Crime Research Update: December 12

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

Dec 12, 2024

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Use this tip sheet to inform your work with the latest research. It's an experimental directory of new crime research published by the academic journals that I monitor.

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:

Unmasking police accountability: responses to Australian First Nations peoples’ deaths in police custody
Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: police, policing, custody
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Anna Corbo Crehan (Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia) [+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

None found today.

Property

None found today.

Drugs

A Tale of Two Groups: Criminal Activity Among Cannabis Dispensary Purchasers and Non-Dispensary Purchasers

Journal: Crime & Delinquency
Keywords: drug use, cannabis, drug, offending, parole, criminal justice system, criminal justice
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Nathan Cronin (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA) [+1 other author]

White Collar

None found today.

Organized

None found today.

Technology Facilitated

None found today.

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

A Tale of Two Groups: Criminal Activity Among Cannabis Dispensary Purchasers and Non-Dispensary Purchasers

Trustworthiness, Trust, and Immigrants’ Willingness to Call the Police

Journal: Victims & Offenders
Keywords: offender, victim, police
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Kimberley Bates (School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Mount Gravatt, Australia) [+2 other authors]

Victimization

Trustworthiness, Trust, and Immigrants’ Willingness to Call the Police

First Impressions Last? Lay-Judges’ Assessments of Credible Victimhood

Journal: The British Journal of Criminology
Keywords: victim, court
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Anita Heber (Stockholm University Department of Criminology, , 106 91 Stockholm ,) [+1 other author]

Policing

Trustworthiness, Trust, and Immigrants’ Willingness to Call the Police

Unmasking police accountability: responses to Australian First Nations peoples’ deaths in police custody

Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: police, policing, custody
Geography: [unsupported at the moment]
Author info: Anna Corbo Crehan (Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia) [+2 other authors]