Our PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow Zahra Rennie presenting a poster on her examination of the SDAC-21 case management assessment tool at the International Research in Corrections Conference ๐
Prof Devon Polaschek and AProf Armon Tamatea presenting in a panel on reimagining prisons as safe institutions alongside Karl Goldsbury and Melissa Westin at the International Research in Corrections Conference ๐ก๏ธ
Can we really predict lethal family violence? ๐ 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. โถ๏ธ Watch the recording youtu.be/LqngWYqfTsc?...
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.๐ Register: tinyurl.com/57ucmdhf
Some students cheat on essays using AI or by paying someone to write for them. But the answer isnโt โsevere penaltiesโ, itโs to redesign assessments so itโs harder to cheat.
Too many lecturers set essays that are easy to cheat on and then moan that students cheat.
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One of the Lakes on the University of Waikato's campus, on a beautiful summers morning.
Never gets old
Screenshot of title page including the following abstract: To minimise confounding bias and disentangle warranted from unwarranted disparities, researchers examining sentencing discrimination have traditionally sought to control for as many legal factors as possible. However, over the past decade, a growing number of scholars have questioned this strategy, noting that many legal factors are themselves subject to judicial discretion and that controlling for them can introduce post-treatment bias. Here, we use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to provide a formal and comprehensive assessment of the different types of bias that may arise from different choices of controls. In addition, we propose a new modelling framework to facilitate the selection of controls and reflect the model uncertainty created by the trade-off inherent in judicially-defined legal factors and other factors with a similar dual causal role. We apply this framework to examine race disparities in US federal courts and gender disparities in the England and Wales magistratesโ court. We find substantial model uncertainty for gender disparities and for race disparities affecting Hispanic offenders, rendering estimates of the latter inconclusive. Disparities against black offenders are more consistent and โ under specific conditions โ could be interpreted as evidence of direct discrimination.
Thrilled to share my latest paper entitled, "Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls"
Led by @jpinasanchez.bsky.social, the paper introduces a framework for examining discrimination in criminal justice processes.
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Not all police callouts are equal. NZ Policeโs Dr Sophie Curtis-Ham and Ryan Jones introduced the Police Response Effort Index (PREI) โ a new way to measure the time and effort behind crime and demand, alongside Crime Harm Indices. Watch now ๐ youtu.be/41vPw7pQeAI?...
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Dr Sophie Curtis-Ham & Ryan Jones from NZ Police join us this month as our seminar speakers on the topic Beyond Crime Counts: Introducing the Police Response Effort Index (PREI). Register to learn more about the PREI & how it can be used to provide additional insights into crime tinyurl.com/zrakaxnj
We're excited to share that Dr @jolliffesimpson.bsky.social has been awarded a @royalsocietynz.bsky.social Tฤwhia te Mana Research Fellowship for her research on developing a systematic approach to identifying high-harm perpetrators of family violence ๐ ๐ @waikatouniversity.bsky.social
What do Kiwis think about crime + justice in Aotearoa? At our October seminar, Dr Tadhg Daly & Dr Patrick Neilands (MoJ) unpacked fresh insights from the NZ Crime & Victims Survey (NZCVS). Cycle 7 (2024) covers: fraud + scams, burglary, sexual assault reporting & violent crime. Watch now ๐
Wishing our presentations didnโt clash so I could have come!
Yep!
Interesting presentation from Prof Helgi Gunnlaugsson about public attitudes towards sentencing (punitive, but also preferring rehabilitation to revenge)
It was such a great panel!
Prof Amanda Robinson (and team!) presenting findings from Operation Bright Light, which comprehensively examined the challenges of investigating domestic violence
@sandyschumann.bsky.social receives the Open Criminology Award from the European Network for Open Criminology (ENOC) in Athens
Photo credit: @ferhattura19.bsky.social
The 'bad boyfriend' meme with a man looking at a pretty woman passing by on the street, while his girlfriend looks on in disgust. The man is marked 'random guy at a conference', the pretty woman is marked 'making a comment' and the girlfriend is marked 'asking a question'.
A reminder to my colleagues attending #EuroCrim2025: **a question is a single sentence that ends with a question mark**.
When invited to ask a question in a session, that is not an invitation to give your own talk on an unrelated topic.
Dr @bethdavies02.bsky.social presenting a talk on avenues for criminal justice agencies to change their practices and better prevent severe harm and homicides
@lisatompson.bsky.social and @richard100.bsky.social - this is very relevant to the work we are doing on intersectional analysis of risk for polyvictimisation
Hearing from Dr @ferhattura19.bsky.social about intersectional analysis of risk for experiencing stranger, acquaintance or domestic violence
Dr @joelscanlan.com presenting on the evaluation of the ReThink chatbot
Dr Anna Sutton joins us this month for the Te Puna Haumaru Seminar Series presenting Critical Incident Recovery: Insights from a Police Reintegration Programme Evaluation. See event poster below for more details. Register by clicking the following link ๐ tinyurl.com/23xuakcu
Prof @richard100.bsky.social presenting research on suspicious accounts contacting adolescents on social media at ARCJC ๐ป @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @uclcrimescience.bsky.social
Hearing from Prof Cathy Humphreys about the intersection of family violence and substance use at ARCJC
Ben and Troy
Instead we should focus on assessing risk for severe and ongoing harm and target the broader drivers of family violence
Really enjoyed hearing from Prof Troy McEwan and Dr @benspivak.bsky.social about why we canโt predict intimate partner homicide - and what we should do instead ๐ฎโโ๏ธ at ARCJC
Apriel Jolliffe Simpaon presenting research on polyvictimisation at #ARCJC
@jolliffesimpson.bsky.social presenting our research (and bossing it!) on understanding polyvictimisation, using boost & flag mechanism from repeat victimisation lit @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social #ARCJC
Dr Molly McCarthy talking about the youth crime decline at #ARCJC2025 Sydney
Dr Molly McCarthy starting her talk with the youth crime decline and moving on to talk about what's driving the minority of high harm youth offending that remains.
