Aaron Jacklin

The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …

If you use "AI agents" (LLMs calling tools in a loop) you need to be aware of the Lethal Trifecta

Combine access to private data, exposure to untrusted content and the ability to externally communicate and an attacker can trick the system into stealing your data simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...

What happened after North America’s busiest supervised consumption site closed As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

What happened after North America’s busiest supervised consumption site closed

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #HarmReduction #SupervisedConsumption

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Why the people with cannabis use disorder who didn’t get treatment… didn’t According to the first of today's Five Studies About: Drug Use

Why the people with cannabis use disorder who didn’t get treatment… didn’t

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #cannabis

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“Where do English and Welsh victim-survivors of sexual violence perceive they might gain kaleidoscopic justice?” According to the first of today's Five Studies About+: Sexual Violence

“Where do English and Welsh victim-survivors of sexual violence perceive they might gain kaleidoscopic justice?”

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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Beyond the Archives: Aaron Jacklin Striving for Better Crime Journalism Criminology Research & Reporting on Crime

I was happy to talk to Curing Crime about what I do and why for their Beyond the Archives series. They explore "the use of #science & #medicine to curtail #crime in the 19th & 20th Century."

Beyond the Archives: Aaron Jacklin Striving for Better Crime Journalism www.curingcrime.com/p/beyond-the...

How the Dark Triad traits of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism predict cyberbullying (spoiler: one of them doesn’t) According to the first of today's Five Studies About: The Dark Triad

How the Dark Triad traits of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism predict cyberbullying (spoiler: one of them doesn’t)

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #DarkTriad #psychology

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Happy one year anniversary to our book ´Marginalised Voices in Criminology’ 🎉 and what a year - do please have a read/get your students to read (inspection copies available) & think about whose voices are positioned/whose are excluded … and why it matters www.routledge.com/Marginalised...

My understanding was that it's a particular kind of happiness, attained in a particular way.

How the neoliberal drive toward “happiness” paves the way for “virtuous" drug use As argued in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

How the neoliberal drive toward “happiness” paves the way for “virtuous" drug use
As argued in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #drugs

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🔵 Fake news spreaders use more anger & power words.

🔵 Anger boosts sharing of both real & fake news.

🔵 Content that resonates with users’ sense of power encourages the adoption of fact-checking tools.

Here is the article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#FakeNews #SocialMedia #Research

Media Literacy Interventions Improve Resilience to Misinformation: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Overall Effect and Moderating Factors - Guanxiong Huang, Wufan Jia, Wenting Yu, 2024 The widespread dissemination of misinformation has become a global concern. A recommended solution is to improve people’s ability to discern true from false inf...

Media literacy works.

A meta-analysis of 49 studies (N=81,155) shows interventions significantly improve resilience to #misinformation (d=0.60).

Key takeaways:

🔴 Reduces belief in falsehoods (d=0.27)
🔴 Boosts discernment (d=0.76)
🔴 Cuts down sharing (d=1.04)

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Why “young people” were essential to creating a drug outreach program FOR “young people” in England As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

Why “young people” were essential to creating a drug outreach program FOR “young people” in England

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #drugs

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What the war in Ukraine teaches us about public support for vigilantism As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

What the war in Ukraine teaches us about public support for #vigilantism
As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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Unique Trauma Type Identified in Coercive Control Victims A crime science news brief

Unique Trauma Type Identified in Coercive Control Victims

#crimsky #crime #CoerciveControl #trauma #criminology

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How Coercive Control Creates A Unique Type of Trauma As proposed in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

How Coercive Control Creates A Unique Type of Trauma
(As proposed in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update)

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime #CoerciveControl

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Inclusive resources to level up your science of learning initiatives | Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. Here are two simple ways to amplify and advance women in STEM: Update your citations with publications by women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ cognitive scientists, and invite cognitive scientists from underrepresented...

Inclusion isn't just a buzzword. It's a crucial aspect of teaching, learning, and research. Learn more about how you can support diversity, equity, and inclusion in cognitive science. #EduSky

Check out this piece on specific kinds of drug underenforcement both quantitatively and qualitatively, recently published in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, with Kay Levine, Josh Hinkle, and @volkantopalli.bsky.social

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For a renewed harm reduction model - Harm Reduction Journal In the early 1990s, the spread of HIV among heroin injectors prompted a shift in drug policy internationally, including in France. This led to the emergence of a new policy known as Harm Reduction (HR...

"For a renewed harm reduction model" by Pierre Chappard and Fabienne Pourchon.

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #HarmReduction

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What You Missed This Week A recap of The Art of Explaining Crime Season 2, Episode 6

What You Missed (Last) Week on The Art of Explaining Crime

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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How VR can complement traditional therapy for juvenile offenders As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

How VR can complement traditional therapy for juvenile offenders

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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The Case for Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs An increased focus on issues related to DEI in higher education has led to a critical review of many programs to assess the degree to which these issues are included in the curriculum. Many program...

Full article: The Case for Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Asking witnesses to “look past” possible appearance changes when identifying suspects not only doesn’t help identifications, it actually hinders them As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

Asking witnesses to “look past” possible appearance changes when identifying suspects not only doesn’t help identifications, it actually hinders them

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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Restorative justice can be compatible with the criminal justice paradigm, depending on the stage of the criminal justice system As argued in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

Restorative justice can be compatible with the criminal justice paradigm, depending on the stage of the criminal justice system (As argued in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update)

#crimsky #criminology #CriminalJustice #crime

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Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs — The Economist And they are growing fast

Attention criminologists.

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🕸️ Oops. That should read "...some forms of newsmaking criminology..."

What about "public criminology"? (I like @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social's definition, linked here: www.johnshjarback.com/what-is-publ...) If public criminology is scholars reaching out beyond academic circles, #CriminologyJournalism is journalists reaching into those circles. I think.

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🕸️ Now, don't get me wrong. I have a lot of respect for university PR people and science communicators. They're great people, skilled writers, and essential to the media world. Their work is important. I'm just interested in doing the journalism that I don't see enough of.

... to write news about crim results in my practice of #CriminologyJournalism, that process of interviewing and quoting unaffiliated, uninvolved researchers will be a big part of what I do.

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PR like that isn't independent. You won't see researchers from other institutions who are uninvolved in the research offering comment in press releases from universities. (If you do, send it to me!) This practice is embedded in the science news produced by science journalism. As I begin... 🧵

A journalist covering crim research can look a lot like university PR, particularly the press releases universities put out about new research. That stuff is great as far as disseminating results and getting the word out goes, but it's not science journalism and not #CriminologyJournalism.

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