Evidence Matters

'Making Sense of Crime' – A @senseaboutsci guide to key evidence and policy debates senseaboutscience.org/data/files/res… #criminology

#bobbiesonthebeat in the papers today. We looked at the evidence back at the election bit.ly/BoTB15

Stories about #crimestats are in the news again, our guide sets out the challenges of measuring crime: bit.ly/crimestat #statsday15

@DonnaAnna in terms of good education, isn't it about the evidence that very few benefit and many lose out?

Grammar schools in the news again. Anyone claiming they help #socialmobility is plain wrong bit.ly/1zyiSUE #AskforEvidence

Cybercrime will be included in official #crimestats but how accurately is it recorded? bit.ly/1Ncd7pI

Express reports shouting “argh!” recorded as a crime. Easy to see why police figures aren’t reliable #crimestats

.@sarahwollaston raises interesting questions in @Telegraph about govt transparency and evidence bit.ly/1hzDfQ0

Great blog by the @Mental_Elf explaining the evidence around #SSRI antidepressants and #violentcrime bit.ly/1On8KJV

@tquid @ibushfield 3/3 for more on that sort of question check out our #makingsenseofcrime guide bit.ly/MSoCrime

@tquid @ibushfield 2/3 that doesn't show one causes the other, and overall there's little or no correlation between unemployment & crime

@tquid @ibushfield 1/2 it's more complicated than you might think! While some studies show link with specific types of property crime...

Podcast: the only way to get evidence-based policy is to embrace ambiguity in science boingboing.net/2015/10/02/pod…

Got there first! twitter.com/stephentall/st…

@POST_UK paper also has good summary of @_criminologist's randomised trial on body-worn cameras

This @POST_UK paper on police body-worn cameras has a great discussion of limitations of evidence from RCTs & pilots bit.ly/1Vuco59

@evimatters @tombennett71 @Samfr @stephentall It's almost as though school improvement is complicated.

One for @tombennett71 @Samfr @informed_edu @stephentall to share

Important @CASE_LSE study shows no single 'magic bullet' policy improved London schools, just years of small changes bit.ly/1FKELL0

.@lorddrayson: diesel subsidies wrong in light of recent evidence. Good to see, as it was when @BarryGardiner said it bit.ly/1CrAuav