[experimental format] Your First Five: Sexual Violence
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’ve been 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 sexual violence.
Today’s post is much later than intended. At the risk of veering into TMI, I will say that I seem to have a pinched nerve in my lower back that’s thrown everything out of whack, including this post’s publication time. My apologies. I hope to be back on track next week.
These new criminology and criminal justice studies were published recently by journals I monitor:
1. Investigating the Implications of Sexual Assaults with Ride-Sharing: A Call for Research, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Restricted access)
2. Effects of Social Acknowledgment and Interpersonal Shame on Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms of Sexual Violence Survivors in South Korea, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Restricted access)
3. Help-Seeking Patterns Among Students Experiencing Sexual Harassment: A Latent Class Analysis, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Restricted access)
4. Law enforcement perceptions of job stress and barriers to supportive resources when working child sexual abuse cases in the southern United States, published in Policing: An International Journal. (Restricted access)
5. Sexual Harassment/Abuse Policies in U.S. Youth Sport Programs, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Restricted 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:
There is no research on the phenomenon of sexual assaults among ride-share users. This manuscript investigates sexual assaults from two ride-share companies and the policies/procedures in place to prevent sexual assaults.