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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
1 day ago1 min read
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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 151 min read
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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 81 min read
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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 291 min read
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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 251 min read
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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 211 min read
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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 211 min read
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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 211 min read
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Does a job reduce crime?
The reel is based on recently pu blished work by Jens Ludwig and Kevin Schnepel in the Annual Review of Criminology. It is publicly...
Jerry Ratcliffe
Sep 211 min read
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