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Colombian's cocaine trade #ESC2025 @uclcrimescience.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Colombian's cocaine trade #ESC2025 @uclcrimescience.bsky.social
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India’s cybercrime epidemic: victims lose life savings to fake police
Last year Indians lost £1.97bn to cybercriminals posing as inspectors on video calls, with uniforms, sound effects and personalised documents
Last year Indians lost £1.97bn to cybercriminals posing as inspectors on video calls, with uniforms, sound effects and personalised documents
India’s cybercrime epidemic: victims lose life savings to fake police
www.thetimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
India’s cybercrime epidemic: victims lose life savings to fake police
Last year Indians lost £1.97bn to cybercriminals posing as inspectors on video calls, with uniforms, sound effects and personalised documents
Last year Indians lost £1.97bn to cybercriminals posing as inspectors on video calls, with uniforms, sound effects and personalised documents
Long day...
RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
May 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Long day...
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Do cybercriminals weigh risk & reward when picking targets? Stibbe & @nscr-instituut.bsky.social found stolen account posts w/ big rewards got more views, while warnings scared users off. Police Op made admins delete “risky” posts—at first. Over time, that faded.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rational Choice on a Hacker Forum: The Effect of Risk and Reward Cues on Target Selection for Account Hijacking
This online field experiment tested how risk and reward cues in (fake) account credential ads on a hacker forum influence target selection for account hijacking. High-risk posts, warning of account...
www.tandfonline.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Do cybercriminals weigh risk & reward when picking targets? Stibbe & @nscr-instituut.bsky.social found stolen account posts w/ big rewards got more views, while warnings scared users off. Police Op made admins delete “risky” posts—at first. Over time, that faded.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📢 Research Associate Opportunity - NHS Counter-Fraud Project> we're looking to recruit an RA for a NIHR funded project on strengthening counter-fraud across the NHS in England. Details here www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #criminology #fraud @criminologyuom.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
Research Associate in NHS Counter-Fraud:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
📢 Research Associate Opportunity - NHS Counter-Fraud Project> we're looking to recruit an RA for a NIHR funded project on strengthening counter-fraud across the NHS in England. Details here www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #criminology #fraud @criminologyuom.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
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Do our routines increase our risk of re-victimisation in different places? Summer research scholar, Donelle Steer, under the supervision of @lisatompson.bsky.social, looked at variables that approximate routine activities to determine if these are associated with risk of re-victimisation.
March 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Do our routines increase our risk of re-victimisation in different places? Summer research scholar, Donelle Steer, under the supervision of @lisatompson.bsky.social, looked at variables that approximate routine activities to determine if these are associated with risk of re-victimisation.
Join us for the PhD Open Evening (Security & Crime Science)!
Register now for the event: www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Register now for the event: www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
PhD hybrid open evening – UCL Security & Crime Science
Learn about our Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) in Security & Crime Science, explore available programmes, funding options, application process, and get insights from programme convenors and curr...
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Join us for the PhD Open Evening (Security & Crime Science)!
Register now for the event: www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Register now for the event: www.ucl.ac.uk/security-cri...
Asking for a friend...
February 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Asking for a friend...
Join our Professional Services team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 18, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Join our Professional Services team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Ever wondered how to model hybrid threats? The answer is in this new JASSS paper💫 www.jasss.org/28/1/1.html @uclcrimescience.bsky.social
Using Agent-Based Modelling and Reinforcement Learning to Study Hybrid Threats
by Kärt Padur, Hervé Borrion and Stephen Hailes
www.jasss.org
December 3, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Ever wondered how to model hybrid threats? The answer is in this new JASSS paper💫 www.jasss.org/28/1/1.html @uclcrimescience.bsky.social
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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
https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557241298858
December 2, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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
https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557241298858
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For crime science & criminology followers - see my website crimeframeworks.com and please let your colleagues know!
CRIME FRAMEWORKS
Sharper thinking, communication, action in crime prevention, security and community safety
crimeframeworks.com
November 30, 2024 at 6:23 PM
For crime science & criminology followers - see my website crimeframeworks.com and please let your colleagues know!
Someone should really be on Twitter, not Bluesky
November 23, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Someone should really be on Twitter, not Bluesky
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How to get started with academic Bluesky blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
How to get started with academic Bluesky
As prominent individual and institutional accounts eschew Twitter/X for new social media platforms, Bluesky is having a moment. Drawing on the experience of colleagues on the platform, Ned Potter, …
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 11:34 AM
How to get started with academic Bluesky blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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We're looking for a lead Quant Analyst to join our team. Interested in a new challenge, or know someone who might be? Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or apply here: www.crestadvisory.com/post/we-are-...
We're hiring a Lead Quantitative Analyst
The Lead Quantitative Analyst is a newly introduced role at Crest Advisory, created to support the growth of our data analytics services for clients in the justice, policing, and public safety sectors...
www.crestadvisory.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:35 AM
We're looking for a lead Quant Analyst to join our team. Interested in a new challenge, or know someone who might be? Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or apply here: www.crestadvisory.com/post/we-are-...
Implementation failure in Jakarta: local solutions to a global problem
November 17, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Implementation failure in Jakarta: local solutions to a global problem