Can a market takedown disrupt cybercrime elsewhere? From 51,643 forum ads and a 1,120-post field experiment, we find 20% less activity and tougher moderation—but also displacement, adaptation and fading effects. With Danielle Stibbe & @asiermoneva.com: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

The ripple effect of operation cookie monster: the impact of an illicit market takedown on an untargeted hacker forum - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Objectives Assess potential spillover effects Operation Cookie Monster (OCM), a law-enforcement takedown of an online market selling stolen account credentials, had on users and administrators of an u...

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Most procedural justice research has been cross-sectional—making causal claims difficult. Our longitudinal study asks whether police legitimacy reduces delinquency, or whether delinquency shapes legitimacy beliefs. The stronger evidence points to the latter. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Assessing the relationship between police legitimacy beliefs and criminal behaviour over time: A test of causal direction - Amina op de Weegh, Stijn Ruiter, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner, Amy Nivette, ...

This study investigates the direction of the relationship between police legitimacy beliefs and delinquent behaviour using longitudinal data from Swiss adolesce...

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📢 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 👇

We know a lot about whether investigative interviewing techniques work—but far less about how to implement them, for whom they work, and at what cost. Our new paper shows how the EMMIE framework can help bridge the research–practice gap. doi.org/10.1080/1561... #EvidenceBasedPolicing

The practical relevance of investigative interviewing research: applying the EMMIE framework to bridge the research-practice gap

Investigative interviewing research has produced valuable insights into effective techniques for gathering information. However, this research often fails to fully bridge the gap between academia a...

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Do greater investigative efforts lead to better case outcomes? In a preregistered systematic review, we found many positive associations across 38 studies—but major variation in measurement and few rigorous causal designs. More evidence is needed on what works, how and why. doi.org/10.1108/PIJP...

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....

On the Radar: an evaluation of a police letter campaign among prolific traffic offenders in the Netherlands

This study examines the effectiveness of a police intervention aimed at reducing recidivism among prolific traffic offenders in the Netherlands. Selected offenders received a formal letter intended...

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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...

The Roads Between Nodes: How Travel Paths Affect Burglary Location Choices - Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Journal of Quantitative Criminology - Crime pattern theory stresses the importance of offender activity spaces for understanding where crime occurs. Activity spaces comprise both frequently visited...

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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...

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The Topology of Cyberspace and Cybercrime Journeys: A Framework for Analyzing Online Offender Mobility: https://osf.io/jybkv

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

Evaluating place-based policing in Amsterdam - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Objectives Evaluate the impact of a place-based, community and problem-oriented policing intervention in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Methods This evaluation is guided by the EMMIE framework, and its m...

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

De Crime Severity Index (CSI)

De openbare en breed toepasbare Nederlandse Crime Severity Index (CSI) is een instrument om criminaliteit op basis van ernst te rangschikken.

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

De Crime Severity Index (CSI)

De openbare en breed toepasbare Nederlandse Crime Severity Index (CSI) is een instrument om criminaliteit op basis van ernst te rangschikken.

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Happy Europe Day #EU

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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...

Promovendus Onderzoeksproject SCRIPT

Het NSCR is op zoek naar een gemotiveerde promovendus voor onderzoek binnen het NWO-project SCRIPT. Wil jij meer weten over hoe de methode crime scripting werkt, voor wie en onder welke omstandigheden...

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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.