Lisa Tompson

My Hotmail email address from 1997

Everything is either a false dichotomy or just plain wrong.

The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures is looking for a pending/recent PhD with strong causal inference skills, for a remote, part-time consulting position.

This is a great opportunity for someone considering a transition from academia to the policy space.

Deadline: March 15

Please share!

You're too kind 😊 null/empty reviews were definitely A THING historically but funders don't like them so (IME) more care is taken at the scoping stage now so that a review will usually return findings of some sort. Some topics still v barren, others saturated. Quality an issue across the board.

Beyond ‘What Works’: Why systematisation matters and what more it can do for the Criminal Justice evidence base Tompson, L. (2026). Beyond ‘what works’: why systematisation matters and what more it can do for the criminal justice evidence base. Evidence Base. https://doi.org/10.1080/30679125.2025.2607626

Thank you for the interest! I put it on CrimRxiv as my uni didnt recognise a new journal as part of their open access arrangements: www.crimrxiv.com/pub/64c1s0fd...

Evidence Base Volume 1, Issue 1 of Evidence Base

The inaugural issue of @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social is out online (and early too!). Catch it here:

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Our very own @richard100.bsky.social will be presenting Situational Aspects of Homicide: Variations Across Homicide Types for our March Te Puna Haumaru seminar series. Click on the following link to register 👇
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9df042...

Govt threatens to imprison homeless for 90 days at a cost of $49,680 per person Govt to empower Police to 'move on' homeless with threat of three months prison, costing taxpayer $552 per person per night; Govt adds 2,000 prison beds since election & delivers 420 new homes

FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

JOB: Quantitative criminology lectureship at Cardiff

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Oh there's hot pools galore too. Someone in my neighbourhood 5 mins walk away has a small but impressive waterfall in their back garden, it sounds amazing after heavy rain 😊

Lovely. Did you ever make it to NZ ECCA? Can't swing a cat on the North Island without bumping into a waterfall!

British context; quick survey and on an important topic given councils periodically review lighting provision for cost reduction reasons. Have at it ;)

Is it possible to predict lethal and non-lethal family violence? Evidence from an Australian sample YouTube video by Te Puna Haumaru

Can we really predict lethal family violence? 🎓 In this Te Puna Haumaru seminar, Assoc Prof Benjamin Spivak examines evidence from 40,000+ Victorian cases and questions the limits of lethality risk prediction. ▶️ Watch the recording youtu.be/LqngWYqfTsc?...

Congratulations Andrew!

Congratulations Andrew!

Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes? We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

I'm the same with necessary and accommodation. Double consonants are my kryptonite.

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct

Cool cool cool.

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks for recommending, just watched it with the kids and it was every bit as wonderful as I expected. The slugs' copulation dance was a particular gross highlight for them!

Happy birthday Matt! There's something quite galvanising about being in your mid-40s ;)

Jealous ☺️

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Putting together the final touches on the inaugural special issue.

Much thanks to Lorna Ferguson for her sterling editorial efforts and to all of our contributing authors. Special thanks also to Matt Logan for all of his behind-the-scenes promotional work.

Is it possible to predict lethal and non-lethal family violence?This online seminar shares findings from a prospective study of nearly 40,000 family violence reports in Victoria, AUS testing whether commonly used risk factors predict lethal and non-lethal outcomes.🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/57ucmdhf

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This was my yesterday. "You can't submit it until these issues are resolved."
You mean the issues that are figments of your imagination? 😤

The evidence-based policing matrix at 14 years - Journal of Experimental Criminology Objective To update the 2011 results of the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a tool for analyzing, visualizing, and translating research on police crime prevention strategies. Methods We added 177…

New review of evidence finds the most-effective police crime prevention tends to be:

a) focused on very specific places (not people or neighbourhoods), and
b) tailored to preventing a *specific* type of crime.

⚠️ Broad-brush crime prevention generally doesn't work.

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

Participation in organised sport to improve and prevent adverse developmental trajectories of at‐risk youth: A systematic review Background Healthy after-school activities such as participation in organised sport have been shown to serve as important resources for reducing school failure and other problem/high-risk behaviour....

This is the closest rigorous systematic review, but the outcomes are psychosocial and mental health rather than offending: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....