Gaston Pezzuchi

Criminal Analyst
University Professor
Passionate about GISc & Data Science

[Matt Ashby @LessCrime]

A cautionary tale for anyone doing research with police data.

[grabs megaphone, clears throat]

📢 To properly analyse administrative data you need someone who understands how the data was produced 📢

[Jerry Ratcliffe @Jerry_Ratcliffe]

This may be a bit niche, but if you care about crime science and environmental criminology, you are going to enjoy this one.

[United Nations @UN]

Ending racism, discrimination, xenophobia & intolerance is our shared responsibility.

Everyone, everywhere, can take action to spread compassion & acceptance.

Here's how you can take action to #FightRacism: https://t.co/Zbzszqux1z

[Jerry Ratcliffe @Jerry_Ratcliffe]

From two of the most highly-cited crime control scholars in the world:
https://t.co/nMxlLrSatk

[Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo @el_BID]

Acompáñanos al lanzamiento de la Plataforma de Evidencias en #Seguridad y #Justicia, el primer banco de evidencias en portugués y español que sistematiza conocimientos sobre lo que ha funcionado para reducir el crimen y la violencia. Regístrate aquí: https://t.co/txHsQmy7Vu

[Spencer Chainey @SpencerChainey]

News article in the Uruguay press in which I comment about changes and levels of crime in the country and Montevideo @JDI_LAC @UCLCrimeScience https://t.co/kZOMkY9mxd

[Gaston Pezzuchi @gpezzuchi]

@prestevez Brillante, breve y con solo 2 referencias la tesis de Nash. 🥹

[Spencer Chainey @SpencerChainey]

New article with Gonzalo Crocci in which we show how institutional ineffectiveness and poor controls for corruption are key factors (rather than structural conditions) that explain the persistently high levels of homicide in Latin America
https://t.co/lMMQheYTa7

[Valentin Pereda @ValentinPereda]

Why does Global North criminology fail to explain organized crime in Mexico? This is the question I examine in my latest article published in Theoretical Criminology. https://t.co/XfXEmyl8bl

[Jerry Ratcliffe @Jerry_Ratcliffe]

No need to defund police.
Just make it so unattractive you depolulate it.

[Spencer Chainey @SpencerChainey]

Nuevo artículo con @prestevez @gpezzuchi @RSerranoBerthet Evaluación policiamiento de puntos calientes en Argentina. Dedicado a la memoria de Oscar Terminiello @LaPlataMLP quien murió de Covid-19 en 2021 (se muestra en la imagen en la chaqueta granate) https://t.co/rzQ74puDTE

[Gaston Pezzuchi @gpezzuchi]

Publicación con referato. Libre para descargar!!!

[Spencer Chainey @SpencerChainey]

New article with @prestevez @gpezzuchi @RSerranoBerthet Evaluation of hot spot policing Argentina. Dedicated to the memory of Oscar Terminiello @LaPlataMLP who died of Covid-19 in 2021 (pictured in maroon) https://t.co/rzQ74puDTE @SAGEcriminology @UCLCrimeScience @JDI_LAC @el_BID

[Spencer Chainey @SpencerChainey]

New article with @prestevez @gpezzuchi @RSerranoBerthet Evaluation of hot spot policing Argentina. Dedicated to the memory of Oscar Terminiello @LaPlataMLP who died of Covid-19 in 2021 (pictured in maroon) https://t.co/rzQ74puDTE @SAGEcriminology @UCLCrimeScience @JDI_LAC @el_BID

[Spencer Chainey @SpencerChainey]

Meeting with the Mayor-elect of Florianopolis, Guarda Municipal and Policia Militar of Santa Catarina to discuss plans for @bid hot spot policing experimental trials https://t.co/mHjZyzqpx4 @UCLCrimeScience

[Dr Sophie Curtis-Ham @SophieCHCH]

New PhD paper alert! https://t.co/g1sTFVsgiq It's a dream come true-the culmination of many years of thinking & R&D-to publish in the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling my new method for #geographicprofiling in crime investigations: GP-SMART 1/

[Spencer Chainey @SpencerChainey]

A nice diagram illustrating the search stage to the inclusion stage of reviewing documents for analysis (e.g., of illegal logging in https://t.co/0fH4qhxBuw)

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

If you're gonna listen to any speech about #Ukraine 🇺🇦, let it be this one.

The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.

[Austin H. Wang @wearytolove]

1. Replicate a top-journal article
2. Found a huge coding error overturning all results
3. Inform the top-journal editors
4. Top-journal editors said that they do not review, consider, or publish any replication.
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What an accumulation of scientific knowledge!

[Aaron Chalfin @AaronChalfin]

New paper considers the effect of police presence on crime in Germany. The paper only studies property crime and finds that residential burglaries and car thefts rise when police presence falls. Other forms of property crimes are unchanged. Thread👇
https://t.co/lbvUoEO9ci