A missing person who doesn't fit an "ideal" is less likely to be found

As found in one of the studies in this week's Crime Research Update: Crime Stage Edition

Welcome to The Art of Explaining Crime, the independent newsletter that helps you think and write about crime.

Use this tip sheet to help you integrate the latest research into your work. It’s a directory of new crime research published by the academic journals that I monitor. For example:

Is there an ideal missing person? A theoretical case study using long-term unresolved missing persons cases (European Journal of Criminology) Eric Halford, Carlos Iglesias

You’ll find more listings below.

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I’ve sorted the research into rough categories I’m calling “crime stages.”

Offending

• Wired for Risk? TRDM, Self-Control, and Peer Deviance in Cybercrime (Criminal Justice and Behavior) Marii Paliienko, Olena Antonaccio, Ekaterina Botchkovar

• An Examination of Cybercrime Trends Within the United States: Findings From the Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2015–2024 (American Journal of Criminal Justice) Timothy A. Engle, Sung Hwan Joo, Courtney Caudill, et al.

• The Impact of California’s Zero Dollar Bail Policy On Crime (American Journal of Criminal Justice) Justin Heflin, Bryan C. McCannon

• Mapping Hate Crime Research in Europe: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions (Deviant Behavior) Álvaro Suárez-Vergne

• Criminological Others: An Inquiry into the Construction and Legal Standing of Suspects with Intellectual Disabilities in Ireland (The British Journal of Criminology) Alan Cusack 🔓

• Correction: Making Spatial More Spatial: Decomposing Direct, Indirect, and Total Impacts in Neighborhood and Crime Studies (Journal of Quantitative Criminology) Young-An Kim, Jongwoo Jeong

• Do cyber fraud experiences matter? Revisiting user motivations and satisfaction in driving FinTech continuance (Journal of Financial Crime) Anil Kumar Kashyap, Priyanka, Prashant Gupta

• Profile of child sexual abuse material offenders in Portugal: Considerations of a decade (2011–2021) (European Journal of Criminology) Mauro Paulino, Sofia Gabriel, Mariana Moniz, et al. 🔓

Victimization

• Is there an ideal missing person? A theoretical case study using long-term unresolved missing persons cases (European Journal of Criminology) Eric Halford, Carlos Iglesias

• Trapped in dichotomies and individualism: The Western criminal legal system’s failure to capture complexity (Punishment & Society) Marguerite Schinkel, Sarah Anderson 🔓

• A critical review of South Africa’s current parole system (Probation Journal) Francois CM Louw, Ephraim K Sibanyoni 🔓

• Perceptions of stigma of pregnant individuals experiencing substance use disorder receiving prenatal care at magdalene clinic: a cross-sectional study (Harm Reduction Journal) Hannah F. McKinnon, Melissa L. Fair, Jody Teel, et al. 🔓

• Time unbound: Nonlinear temporality and structural trauma in prison time (Punishment & Society) Joanne B DeCaro 🔓

• Walking a tightrope? Independent sexual violence advisors and their relationship with the police (European Journal of Criminology) Oona Brooks-Hay, Susan Hillyard, Kelly Johnson 🔓

• Neutralization of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis (Deviant Behavior) Lindsay Leban, Savannah L. Doherty, Ter’Ricka F. Brundidge

• Examining Risk and Victim Agency in Bystander Interventions in Intimate Partner Violence (Journal of Interpersonal Violence) Ella Kuskoff, Helen Mols, Cameron Parsell 🔓

• Timing Matters: Maternal Intimate Partner Violence, Parent–Child Relationships, and Adolescent Internalizing in Latine Families (Journal of Interpersonal Violence) Zephorah Bissoon, R. Lillianne Macias, Nancy Nava, et al.

Policing

• Emergency department-based testing for xylazine and other novel psychoactive substances in Central Alabama: a feasibility study (Harm Reduction Journal) William Bradford, Daniel Dye, Rebecca Jensen, et al. 🔓

• Is there an ideal missing person? A theoretical case study using long-term unresolved missing persons cases (European Journal of Criminology) Eric Halford, Carlos Iglesias

• Assessing the causal mechanisms underlying procedural justice theory in the Netherlands (European Journal of Criminology) Amy E Nivette, Isabelle van der Vegt 🔓

• Understanding the influences, motivations and job expectations of policing students in the Gen Z environment: Early indications from a longitudinal study (International Journal of Police Science & Management) Antony Stephenson, Amanda Davies 🔓

• Toronto’s drug policy paradox: Harm reduction sites and drug police occurrences in Toronto neighborhoods (1992–2020) (Criminology) Taylor Domingos 🔓

• Walking a tightrope? Independent sexual violence advisors and their relationship with the police (European Journal of Criminology) Oona Brooks-Hay, Susan Hillyard, Kelly Johnson 🔓

• “I feel separate”: the impact of operational and organizational stressors on police support civilians (Policing: An International Journal) Mark Norman, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Laura Huey

Courts

• Universal Jurisdiction over Core International Crimes: Law & Practice, Lachezar Yanev and Harmen van der Wilt (eds) (Journal of International Criminal Justice) Anne Hausknecht

• Upstream and Downstream Racial Disparities in Prison Rule Violation Processes (Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency) John Wooldredge, Joshua C. Cochran, Peter Tanksley

• The Impact of California’s Zero Dollar Bail Policy On Crime (American Journal of Criminal Justice) Justin Heflin, Bryan C. McCannon

• Factors associated with the timing and success of remediation of youth found incompetent to stand trial in juvenile court. (Law and Human Behavior) Philip C. O’Donnell, Leah J. Welty, Ying Cheung, et al.

• Criminological Others: An Inquiry into the Construction and Legal Standing of Suspects with Intellectual Disabilities in Ireland (The British Journal of Criminology) Alan Cusack 🔓

• Justice for the Victims of the Nagorno–Karabakh Conflict (Journal of International Criminal Justice) Sheila Paylan, Sareta Ashraph 🔓

• Corrigendum to “Life without parole and euthanasia: The future unintended consequences of current sentencing policies” (Punishment & Society)

• Profile of child sexual abuse material offenders in Portugal: Considerations of a decade (2011–2021) (European Journal of Criminology) Mauro Paulino, Sofia Gabriel, Mariana Moniz, et al. 🔓

• Extending the Fuzzy-Trace Theory informed model of guilty plea decision making: Accounting for factual guilt and innocence. (Law and Human Behavior) Rebecca K. Helm, Tina M. Zottoli 🔓

• A glimpse at competency to proceed evaluations for immigration court proceedings. (Law and Human Behavior) Cassandra A. Bailey, Mia M. Ricardo, London Samson, et al.

• Complainant Gender Biases Jurors’ Judgments in Rape Cases Despite Equivalent Perceptions of Expert Evidence (Journal of Interpersonal Violence) Patricia A. Ferreira, Twila Wingrove, Evelyn M. Maeder

Corrections

• Arousal Management Techniques, Effectiveness and Therapeutic Applications in Sexual Offending Treatment: A Review (Sexual Abuse) Sarah M. Beggs Christofferson, Breanne Ealam 🔓

• “You’re doing it because your freedom is on the line”: a qualitative study exploring how people who use opioids and methamphetamine navigate legal involvement and carceral treatment for substance use disorder (Harm Reduction Journal) Nicholas P. Iacobelli, Liberty Estrella, Mandy D. Owens, et al. 🔓

• A critical review of South Africa’s current parole system (Probation Journal) Francois CM Louw, Ephraim K Sibanyoni 🔓

• Access to and the delivery of mental health services in women’s prisons in England: a thematic analysis of unannounced prison inspection reports (The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology) Holly Rose, Sarah Leonard 🔓

• A Study of the Context Upon Community Re-entry for Young Adults With a History of Sexual Offending Sentenced to Shorter Incarcerations (Sexual Abuse) Julien Frechette, Patrick Lussier, Isabelle F. Dufour 🔓

• Corrigendum to “Life without parole and euthanasia: The future unintended consequences of current sentencing policies” (Punishment & Society)

• Transforming Prison Labour: Economic Reforms, Ethical Considerations, and Public–Private Partnerships in Kenya’s Correctional Services (The Prison Journal) Collins Ogutu Miruka

• Vision for critical criminal justice reform: Reentry of Collective Care (Contemporary Justice Review) Mutlu Koseli, Brent In, Alicia Bradford, et al.

• Precarity and Punishment: The Exacerbation of the Chronic Needs of Women With Felony Convictions During the Pandemic (Feminist Criminology) Marva V. Goodson, Kayla M. Hoskins, Destinee A. Marsh, et al.

• Hierarchy of Impact in Justice-Involved Women: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology) Michele Rivas, Addrain Conyers

• Time unbound: Nonlinear temporality and structural trauma in prison time (Punishment & Society) Joanne B DeCaro 🔓

• Restricted care: prescription medicine and the construction of the ‘problem’ patient in prison (Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy) Mathilde Carøe Munkholm

Public Policy

• Universal Jurisdiction over Core International Crimes: Law & Practice, Lachezar Yanev and Harmen van der Wilt (eds) (Journal of International Criminal Justice) Anne Hausknecht

• The Impact of California’s Zero Dollar Bail Policy On Crime (American Journal of Criminal Justice) Justin Heflin, Bryan C. McCannon

• Trapped in dichotomies and individualism: The Western criminal legal system’s failure to capture complexity (Punishment & Society) Marguerite Schinkel, Sarah Anderson 🔓

• A critical review of South Africa’s current parole system (Probation Journal) Francois CM Louw, Ephraim K Sibanyoni 🔓

• Criminological Others: An Inquiry into the Construction and Legal Standing of Suspects with Intellectual Disabilities in Ireland (The British Journal of Criminology) Alan Cusack 🔓

• Justice for the Victims of the Nagorno–Karabakh Conflict (Journal of International Criminal Justice) Sheila Paylan, Sareta Ashraph 🔓

• Domesticating International Criminal Law: Reflections on the Italian and German Experiences Florian Jeßberger, Chantal Meloni and Maria Crippa (eds) (Journal of International Criminal Justice) Lavinia Parsi

• Vision for critical criminal justice reform: Reentry of Collective Care (Contemporary Justice Review) Mutlu Koseli, Brent In, Alicia Bradford, et al.

• Toronto’s drug policy paradox: Harm reduction sites and drug police occurrences in Toronto neighborhoods (1992–2020) (Criminology) Taylor Domingos 🔓

• Walking a tightrope? Independent sexual violence advisors and their relationship with the police (European Journal of Criminology) Oona Brooks-Hay, Susan Hillyard, Kelly Johnson 🔓

• Complainant Gender Biases Jurors’ Judgments in Rape Cases Despite Equivalent Perceptions of Expert Evidence (Journal of Interpersonal Violence) Patricia A. Ferreira, Twila Wingrove, Evelyn M. Maeder

Media

• Intimate Communities of Hate: Why Social Media Fuels Far-Right Extremism. By Anton Törnberg and Petter Törnberg (The British Journal of Criminology) Moisés Valenzuela Saavedra

• Adolescent Polysubstance Use: The Intersection of Social Media Use Frequency and Cyberbullying (Substance Use & Misuse) Xifan Yang, Yingwei Yang

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Crime Research Update and Five Studies About are the output of my research discovery system (Update coming soon).

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