Iain Brennan
@iainbrennan.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology at University of Hull, UK. Violence research and prevention. Institutional Lead for Open Research.
Fantastic! Theory in violence interventions is often weak and simplistic. Qualitative work with programme participants is the way to improve.
How does a violence intervention program actually work? We interviewed 99 READI participants to find out.
Key finding: They came for the job, stayed for the therapy.
crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/wh...
Key finding: They came for the job, stayed for the therapy.
crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/wh...
Why Might READI Chicago Work to Reduce Gun Violence? Qualitative Evidence from the Field - University of Chicago Crime Lab
Building on a body of evidence showing that behavioral science-informed programs can reduce violence among youth and adults, this report highlights findings from a qualitative analysis to understand w...
crimelab.uchicago.edu
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Fantastic! Theory in violence interventions is often weak and simplistic. Qualitative work with programme participants is the way to improve.
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How does a violence intervention program actually work? We interviewed 99 READI participants to find out.
Key finding: They came for the job, stayed for the therapy.
crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/wh...
Key finding: They came for the job, stayed for the therapy.
crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/wh...
Why Might READI Chicago Work to Reduce Gun Violence? Qualitative Evidence from the Field - University of Chicago Crime Lab
Building on a body of evidence showing that behavioral science-informed programs can reduce violence among youth and adults, this report highlights findings from a qualitative analysis to understand w...
crimelab.uchicago.edu
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
How does a violence intervention program actually work? We interviewed 99 READI participants to find out.
Key finding: They came for the job, stayed for the therapy.
crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/wh...
Key finding: They came for the job, stayed for the therapy.
crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/wh...
New episode of Reducing Crime with @benbradford.bsky.social is great - highly recommended and would be great teaching resource
pca.st/podcast/4b91...
pca.st/podcast/4b91...
Reducing Crime
A monthly podcast featuring conversations with influential thinkers in the police service and leading crime and policing researchers working to advance public safety. Often amusing, often enlightening...
pca.st
October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
New episode of Reducing Crime with @benbradford.bsky.social is great - highly recommended and would be great teaching resource
pca.st/podcast/4b91...
pca.st/podcast/4b91...
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External speaker seminar series at @criminologyuom.bsky.social 🤓
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
External speaker seminar series at @criminologyuom.bsky.social 🤓
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Do you enjoy playing chartle.cc?
We’re opening up to the community!
Are you a scientist, journalist, researcher or just a data-enthusiast and would like to submit your own data (it should be a country-based time series)? Get in touch with us - we’d love to feature it!
We’re opening up to the community!
Are you a scientist, journalist, researcher or just a data-enthusiast and would like to submit your own data (it should be a country-based time series)? Get in touch with us - we’d love to feature it!
Chartle - A daily chart game
Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart
chartle.cc
October 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Do you enjoy playing chartle.cc?
We’re opening up to the community!
Are you a scientist, journalist, researcher or just a data-enthusiast and would like to submit your own data (it should be a country-based time series)? Get in touch with us - we’d love to feature it!
We’re opening up to the community!
Are you a scientist, journalist, researcher or just a data-enthusiast and would like to submit your own data (it should be a country-based time series)? Get in touch with us - we’d love to feature it!
Reposted by Iain Brennan
DON'T MISS TODAY AT 3PM UK TIME: "Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream" with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
The first in the new season of causal inference seminars from the #CIIG
ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The first in the new season of causal inference seminars from the #CIIG
ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
DON'T MISS TODAY AT 3PM UK TIME: "Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream" with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci
The first in the new season of causal inference seminars from the #CIIG
ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The first in the new season of causal inference seminars from the #CIIG
ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...
Lecturer in Criminology at University of Sheffield
Apply for the Lecturer in Criminology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
share.google
October 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...
Reposted by Iain Brennan
Youth diversion "fragmented and inconsistent" - Joint inspection by @HMIProbation & @HMICFRS finds current youth diversion work is fragmented and inconsistent. www.russellwebster.com/youth-divers...
Youth diversion “fragmented and inconsistent”
Joint inspection finds current youth diversion work is fragmented and inconsistent.
www.russellwebster.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Youth diversion "fragmented and inconsistent" - Joint inspection by @HMIProbation & @HMICFRS finds current youth diversion work is fragmented and inconsistent. www.russellwebster.com/youth-divers...
Reposted by Iain Brennan
Reviews of studies on the drop in youth offending finds consistent decreases across many countries ended around 2015, and the drop is best explained by changes in how young people spend free time and decreases in alcohol consumption.
doi.org/10.1086/737409
doi.org/10.1086/737409
The International Youth Crime Drop: Evidence and Explanations | Crime and Justice
Abstract Youth crime and other types of risk behavior have declined considerably over the last 20–30 years in many developed countries. Robust evidence comes from both official crime data and…
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reviews of studies on the drop in youth offending finds consistent decreases across many countries ended around 2015, and the drop is best explained by changes in how young people spend free time and decreases in alcohol consumption.
doi.org/10.1086/737409
doi.org/10.1086/737409
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This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows!
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
techtrenches.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows!
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...
October 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Thinking of a Social Science PhD in Scotland?
Need funding?
@sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already.
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...
#PhDchat #SocSciSky
1/2
Need funding?
@sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already.
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...
#PhDchat #SocSciSky
1/2
Student-led Open Competition 2024/25 - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
SGSSS STUDENT-LED OPEN COMPETITION 2025/26 THE 25/26 CALL IS NOW OPEN FOR ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is delighted to announce the launch of the Student-Led Open...
www.sgsss.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Thinking of a Social Science PhD in Scotland?
Need funding?
@sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already.
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...
#PhDchat #SocSciSky
1/2
Need funding?
@sgsss.bsky.social open-competition details are available here, and it's worth linking up with departments and potential supervisors already.
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...
#PhDchat #SocSciSky
1/2
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⌛️ Less than 2 weeks to apply for the position of @vp-centre.bsky.social Research Fellow.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
Read more and apply 👇
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
Read more and apply 👇
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow, Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, the interactions between them and other service pro...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
⌛️ Less than 2 weeks to apply for the position of @vp-centre.bsky.social Research Fellow.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
Read more and apply 👇
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
Read more and apply 👇
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Reposted by Iain Brennan
Hello! ENOC is on BlueSky now. We are a working group of the @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social dedicated to the promotion, training, application and rewarding of open research in criminology. Check out our website for more: esc-enoc.github.io
European Network for Open Criminology
esc-enoc.github.io
October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hello! ENOC is on BlueSky now. We are a working group of the @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social dedicated to the promotion, training, application and rewarding of open research in criminology. Check out our website for more: esc-enoc.github.io
Reposted by Iain Brennan
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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📣 Save the date: 14 Oct 2025
Prof. Ben Bradford (UCL) is giving a seminar @ Edinburgh on policing, procedural justice & mental health.
Fairness in policing isn’t just about rights — it can shape wellbeing too.
📍 Central campus, afternoon (venue TBC)
✉️ Book via S.McVie@ed.ac.uk
Prof. Ben Bradford (UCL) is giving a seminar @ Edinburgh on policing, procedural justice & mental health.
Fairness in policing isn’t just about rights — it can shape wellbeing too.
📍 Central campus, afternoon (venue TBC)
✉️ Book via S.McVie@ed.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📣 Save the date: 14 Oct 2025
Prof. Ben Bradford (UCL) is giving a seminar @ Edinburgh on policing, procedural justice & mental health.
Fairness in policing isn’t just about rights — it can shape wellbeing too.
📍 Central campus, afternoon (venue TBC)
✉️ Book via S.McVie@ed.ac.uk
Prof. Ben Bradford (UCL) is giving a seminar @ Edinburgh on policing, procedural justice & mental health.
Fairness in policing isn’t just about rights — it can shape wellbeing too.
📍 Central campus, afternoon (venue TBC)
✉️ Book via S.McVie@ed.ac.uk
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Our Co-Director Professor @adamcrawford.bsky.social is speaking at @crimeandjustice.bsky.social's event on "Diversion in Practice: Implications for police reform and culture change" tomorrow.
Register for a livestream:
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/diversion-in...
Register for a livestream:
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/diversion-in...
Diversion in Practice: Implications for police reform and culture change | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our Co-Director Professor @adamcrawford.bsky.social is speaking at @crimeandjustice.bsky.social's event on "Diversion in Practice: Implications for police reform and culture change" tomorrow.
Register for a livestream:
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/diversion-in...
Register for a livestream:
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/diversion-in...
Reposted by Iain Brennan
Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Controversial Stop And Kiss Program
September 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Controversial Stop And Kiss Program
Reposted by Iain Brennan
🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow, Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre
Are you an ambitious, impact-focussed researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups, the interactions between them and other service pro...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social.
The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027.
Salary: £41,064-£48,822
Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Deadline: 13 October 2025
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
The bit I'd add to this great piece is about language. The end-goal of OS is not openness but more dependable research findings, qual or quant. We need to start talking about research claims along a spectrum of 'credibility'.
New short piece on the European Network for Open Criminology site with Torbjørn Skardhamar:
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science
esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/cost-...
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science
esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/cost-...
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science – European Network for Open Criminology
Find out how shifting incentives can make open science the norm.
esc-enoc.github.io
September 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The bit I'd add to this great piece is about language. The end-goal of OS is not openness but more dependable research findings, qual or quant. We need to start talking about research claims along a spectrum of 'credibility'.
Reposted by Iain Brennan
New short piece on the European Network for Open Criminology site with Torbjørn Skardhamar:
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science
esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/cost-...
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science
esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/cost-...
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science – European Network for Open Criminology
Find out how shifting incentives can make open science the norm.
esc-enoc.github.io
September 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New short piece on the European Network for Open Criminology site with Torbjørn Skardhamar:
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science
esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/cost-...
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science
esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/cost-...
Reposted by Iain Brennan
Researchers often perceive 'barriers' to practicing #OpenScience, whether it’s publishing open access, sharing data, or pre-registering studies.
Last week at @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social, I presented our work at NSCR identifying 36 such distinct barriers.
Do you recognize them in your own work?
Last week at @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social, I presented our work at NSCR identifying 36 such distinct barriers.
Do you recognize them in your own work?
September 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Researchers often perceive 'barriers' to practicing #OpenScience, whether it’s publishing open access, sharing data, or pre-registering studies.
Last week at @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social, I presented our work at NSCR identifying 36 such distinct barriers.
Do you recognize them in your own work?
Last week at @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social, I presented our work at NSCR identifying 36 such distinct barriers.
Do you recognize them in your own work?
Great to see Criminology expanding in Ireland and in the most mellifluous and fragrant of counties!
New job alert - Criminology lectureship (3 years) - University College Cork, Department of Sociology and Criminology - all specialisations and interests welcome my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
my.corehr.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Great to see Criminology expanding in Ireland and in the most mellifluous and fragrant of counties!
Reposted by Iain Brennan
New job alert - Criminology lectureship (3 years) - University College Cork, Department of Sociology and Criminology - all specialisations and interests welcome my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
my.corehr.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New job alert - Criminology lectureship (3 years) - University College Cork, Department of Sociology and Criminology - all specialisations and interests welcome my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
Reposted by Iain Brennan
The pretty draft is now online.
Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
September 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The pretty draft is now online.
Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...