I'm delighted to present the first of two new episodes of 'Innovative Methods in Criminology'. First up, David Buil-Gil and Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 from Recounting crime team talk about their work in improving how we understand and measure crime in small areas. innovativecriminology.podbean.com/e/measuring-cr…

These figures DO NOT 'show that Ireland saw a rise in major crimes like sexual offences', as the article states. Police recorded crime and prevalence of crime are not the same thing, and it is wiser to use self-report data to understand prevalence (1/2) thejournal.ie/garda-provisio…

New Recounting crime preprint⭐️

Short thread on data recoding and analysis in policing. I feel the need to wave a bit of a 🚩

New Recounting crime preprint out in CrimRxiv‼️ 'Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas', with Ian Brunton-Smith, Alexandru Cernat and Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 crimrxiv.com/pub/g4p1or1g/r…

'Exploring the impact of measurement error in police recorded crime rates through sensitivity analysis' out in Crime Science link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Our latest article in Crime Science Journal featured in the blog of the Finish Police

The BBC asked me about the possibility that the promotion of Luton Town to the Premier League led to a decrease in crime, and of course I had to talk about measurement and causality😂 (I also showed the world that I am the only person who doesn’t use the dark mode in RStudio)

Our latest research note 'Measuring crime in place: Distinguishing between area victimisation and area offences' in Significance, academic.oup.com/jrssig/article…

If you are modelling police recorded crime counts, and want to find a way to adjust for measurement error, check our latest tutorial, 'Adjusting for Measurement Error in Police Recorded Crime Counts Using Bayesian Statistics', recountingcrime.wordpress.com/workshops/

[CALL FOR PAPERS] @DrLauraHuey and I are guest editing a special collection in Crime Science Journal. We welcome contributions advancing explanations of crime reporting and studying the practical implications of under-reporting for the criminal justice system biomedcentral.com/collections/CP…

New project with David Buil-Gil. Check it out!

Excellent example of why it’s important to understand how crime data was generated before you analyse it: Metropolitan Police changed the software it uses to record details of people who have been arrested and the number of people recorded as being arrested for murder dropped by ~80%.

What's new on CrimRxiv? 👀 Measuring crime in place: Distinguishing between area victimisation and area offences ift.tt/2cy0Eh4

"Adjustment Methods for Data Quality Problems: Missing Data, Measurement Error and Misclassification". Next week in Leeds. A few places are still available. You can find some of the materials we will be following here: github.com/jmpinasanchez/…

Please, disseminate widely‼️ Call for papers for a special issue on 'Calling the Police: Theoretical Insights and Practical Implications' in Crime Science Journal Deadline: 5 April 2024

New Recounting crime paper out in BJC, with Ian Brunton-Smith, Alexandru Cernat and Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 ‼️ We assess and compare the quality of measurements of crime derived from police records and victim surveys at the regional and local level academic.oup.com/bjc/article-ab…