Global review of research from 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 finds almost all studies show no difference between the rates at which immigrants and local people commit crime, with only a few studies from 🇩🇪/🇮🇹 finding higher immigrant offending.

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🚨We are hiring 2 Lecturers/Assistant profs in Quant Social Science at UCL🚨 What we look for: 🐍 R/Python proficiency 🤖 Teaching and/or doing ML and/or social networks 🌍 Research on inequality, climate, education, social norms & more Circulate this or apply by 10-Oct 👉 tinyurl.com/5djcc35z

University of Surrey is hiring: Lecturer in Criminology (Teaching Track)

Thoughtful review of our recent paper in Policing & Society by San Gilmour. From our minimum policing standard research project @vp-centre.bsky.social @benbradford.bsky.social @drcaweirich.bsky.social @davejrowlands.bsky.social 👇🏽 www.linkedin.com/pulse/commun...

And more to come on this I hope!

New paper out in the BJC. We use longitudinal data from the MCS to assess unintended consequences of early exposure to policing. We find that being stopped by the police before age 14 may have implications for mental health, education, and offending in late adolescence doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

New pub in Policing and Society with Steven Pickering, Martin Ejnar Hansen and James Hunter doi.org/10.1080/1043... We looked at intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England using a relatively new statistical approach, MAIHDA.

Quick reminder that I'll be teaching a course on longitudinal data analysis this summer in Manchester. Registration is still open!

The Falconer Commission on cannabis is likely to become viewed as a 'landmark' report on the subject. But this is not the first such report. Read about the history of 'landmark' cannabis inquiries here: tobyseddon.com/2025/05/28/l...

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

My first - and very possibly last - paper in a cultural sociology journal!

Please circulate this! We're looking for an Assistant Professor in Criminology. Closing date of the 4th April 2025. Details here: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

How victims of sexual violence are treated by the police can either lead them to withdraw from the process of prosecution, or affirm their dignity, agency and sense of justice, argue @jacksojp.bsky.social @katrinhohl.bsky.social and @benbradford.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

“This is not simply a crisis of prison capacity. Our overcrowded and violent prisons are breeding grounds for crime, while probation services are overstretched and under-resourced within the community." - @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social.

I’m sure this is great, but it’s not me appearing in it! Also nice to see another Ben B, mind ….

Becoming a Howard League member is the easiest way to get involved in our movement for change and make your voice heard. We are the world's oldest prison charity. We safeguard our independence and do not accept any funding from government. howardleague.org/mem...

@oxfordcrim.bsky.social has a three-year departmental lectureship while @ianloader.bsky.social is on leave. Please do consider applying. It's a great dept with wonderful students and a good balance of teaching and research time. Info here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...

And mine too!

This is really important work IMO - great to have been involved.

Re-posting as closing date (20th Feb) is looming: Please repost @patricksturg.bsky.social @benbradford.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @closer-uk.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @sociologicalreview.bsky.social @sociowarwick.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN135/p...

You beat me to it Liz!

Here’s an interesting finding about the process of sentence inflation experienced in E&W over the last couple of decades: for some offence groups, this process appears to be reflecting nothing more than attrition in the criminal justice system - i.e., only the most serious crimes make it to court.

This looks like a great opportunity for someone …

All children and adult survivors of child sexual abuse deserve better than being treated as a political football. This letter was from 2023, the need for responses to child sexual abuse to be survivor-centred, inclusive and evidence-based holds today.

One of those brilliant suggestions you read and think to yourself, 'Why on earth haven't I thought of or read about this idea before? It's so damned obvious!'

9th in our roundup of 2024's most read PQ journal articles is 'Trust in the Police: What is to be Done?' by @benbradford.bsky.social and Jonathan Jackson Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🗒️ Read a new report on childhood vulnerability, crime and justice 💻 Watch our webinar on co-designing community resilience to online child sexual exploitation 🌆 Read a blog about women and girls’ views on safety in Bradford All in our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/fed0510c03ae...

We’ve all been there …

Professor Farrall’s 7 step plan to avoiding the prison capacity crisis in England & Wales: 1: stop 2: sending 3: so 4: many 5: people 6: to 7: prison. 🤞

A measured write up of my presentation to the APCC/NPCC Partnership Summit last month in Policing Insight. @vp-centre.bsky.social @benbradford.bsky.social 👇🏽 policinginsight.com/feature/poli...

Hey profs and lecturers: anyone trying something new with AI and assessments? I'm experimenting a little this semester and would love to know what you all have been doing. New creative forms of assessment? Back to old-school in-person exams? Integrating AI into the assignment? Please let me know!

Feels weird reposting things about yourself, but here you go.

Published today, a new @childofthenorth.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social report coordinated by @vp-centre.bsky.social researchers argues for a whole-child approach to childhood vulnerability that focuses on needs vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/new-rep...

8% of workers are ‘increasingly precarious’ – likely to be stuck in low-paid, insecure or uncertain work – finds a new report on the UK job market from a team including Dr Krisztián Pósch and @drellac.bsky.social @uclcrimescience.bsky.social, with @ucllaws.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...

Alert: ESRC funded collaborative doctoral studentship to work on insecurity and regulatory deficits in everyday life. Based in @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, supervised by me and Dan Taylor @oupolitics.bsky.social. Collaboration with @unchecked-uk.bsky.social. www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/bridging-the...

A must-read for background and commentary on this weeks policing announcement #policing www.dannyshaw.net/post/cooper-...

The Institute of Criminology is advertising the position of an Associate Professor to lead the Master of Studies (MSt) programme in Applied Criminology, Penology & Management. This is a part-time role on a fixed-term basis for three years. Further information here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49313/

Our paper on trust and trusworthiness is out, where we test a model of competence, benevolence, and integrity in 5 countries. We find these are generally consistent across people and countries, with benevolence being most important in determining trust judgements. doi.org/10.1111/1475...

If you have recently completed a PhD or due to complete, would like to consolidate & develop your research publications, networks, impact & skills in the field of vulnerability & policing + would like to consider a post-doctoral fellowship hosted @vp-centre.bsky.social 👇🏽 wrdtp.ac.uk/fellowships/

Big day for policing with Home Secretary to set out reform plans, with backing from NPCC chair Gavin Stephens. Later @policefoundationuk.bsky.social will be publishing a paper by me and Tom Gash setting out what a new national police body should look like www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Looking forward to presenting new findings from @vp-centre.bsky.social minimum policing standard research cited in this Guardian article at the NPCC/APCC Partnership Summit tomorrow. Research in collaboration with @benbradford.bsky.social David Rowlands & Christine Weirich 👇🏽

Applying procedural justice principles (being polite, explaining reasons for actions, etc.) during traffic stops (🇺🇸) led people stopped to have more positive views of police and be more willing to cooperate. Rudeness had the opposite effect. Paper: https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2024.2425676

Recently we delivered an INTERACT Strategy & Policy Forum to explore implications of our findings for digital police-public contact w key stakeholders. We discussed our first 5 briefing papers from this ESRC study -see www.sipr.ac.uk/interact/ #policing #technology #accessibility #proceduraljustice

I have for much of the last several years been researching security and everyday life in Macclesfield in north-west England with my colleagues Evi Girling, Richard Sparks and @benbradford.bsky.social. A report on our work can be found here securityinplace.org/documents/7/...

New evidence that conflict management training (de escalation, risk management etc) reduces use of force by police officers, without increasing the risk of harm to officers. This should be rolled out across the country. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/restori...

New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85 ifs.org.uk/publications...

Active travel and criminology folks (welcome to my two worlds!): here's my bit on why we need to take the car (and systems of automobility) more seriously as a criminological object www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

For anyone interested in short term holding facilities and (not mass) deportation, I have a new book out next month about the UK (with a very pretty cover): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Stark: just one in ten sexual assault survivors would report crime again and three quarters say mental health damaged by police treatment. But some progress on increased charges www.theguardian.com/society/2024...