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Lisa Tompson

Lisa Tompson

@lisatompson.bsky.social

940 followers 660 following 410 posts

Crime Scientist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 -> 🇳🇿 Interested in generating and synthesising evidence for better crime prevention and policing policy. Methodologically promiscuous.

Political science 34%

Sociology 25%

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Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 1d

Jealous ☺️

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Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · 3d

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

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Professor Laura Huey @drlaurahuey.bsky.social · 3d

Putting together the final touches on the inaugural special issue.

Much thanks to Lorna Ferguson for her sterling editorial efforts and to all of our contributing authors. Special thanks also to Matt Logan for all of his behind-the-scenes promotional work.

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Te Puna Haumaru @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social · 5d

Is it possible to predict lethal and non-lethal family violence?This online seminar shares findings from a prospective study of nearly 40,000 family violence reports in Victoria, AUS testing whether commonly used risk factors predict lethal and non-lethal outcomes.🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/57ucmdhf

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 5d

This was my yesterday. "You can't submit it until these issues are resolved."
You mean the issues that are figments of your imagination? 😤

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 5d

New review of evidence finds the most-effective police crime prevention tends to be:

a) focused on very specific places (not people or neighbourhoods), and
b) tailored to preventing a *specific* type of crime.

⚠️ Broad-brush crime prevention generally doesn't work.

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

The evidence-based policing matrix at 14 years - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Objective To update the 2011 results of the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a tool for analyzing, visualizing, and translating research on police crime prevention strategies. Methods We added 177…

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Professor Laura Huey @drlaurahuey.bsky.social · 6d

Follow us @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10d

May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 14d

This is the closest rigorous systematic review, but the outcomes are psychosocial and mental health rather than offending: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Participation in organised sport to improve and prevent adverse developmental trajectories of at‐risk youth: A systematic review

Background Healthy after-school activities such as participation in organised sport have been shown to serve as important resources for reducing school failure and other problem/high-risk behaviour....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 17d

A lovely Christmas Day walk in some amazing light.

Sunlight breaks through heavy clouds over a mountainous landscape, casting dramatic golden rays across a lake and forested hills below. The lake is Ullswater in the English Lake District.

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 17d

Merry Christmas / Meri Kirihimete everyone! May your days be merry and bright ✨️ 🎄 ☃️

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Lisa Tompson

Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · 18d

#CallForPapers: Legal and Criminological Psychology invites submissions for a special issue exploring The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies

#AcademicSky #Criminology #EmTech

Deadline 10 March

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 18d

Stunning! Meri Kirihimete Matt! (Bringing some te reo Māori to deepest Norfolk this year). Hope you have a cracking one x

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 18d

As an NZ immigrant I can confirm it is not better, just different. Xmas is nowhere near as hyped there which is both less stressful and less Chrismassy. It is a novelty being able to spend Xmas at the beach/lake/river but I'd still choose a cold Xmas every time!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19d

Consumer PSA:
A lot of stores will advertise an Xmas tree,
but the package actually *contains* a Ymas tree.

DON'T BE FOOLED.

Three panels: an Xmas tree where a christmas tree is aligned along the X axis of a graph, then a Ymas tree, the same but aligned vertically, and a Zmas tree showing the third axis in the 3-D projection.

Stolen from the Internet.

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Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social · 22d

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢
Please do share widely 1/3

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 23d

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...

When a chatbot runs your store

You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...

www.aiweirdness.com

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Evidence Base @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social · 26d

Just getting the first few papers accepted and ready for copyediting for our first issue in spring 2026.

a white cat is laying on its back on a brown blanket .

ALT: a white cat is laying on its back on a brown blanket .

media.tenor.com

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 26d

As Co-Chair of the @campbellreviews.bsky.social Crime & Justice Group, I’m delighted to congratulate Dr Liz Eggins and Prof Dave Wilson on receiving the Leonard E. Gibbs Award. A well-deserved recognition of their outstanding contribution to rigorous, policy-relevant evidence synthesis.

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Brymo @brymo.bsky.social · 28d

Forget-me-not 🩵
#art
#photography
#flowers

A photograph of a blue forget-me-not flower on a background of dead leaves

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Dec 10

Never gets old

One of the Lakes on the University of Waikato's campus, on a beautiful summers morning.

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Nov 30

Excited to be here over the next 3 days #ANZSOC2025 And what a view 🤩

Welcome to country for ANZSOC 2025 conference

Brisbane by night from the 48th floor

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · Nov 29

Persuasive letter on populism as a cognitive short-cut in the @financialtimes.com

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Prof Andy Newton @profanewton.bsky.social · Nov 26

Interested in women and girls safety/co_creation/planning and housing. New fully funded PhD opportunity below.
www.linkedin.com/posts/andy-n...

Designing safer futures: co-creating public spaces with women and girls in deprived neighbourhoods | Andy Newton

Fully Funded PhD (UK applicants only) Interested in co-creation, safety of women and girls, and housing/planning. Come and study with me, Patricia Tzortzopoulos and Begüm Eken https://lnkd.in/eqR3hh...

www.linkedin.com

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Nov 25

🚨BREAKING 🚨
if you tweet your new paper in red-alert emojis, and the paper has not actually cured cancer, then you should reevaluate your perceived self-importance

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Nov 24

Academia is 10% inspiration, 90% trying to remember how past you named things

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · Nov 22

🧵Spotted at an A&P Show in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (2?) has spotted a pen of puppies.
Studying them for a long moment, she bursts into tears.
Dad asks what's wrong and looking up at him in abject anguish she wails: "I WANT TO PAT THEM ALL!" (1)

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CrimRxiv @crimrxiv.com · Nov 20

crimrxiv.com is regularly exceeding 100k users per month thanks to your support of open criminology. It's always free for readers and authors to use. You can also join us for free here: http://dlvr.it/TPMrGg

screenshot from cloudflare showing we have more than 100k users over the past 30 days

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The Campbell Collaboration @campbellreviews.bsky.social · Nov 11

We're excited to announce a newly published joint statement on the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in evidence synthesis along with Cochrane, @jbiebhc.bsky.social, and the @envevidence.bsky.social.

Read the joint position statement here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · Nov 9

Palm Beach, Waiheke. Right now
Nerd fact (I’m a marine biologist after all), when luciferin and luciferase (gotta love the biblical names) join together, they react with the oxygen in the air to make an oxidised complex. After that, luciferin emits a photon, and that is what you see when it breaks