the past two decades or so, and make comparison with changes in other, closely associated, indicators. Why it might be that over this period trust in police first increased significantly, and then declined? Answers to this question implicate what might be termed the political economy of trust. Change in public trust may be due to a whole set of factors operating across multiple levels of policing and the society in which it takes place.

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Dec 15

We thank the reviewer for their useful suggestions, which have greatly improved the paper

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Stephen Farrall @stephenfarrall.bsky.social · Jan 15

Please could academic folks bring this to the attention of final yr UGs and MA students in criminology, sociology and pol sci (etc.) please? The PhD studentship is to study the extent of electoral fraud in Britain, working with BMG Research, Dr Siim Trumm and myself.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLL511/p...

PhD Studentship: Estimating the True Extent of Electoral Fraud Victimisation in Britain at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership

Discover a PhD Studentship: PhD Studentship: Estimating the True Extent of Electoral Fraud Victimisation in Britain Explore more PhD opportunities and apply today!

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Prof Liz Aston @lizaston.bsky.social · Jan 29

Our latest INTERACT article is out 🎉 led by @benbradford.bsky.social &Arabella ‘Participants read a fictitious ‘chat’ between a victim of crime and a police operator identified as either a human or a chatbot… we find a consistent preference for human operators over chatbots….’ #technology #policing

‘To whom am I speaking?’; Public responses to crime reporting via live chat with human versus AI police operators

Driven by social and technological change and the imperative to enhance efficiency, police have in recent years adopted various technologies to transform their interactions with the public. In the ...

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Katrin Hohl OBE @katrinhohl.bsky.social · Feb 6

New open access paper with @jacksojp.bsky.social and @benbradford.bsky.social on how rape and sexual assault survivors experiences of the police compel us to rethink procedural justice theory academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations

Abstract. Procedural justice theory has much to say about police-citizen interactions, but the high-stakes, long-duration and quite specific nature of poli

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · Feb 6

Be my boss! (And do much more important things, too.)

We're looking for a new head of department (full professor) at UCL Crime Science. Deadline 27 Feb.

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Feb 13

Last year historian @thomaszimmer.bsky.social and I had a long conversation with @benbradford.bsky.social about season 1 of Landslide. I appreciate the nuance and care with which Ben has traced the historical roots of our present moment.
sethcotlar.substack.com/p/right-wing...

"Right wing nuts" for Reagan: A conversation between Thomas Zimmer, me, and Ben Bradford, the maker of the "Landslide" podcast

NPR recently released an excellent podcast series on the politics of the 1970s called Landslide.

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Ian Loader @ianloader.bsky.social · Apr 1

We revisited the town of Macclesfield in north-west England, 25 years after our original study, to find out what troubled people living there today. A large part of the answer involved cars. So we have written this paper on 'automotive disorder'@benbradford.bsky.social @egirling.bsky.social

Inescapable objects? Automobility and everyday disorder in an English town - American Journal of Cultural Sociology

In our study of everyday security in one English town (Macclesfield in north-west England), numerous sources of data suggest that annoyance about cars—their volume, speed, (bad) parking, presence at t...

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Thiago R. Oliveira @oliveiratr.bsky.social · Jul 18

New paper out in the BJC. We use longitudinal data from the MCS to assess unintended consequences of early exposure to policing. We find that being stopped by the police before age 14 may have implications for mental health, education, and offending in late adolescence

doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

Unintended Consequences of Early Exposure to Policing: Assessing Long-Term Effects of Police Stops During Adolescence in England and Wales

Abstract. This study examines the unintended life-course consequences of being stopped by the police in England and Wales before age 14 using data from the

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Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social · Jul 7

New pub in Policing and Society with Steven Pickering, Martin Ejnar Hansen and James Hunter
doi.org/10.1080/1043...

We looked at intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England using a relatively new statistical approach, MAIHDA.

This study investigates intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England using multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and
discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) for the first time. We find that those
who are non-White, from lower social classes, and reside in London
show lower predicted trust levels than other people. While older people
show higher predicted trust levels, younger people, especially those
from marginalised backgrounds, have the lowest predicted levels of
trust in the police. We also find intersectional effects. While middle-aged White males from lower social classes and living outside of
London have lower than-expected trust in the police, older White
females from lower social classes and living outside of London have
higher than-expected trust in the police. We argue that ground-level,
community engagement, coupled with extensive officer training on
engaging with individuals from diverse backgrounds, are key to
developing higher levels of trust in the police.

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Thiago R. Oliveira @oliveiratr.bsky.social · Mar 4

I'm teaching a one-week course on Longitudinal Data Analysis for the @methodsmcr.bsky.social summer school this summer

Spread the word!

methods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social · Mar 4

Longitudinal Data Analysis (30 June - 4 July)

This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the analysis of longitudinal data, taught by @criminologyuom.bsky.social's @oliveiratr.bsky.social.

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Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social · May 28

The Falconer Commission on cannabis is likely to become viewed as a 'landmark' report on the subject. But this is not the first such report. Read about the history of 'landmark' cannabis inquiries here: tobyseddon.com/2025/05/28/l...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · May 3

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

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Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social · Apr 23

And then he spent the *entire* of the rest of the interview asking about the Supreme Court ruling. Pathetic.

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Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social · Apr 1

Obviously I’m not ruling anything out ….

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Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social · Apr 1

My first - and very possibly last - paper in a cultural sociology journal!

Ian Loader @ianloader.bsky.social · Apr 1

We revisited the town of Macclesfield in north-west England, 25 years after our original study, to find out what troubled people living there today. A large part of the answer involved cars. So we have written this paper on 'automotive disorder'@benbradford.bsky.social @egirling.bsky.social

Inescapable objects? Automobility and everyday disorder in an English town - American Journal of Cultural Sociology

In our study of everyday security in one English town (Macclesfield in north-west England), numerous sources of data suggest that annoyance about cars—their volume, speed, (bad) parking, presence at t...

link.springer.com

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Stephen Farrall @stephenfarrall.bsky.social · Mar 7

Please circulate this! We're looking for an Assistant Professor in Criminology. Closing date of the 4th April 2025. Details here:

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Assistant Professor in Criminology

The School of Sociology and Social Policy is a vibrant centre for social science teaching and research. We are a multidisciplinary School covering criminology, sociology, public policy, social policy,...

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk

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