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Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Your First Five is a free tip sheet made up of a curated selection of recent crime and justice research that’s related to one topic.
These new studies related to criminology and criminal justice were published recently by journals I monitor.
1. Active guardianship in urban public places: place attachment and social cohesion [Psychology, Crime & Law]
2. Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime [Criminology]
3. The Business of Murder: Business Types and the Moderating Effects of Neighborhood Context on Homicide [Homicide Studies]
4. Private security for curbing unwanted sexual behaviours in train stations: a place-based randomised controlled trial [Journal of Experimental Criminology]
5. Reactive guardianship: Who intervenes? How? And why? [Criminology]
I might cover some of these studies further in The Practice of Understanding Crime. If one sounds interesting or important, let me know in the comments:
Your First Five and the directories I'm experimenting with are the output of my research discovery system.