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Aaron Jacklin
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Criminology Journalist
MA, Criminology & Criminal Justice Policy
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Aaron Jacklin @aaronjacklin.bsky.social · Feb 9
I practice something I'm calling, for the moment anyway, #CriminologyJournalism. It's not #PublicCriminology or #NewsmakingCriminology or PR. It's science journalism focused on #criminology and #CriminalJustice. I don't think it's new.

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Estimating the dark figure of #domesticviolence

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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Authors: Andrew P. Wheeler & @dralexpiquero.bsky.social
Estimating the dark figure of domestic violence
As found in one of the studies in this week's Crime Research Update
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August 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by Aaron Jacklin
simonwillison.net
If you use "AI agents" (LLMs calling tools in a loop) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta

Combine access to private data, exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate and an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...
The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …
simonwillison.net
June 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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What happened after North America’s busiest supervised consumption site closed

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #HarmReduction #SupervisedConsumption

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What happened after North America’s busiest supervised consumption site closed
As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update
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June 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Why the people with cannabis use disorder who didn’t get treatment… didn’t

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #cannabis

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Why the people with cannabis use disorder who didn’t get treatment… didn’t
According to the first of today's Five Studies About: Drug Use
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May 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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“Where do English and Welsh victim-survivors of sexual violence perceive they might gain kaleidoscopic justice?”

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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“Where do English and Welsh victim-survivors of sexual violence perceive they might gain kaleidoscopic justice?”
According to the first of today's Five Studies About+: Sexual Violence
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May 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I was happy to talk to Curing Crime about what I do and why for their Beyond the Archives series. They explore "the use of #science & #medicine to curtail #crime in the 19th & 20th Century."

Beyond the Archives: Aaron Jacklin Striving for Better Crime Journalism www.curingcrime.com/p/beyond-the...
Beyond the Archives: Aaron Jacklin Striving for Better Crime Journalism
Criminology Research & Reporting on Crime
www.curingcrime.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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How the Dark Triad traits of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism predict cyberbullying (spoiler: one of them doesn’t)

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #DarkTriad #psychology

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How the Dark Triad traits of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism predict cyberbullying (spoiler: one of them doesn’t)
According to the first of today's Five Studies About: The Dark Triad
open.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Aaron Jacklin
kellyjstockdale.bsky.social
Happy one year anniversary to our book ´Marginalised Voices in Criminology’ 🎉 and what a year - do please have a read/get your students to read (inspection copies available) & think about whose voices are positioned/whose are excluded … and why it matters www.routledge.com/Marginalised...
March 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
aaronjacklin.bsky.social
How the neoliberal drive toward “happiness” paves the way for “virtuous" drug use
As argued in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #drugs

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How the neoliberal drive toward “happiness” paves the way for “virtuous" drug use
As argued in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update
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March 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by Aaron Jacklin
emrekizilkaya.bsky.social
🔵 Fake news spreaders use more anger & power words.

🔵 Anger boosts sharing of both real & fake news.

🔵 Content that resonates with users’ sense of power encourages the adoption of fact-checking tools.

Here is the article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#FakeNews #SocialMedia #Research
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March 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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emrekizilkaya.bsky.social
Media literacy works.

A meta-analysis of 49 studies (N=81,155) shows interventions significantly improve resilience to #misinformation (d=0.60).

Key takeaways:

🔴 Reduces belief in falsehoods (d=0.27)
🔴 Boosts discernment (d=0.76)
🔴 Cuts down sharing (d=1.04)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Media Literacy Interventions Improve Resilience to Misinformation: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Overall Effect and Moderating Factors - Guanxiong Huang, Wufan Jia, Wenting Yu, 2024
The widespread dissemination of misinformation has become a global concern. A recommended solution is to improve people’s ability to discern true from false inf...
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March 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Why “young people” were essential to creating a drug outreach program FOR “young people” in England

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #drugs

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Why “young people” were essential to creating a drug outreach program FOR “young people” in England
As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update
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March 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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What the war in Ukraine teaches us about public support for #vigilantism
As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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What the war in Ukraine teaches us about public support for vigilantism
As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update
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March 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Unique Trauma Type Identified in Coercive Control Victims

#crimsky #crime #CoerciveControl #trauma #criminology

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Unique Trauma Type Identified in Coercive Control Victims
A crime science news brief
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February 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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How Coercive Control Creates A Unique Type of Trauma
(As proposed in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update)

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #CoerciveControl

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How Coercive Control Creates A Unique Type of Trauma
As proposed in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update
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February 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Reposted by Aaron Jacklin
retrievelearn.bsky.social
Inclusion isn't just a buzzword. It's a crucial aspect of teaching, learning, and research. Learn more about how you can support diversity, equity, and inclusion in cognitive science. #EduSky
Inclusive resources to level up your science of learning initiatives | Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D.
Here are two simple ways to amplify and advance women in STEM: Update your citations with publications by women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ cognitive scientists, and invite cognitive scientists from underrepresented...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Aaron Jacklin
bethgriffiths.bsky.social
Check out this piece on specific kinds of drug underenforcement both quantitatively and qualitatively, recently published in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, with Kay Levine, Josh Hinkle, and @volkantopalli.bsky.social

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Law in Inaction: The Origins and Implications of Chronic Drug Law Underenforcement in One Southern County
Common accounts of police and prosecutorial nonenforcement discretion tend to valorize individual declination choices as demonstrations of mercy and resource constraint. Simultaneously, these accounts...
scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu
February 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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"For a renewed harm reduction model" by Pierre Chappard and Fabienne Pourchon.

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #HarmReduction

harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
For a renewed harm reduction model - Harm Reduction Journal
In the early 1990s, the spread of HIV among heroin injectors prompted a shift in drug policy internationally, including in France. This led to the emergence of a new policy known as Harm Reduction (HR...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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What You Missed (Last) Week on The Art of Explaining Crime

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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What You Missed This Week
A recap of The Art of Explaining Crime Season 2, Episode 6
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February 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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How VR can complement traditional therapy for juvenile offenders

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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How VR can complement traditional therapy for juvenile offenders
As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update
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February 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Full article: The Case for Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Case for Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs
An increased focus on issues related to DEI in higher education has led to a critical review of many programs to assess the degree to which these issues are included in the curriculum. Many program...
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February 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Asking witnesses to “look past” possible appearance changes when identifying suspects not only doesn’t help identifications, it actually hinders them

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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Asking witnesses to “look past” possible appearance changes when identifying suspects not only doesn’t help identifications, it actually hinders them
As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update
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February 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Restorative justice can be compatible with the criminal justice paradigm, depending on the stage of the criminal justice system (As argued in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update)

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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Restorative justice can be compatible with the criminal justice paradigm, depending on the stage of the criminal justice system
As argued in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update
open.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Reposted by Aaron Jacklin
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Attention criminologists.

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Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs — The Economist
And they are growing fast
apple.news
February 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
aaronjacklin.bsky.social
I practice something I'm calling, for the moment anyway, #CriminologyJournalism. It's not #PublicCriminology or #NewsmakingCriminology or PR. It's science journalism focused on #criminology and #CriminalJustice. I don't think it's new.

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February 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM