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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Wishing our presentations didn’t clash so I could have come!

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Yep!

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Interesting presentation from Prof Helgi Gunnlaugsson about public attitudes towards sentencing (punitive, but also preferring rehabilitation to revenge)

Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Sep 6

It was such a great panel!

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Prof Amanda Robinson (and team!) presenting findings from Operation Bright Light, which comprehensively examined the challenges of investigating domestic violence

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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · Sep 3

@sandyschumann.bsky.social receives the Open Criminology Award from the European Network for Open Criminology (ENOC) in Athens
Photo credit: @ferhattura19.bsky.social

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · Sep 4

A reminder to my colleagues attending #EuroCrim2025: **a question is a single sentence that ends with a question mark**.

When invited to ask a question in a session, that is not an invitation to give your own talk on an unrelated topic.

The 'bad boyfriend' meme with a man looking at a pretty woman passing by on the street, while his girlfriend looks on in disgust. The man is marked 'random guy at a conference', the pretty woman is marked 'making a comment' and the girlfriend is marked 'asking a question'.

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dr @bethdavies02.bsky.social presenting a talk on avenues for criminal justice agencies to change their practices and better prevent severe harm and homicides

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Sep 4

@lisatompson.bsky.social and @richard100.bsky.social - this is very relevant to the work we are doing on intersectional analysis of risk for polyvictimisation

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hearing from Dr @ferhattura19.bsky.social about intersectional analysis of risk for experiencing stranger, acquaintance or domestic violence

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Dr @joelscanlan.com presenting on the evaluation of the ReThink chatbot

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Te Puna Haumaru @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social · Aug 6

Dr Anna Sutton joins us this month for the Te Puna Haumaru Seminar Series presenting Critical Incident Recovery: Insights from a Police Reintegration Programme Evaluation. See event poster below for more details. Register by clicking the following link 👉 tinyurl.com/23xuakcu

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Aug 5

Prof @richard100.bsky.social presenting research on suspicious accounts contacting adolescents on social media at ARCJC 💻 @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @uclcrimescience.bsky.social

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hearing from Prof Cathy Humphreys about the intersection of family violence and substance use at ARCJC

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Really enjoyed hearing from Prof Troy McEwan and Dr @benspivak.bsky.social about why we can’t predict intimate partner homicide - and what we should do instead 👮‍♀️ at ARCJC

Instead we should focus on assessing risk for severe and ongoing harm and target the broader drivers of family violence

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Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Aug 4

@jolliffesimpson.bsky.social presenting our research (and bossing it!) on understanding polyvictimisation, using boost & flag mechanism from repeat victimisation lit @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social #ARCJC

Apriel Jolliffe Simpaon presenting research on polyvictimisation at #ARCJC

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CrimRxiv @crimrxiv.com · Aug 4

Identifying Controlling Behaviors in Police Reports for Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Risk Assessment

Practitioners and policy makers increasingly recognize controlling behaviors as forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) and potential indicators of risk of further harm. Accordingly, several countries have criminalized coercive control—the systematic use of controlling ...

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Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Dr Molly McCarthy starting her talk with the youth crime decline and moving on to talk about what's driving the minority of high harm youth offending that remains.

Dr Molly McCarthy talking about the youth crime decline at #ARCJC2025 Sydney

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hearing from @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social about the science of second chances at ARCJC in Sydney

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Jul 28

A study interviewing teenagers reveals how parents can coercively control their children under the guise of parental discipline.

‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children

theconversation.com

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Jul 16

TLDR; including evidence of controlling behaviors in risk assessment for IPV may help with estimating risk of ongoing harm, but not necessarily its form. 👮🤔

@waikatouniversity.bsky.social @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Including controlling behaviors (specifically, economic control) led to small improvements in prediction of recurrence overall, and for men and women aggressors. For men, adding controlling behaviors did not improve prediction of physical recurrence; no models predicted physical recurrence for women

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Jul 16

We identified at least one form of controlling behavior in almost half of reports, and the behaviors were recorded at similar rates for aggressors who were men (n = 948) versus women (n = 210).

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Jul 16

...determine if those controlling behaviors improved predictions of recurrence and physical recurrence within 24 weeks, over and above the police's static instrument.

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Apriel Jolliffe Simpson @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Just accepted! 🎉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

We examined 1,158 New Zealand Police reports for IPV episodes to identify whether officers recorded evidence of controlling behaviors and...

(PDF) Identifying Controlling Behaviors in Police Reports for Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Risk Assessment

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