Richard Wortley

Strange cloud patterns in Brisbane known as cloud streets

I’ve spent the last week unsubscribing from the myriad of mailing lists I’ve somehow gotten on. It’s very satisfying but there are so many - they just keep coming. As if to taunt me quite a few then send and email to tell you that you are now unsubscribed

Amused by this high-end clothing store chain in the Netherlands. Can’t see it taking off in Australia

And here is a link to Ron Clarke and Pat Mayhew's classic study on gas suicides in Britain - www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Because some people aren’t trustworthy. I’ve come across machines on several occasions where the previous person has just done a runner. Random checking is a relatively efficient strategy (like random breath testing)

In Norway and noticed situational strategies for self-service checkouts I’ve not seen elsewhere. 1) a requirement to state you have scanned all items (set rules) 2) automated random checks on purchases by staff (formal surveillance) & 3) scanning receipt to activate exit barrier (screen exits)

I confess I’ve not read any evaluations. Do you have a reference?

In my letterbox. Nice initiative by the Queensland Police

Please add me too

Been off Twitter 63 days now and counting. Been nice to be SM free for a while. Ready to cautiously commit to Bluesky. Hoping it it isn't a gateway drug. (Sounds like I'm in an AA meeting)

I already know how it ends

Mine have finally arrived

Yep it's in the ECCA book - both 1st and 2nd eds

Psychological Criminology: An Integrative Approach Psychological Criminology explores what is it about individuals and their experiences that causes them to commit crime and/or to become criminal. Fully updated to include the latest theories and rese...

Second edition of Psychological Criminology out today. A labour of love - my publication I like the most. An attempt to tell psychologists about crime and criminologist about psychology, weaving theories and research into an integrative model

www.routledge.com/Psychologica...

My first post on this platform. Apologies if this has already been discussed, but can ask you all have you completely abandoned the 'other' platform, or are you keeping a presence on both, and if so how is that working?