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The Covid Kings of Salami
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Fishing for a date
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Most code you write for research is a waste of time (because someone else has already done it)
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NIBRS is a looming problem for criminology, not just for crime data
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The Covid Kings of Salami
The Covid pandemic brought a flood of papers assessing how Covid affected crime. This is an important topic worthy of the highest quality research we…
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Why do so many papers think crime data ends in 2016?
First published in October, 2022
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Eight ways the media will mess up reporting on 2021 crime data
Last year the FBI reported that its estimated national murder rate increased from about 0.0051% of the population being murdered in 2019 to about 0.0065…
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The case for fast-track replication papers
A recent research note by Benjamin Comer and Jason Ingram, a graduate student and an associate professor at Sam Houston State University, respectively…
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How to massively expand victimization data
A significant issue with our crime data is that it only includes crimes reported to the police. Most crimes that occur are never reported (especially…
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Fishing for a date
Is teenage dating related to drug use? This is the exact kind of question you’ll see studied in pretty much every criminology journal. But it’s a more…
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Correlation is causation
One of the most common tropes about research is that “correlation isn’t causation.” This is generally used in opposition to the research at hand. Don’t…
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How bad is real estate crime data? Really bad
There was a recent and popular tweet about how real estate agents can’t tell you anything about crime in the neighborhood you’re looking at due to…
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Most code you write for research is a waste of time (because someone else has already done it)
It is very rare in criminology research to use quantitative data that no one has ever used before. It does happen. Primarily in surveys that the authors…
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Crime Thoughts
Crime Thoughts
This is a blog by me, Jacob Kaplan, about crime data and crime research.
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