[experimental format] Your First Five: Mental Health
Each of today's studies relates in some way to mental health
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 mental health, tomorrow’s will all be related to COVID-19, and I haven’t decided on Friday yet.
These new criminology and criminal justice studies were published recently by journals I monitor:
1. The Relationships Between Mental Health and Violent Offending Among Serious Adolescent Offenders: An Examination of the Mediating Role of Experienced and Witnessed Victimization, published in Crime & Delinquency. (Open access)
2. Specialized Mental Health Supervision: Revocations and Risk Composition, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior. (Restricted access)
3. What Women Want: Mental Health in the Context of Violence Against Women in Sri Lanka—A Qualitative Study of Priorities and Capacities for Care, published in Violence Against Women. (Restricted access)
4. Gender-Specific Pathways in Violent Crime: Investigating the Role of Demographic and Mental Health Factors Using Mixed Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Restricted access)
5. Economic Abuse by An Intimate Partner and Its Associations with Women’s Socioeconomic Status and Mental Health, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (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 1. Here's why:
The results show a significant relationship between mental health and violent offending, while differences were found between the two types of victimization.