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Does domestic violence counseling work?
The cited paper is: Musodza, W., Khajehei, M., McLaughlin, K. et al. Counseling Interventions to Reduce Domestic Violence Against Women: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials. Journal of Family Violence (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-025-01009-6
Jerry Ratcliffe
6 days ago1 min read


Integrated Offender Management (IOM)
Some details from a relatively recent systematic review can be found in Hadfield, E., Sleath, E., Brown, S., & Holdsworth, E. (2020). A systematic review into the effectiveness of Integrated Offender Management. Criminology & Criminal Justice , 21 (5), 650-668. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820912295 A copy of the article is here:
Jerry Ratcliffe
6 days ago1 min read


Recruiting more women into policing
The paper cited is: Travis A Taniguchi, Jennifer R Rineer, Katherine Hoogesteyn, Sean Wire, Lauren Mangum (2023) Recruiting women into policing: Experimentally testing the effectiveness of recruiting materials, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice , 17, 2023, paad049, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paad049 It can be downloaded here .
Jerry Ratcliffe
6 days ago1 min read


Real Time Crime Center aided investigations
The reel is based on Guerette, Rob T., and Kimberly Przeszlowski (2023) " Does the Rapid Deployment of Information to Police Improve...
Jerry Ratcliffe
Dec 18, 20251 min read


Police-led diversion systematic review
Full details of the systematic review for the Campbell Collaboration are in: Wilson, D. B., Brennan, I., & Olaghere, A. (2018)....
Jerry Ratcliffe
Dec 18, 20251 min read


Preventing mass violence attacks
The cited research is recently published here in open access . The citation is Cilke, T. R. R., Williams, M. M., Jones, N. T., Gibson, K. A., & Gray, A. E. (2025). Breaking the silence: Bystander reporting to law enforcement disrupts individuals moving toward targeted violence. Law and Human Behavior . Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000630
Jerry Ratcliffe
Dec 8, 20251 min read


Why do officers leave policing?
Or more accurately, why officers 'think' about leaving policing. The easiest way to access a concise report on this reel is via the IACP . The full study available here is: Jacqueline M Drew, Elise Sargeant, Sherri Martin (2024) Why do police consider leaving the profession?: The interplay between job demand stress, burnout, psychological distress, and commitment, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice , Volume 18, 2024, paae036, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae036
Jerry Ratcliffe
Nov 30, 20251 min read


Did the NYPD's Operation Impact surge work?
The study cited is MacDonald J, Fagan J, Geller A (2016) The Effects of Local Police Surges on Crime and Arrests in New York City. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0157223. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157223 The research study is open access so you can read the entire research report here .
Jerry Ratcliffe
Nov 23, 20251 min read


Do police legitimacy interventions work?
Lorraine Mazerolle and colleagues undertook a systematic review of police-led legitimacy interventions to see if they had the desired outcome. The full citation is: Mazerolle, L., Bennett, S., Davis, J., Sargeant, E. and Manning, M. (2013), Legitimacy in Policing: A Systematic Review. Campbell Systematic Reviews , 9: i-147. https://doi.org/10.4073/csr.2013.1 You can read the entire study here , as it is open access.
Jerry Ratcliffe
Nov 17, 20251 min read


Do crime prevention letters work?
The full study is available online and open access , and is Hodgkinson, W., Assaraf, N., Ariel, B., & Sutherland, A. (2025). Burglary...
Jerry Ratcliffe
Nov 9, 20251 min read


Kansas City Preventive Policing Experiment
Source: Kelling, G. L., Pate, T., Dieckman, D., & Brown, C. E. (1974). The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment: A Summary Report ....
Jerry Ratcliffe
Nov 2, 20251 min read


Operation Capesso: Positive results
At the time of publishing this video, the full results have not yet been published. The results are from direct communication from Dave...
Jerry Ratcliffe
Nov 2, 20251 min read


Investigative interview techniques
This report is from a 2024 Campbell Collaboration systematic review. The full citation is: Catlin, M., Wilson, D. B., Redlich, A. D., Bettens, T., Meissner, C. A., Bhatt, S., & Brandon, S. E. (2024). Interview and interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions: A systematic review update and extension. Campbell Systematic Reviews , 20(4), e1441. Here's the full report .
Jerry Ratcliffe
Oct 22, 20251 min read


Effect of police station closures
The video cites the work of Elisa Facchetti, in work published by the Institute of Fiscal Studies. I cited work from a pdf published on their website and available directly here .
Jerry Ratcliffe
Oct 15, 20251 min read


Philadelphia Predictive Policing Experiment
Here is a three-page summary of the experiment from Police Chief magazine. For academics, the full published results can be found here:...
Jerry Ratcliffe
Oct 8, 20251 min read


Does sexual assault training make a difference?
The study can be found described in: Bennett, S., Gilmour, J., Carr, K., Helton, K., & Anderson, K. (2025). Evaluating the impact of...
Jerry Ratcliffe
Sep 29, 20251 min read


Racial disparity in police stops
The full article this video refers to is: Ratcliffe, JH & Hyland, SS (2025) Police stops and naïve denominators, Crime Science , 14, 10. You can access the entire article here .
Jerry Ratcliffe
Sep 25, 20251 min read


Does police-led diversion work?
The Turning Point randomized trial, with background information was published in Neyroud, P. (2024). A diverting quarter century?...
Jerry Ratcliffe
Sep 21, 20251 min read


Why do some crowds become disorderly?
The post draws on my c hat with Cliff Stott on the Reducing Crime podcast. You can listen here, or access it from just about any podcast...
Jerry Ratcliffe
Sep 21, 20251 min read


When Seattle tried police abolition
The Reducing Crime podcast episode with Carmen Best can be found at: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/35-carmen-best/id141281...
Jerry Ratcliffe
Sep 21, 20251 min read
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