Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNO.
Forever a Gamecock though.
Research interests: police, procedural justice, use of force
Political science
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Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Dec 30
Justin Nix
Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Ahead of the new year, I’ve simplified my website - aiming for a more “minimal” feel (at least on the homepage). I hope you’ll visit and explore!
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Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Aug 19
Looking Back on My Peer Reviews III | Justin Nix
I recently surpassed 200 manuscripts reviewed, and you know what that means: time to look back on how many manuscripts I’ve been asked to review, the recommendations I’ve made, and how long it general...
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Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Jun 5
Police shootings per year, by outcome, included in this dataset. Keep in mind that upward trend is most likely a reflection of better record keeping.
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Jun 5
Incredible new dataset on police shootings in the US, courtesy of Tom Clark, Adam Glynn, and Michael Leo Owens for their new book “Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America.” It covers all cities with 100K+ residents and includes both fatal & nonfatal outcomes.
policeshootingsdata.com/data/
policeshootingsdata.com/data/
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Jun 4
The Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI): Lessons learned from a decade of SAKI evaluations | Justin Nix
Here we describe the processes and quantify the outcomes of the SAKI project in Anoka County, MN – a mid-sized suburban/rural jurisdiction – and make comparisons to the three seminal SAKI evaluation p...
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Just accepted for publication!
The Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI): Lessons learned from a decade of SAKI evaluations
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The Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI): Lessons learned from a decade of SAKI evaluations
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Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· May 26
Where does that upper bound of 12000+ come from? Never seen an estimate that high with any publicly available data. Unless you’re counting people police nonfatally shot?
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· May 24
Unarmed killings are the rarest of these statistically rare outcomes, so it’s harder to pull a signal from the year-to-year noisiness. Plus, more undetermined cases in later years which mucks up the comparisons.
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· May 22
Julie, in your work with GVA, what was your sense of reporting disparities in rural v. urban areas, i.e., how likely is it that the upward trend is mostly rural areas being more likely to report on police killings now vs. 10 years ago?
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· May 21
Police Killings Still Trending Upward post-Floyd | Justin Nix
This weekend marks 5 years since George Floyd was killed by Officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department. Expect to see some news stories in the coming weeks wrestling with the question ...
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George Floyd was killed 5 years ago. Expect news stories in the coming days that wrestle with why police killings continue unabated, despite all the reforms that have been introduced over the last 5-10yrs.
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Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· May 16
Exciting news → The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNO is seeking applications for the Directorship of the Juvenile Justice Institute.
More about JJI here: www.unomaha.edu/college-of-p...
Apply at this link: unomaha.peopleadmin.com/postings/23816
More about JJI here: www.unomaha.edu/college-of-p...
Apply at this link: unomaha.peopleadmin.com/postings/23816
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· May 9
Sam Walker cleared out his office/library a couple years ago, I bet there were some gems in there 😥
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· May 9
Responding to Kang-Brown (again) | Justin Nix
Background In his latest commentary on our research note, Jacob Kang-Brown (JKB) raises six concerns (some old, some new). For what it’s worth he also makes clear his point of view regarding the “ques...
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Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Reflecting on My Promotion! | Justin Nix
A few weeks ago I got my letter from the Senior Vice Chancellor approving my promotion to Professor (beginning next term). It’s a pretty surreal feeling. I’ve worked hard, but I’ve also benefited from...
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Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Apr 21
Sources of organizational variability in fatal police shootings in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Neil et al. examine factors associated with variation in fatal police shooting rates across 2,727 US agencies and find that this variation is most strongly associated with differences in social contex...
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Full text: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Scott L. Althaus
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Apr 21
Interesting new paper in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social. The authors conclude that variation in fatal police shooting rates across agencies is "far from random" and "primarily associated with...differences in crime rates, 911 call rates, officers per capita and the prevalence of guns."
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Apr 9
99 Problems but a Clean IV Ain’t One: Measuring and Studying Officer-Involved Shootings | Justin Nix
Historically, a lack of comprehensive data on police shootings has hindered a nuanced understanding of this critical issue. However, in the past decade, the research landscape rapidly evolved with the...
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Check out our latest working piece on police shootings - jnix.netlify.app/publication/...
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Mar 31
High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding
Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and...
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High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Moving targets: an examination of departmental deadly force policies and police shootings at vehicles
Abstract. The current study applies variation in departmental deadly force policies by examining constraining and obligating language for a sub-set of poli
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🚨New article alert: "Moving targets: an examination of departmental deadly force policies and police shootings at vehicles" with @julie-a-ward.bsky.social . Open-access.
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Reposted by Mark Hallerberg, Justin Nix
Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
· Feb 19
Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will they say now?
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Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias.
This cause was once championed by *Republicans.*
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
This cause was once championed by *Republicans.*
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1917...
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Feb 11
Here are those yearly totals broken down by the "threat_type" and "armed_with" fields in WAPO's data.
Reposted by Scott L. Althaus
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Feb 11
According to @washingtonpost.com, 1173 people were fatally shot by on-duty police officers in 2024 - the highest annual total since they began tracking in 2015.
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Feb 4
The Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI): Lessons learned from a decade of SAKI evaluations | Justin Nix
Here we describe the processes and quantify the outcomes of the SAKI project in Anoka County, MN – a mid-sized suburban/rural jurisdiction – and make comparisons to the three seminal SAKI evaluation p...
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Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Jan 31
Understanding what violent street crime, globalization, and ice cream have in common
Research Summary In recent years, nutrition researchers have found that ice cream may have as many health benefits as low-fat milk or yoghurt for those with diabetes or at risk of diabetes. Nonethel...
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Gary LaFree’s Stockholm Address is a great read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Jan 22
'Split-second decision': Supreme Court returns to the question of police killings
The court will hear arguments this week over the “moment of the threat doctrine,” which addresses how much time can be taken into consideration when police kill people.
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Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Ten percent or so of the public accounts for over half of book-reading
9/ My goal was to vividly contrast the share of adults (y-axis) with the share of books read (x-axis). Merely scatterplotting this wasn't vivid enough for me. And I wanted to show more data than a normal bar chart will! Each bar here has a categorical meaning on top of its dimensions.
Feels like the Pareto Principle is undefeated
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9/ My goal was to vividly contrast the share of adults (y-axis) with the share of books read (x-axis). Merely scatterplotting this wasn't vivid enough for me. And I wanted to show more data than a normal bar chart will! Each bar here has a categorical meaning on top of its dimensions.
Ten percent or so of the public accounts for over half of book-reading
Justin Nix
@jnixy.bsky.social
· Jan 16
Police In-Service Training Podcast - Episode 5 | Justin Nix
We discuss procedural justice theory and some of my own research on the topic.
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I was recently a guest on a new podcast hosted by @policeinservice.bsky.social (professor of criminal justice at SUNY Buffalo State). We talked about procedural justice theory for ~28 minutes.
Police In-Service Training Podcast - Episode 5 jnix.netlify.app/talk/police_...
Police In-Service Training Podcast - Episode 5 jnix.netlify.app/talk/police_...