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 story.

These new crime studies related to story were recently published by journals I monitor.
1. Exploring the relationship between criminal narrative experience (CNE) and criminal thinking, among sexual offenders [Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice]
2. Racial Violence in ‘Action’: Police Storytelling and Narrativisation in the Inquiry of Jermaine Baker [The British Journal of Criminology]
3. Silenced Echoes: Revenge Fantasies Toward Unjust Events in Drawings and Narratives of Indian Hindu Women [Violence Against Women]
4. The Use of Narrative in the Criminal Justice Classroom: Book Club as a Teaching Tool [Journal of Criminal Justice Education]
5. Humor, resistance, and the power of images: The case for studying prison cartoons [Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal]
I might cover some of these studies further in The Practice of Understanding Crime, my other Substack. If any sound interesting or important, let me know in the comments:
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What a fascinating collection!