Justin T. Pickett
@JustinTPickett
Professor @UAlbany, social scientist (public opinion, survey methodology, decision-making), outdoor enthusiast, Hufflepuff
End of the week, do you have any fucks left to give? I hope so, if nothing else to join my team in celebrating a new pub! Fuck: Public Opinion is an extension of last year's Fuck: The Police. Top-line - the public seems to be a bit more chill than police executives when it…
I'm reading Robert Sapolsky's Determined: Life Without Free Will as a mild form of self harm and here are two perfect pages - ego depletion, surgeon's birthdays, Francesca Gino/Dan Ariely study, implicit bias, hungry judges - all on the same page!!!
The current issue of The Criminologist has been published and is available for you to view online. Please use this link to access issues of The Criminologist - asc41.org/publications/t…
It is perfectly acceptable to begin a sentence with ‘and.’ And it’s equally acceptable to begin a sentence with ‘but’ or ‘or.’
New preprint! Do crime projections = behavior? We test congruence & dynamics using panel (🇧🇩) & cross-sectional (🇷🇸🇧🇦) data. Projections predict, but... doi.org/10.31235/osf.i… #criminology #crime 1/n
What's an ethical journal review time? ASC's Ethics Committee analyzed review times at Criminology and C&PP (from 2008 to 2023) to determine norms for editors in our field: an average of about one week for desk rejections and two months for full reviews. crimrxiv.com/pub/jthr25me/r…
Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… A huge shoutout to @JustinTPickett who helped us tremendously with survey design and experimental methods!
Sadly, after 40+ years, Dr. Frank Cullen was FIRED simply to save UC money. In just the past 8 years, he published 148 articles + 7 books, received 34,383 citations, won ASC’s Mentor Award, got $595,567 in grants, advised 13 dissertations, and received high teaching evaluations.
A new study with @JustinTPickett in BJC. The public sense of justice rarely translates into reliable guidance for the criminal justice system. Longitudinal data from 6 countries reveals lack of time-consistency in individual punishment preferences (but not at the aggregate level)
A new paper by Criminology PhD researcher @Andrzej_Uhl is now in the British Journal of Criminology. It examines public perceptions of justice, and whether they should be applied to punishment. academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-ar…
New: On @elonmusk’s X, Republicans go viral as Democrats disappear. We analyzed 100 top political accounts and found that Republicans are getting followed more and going viral more now that the world’s richest Trump supporter is running the show. Look at these charts: