Working on a history of incarceration in Britain since 1900. Please get in touch if you're interested in collaborating.
Some ideas for research projects for undergrad/postgrad/doctoral students are listed here.
Also interested in what generative AI means for higher education and in using it as an opportunity to reflect on what higher education is for. You can read a report of some initial research with UCL students here.
Stop & search doesn't work against violent crime - Wired
academic publications
Deradicalization and the experience of governing: Evidence from the transformation of socialist parties in western Europe, 1945-2021, Social Science History (2024) - pdf, data
Attitudes to crime and punishment in England and Wales, 1964-2023, British Journal of Criminology (2024) - pdf, data, UKDS
The Centre Ground Hypothesis and the Shape of Public Opinion, The Political Quarterly (2023) - pdf, data
Where Did All the Bullshit Jobs Go? Catalyst (2023) - pdf, data
The political economy of crime: Did Universal Credit increase crime rates? British Journal of Criminology (2022) - pdf, data
The working week in the long nineteenth century: Evidence from the timings of political events in Britain, Social Science History (2022) - pdf, data, replication study
Crowds, police and provocations: Temporal patterns of rioting in Britain, 1800-1939, Sociology (2022) - pdf, data
The changing practice of rioting: Revisiting repertoire transitions in Britain 1800-1939, Mobilization (2020) - pdf, data, comment
Does Stop and Search Deter Crime? Evidence from Ten Years of London-Wide Data, The British Journal of Criminology (2018) - pdf, Sewell Report
Reclaiming the everyday: The situational dynamics of the 2011 London riots, Social Movement Studies (2018) - pdf
maps, data and other projects
R package to implement Imai, Kim & Wang (2021) "Matching Methods for Causal Inference with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data" to irregular panel data