Dear friends, A niece of mine from Belgium is going to study at LSE next academic year. She is still looking for housing. Do you have any idea how she should best approach this?

Important new step for the field of Crime Science! With the giants in the field (and me), we recently registered the International Society of Crime Science register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-s...

What do "nodes", "paths", and "activity spaces" look like when we stop theorising and start tracking real mobility? This paper turns smartphone spatio-temporal data into replicable measures for testing core assumptions in environmental criminology. doi.org/10.1177/0042...

Can a procedurally just letter reduce recidivism among prolific traffic offenders? Amina op de Weegh, @nivette.bsky.social and I just published our evaluation study of a Dutch police intervention in the new journal Evidence Base. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New piece from us in the @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social newsletter, on why Criminology is lagging behind in Open Science and steps needed from the ESC to promote #openscience. escnewsletter.org/archive/crim... With Torbjørn Skardhamar and Jakob Demant

Do you explore intersections between digitalization and geography of crime? @asiermoneva.com, Wim Bernasco and I look forward to your contribution to our guest-edited special issue “The Geography of Crime in the Digital Era”. See call for papers (www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...). Please share.

New study tests a core idea in crime pattern theory: do burglars strike along the paths they travel between familiar places—or only near their activity nodes? Analysing 450 burglaries in The Hague, @toby-davies.bsky.social and I show they do both. doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Interested in becoming a member? It's free and open to anyone interested in helping foster and encourage practices that embrace openness, integrity and reproducibility in criminology research. See: esc-enoc.github.io/join.html

🚨 It's been a long time in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out! Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis. bsky.app/profile/soca...

Beginning my journey to Athens for #ESC / #Eurocrim! Tonight I head to Brussels, where my brother will join me for the rest of the trip, just like in past years. A tradition we truly cherish.

Tim Verlaan and I just published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology about our pre-registered quasi-experimental evaluation study of a place-based policing intervention in Amsterdam. doi.org/10.1007/s112... #ebp

We finally also have a Dutch Crime Severity Index (CSI), available online: nscr.nl/de-nederland...

De Nederlandse Crime Severity Index (CSI), een nieuwe manier om criminaliteit te rangschikken, nu online: nscr.nl/de-nederland...

Happy Europe Day #EU

According to Heliyon, an open access journal from Cell Press @cp-heliyon.bsky.social, I am an expert on ovarian cancer. My wife can attest I know very little about ovaries, and I am trying to avoid cancer too.

Cybercrime decision-making PhD candidate Danielle Stibbe has published another pre-registered online field experiment in Deviant Behavior: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Kick-off meeting SCRIPT-project: www.nwo.nl/en/projects/...

Mooi nieuw resultaat van samenwerking politie en wetenschap: met collega Vana Hutter en twee bestuursleden van de SEBP-NL, Mieke Struik en Valérie Peeck, publiceerden we in Cahiers Politiestudies de bijdrage 'Evidence-Based Policing: Een samenspel van politiepraktijk en politiewetenschap'.

Super excited to share that PhD candidate Natascha de Leeuw has published her first paper in Police Practice and Research. It's on measuring internal police demand, which we wrote together with coauthors from Netherlands Police. #ebp Wanna know more? See: doi.org/10.1080/1561...

Discover the next big thing in sci-fi! My friend Humberto just launched an epic Kickstarter with amazing graphics. Don’t miss your chance to support it. #Kickstarter #SciFi #PHOTOTAXIS seven planets / seven racers / seven stories / ONE winner www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...

Excited to share that our PhD candidate Roos Jansen just got her first paper published in Crime Science. It's on satisfaction with police among crime-reporting victims. doi.org/10.1186/s401...

Wil jij weten hoe crime scripting werkt, voor wie en onder welke omstandigheden? Heb je kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve skills? Lijkt het je leuk maatschappelijk relevant interdisciplinair onderzoek te doen? Dan ben je wellicht de promovendus die we zoeken! www.academictransfer.com/nl/346077/pr...

Bye bye Bucharest! Now on the nighttrain from Bucharest to Vienna but oh irony... cannot continue by train after Budapest due to weather extremes that are most probably caused by climate change...

Het programma is rond! #NSCR organiseert samen met #SEBP-NL op 26 september in Den Haag de conferentie 'Evidence-Based Policing in de Praktijk'. Kijk op ebpconferentie.nl voor het programma en aanmelding.

On my way to #eurocrim2024 in Bucharest. First to my brother's in Brussels. We will do this exciting trip together, so expect to play many chess games over the coming days

Just published another scoping review from our evidence-based policing research program together with Sam Langton. doi.org/10.1186/s401...

Nieuwe publicatie met Tim Verlaan en Sam Langton over reactieve politie-inzet op straat en de grote variatie tussen de verschillende basisteams in het Tijdschrift voor de Politie. www.websitevoordepolitie.nl/content/uplo...

How should we operationalize deployment time in police calls for service? Read all about it in the latest publication from our Evidence-Based Policing #ebp research program at the NSCR. crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....