@jpinasanchez
Professor of Quantitative Criminology and co-director of the Social Research Methods centre at the University of Leeds. Interested in #Data #Bias #Measurement #CriminalJustice #Sentencing #Disparities. jmpinasanchez.github.io/
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 🌎🌍🌏
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
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This is why I write so much about pavement parking
The willingness of major European states such as Britain and France to send their military forces to actively defend counties in the Middle East but not to defend Ukraine shows how Europe has a distorted sense of its own interests.
Even more unfortunate, the data is out there, and it looks really interesting (www.gov.scot/binaries/con...), however, for some reason either the Scottish Courts or Government did not want to share that with the Scottish Council, which seems kind of crazy to me.
A report submitted to the Scottish Sentencing Council was published last week: 'Exploring unwarranted #disparities in #sentencing in Scotland' www.scottishsentencingcouncil.org.uk/news-and-med...
Unfortunately, we could not access any data so the report only outlines potential research avenues.
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and to make sure Russia's budget stays afloat.
Yes, some from Australia too.
Interesting point, the debate is heavily shaped by cultural context. Eg the Secured By Design equivalent in the Netherlands (www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtua...), where they place pedestrians' and cyclists' safety at the centre of their strategy too, ie they see motoring offences as crime unlike in the UK.
There is a near consensus in the literature exploring the association between walkability and police recorded crime (all from the last decade), also in the CPTED literature with regards to connectivity and the rejection of New Urbanist ideas, and particularly among Secured By Design practitioners.
True, intent matters, but there is a point at which reckless behaviour (e.g. driving a 2‑tonne piece of metal at 80 mph in an urban area) approaches a moral equivalence with intentional harm, because the risk of lethal outcome is so obvious.
sure, but that is specifically a problem affecting the pedestrianisation of central/touristy areas, not so much when considered at a wider scale, e.g. low traffic neighbourhoods in London.
I rambled at length about this in a paper about the control of "criminogenic" properties:
You sent me this a while ago but I lost that email. Add the reference in here again as we have to make sure to cite it.
possibly, I am not 100% sure to be honest. I am sure @ianloader.bsky.social will have something more useful to say about that.
thanks @gmhales.bsky.social, that's a good point worth streamlining more clearly in the final version, and that ratio you suggest could be a nice way to do so. This is what we wrote to argue that motoring offences are more than speeding tickets or driving without license:
Our first newsletter is out! Read it here: mailchi.mp/d6127976d232... Including a call for a roundtable on replication at #eurocrim
#ActiveTravel #SustainableTransport #LowTrafficNeighbourhood #LTN #WarOnCars #Walkability #NewUrbanism #CrimePrevention #Criminology
We also criticised the framing of the debate as pro or against connectivity, when the real criminogenic element is motor traffic, as recognised by both Jacobs and Newman.
In our view this is a huge blindspot among crime prevention scholars and practitioners, a clear example of #motonormativity
For context: last year, convictions for deaths caused by dangerous, careless, or illegal driving were nearly equal in number to murder convictions.
The neglect of motoring offences is made more jarring when compared to the huge research efforts dedicated to studying burglary. This is made more striking when we consider that motoring offences are 60X more frequent than burglary, and that divergence has been growing for decades.
'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy'.
New preprint with @ianloader.bsky.social
We challenge the consensus that walkable neighbourhoods are more criminogenic.
We highlight two flaws in the literature: i) overreliance on police statistics; and ii) neglect of motoring offences.
New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).
"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...
The migration doom loop at work: does anyone in government seriously think that a strategy designed to keep out skilled workers and students makes either economic or political sense?
://www.ft.com/content/7408ad00-e4eb-41c7-8849-36061bc0eac1
Amazing, I will get it printed on a banner, thats what funding is for.
@ottoenglish.bsky.social
This is superb...
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