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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

Dr L. Maaike Helmus presented a talk on 'A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis on Predictors of Domestic Violence Recidivism: The Role of Universal and Specialized Risk Factors’ as part of the Te Puna Haumaru Seminar Series. The recording is now available to view - link below 👇 youtu.be/WGHGCOZjLiU?...

We're looking forward to welcoming @joelscanlan.com as our guest speaker for next month's Te Puna Haumaru Seminar Series. Dr Scanlan will speak on The Impact of AI on CSAM Offending and Deterrence Efforts. See poster for more details. To register, click here 👉 tinyurl.com/y548k8vf

NZ Govt invest funds to deal with the growing prison population. Evidence suggests that prisons have no real effect on reoffending rates. What is needed, is offence-focused rehabilitation. Can we provide effective rehabilitation for people remanded in prison? Dr Polaschek writes for The Conversation

We assume that reporting to police leads to better outcomes for victims of family and sexual violence, but is that true? 👮‍♀️ We compared wellbeing outcomes for NZ Crime & Victims Survey respondents depending on whether they reported to police & found almost no differences 🧐 hdl.handle.net/10092/108247

My energy levels have been running low as the teaching trimester nears its end, so it was nice to receive some kind words from FPSYC101 students at our last workshop today ☺️ they were such a great cohort this year! ⭐️ @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social

Come and get involved in our mugshot prize draw if you're at @waikatouniversity.bsky.social open day. Challenge is to look more deranged than this 👇 😆 @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social

This month's seminar is open for registration! L. Maaike Helmus will join us to delve into A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis on Predictors of Domestic Violence Recidivism: The Role of Universal and Specialized Risk Factors. Register here: tinyurl.com/35v2xdkr

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Please make your papers open access: there really are people out there who want to read them but don’t have access to subscription journals. Fortunately, making your work open access is both very easy and 100% free: www.lesscrime.info/post/how-to-...

This is true, and is also likely to be the quickest response anyone ever gets via email from an academic.

Dr Amanda Turnbull discusses how ridesharing puts women into unsafe situations where their behaviour is moderated based on ratings rather than responding to the harmful situations and has become a vehicle for the growing issue of technology-facilitated gender-based violence.

"But the quarterly datapoints are not as reliable as the annual ones, and the NZCVS team does not recommend using them to suggest there has been any statistically significant change."

📢How did the COVID-19 pandemic change the way people impacted by possible trafficking and exploitation seek help? Latest research with @drellac.bsky.social, and using over 5 years of Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline data uncovers surprising trends 1/ doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Ride-sharing has become a vehicle for the growing and internationally recognised issue of technology-facilitated gender-based violence. Join Dr Turnbull as she explores the escalating problem of on-demand bias that pervades the ride-sharing industry. Register here: tinyurl.com/4fsehn9z

This study by @lisatompson.bsky.social and @drellac.bsky.social analysed 8,386 cases from the UK’s Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline run by @unseenuk.bsky.social between October 2016 and December 2021. bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

AI is exactly like a consultant who is paid more than you coming in with no clue about your workplace & so you have to explain everything to them and then after they come up with some generic jargon-laden bullshit you have to redo all their work anyway because they fundamentally didn’t get it

Paper by @lisatompson.bsky.social and colleagues showing that the risk of being a repeat victim of crime (in 🇳🇿) varies substantially depending on victim characteristics *and* crime type. ‘Crime’ is not one thing and doesn’t have one solution. dx.doi.org/10.15663/tph...

This is going to be an enormous shit show - the idea seems to be premised on the belief that a bachelors degree in psych is all about clinical psych/mental health: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

One week until we hear from Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman speaking about He Kitenga nō te Whare, a solutions-focused research initiative Dr Aikman led, examining policing practices in New Zealand through the metaphor of the ‘Blue Whare’ (house of policing). Register to attend: tinyurl.com/2s46y2v5?mc_...

For her summer research project, our scholar Danika Bridge, alongside team members Conrad Latimer and Georgia Pollock, examined records for intimate partner violence cases reported to New Zealand Police and documented the different types of harm that people experienced @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable streets.

Charlotte Ward returned as one of our 24/25 summer scholars, with her project Crime Scripts in Home Invasions: Analysing High Court Sentencing Decisions. Her research suggests that there are additional opportunities to develop crime scripts to help prevent other types of aggravated robberies.

New seminar recording with @lisatompson.bsky.social available to watch on our YouTube channel! This research is the first to focus on poly-victimisation in Aotearoa NZ and adds to the scant evidence base on poly-victimisation internationally. @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social @richard100.bsky.social

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.

Is moderate to high psychological distress a precursor to re-victimisation or is re-victimisation a precursor to moderate to high psychological distress? Paige Williams' project has laid the foundations for a later study to ascertain the temporal ordering of these variables @lisatompson.bsky.social

Summer research scholar Georgia Pollock (with Conrad Latimer & Danika Bridge) examined NZ Police records for IPV cases. Using the CBS-R, the team determined the extent to which officers recorded different types of controlling behaviours in their reports. Supervised by @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social.

This is, btw, the clearest example of direct political interference in the research system I've ever seen in NZ - a Minister ordering that entire areas of research be de-funded because she doesn't think they're worthy.

The swiftness and certainty of punishment have a much bigger effect on deterring crime than the severity of punishment does. If politicians want to use the justice system to deter crime, they need to stop making sentences longer and focus on increasing detections and clearing the court backlog.

Happy first day of the academic year www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...

Got the chance to chat with Kathryn Ryan this morning about the science sector and what ongoing cuts are doing to it. Man, I'd love to go on the radio one day to talk about *nice* things...

New open access paper. We look at nationally representative data on the association bw child maltreatment and self reported victimisation after 15 years of age. We find strong associations between exp. multiple forms of maltreatment and later victimisation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...