Travis Pratt

PhD, Research Director at HCCSCD, and Fellow at the University of Cincinnati UCCI. Researching corrections and victimization.

[Travis Pratt @TravisCPratt]

The annual book tree is up! Always with a heavy Crim-literature presence and this year topped off with a T-Rex 🦖

[Travis Pratt @TravisCPratt]

@InvestmentBook1 That’s the one!

[Travis Pratt @TravisCPratt]

@CrimeMusica @udaytoncjchair Thanks for the shoutout man!

[Travis Pratt @TravisCPratt]

@DrDreToo Congrats man!

[Bitna Kim @BitnaKim19]

Starting as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Offender Therapy of Comparative Criminology (#IJOTCC, @SageCriminology) - promoting research with #transdisciplinary, #translational. #transnational, #transcultural approaches. https://t.co/3bOTtmJ8yZ

[Rolf Degen @DegenRolf]

Activism for social justice causes can serve as a vehicle for pathological narcissists to virtue signal and elevate themselves above others.
"The dark-ego-vehicle principle suggests that individuals with so-called dark personalities (e.g., high narcissistic traits) are attracted to political and social activism that they can repurpose to satisfy their specific ego-focused needs (e.g., signaling moral superiority and manipulating others) instead of achieving prosocial goals. With two pre-registered studies, we sought further evidence for the dark-ego-vehicle principle by examining the associations of pathological narcissistic grandiosity with involvement in LGBQ activism and gender identity activism.
The results of the present research show that involvement in LGBQ activism is predicted by elevated altruism, being younger, and being female. However, the main results of both studies also indicate that individuals’ high in pathological narcissistic grandiosity may be drawn to prosocial activism. In line with our pre-registered hypotheses, we found that higher pathological narcissistic grandiosity was related to higher involvement in LBGQ activism as well as gender identity activism. Also, the size of these relationships was higher than the median of the effect sizes found in other pre-registered studies.
We had argued that the moral-based elements of prosocial activism may provide narcissistic individuals with an opportunity for signaling their self-accredited grandiose moral superiority and virtue. The results of the present research provide direct empirical evidence for this notion. Hence, activism integrated morality seems to attract narcissistic virtue signalers enabling them to inauthentically signal their self-accredited prosocial virtue while truly striving for ego-focused goals, such as personal fame and social status.
The results of the present research also replicate the findings of previous studies which found higher narcissistic traits to predict involvement in anti-sexual assault activism, feminist activism, climate activism, and political activism. Our results suggest that the controversies fought out in the name of pro-LGBQ and/or pro-gender identity activism may only on the surface be related to conflicts around sexual/gender identity while they are actually caused—at least in part—by the dark traits of some activists who are hijacking the activist movement for the satisfaction of their own ego-focused needs (e.g., to signal their self-accredited moral superiority).
Instead of raising awareness, such behavior may cause irreparable reputational harm to the activist movement inevitably reducing public support for the cause. Therefore, minorities and their true allies need to be aware of the narcissistic “enemies from within”´.

[Justin Nix @jnixy]

For anyone interested -

https://t.co/QbArcUPID8

[Ellen S. Boyne @CJ_Editor]

Now in affordable paperback!

A Criminologist’s Life: Essays in Honor of the #Criminological Legacy of Francis T. Cullen, edited by @CLeroJonson & @TravisCPratt

Visit: https://t.co/XwqUZvBkrs

@Ledaigle @applegate_k @TCKulig @hanermm @UCSCJ_Grad @tandfhss #FrankCullen

[Bitna Kim @BitnaKim19]

Annual Research Review: Mapping the multifaceted approaches and impacts of adverse childhood experiences – an umbrella review of meta‐analyses - Kim - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/qzaD3PIeJD

[Scott Wolfe @Scott_Wolfe_MSU]

This hit a while back, but I’m trying to get back in the Twitter-saddle (against my better judgement…)!
New pub with @Clempoliceprof, Alpert, and Rojek in Police Quarterly on cognitive distortions in policing.

Thread on what we found: https://t.co/x08VafjSvb

[Justin Nix @jnixy]

Jacob knows we’re aware of his claims. We’ve said as much in multiple email exchanges with him. We’ll share more details soon. I suggest people wait before reaching conclusions. We’re not going to hold court on Twitter. Here's a timeline to give a sense of how this has played out

[Kevin Wright @kwrightCRJ]

"Inside-Out can change the perceptions of people who will live and work in a better criminal justice system."

First 50 downloads are free for our article on the @InsideOutPrExPr here: https://t.co/kU3GqgrDIf

[Justin Nix @jnixy]

Published online today in Criminology

"When police pull back: Neighborhood-level effects of de-policing on violent and property crime"

Summary and link to (free) full text below.

#OpenAccess #AcademicTwitter

https://t.co/J3O4MxhUZP

[Dr. Franklin T. Wilson @DrFrankWilson]

Throwback Thursday: First day of my Ph.D. Program at Sam Houston State University. Graduate student orientation. @SHSUCJ

[Criminology Ferret @CrimFerret]

Just a reminder that you can learn about California's War on Ferrets by attending my presentation at @WSCriminology next week.

Friday - Feb. 9th
2-3:15pm

#WSCLBC24
#Criminology #Stigma
#Policy #Ferrets

https://t.co/OuDzIEGElJ

[Travis Pratt @TravisCPratt]

@HitchMagee You won’t find it on here My Dude…

[Travis Pratt @TravisCPratt]

@kryanproctor This discussion is important. I encourage you to write this perspective up in more detail and send it to maybe Theoretical Crim (they will probably desk reject it, but it was once a good journal) or another outlet.

[Criminology Ferret @CrimFerret]

"Is Pretrial Detention an Effective Deterrent? An Analysis of Failure to Appear and Rearrest Says No" By - Holsinger, Lowenkamp, & @TravisCPratt in Federal Probation

#Criminology #CrimTwitter #Courts #Recidivism #Arrests #PreTrial #Incarceration #Policy

https://t.co/KiUd3t2Qtz

[Travis Pratt @TravisCPratt]

@CrimFerret Thank you for the shoutout!

[James Byrne @profbyrne]

Online first-New Research on Veterans Treatment Courts @ASC_DCS @ascdov @CorrectionsGMU @UML_CRIM @uvao_journal https://t.co/Z6GomFublC

[D'Andre Walker @DrDreToo]

I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to mentor my graduate students (@OleMissCJLS) from the development to publication of this manuscript. #ProudMentorMoment
https://t.co/ctgVVybrot