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Do facts matter in crime research?
A paper published in 2020 in the journal Environmental Research studied the effect of temperature on crime. The authors used FBI National Incident-Based…
Apr 21
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Jacob Kaplan
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November 2022
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…
Nov 8, 2022
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October 2022
Why do so many papers think crime data ends in 2016?
First published in October, 2022
Oct 19, 2022
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Jacob Kaplan
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September 2022
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…
Sep 22, 2022
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Jacob Kaplan
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August 2022
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…
Aug 22, 2022
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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…
Aug 19, 2022
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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…
Aug 13, 2022
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June 2022
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…
Jun 7, 2022
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May 2022
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…
May 13, 2022
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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…
May 2, 2022
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NIBRS is a looming problem for criminology, not just for crime data
Last year marked the first year the FBI stopped collecting Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data and only took National Incident-Based Reporting System…
May 1, 2022
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NIBRS is a looming problem for criminology, not just for crime data
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April 2022
On Saying No
Why say no Academia is built on uncertainty. This is most clearly evident in how our currency of published papers are evaluated - through anonymous…
Apr 24, 2022
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