Is crime in London ‘through the roof’? No. In comparison to other major global cities, people in London are fairly safe from most types of crime, as I talk about on this week’s episode of More or Less:

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Is crime in London ‘through the roof’?

How does violent crime in London compare to other global cities?

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Any Wikipedia editors in the room? Anyone willing to help us create a Wikipedia entry for @crimrxiv.com?

📢 Interested in collaborative replication, open science, and research methods in criminology? Join us at the inaugural meeting of #CRIMLabs, a new international Many Labs initiative, at @opencriminology.bsky.social pre-conference meeting (9 Sept 2026). Details in the leaflet 👇

📢 Nominations are open for the 2026 Open Criminology Award! Recognising outstanding contributions. 🆕 New for 2026: 🏆 ECR Award (€1,500) 🏆 Established Researcher Award (€2,000)* 📅 Deadline: 16 July 2026 🔗 esc-enoc.github.io/open-crim-aw... #OpenCriminology #OpenScience *Subject to final agreement.

If you are a policy interested researcher we have opened a fantastic call for our Innovation Fellowships. Spend a year working with a policy partner on themes of resilient communities or digital society. We offer up to £120k. More detail below in this 🧵 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Last Friday I spoke to Henry Bonsu (Times Radio) about the preposterous claim that White British are discriminated against by the criminal justice system. www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2... From 19:45 to 25:59 #TwoTierPolicing

Henry Bonsu | Times Radio | The Times and the Sunday Times

Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.

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Assoc Editor @davidbuil.bsky.social is currently cooking up a special issue for next year of evidence assessments from across the globe.

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Many researchers support #OpenScience in principle, but argue they face real barriers when putting it into practice.

We know little about which individual, social and contextual correlates of crime are cross-nationally robust. In this new @plosone.org paper, we use data from 21 countries to analyse if unstructured spare time correlates with adolescent offending across multiple contexts doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Unstructured spare time as an international predictor of adolescent crime

This study investigates whether unstructured spare time is a significant correlate of self-reported offending among adolescents in multiple countries. Drawing on survey data from 58,425 13-to-17-year-...

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UoM Department of Criminology Away Day 2026 @criminologyuom.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

I’m teaching a longitudinal data analysis course at the @methodsmcr.bsky.social Summer School this summer. Reach out if you’re interested

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💬 “An amazing opportunity to learn from a leading expert” (Attendee, 2025) Our Longitudinal Data Analysis Summer Course gives you the chance to build hands-on skills in working with longitudinal data, guided by expert @oliveiratr.bsky.social 🔗 More info new.express.adobe.com/webpage/2Rig...

‘Once Bitten, Twice Shy? Understanding Repeat and Multiple Victimization in Business Cybercrime’ is now published in Crime & Delinquency. This is Yijie’s first PhD paper; show her some love! 🎉

Once Bitten, Twice Shy? Understanding Repeat and Multiple Victimization in Business Cybercrime - Yijie He, David Buil-Gil, Jon Davies, Emma Barrett, 2026

This study examines repeat victimization (RV) and multiple victimization (MV) in business cybercrime using data from the 2024 UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey ...

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New conceptual paper in Crime Science (with absolute legend Ken Pease). We revisit the role of time use in criminological theory and propose a framework to integrate key principles across existing theories doi.org/10.1186/s401...

Unstructured spare time and crime: toward an integrative model - Crime Science

Criminological theorizing over the past half century has shown little convergence or integration. Three strands of criminological theory can be identified: dispositional approaches (emphasizing self-control, social learning, biological, and morality theories), ecological theories (emphasizing the crime consequences of dysfunctional communities), and opportunity theories (focusing primarily on places and artifacts that enable or facilitate crime). The discipline’s progress has not resulted in a convergence of theoretical propositions. This article offers a potential route toward reconciling these approaches, provisionally termed the Unstructured Spare Time model of crime. It begins with an overview of relevant criminological theories and highlights enduring tensions between individual- and opportunity-based approaches. It then reviews previous integrative efforts, noting their contributions and limitations. The Unstructured Spare Time model is introduced as a conceptual bridge among these traditions. The model posits that unstructured spare time, at the level of individuals, geographic areas, and time periods, is shaped by personal factors, broader social changes, and the spatial organization of cities and towns. This unstructured time, in turn, influences both individual readiness for crime and the availability of crime opportunities. The model advances a dynamic view of how time-use patterns mediate the relationship between personal traits, community conditions, structural factors, and exposure to and engagement in crime. Its central contribution lies in focusing explanation and, by extension, prevention and intervention strategies on a single, observable factor: unstructured spare time. The article summarizes empirical support from recent studies and concludes by outlining directions for future research and refinement of the model.

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Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...

We’re looking for a writer

We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.

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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 #TheoreticalCrim is currently accepting proposals for our 2028 Special Issue. If you are interested in guest editing for Theoretical Criminology, submit your proposal before APRIL 15. Submission guidelines here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Some of you may have noticed that we’ve had a bit of a problem with bots posting comments en masse on @crimrxiv.com pubs. It’s taken a while to sort this out, but thanks to the leadership of Knowledge Futures and the PubPub team, we are finally beginning to resolve it! Thanks all for your support

CfP: Rethinking the Explanatory Foundations of Sociological Theory: Mechanisms, Emergence, and Model-Based Reasoning [Special Issue in Theory and Society] Key Dates: Abstracts: June 1, 2026 Full papers: December 31, 2026 More info: link.springer.com/collections/...

Reviewer: The authors misquote Smith et al. (2000) and this shows a lack of understanding of the topic. Editors: This is not acceptable; the article must be rejected. Me: What the fuck... I didn’t even cite Smith et al. (2000)! 😂

Meaningful research. Collegial team. A pretty remarkable place to live. We’re recruiting two Lecturers (tenured Assistant Professor equivalent) to join us.

Reminder! We are seeking discussants for a roundtable on repeatability of criminological research at #eurocrim2026 @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social Inform us before 20 March if you are interested @asiermoneva.com @alextrinidad.eurosky.social @isabellevdv.bsky.social

What if some of our fiercest public debates are being shaped not by lies, but by simple mathematical misunderstandings? @lisatompson.bsky.social reveals how using the wrong denominator can dramatically distort our picture of racial disparities in policing. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNot...

Why denominators matter in policing bias | Lisa Tompson | TEDxUniversity of Waikato

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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@drlaurahuey.bsky.social giving a talk on deepfakes and cheapfakes at @criminologyuom.bsky.social

Receiving reminders for things I have already completed

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Yet another criminology article with hallucinated references published in an @elsevierconnect.bsky.social journal. I reported it over a month ago to the journal, but the paper is still online and not retracted www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Crime hotspot analysis and mapping using geospatial technology in Dessie city, Ethiopia

The problem of urban crime in most developing regions has increased, and spatial configurations tend to be consistent with social and environmental dy…

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Machi Tseloni has just donated @criminologyuom.bsky.social the entire series of Home Office Crime Reduction Research papers. What a present❤️ I’ll get in touch with our Library to explore ways to digitize all this and make it publicly available and machine-readable (probably through @crimrxiv.com)

📢 Hiring: Postdoc in Criminology / Sociology at UPF Join @demosocupf.bsky.social as a Postdoc: 📊 Focus: Evaluating penal interventions in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). 📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain. 🗓️ Deadline: March 15th, 2026. www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

REF: CPIS-INV-INDF-2026-02. Postdoctoral Researcher in Violence Against Women in Intimate Relations: Longitudinal Analysis of Linked Crime, Employment, and Health Administrative Records. Socio-Demogra...

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Every now and then I like to have a look at the stats for @crimrxiv.com to see how we’ve been doing. ChatGPT has now solidly surpassed LinkedIn, X and Bing as the third top referrer (behind Google and Google Scholar). One can only assume it will continue to climb the rankings in the coming years

Our first newsletter is out! Read it here: mailchi.mp/d6127976d232... Including a call for a roundtable on replication at #eurocrim