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    Politics, Social and Economic Change, and Crime: Exploring the Impact of Contextual Effects on Offending Trajectories
    with Phil Mike Jones and Stephen Farrall
    Politics and Society 48 (3): 357-388. 2020.
    Do government policies increase the likelihood that some citizens will become persistent criminals? Using criminological concepts such as the idea of a “criminal career” and sociological concepts such as the life course, this article assesses the outcome of macro-level economic policies on individuals’ engagement in crime. Few studies in political science, sociology, or criminology directly link macroeconomic policies to individual offending. Employing individual-level longitudinal data, this ar…Read more
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    Small Big Data: Using multiple data-sets to explore unfolding social and economic change
    with Colin Hay, Stephen Farrall, and Will Jennings
    Big Data and Society 2 (1). 2015.
    Bold approaches to data collection and large-scale quantitative advances have long been a preoccupation for social science researchers. In this commentary we further debate over the use of large-scale survey data and official statistics with ‘Big Data’ methodologists, and emphasise the ability of these resources to incorporate the essential social and cultural heredity that is intrinsic to the human sciences. In doing so, we introduce a series of new data-sets that integrate approximately 30 yea…Read more