Crime Research Update: December 11

A directory of recent research, organized by crime type and criminal justice/legal system stage

Dec 11, 2024

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Programming Note: I was absent for the first week of December due to a flare up in one of my chromic health issues. I’ll spare you the details, but things have calmed and I’m back. I’m going to try a new daily release schedule for Crime Release Update. (If you don’t care about the nuts and bolts of why, go ahead and skip the rest of this paragraph.) I’ve found that three days per week creates extremely large batches of studies to process for each directory. My algorithm does the bulk of the work, but I still do a light edit of the resulting directories to minimize miscategorization errors. The large batches cause my symptoms to flare (why is another story… ask if interested…), so I have to either work on each batch over several sessions or risk sending you a directory that isn’t as good as you need it to be. My solution may seem counter-intuitive: more, smaller directories per week. We’ll see how it goes for at least this week.

Today's directory contains links to studies published online in the last few days, including this one:

Benefits of Art therapy in Prison Population with a Diagnosis of Mental Illness: A Systematic Review
Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: offender, prison, inmate, recidivism
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Tamara Hidalgo Isern (Universidad de Granada, Spain) [+2 other authors]

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You’ll find today’s new research below, sorted by two broad categories: crime type and criminal justice/legal system stage. Research that doesn’t get sorted into those categories follows under “Unsorted Research.”

Research by type of crime

Violence

“We cannot win this fight if we don’t acknowledge any such fight exists”: Examining media coverage of Black women’s risk for intimate partner violence

Journal: Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
Keywords: violence, intimate partner violence, intimate partner, victim, victimization, policy
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Miltonette Olivia Craig (Sam Houston State University, USA) [+1 other author]

Misperceptions of Sexual Intent in Women: Exploring Possible Correlates and Their Relationships with Sexual Coercion Compared to Men

Journal: Victims & Offenders
Keywords: coercion, offender, victim
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Jeff A. Bouffard (Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA) [+1 other author]

Validating the French RAPE Scale in Incarcerated Sex Offenders and Men and Women from the Community

Journal: Victims & Offenders
Keywords: rape, offender, victim, incarcerate
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Dominique Trottier (Département de psychoéducation et de psychologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada) [+3 other authors]

Examining Interpersonal Violence in the Context of Boomtowns: A Case Study From the Bakken Oil Fields

Journal: Criminal Justice Review
Keywords: assault, violence, domestic violence, offender, victim, criminal justice
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Roni Mayzer (Department of Criminal Justice, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA) [+3 other authors]

Property

Callous-Unemotional Traits and Cyber Deviance: An Assessment Using Data From College Students in India

Journal: Crime & Delinquency
Keywords: fraud, cybercrime, hacking
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Sung Hwan Joo (University of Cincinnati, OH, USA) [+1 other author]

Drugs

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Emotion Regulation Difficulties among Sexual Minority Adults in Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use, trauma, regulation
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Laurel E. Meyer (Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA) [+4 other authors]

Self-Determined Motivation for Alcohol Use and Drinking Frequency, Intensity, and Consequences

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: J. B. Courtney (Department of Exercise and Sport Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) [+2 other authors]

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in People Who Inject Substances: Reflection on the Potential Place of Morphine Sulfate as Substitution Treatment? Results of COSINUS Cohort Study

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use, opioid
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Laurence Lalanne (INSERM Unit 1329, STEP (Strasbourg Translationnal Neuroscience and Psychiatry)-CRBS (Centre de recherche en biomédecine de Strasbourg), Strasbourg) [+11 other authors]

Long-term effects of medication-assisted treatment in opioid using offenders in German prisoners—treatment outcomes in prison and after release

Journal: Journal of Experimental Criminology
Keywords: drug use, opioid, drug, addiction, offender, prison, release
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Mark Stemmler [+4 other authors]

White Collar

Callous-Unemotional Traits and Cyber Deviance: An Assessment Using Data From College Students in India

Journal: Crime & Delinquency
Keywords: fraud, cybercrime, hacking
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Sung Hwan Joo (University of Cincinnati, OH, USA) [+1 other author]

Organized

None found today.

Technology Facilitated

Callous-Unemotional Traits and Cyber Deviance: An Assessment Using Data From College Students in India

Journal: Crime & Delinquency
Keywords: fraud, cybercrime, hacking
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Sung Hwan Joo (University of Cincinnati, OH, USA) [+1 other author]

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

Benefits of Art therapy in Prison Population with a Diagnosis of Mental Illness: A Systematic Review

Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: offender, prison, inmate, recidivism
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Tamara Hidalgo Isern (Universidad de Granada, Spain) [+2 other authors]

Long-term effects of medication-assisted treatment in opioid using offenders in German prisoners—treatment outcomes in prison and after release

Misperceptions of Sexual Intent in Women: Exploring Possible Correlates and Their Relationships with Sexual Coercion Compared to Men

Validating the French RAPE Scale in Incarcerated Sex Offenders and Men and Women from the Community

Examining Interpersonal Violence in the Context of Boomtowns: A Case Study From the Bakken Oil Fields

Victimization

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Emotion Regulation Difficulties among Sexual Minority Adults in Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment

“We cannot win this fight if we don’t acknowledge any such fight exists”: Examining media coverage of Black women’s risk for intimate partner violence

Misperceptions of Sexual Intent in Women: Exploring Possible Correlates and Their Relationships with Sexual Coercion Compared to Men

Validating the French RAPE Scale in Incarcerated Sex Offenders and Men and Women from the Community

Examining Interpersonal Violence in the Context of Boomtowns: A Case Study From the Bakken Oil Fields

Policing

None found today.

Courts

None found today.

Corrections

Benefits of Art therapy in Prison Population with a Diagnosis of Mental Illnes: A Systematic Review

Long-term effects of medication-assisted treatment in opioid using offenders in German prisoners—treatment outcomes in prison and after release

Skills and Competencies Incompatible With Crime: A Theory of Criminal Lifestyle Change

Journal: The Prison Journal
Keywords: prison
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Glenn D. Walters (Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, USA)