[experimental format] Your First Five: Criminal Justice System
Each of today's studies is related to some aspect of the criminal justice system
I'm Aaron Jacklin, and this is Explaining Crime, an independent newsletter that helps you explain crime to your audience.
Your First Five is a daily (M-F) series that publishes a curated selection of recent research related to crime and justice. Each post contains links to new studies that I hope will enhance your work explaining crime.
This week, I’m experimenting with a new format and publishing schedule that I think will serve you better. Each day’s collection of studies will be related by a theme. Today’s studies are all related to an aspect of the criminal justice system, tomorrow’s will all be related to mental health, and I haven’t decided on the rest of the week yet.
These new criminology and criminal justice studies were published recently by journals I monitor:
1. Right to counsel? A mixed-methods evaluation of the St. Louis County initial appearance program, published in Criminology & Public Policy. (Open access)
2. Community-oriented copaganda: Anti-Black violence in a visual archive of policing, published in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. (Restricted access)
3. A Good Place to Do Time? Detailing the Construction of Symbolic Social Boundaries in Correctional Boot Camps, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior. (Open access)
4. The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level, published in Policing and Society. (Open access)
5. Juror Perceptions of Bystander and Victim Intoxication by Different Substances, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior. (Open access)
I might cover some of these studies further in Understanding Crime. If one sounds interesting or important, let me know in the comments.
Right now, I'm considering number 2. The following quotation is part of why it interests me:
As a response to both the racialized violence and the subsequent legitimacy crisis, community-oriented policing is once again being heralded as a bi-partisan solution to the problem. In this article, I situate such a solution as in alignment with, rather than a departure from, racist police violence. I do this by conducting a visual analysis of a federal archive of photographs said to represent community-oriented policing asking what the images reveal about the actual nature of this model of policing and one of its practices—copaganda.