David Buil-Gil

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…

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...

And a different password for every journal as well.

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)

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...

📢 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...

Other interesting things: China is now the second country with most accesses to pubs (it used to be UK; now third). Philippines has surpassed Canada as fourth. India has surpassed Germany and France. And Nigeria and Kenya have surpassed Netherlands. This is truly a service to global criminology 🌎🌍🌏

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

And here is the call for abstracts for the 2026 Cars & Crime Symposium: jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/call%...
Taking place in Ilkley (West Yorkshire) on 30–31 July.
If your work explores the intersection of crime and road traffic (see examples below), send us your abstract.
🗓 Deadline: 17 April

I asked these same questions. I haven’t seen the data but these were roughly the answers: They think this is because Gold OA stored in 1 “scrapable” environment, while Green OA stored in multiple places (closed journal, original repo, connected hubs). They compared non-OA, Diamond, Gold and Green OA

Last week an open access librarian told me they’ve been tracking a trend showing that Green OA (repositories, OA hubs) may be more clearly associated with increased citations than Gold OA (publisher APCs). I know: I haven’t seen the data and citations don’t matter, but isn’t it interesting?

Screenshot from Cloudflare showing the numbers.

We're pleased to share an impact milestone for CrimRxiv: In the past 30 days, we exceeded 200,000 visitors and 1,500,000 views. We greatly appreciate your participation in open criminology as readers and authors. Our community is growing 🧡📈

'From Principles to Populism: Sentencing in England and Wales',
available now ahead of print in Crime and Justice vol. 55,
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
in which Julian Roberts and I provide an introduction to sentencing in E&W, and review recent developments in policy and research.

JOB: Quantitative criminology lectureship at Cardiff

krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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

This year featuring the great @sandyschumann.bsky.social, recipient of the @opencriminology.bsky.social 's Open Science Award with a talk on... yes, you guessed correctly: #OpenScience!

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻! 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀: 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 For Full Details of this International Call and our Expert Editorial Panel, visit 👉https://ijpds.org/calls/people-criminal-justice-system #CrimeData #CallforPapers

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!
𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀: 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺

For Full Details of this International Call and our Expert Editorial Panel, visit
👉https://ijpds.org/calls/people-criminal-justice-system

#CrimeData #CallforPapers

Please share this call with your colleagues. Thankyou 🙏

School‐Based Interventions for Reducing Disciplinary School Exclusion. An Updated Systematic Review School exclusion—commonly referred to as suspension—is a disciplinary response employed by school authorities to address student misbehaviour. Typically, it involves temporary removal from regular te....

Really interesting to hear plans re changes to school suspension in white paper
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

esp as suspension causes increased risk of later custody
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

we can prevent behaviour leading to suspension
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Celebrate your undergraduate dissertation with the UK Data Service Dissertation Award — UK Data Service Have you used data from the UK Data Service in your undergraduate dissertation? If so, consider submitting your dissertation to the 2026...

💡Did you know? Winners of the 2026 Dissertation Award will get the chance to work with our @ukdsimpact.bsky.social team to write a post for the UK Data Impact blog promoting and celebrating their work!

More info here: ukdataservice.ac.uk/2026/01/27/c... #UKDSDissertations

‘Advanced analytics in criminology’ is formalised as one of the 7 key research themes @criminologyuom.bsky.social‼️
Read more about the research areas we cover, our teaching, and our members (including new leads @oliveiratr.bsky.social and Niels Blom):
www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/criminology/...

Judicial records of crimes against the person and property in Spain, 1900 🥶
Source: non-digitized statistical reports from the Barcelona city council

¿Datos geolocalizados para Barcelona? Para esto hay que hacer una solicitud a los Mossos. Si te acuerdas, de RecountingCrime tenemos datos geolocalizados entre 2015 y 2020. Si quieres podemos hacer otra petición para datos entre 2020 y 2025.

Sometimes I like spending time looking at non-digitized historical crime records. This morning I accessed prison records from Barcelona from 1907 (pretty cool huh!). Below is the age-crime curve for the prison population. If anyone fancies a side project using these data, please do get in touch!

To students looking for PhD opportunities in #CriminalJustice. 3XPhd (fully funded) positions to work with Jakub Drápal & @msoltes.bsky.social on their latest ERC project, from Charles University (Prague), imho the leading research centre on #Sentencing worldwide.
www.prf.cuni.cz/sites/defaul...

There is still time to register for this event on school absences and crime!

Our Criminology team is expanding! Lectureship position (E&R) available @exeterspspa.bsky.social

🧪 Thousands of special issues are stained with PISS (>33% of articles authored by the guest editor). See @hansonmark.bsky.social's thread below for a brief summary, read our preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563), explore our ShinyApp to see where it occurs (paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...).

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.

You can read the article here: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

We quantify how differences in counting rules affect homicide rates and propose ways to adjust for this in future studies

@criminologyuom.bsky.social