Lisa Tompson

@lisatompson.bsky.social

940 followers 670 following 420 posts

Crime Scientist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 -> 🇳🇿 Interested in generating and synthesising evidence for better crime prevention and policing policy. Methodologically promiscuous.

Videos

Political science 34%

Sociology 25%

Posts Replies Media Videos

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 2d

Oh there's hot pools galore too. Someone in my neighbourhood 5 mins walk away has a small but impressive waterfall in their back garden, it sounds amazing after heavy rain 😊

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely. Did you ever make it to NZ ECCA? Can't swing a cat on the North Island without bumping into a waterfall!

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 5d

British context; quick survey and on an important topic given councils periodically review lighting provision for cost reduction reasons. Have at it ;)

Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 5d

If you can spare 2 minutes for a survey on street lighting and perceptions of safety, I have a student who would be very grateful! 👍

qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk

Reposted by Lisa Tompson

Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 5d

If you can spare 2 minutes for a survey on street lighting and perceptions of safety, I have a student who would be very grateful! 👍

qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk

Reposted by Lisa Tompson

Te Puna Haumaru @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social · 6d

Can we really predict lethal family violence? 🎓 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. ▶️ Watch the recording youtu.be/LqngWYqfTsc?...

Is it possible to predict lethal and non-lethal family violence? Evidence from an Australian sample

YouTube video by Te Puna Haumaru

youtu.be

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations Andrew!

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations Andrew!

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings , and 12 more Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Charlie Beckett, Paul Davies, Lesley A. Hall, Sabine Pahl, Michelle Everson, Jonathan Hopkin, Philip Cowley, Stephen Jones, Lisa Tompson, Maria Sobolewska

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 17d

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?

We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.

www.londoncentric.media

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 18d

I'm the same with necessary and accommodation. Double consonants are my kryptonite.

Reposted by Lisa Tompson

Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 19d

Cool cool cool.

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start | Claire Finkelstein

Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct

www.theguardian.com

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks for recommending, just watched it with the kids and it was every bit as wonderful as I expected. The slugs' copulation dance was a particular gross highlight for them!

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · 23d

Happy birthday Matt! There's something quite galvanising about being in your mid-40s ;)

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Jan 10

Jealous ☺️

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Ben Barr, Christoph Bertram , and 8 more Anne Applebaum, Ben Barr, Christoph Bertram, Daniel W. Drezner, Smith, Rex Brynen, Claudia Diehl, Michael H. Whitworth, Mark Robinson, Lisa Tompson, Jeannette Sutton

Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social · Jan 8

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Reposted by Lisa Tompson

Professor Laura Huey @drlaurahuey.bsky.social · Jan 8

Putting together the final touches on the inaugural special issue.

Much thanks to Lorna Ferguson for her sterling editorial efforts and to all of our contributing authors. Special thanks also to Matt Logan for all of his behind-the-scenes promotional work.

Reposted by Lisa Tompson

Te Puna Haumaru @tepunahaumaru.bsky.social · Jan 6

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.🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/57ucmdhf

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Jan 6

This was my yesterday. "You can't submit it until these issues are resolved."
You mean the issues that are figments of your imagination? 😤

Reposted by Lisa Tompson

Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · Jan 6

New review of evidence finds the most-effective police crime prevention tends to be:

a) focused on very specific places (not people or neighbourhoods), and
b) tailored to preventing a *specific* type of crime.

⚠️ Broad-brush crime prevention generally doesn't work.

doi.org/10.1007/s112...

The evidence-based policing matrix at 14 years - Journal of Experimental Criminology

Objective To update the 2011 results of the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix, a tool for analyzing, visualizing, and translating research on police crime prevention strategies. Methods We added 177…

doi.org

Reposted by Lisa Tompson

Professor Laura Huey @drlaurahuey.bsky.social · Jan 6

Reposted by Steven French, Lisa Tompson

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Jan 1

May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Dec 28

This is the closest rigorous systematic review, but the outcomes are psychosocial and mental health rather than offending: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Participation in organised sport to improve and prevent adverse developmental trajectories of at‐risk youth: A systematic review

Background Healthy after-school activities such as participation in organised sport have been shown to serve as important resources for reducing school failure and other problem/high-risk behaviour....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Lisa Tompson

Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · Dec 25

A lovely Christmas Day walk in some amazing light.

Sunlight breaks through heavy clouds over a mountainous landscape, casting dramatic golden rays across a lake and forested hills below. The lake is Ullswater in the English Lake District.

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Dec 25

Merry Christmas / Meri Kirihimete everyone! May your days be merry and bright ✨️ 🎄 ☃️

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Lisa Tompson

Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · Dec 24

#CallForPapers: Legal and Criminological Psychology invites submissions for a special issue exploring The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies

#AcademicSky #Criminology #EmTech

Deadline 10 March

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Dec 24

Stunning! Meri Kirihimete Matt! (Bringing some te reo Māori to deepest Norfolk this year). Hope you have a cracking one x

Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social · Dec 24

As an NZ immigrant I can confirm it is not better, just different. Xmas is nowhere near as hyped there which is both less stressful and less Chrismassy. It is a novelty being able to spend Xmas at the beach/lake/river but I'd still choose a cold Xmas every time!

Reposted by Lisa Tompson

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Dec 23

Consumer PSA:
A lot of stores will advertise an Xmas tree,
but the package actually *contains* a Ymas tree.

DON'T BE FOOLED.

Three panels: an Xmas tree where a christmas tree is aligned along the X axis of a graph, then a Ymas tree, the same but aligned vertically, and a Zmas tree showing the third axis in the 3-D projection.

Stolen from the Internet.

Reposted by Juanjo Medina, Lisa Tompson

Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social · Dec 20

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢
Please do share widely 1/3

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Silvia Secchi, Jacob T. Levy , and 2 more Rebecca Tushnet, Silvia Secchi, Jacob T. Levy, Greg Linden, Lisa Tompson

Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · Dec 19

Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...