kryanproctor.bsky.social
@kryanproctor.bsky.social
Criminologist & sociologist specializing in theory construction, mechanical integration. I currently research misinformation & disinformation, as well as the credibility crisis & institutionalization of science in criminology. All views are my own. 🌈⚧️
I would be fascinated to know what Austin Turk would think about our modern political situation.
September 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I would be fascinated to know what Austin Turk would think about our modern political situation.
This is one of the reasons I am skeptical of AI in social research. Nomological and correlative approaches have difficult times explaining complex social phenomena. AI does too.
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Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Water on the Entire AI Industry
Researchers at Apple have released a damning paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of modern AIs.
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June 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is one of the reasons I am skeptical of AI in social research. Nomological and correlative approaches have difficult times explaining complex social phenomena. AI does too.
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I am excited to announce I accepted a new position at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. They recently became a Research I University.
I’ll be joining wonderful colleagues and am excited for the new opportunities that await.
I’ll be joining wonderful colleagues and am excited for the new opportunities that await.
May 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I am excited to announce I accepted a new position at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. They recently became a Research I University.
I’ll be joining wonderful colleagues and am excited for the new opportunities that await.
I’ll be joining wonderful colleagues and am excited for the new opportunities that await.
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👉 This is an important issue of The Criminologist. It contains five pieces about academic publishing in our field, three of which involve #Criminology.
The final essays by @SJacques83 on #OpenAccess and by Deena Isom on the #PeerReview crisis are also terrific. 👏
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The final essays by @SJacques83 on #OpenAccess and by Deena Isom on the #PeerReview crisis are also terrific. 👏
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May 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
👉 This is an important issue of The Criminologist. It contains five pieces about academic publishing in our field, three of which involve #Criminology.
The final essays by @SJacques83 on #OpenAccess and by Deena Isom on the #PeerReview crisis are also terrific. 👏
asc41.org/wp-content/u...
The final essays by @SJacques83 on #OpenAccess and by Deena Isom on the #PeerReview crisis are also terrific. 👏
asc41.org/wp-content/u...
Excited to announce my research team's paper below was just accepted for publication in the journal: Criminology. Criminology is the top criminology journal for the scientific study of crime. This is a major career accomplishment.
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...
Flexibility in Variable Operationalization in Social Disorganization Theory: A Research Note
www.crimrxiv.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Excited to announce my research team's paper below was just accepted for publication in the journal: Criminology. Criminology is the top criminology journal for the scientific study of crime. This is a major career accomplishment.
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...
I am excited to announce our paper "Flexibility in Variable Operationalization in Social Disorganization Theory: A Research Note" has been accepted for publication in the journal Criminology.
#crim #sociology
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...
#crim #sociology
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...
Flexibility in Variable Operationalization in Social Disorganization Theory: A Research Note
www.crimrxiv.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I am excited to announce our paper "Flexibility in Variable Operationalization in Social Disorganization Theory: A Research Note" has been accepted for publication in the journal Criminology.
#crim #sociology
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...
#crim #sociology
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/4q0m4dc3...
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3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...
Research Fellow in Historical Criminology Ref: 40549 (Fixed term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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April 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...
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What if schools could improve student behaviour not through punitive measures but by addressing the well-evidenced link between anti-social morality and adolescent problem behaviour?
Join us and @satnavproject.bsky.social at our #eapl2025 workshop
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Join us and @satnavproject.bsky.social at our #eapl2025 workshop
eapl2025.com/workshops/
March 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
What if schools could improve student behaviour not through punitive measures but by addressing the well-evidenced link between anti-social morality and adolescent problem behaviour?
Join us and @satnavproject.bsky.social at our #eapl2025 workshop
eapl2025.com/workshops/
Join us and @satnavproject.bsky.social at our #eapl2025 workshop
eapl2025.com/workshops/
The changes in the US Government are being guided by an institutional logic of corporate management, which is not new to other sectors (e.g., higher education and medicine).
No one can claim these sectors became more "efficient" as a result. If anything, they all experience goal displacement.
No one can claim these sectors became more "efficient" as a result. If anything, they all experience goal displacement.
March 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The changes in the US Government are being guided by an institutional logic of corporate management, which is not new to other sectors (e.g., higher education and medicine).
No one can claim these sectors became more "efficient" as a result. If anything, they all experience goal displacement.
No one can claim these sectors became more "efficient" as a result. If anything, they all experience goal displacement.
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This is exciting news!
It’s a pleasure to announce our 28th Member, The Journal of Historical Criminology. It’s diamond open access and shares our platform PubPub. Learn more at the link below. 🧡
March 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is exciting news!
Criminologists who prefer empirical models to theory-dependent falsification effort might be interested in this.
Empirical models should never be reified. It is important to remember we live in reality and not mathematical space.
Empirical models should never be reified. It is important to remember we live in reality and not mathematical space.
March 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Criminologists who prefer empirical models to theory-dependent falsification effort might be interested in this.
Empirical models should never be reified. It is important to remember we live in reality and not mathematical space.
Empirical models should never be reified. It is important to remember we live in reality and not mathematical space.
It’s a great team!
Time to become a 'grey eminence'😂
The succession of the PADS+ study is in full swing, 'the three musketeers', the highly
experienced and skilful team of Beth Hardie, Gabriela Roman and Kyle Treiber, under Kyle's
leadership, is just in the process of recruiting the fieldworkers
The succession of the PADS+ study is in full swing, 'the three musketeers', the highly
experienced and skilful team of Beth Hardie, Gabriela Roman and Kyle Treiber, under Kyle's
leadership, is just in the process of recruiting the fieldworkers
March 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
It’s a great team!
A few months I talked to a friend about society entering a dark age. The belief that we are in a post-truth world is a symptom and a self-reinforcing cause.
As Marx reminds us in his Theses on Feuerbach, the material world matters. Ultimately, conceptions of reality must bend to reality itself.
As Marx reminds us in his Theses on Feuerbach, the material world matters. Ultimately, conceptions of reality must bend to reality itself.
March 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A few months I talked to a friend about society entering a dark age. The belief that we are in a post-truth world is a symptom and a self-reinforcing cause.
As Marx reminds us in his Theses on Feuerbach, the material world matters. Ultimately, conceptions of reality must bend to reality itself.
As Marx reminds us in his Theses on Feuerbach, the material world matters. Ultimately, conceptions of reality must bend to reality itself.
I have missed Conan O’Brien. I watch him from the beginning and he’s been like a goofy friend who always knows how to make me laugh. Yes, this means I a have poor taste:)
March 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I have missed Conan O’Brien. I watch him from the beginning and he’s been like a goofy friend who always knows how to make me laugh. Yes, this means I a have poor taste:)
The most significant event in the demise of etiological criminology was a simple change in how theories compete. Should theory competition rest on falsification or measures of model fit?
Criminology chose model fit. Our replication crisis is the price we pay for that error.
#criminology
Criminology chose model fit. Our replication crisis is the price we pay for that error.
#criminology
February 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The most significant event in the demise of etiological criminology was a simple change in how theories compete. Should theory competition rest on falsification or measures of model fit?
Criminology chose model fit. Our replication crisis is the price we pay for that error.
#criminology
Criminology chose model fit. Our replication crisis is the price we pay for that error.
#criminology
This is a nice article by Michael J. Lynch discussing problems in scientific or etiological criminology.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Zombie criminology and disciplinary maintenance: How living-dead explanations that eat your brain, preserve the criminological status quo, and shape the criminological paradigm
This manuscript introduces zombie criminology (ZC). ZC draws upon zombie arguments made in other disciplines (e.g. physics), and makes reference to historical/cultural meanings associated with zomb...
www.tandfonline.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is a nice article by Michael J. Lynch discussing problems in scientific or etiological criminology.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What relevance does the replication crisis have for non-academic research, such as the methods used to evaluate social programs?
In a new paper with Ben McNamee and Michael Lenczner, we argue that the answer could be quite a lot
Article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
OA: osf.io/6hevp
In a new paper with Ben McNamee and Michael Lenczner, we argue that the answer could be quite a lot
Article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
OA: osf.io/6hevp
February 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
What relevance does the replication crisis have for non-academic research, such as the methods used to evaluate social programs?
In a new paper with Ben McNamee and Michael Lenczner, we argue that the answer could be quite a lot
Article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
OA: osf.io/6hevp
In a new paper with Ben McNamee and Michael Lenczner, we argue that the answer could be quite a lot
Article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
OA: osf.io/6hevp
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NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2025 is now available online and in print! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews as we welcome our new co-Editor-in-Chief, @anaaliverti.bsky.social, here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/1
Theoretical Criminology - Volume 29, Number 1, Feb 01, 2025
Table of contents for Theoretical Criminology, 29, 1, Feb 01, 2025
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February 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2025 is now available online and in print! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews as we welcome our new co-Editor-in-Chief, @anaaliverti.bsky.social, here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/1
Revised pre-print up!
Most research on the replication crisis focuses on research methods and publication. Our research shows bad theory is something we also need to look out for. If theories are too flexible in their interpretation, science suffers.
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
Most research on the replication crisis focuses on research methods and publication. Our research shows bad theory is something we also need to look out for. If theories are too flexible in their interpretation, science suffers.
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
Flexibility in Variable Operationalization in Social Disorganization Theory: A Pilot Study
doi.org
February 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Revised pre-print up!
Most research on the replication crisis focuses on research methods and publication. Our research shows bad theory is something we also need to look out for. If theories are too flexible in their interpretation, science suffers.
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
Most research on the replication crisis focuses on research methods and publication. Our research shows bad theory is something we also need to look out for. If theories are too flexible in their interpretation, science suffers.
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
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PREDICTION is about forecasting (correlation and time ordering).
CAUSATION is about establishing if a predictors) actually produces the effect, and EXPLANATION is about understanding how that works (identifying a plausible mechanism/s). Explanation is the prime goal of science.
CAUSATION is about establishing if a predictors) actually produces the effect, and EXPLANATION is about understanding how that works (identifying a plausible mechanism/s). Explanation is the prime goal of science.
February 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
PREDICTION is about forecasting (correlation and time ordering).
CAUSATION is about establishing if a predictors) actually produces the effect, and EXPLANATION is about understanding how that works (identifying a plausible mechanism/s). Explanation is the prime goal of science.
CAUSATION is about establishing if a predictors) actually produces the effect, and EXPLANATION is about understanding how that works (identifying a plausible mechanism/s). Explanation is the prime goal of science.
Trial & error is a poor approach for understanding complex systems. If one lacks a sense of the organization of the system, one can’t understand successes, failures, or reliably produce them. Too much blind intervention can also interfere with the coherence of the system and cause it to collapse.
February 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Trial & error is a poor approach for understanding complex systems. If one lacks a sense of the organization of the system, one can’t understand successes, failures, or reliably produce them. Too much blind intervention can also interfere with the coherence of the system and cause it to collapse.
This is my first week off the other platform. I am excited to have far less extraneous ‘noise’ on this platform. I should have a revised pre-print up soon to share.
February 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is my first week off the other platform. I am excited to have far less extraneous ‘noise’ on this platform. I should have a revised pre-print up soon to share.
@dtha15.bsky.social you might be interested in the crim theory reading group I am coordinating. It will deal with a lot of meta science and theory.
January 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@dtha15.bsky.social you might be interested in the crim theory reading group I am coordinating. It will deal with a lot of meta science and theory.