Crime Research Update: January 10

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

Jan 10, 2025

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

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

Does the School Environment and School Engagement in Early High School Predict Trajectories of Anti‐Social Behaviour? A National Longitudinal Study of Australian Youth From 12 to 19 years
Journal: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Keywords: -
Author info: Olivia Halls (Australian National University Canberra Australia) [+1 other author]

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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

Persistent Aggressive Behaviour From Childhood to Adolescence: The Influence of Environmental Tobacco Exposure and the Protective Role of Fish Consumption

Journal: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Keywords: aggression
Author info: Jianghong Liu (University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA) [+4 other authors]

Validation of the Slovenian Intimate Violence and Traumatic Affect Scale (S-VITA)

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence, intimate partner violence, intimate partner, trauma
Author info: Nina Krohne (Slovene Centre for Suicide Research, Andrej Marušič Institute, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia) [+2 other authors]

“It’s Not You, It’s Me”: Examining the Role of Conflicted Relationships, Mental Illness, and Intimate Partner Violence

Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: violence, intimate partner violence, intimate partner
Author info: Michelle N. Harris (University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA) [+3 other authors]

Counterinsurgency airstrike mishap, intelligence failure and civilian harm in northern Nigeria – 2014 to 2024

Journal: Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
Keywords: terrorism, policing
Author info: Ernest Ogbozor (College of Arts and Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA)

Property

None found today.

Drugs

Cumulative Risk and Cumulative Protection: Relative Contributions to Predicting Substance Use, Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health Across Development

Journal: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Keywords: substance use, cannabis, trial
Author info: Max A. Halvorson (Social Development Research Group School of Social Work University of Washington Seattle Washington USA) [+5 other authors]

Facilitators and Barriers to adherence to antiretroviral therapy among incarcerated people living with HIV in Iran: insights from a qualitative study

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: harm reduction, incarcerate
Author info: Azam Bazrafshan [+10 other authors]

Autistic Traits, Emotion Regulation, Social Anxiety, Drinking to Cope, and Problematic Alcohol Use: A Cross-Cultural Examination Among Young Adults from Seven Countries

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use, regulation
Author info: Cheryl L. Dickter (Department of Psychological Sciences, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA) [+4 other authors]

White Collar

University mission statements and anti-fraud disclosures: public vs private universities in Indonesia

Journal: Journal of Financial Crime
Keywords: fraud, corruption, financial crime
Author info: Lidya Agustina [+2 other authors]

Organized

Iconoclastic Sex: Christian Sexual Ethics and Human Trafficking

Journal: Journal of Human Trafficking
Keywords: human trafficking
Author info: undefined Hengki (Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

University mission statements and anti-fraud disclosures: public vs private universities in Indonesia

Journal: Journal of Financial Crime
Keywords: fraud, corruption, financial crime
Author info: Lidya Agustina [+2 other authors]

Technology Facilitated

None found today.

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

The Longitudinal‐Experimental Design and the Development and Prevention of Criminal Offending Over the Life‐Course: Advances in Science and Policy From the Cambridge‐Somerville Youth Study

Journal: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Keywords: offending, trial, policy
Author info: Brandon C. Welsh (School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Northeastern University Boston Massachusetts USA)

Victimization

Validation of the Slovenian Intimate Violence and Traumatic Affect Scale (S-VITA)

Cyber victimization in hybrid space: an analysis of employment scams using natural language processing and machine learning models

Journal: Journal of Crime and Justice
Keywords: victim, victimization
Author info: Wenjing Gong (Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning & Center for Geospatial Sciences, Applications and Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA) [+6 other authors]

Policing

Counterinsurgency airstrike mishap, intelligence failure and civilian harm in northern Nigeria – 2014 to 2024

Courts

Cumulative Risk and Cumulative Protection: Relative Contributions to Predicting Substance Use, Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health Across Development

The Longitudinal‐Experimental Design and the Development and Prevention of Criminal Offending Over the Life‐Course: Advances in Science and Policy From the Cambridge‐Somerville Youth Study

Corrections

Examining antecedents of corrections officers’ fear at work

Journal: Criminal Justice Studies
Keywords: corrections, criminal justice
Author info: Alicen Potts (Department of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA) [+2 other authors]

Facilitators and Barriers to adherence to antiretroviral therapy among incarcerated people living with HIV in Iran: insights from a qualitative study

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: harm reduction, incarcerate
Author info: Azam Bazrafshan [+10 other authors]

Public Policy

The Longitudinal‐Experimental Design and the Development and Prevention of Criminal Offending Over the Life‐Course: Advances in Science and Policy From the Cambridge‐Somerville Youth Study

Examining antecedents of corrections officers’ fear at work

Journal: Criminal Justice Studies
Keywords: corrections, criminal justice
Author info: Alicen Potts (Department of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA) [+2 other authors]

Unsorted Research

The following research doesn't appear to mention any of the terms my code searches for in order to sort research by crime type.

Does the School Environment and School Engagement in Early High School Predict Trajectories of Anti‐Social Behaviour? A National Longitudinal Study of Australian Youth From 12 to 19 years

Journal: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Keywords: -
Author info: Olivia Halls (Australian National University Canberra Australia) [+1 other author]

Challenging inequality: rights of the waste workers of Delhi

Journal: Contemporary Justice Review
Keywords: -
Author info: Ankush Pal (Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India) [+1 other author

Autistic Traits, Emotion Regulation, Social Anxiety, Drinking to Cope, and Problematic Alcohol Use: A Cross-Cultural Examination Among Young Adults from Seven Countries

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use, regulation
Author info: Cheryl L. Dickter (Department of Psychological Sciences, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA) [+4 other authors]]

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