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Manne Gerell

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Associate Professor in Criminology & co-founder Centre for policing & prevention, Malmö Uni, Sweden. Research on police, the geography of crime & fear, & crime prevention.

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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · Mar 20

New paper with Karl Kronkvist & Anna-Karin Ivert ✅

We show that placed perceived as unsafe in _ones own_ neighborhood tend to be located near schools, stores and parks.
Patterns are weaker for unsafe places outside of respondents own neighborhood. A 🧵

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exploring Place-Based Fear of Crime: Associations Between Place Features and Perceived Unsafe Locations in Malmö, Sweden - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

The current study explores the association between place features (e.g., schools, public transportation nodes, bars and restaurants) and perceived unsafe locations using data from two open-ended items...

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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, I doubt it would have been very easy to do from scratch..

Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 6h

It was actually surprisingly quick and smooth, mostly run by the head of the police department at the uni, and took less than a year - but that of course that builds on a decade of close collaboration with the policen in both education and research..

Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 7h

Each police officer will also have a mentor - a regular PhD student who has already done some research. Seven of the PhD students connected to the Malmö Centre for policing and prevention are introducing themselves at our webpage (again in Swedish unfortunately)

mau.se/forskning/fo...

Forskarskola för yrkesverksamma inom polisen | Malmö universitet

Forskarskolan för yrkesverksamma inom polisen ska knyta Polismyndigheten och akademin närmare varandra och på så sätt tillsammans kunskapsbasera och utveckla polisens verksamhet.

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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, I think it is a great idea! There is already something similar for social work at our university - social services workers do 50% in a PhD program and 50% work as normal.

Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 7h

To begin with the plan is that they will do four years and get a "licentiat" degree (~ half a PhD). The idea is that they will be able to bring more research into policing - and more policing into the research.

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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 7h

Very happy that we now start a research education program for police officers in collaboration with the city of Malmö police department. Up to five officers will work 50% as normal, but the other 50% training to become researchers in our PhD program.

(link in Swedish)
mau.se/nyheter/fors...

Första forskarskolan för poliser startar i Malmö | Malmö universitet

Nu ges poliser i Malmö möjligheten att forska vid Malmö universitet parallellt med sitt arbete. "Satsningen är historisk", säger Caroline Mellgren, biträdande professor i kriminologi vid Malmö universitet.

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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 2d

Posta i facebookgruppen också?

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 10d

Yup, big increase. No idea what's going on because also a smaller increase in knife violent crimes. Hard to tell if they're playing games with categorization or the means of crime have changed.

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 10d

Now with 7 weeks of data on each side National Guard deployment in DC. Reported violent gun crime in DC is down 44%. Homicides during this period went down 22 to 11.
(Last year during the same two time periods before and after August 11, there were 28 and 24 homicides and many more gun crimes.)

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11d

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Wp EXCLUSIVE
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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Alex Sutherland @criminologist.bsky.social · 13d

@jenniferdoleac.bsky.social in case @arnoldventures.bsky.social decides it wants to resurrect / redo Crime Solutions.

(I think there was room for improvement but it's a net public good IMO to have the summaries out there.)

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Andy Wheeler @crimede-coder.bsky.social · 13d

Given that NIJ stopped funding additional development of Crime Solutions, I scraped the website and archived the reviews in a permanent location using ardrive.

andrewpwheeler.com/2025/09/26/i...

I scraped the Crime solutions site

Before I get to the main gist, I am going to talk about another site. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) paid RTI over $10 million dollars to develop a forensic technology center of excellence…

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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 13d

Had the pleasure to present some of our research on the geography of fear at the Gothenburg book fair today.
It is a very large and fun event to visit.

Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 15d

Intressant! Det visste jag inte. Tack för lärdom!

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Staffan Dahl @staffand.bsky.social · 16d

Might have missed something but I have not seen any discussions about this in Sweden.

Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 16d

Couple of charts I wanted to share that show the extreme surge in China's trade surplus over Europe this year.

This one shows change for each member state over first 9 months of 2025. Germany way out in front, but Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Bulgaria, France with huge swings...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "I'm really good at predicting things. During the campaign they had a hat -- a best-selling hat -- 'Trump was right about everything.' And I don't say that in a braggadocios way, but it's true. I've been right about everything."

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 16d

statistic of the day

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Alex Sutherland @criminologist.bsky.social · 17d

Yep, homicide also down massively since early 2000s.

Flip side is that fraud is now the bulk of all UK crime (~40%) but hardly given time of day. Cutting fraud is an economic growth strategy...

www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/threats-2025...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 17d

Imagine how much we could bring down crime if we put the same resources into policing. I mean, the National Guard standing around brought about a 35% reduction in violent gun crime. We could do much more with legal and constitutional policing.
www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/a-be...

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Peter Moskos @moskos.bsky.social · 18d

Barry Latzer and I have an opinion piece in the National Review today. Why troops are NOT the right way to fight crime in cities. Policing, turns out, is best done with... police. www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/a-be...

A Better Way to Fight Crime | National Review

National Guard deployments can only do so much.

www.nationalreview.com

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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 18d

Mina snackar snarare amerikanska, men deras generation har ett otroligt uttal och ordförråd (stavningen som du säger sämre). Har alltid trott jag pratar ok engelska, så blev lite wake up call när barnen börjar retas !

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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 18d

Mina barn har börjat reta mig för mina svaga ”th” - trots att jag rest väldigt mycket och undervisat på engelska i flera år!

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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 18d

So you have to restart your PhD, not able to reuse some of your old work?

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 19d

Cool as hell pets not allowed.

Lord Arse! 🕹️ @lordarse.com · 19d

This should be encouraged, not banned.

A sign banning dogs on skateboards from drinking wine and smoking.

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