Hello! I'm Aaron Jacklin, and this is The Art of Explaining Crime, an independent newsletter that helps you think and write about crime.
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Five Studies About is a free tip sheet where I curate recent crime and justice studies related to one topic. Today’s topic is sentencing.
These new crime studies related to sentencing were recently published by journals I monitor.
1. Federal Drug Sentencing and the Overdose Epidemic [American Journal of Criminal Justice]
2. Why should we punish and how? The role of moral intuitions and personal worldviews for punitiveness and sentencing preferences [Psychology, Crime & Law]
3. The Judicial Interpretation of Intimate Partner Homicide in China: An Empirical Analysis of Sentencing Practice Between 2016 and 2021 [Violence Against Women]
4. Cultural context and sentencing: content analysis of sentencing remarks for Indigenous defendants of domestic violence in the Northern Territory, Australia [Psychology, Crime & Law]
5. The influence of remorse on sentencing outcomes [Current Issues in Criminal Justice]
I might cover some of these studies further in The Practice of Understanding Crime. If one sounds interesting or important, let me know in the comments:
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