How big data techniques can help gender-based violence research

As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

Feb 21, 2025

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Use this tip sheet to help you integrate the latest research into your work. It's a directory of new crime research published by the academic journals that I monitor, including this study:

Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Using Big Data Techniques to Enhance Research on Violence Against Women
Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence
First author: Lisa M. Thompson Lee (Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA) [+2 other authors]

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You’ll find today’s new research below, sorted by two broad categories: crime type and criminal justice/legal system stage. Research that doesn’t get sorted into those categories follows under “Unsorted Research.”

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Research by type of crime

Violence

Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Using Big Data Techniques to Enhance Research on Violence Against Women

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence
First author: Lisa M. Thompson Lee (Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA) [+2 other authors]

Economic Sanctions as State Crime: Empire, Law and the United States’ Economic Warfare in Latin America

Journal: The British Journal of Criminology
Keywords: violence, law
First author: Jose Atiles (Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 3080 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801 ,)

Homicides in England and Wales: The Effects of Victim and Offense Characteristics on Case Clearance

Journal: Homicide Studies
Keywords: homicide, drug, gang, victim, policy
First author: Rebecca Nicholls (University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK) [+3 other authors]

Intimate partner violence victim typologies: an inquiry with violence antecedents and coping as predictors

Journal: The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology
Keywords: violence, intimate partner violence, intimate partner, victim
First author: Nermin Taşkale (Istanbul University) [+1 other author]

Property

None found today.

Drugs

Exploring the Role of Reward Functioning in the Overlap of Post-Traumatic Stress and Cocaine Use Disorder

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use, cocaine, trauma
First author: Kate Hull (Psychology Department, University of Illinois Chicago) [+7 other authors]

Spatial Patterns of Delivery Hospitalizations with Opioid Use Disorder in Pennsylvania

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use, opioid
First author: Jessica Frankeberger (Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health) [+4 other authors]

Correction to: The Ideal Client: Selecting Candidates for Drug Treatment in Prison

Journal: The British Journal of Criminology
Keywords: drug, prison
First author:

Homicides in England and Wales: The Effects of Victim and Offense Characteristics on Case Clearance

Journal: Homicide Studies
Keywords: homicide, drug, gang, victim, policy
First author: Rebecca Nicholls (University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK) [+3 other authors]

Mechanisms of resilience and coping to intersectional HIV prevention and drug-use stigma among people who inject drugs in rural Appalachian Ohio

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: harm reduction, drug
First author: Stacy Endres-Dighe [+8 other authors]

White Collar

None found today.

Organized

Homicides in England and Wales: The Effects of Victim and Offense Characteristics on Case Clearance

Journal: Homicide Studies
Keywords: homicide, drug, gang, victim, policy
First author: Rebecca Nicholls (University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK) [+3 other authors]

Technology Facilitated

Is There a Communication Perspective for Digital Restorative Justice? Insights From the Experience of Spanish Facilitators

Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: digital, restorative, criminal justice
First author: Pablo Romero-Seseña (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

Cycles of Neglect: A Statutory Review of State Policies Regarding Feminine Hygiene Product Provision During Incarceration

Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: offender, jurisdiction, corrections, prison, incarceration, incarcerate, correctional, policy
First author: McKenzie Wood (Weber State University, Ogden, UT, USA) [+3 other authors]

Assessing the Landscape for PrEP Provisions in Prisons: A Systematic Review

Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: offender, strategy, prison, inmate, incarcerate, release
First author: Snehasish Tripathy (Department of Dental Research Cell, Dr. D.Y. Patil Dental College and Hospital, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, India) [+7 other authors]

Victimization

Exploring the Role of Reward Functioning in the Overlap of Post-Traumatic Stress and Cocaine Use Disorder

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use, cocaine, trauma
First author: Kate Hull (Psychology Department, University of Illinois Chicago) [+7 other authors]

Homicides in England and Wales: The Effects of Victim and Offense Characteristics on Case Clearance

Journal: Homicide Studies
Keywords: homicide, drug, gang, victim, policy
First author: Rebecca Nicholls (University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK) [+3 other authors]

Intimate partner violence victim typologies: an inquiry with violence antecedents and coping as predictors

Policing

Fleeting civilities: Narrative accounts from agents and migrants at the US-Mexico border

Journal: Punishment & Society
Keywords: patrol, arrest, court, detention, punishment, governance
First author: Amada Armenta (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) [+1 other author]

Assessing the Landscape for PrEP Provisions in Prisons: A Systematic Review

Courts

Fleeting civilities: Narrative accounts from agents and migrants at the US-Mexico border

Journal: Punishment & Society
Keywords: patrol, arrest, court, detention, punishment, governance
First author: Amada Armenta (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) [+1 other author]

Cycles of Neglect: A Statutory Review of State Policies Regarding Feminine Hygiene Product Provision During Incarceration

Corrections

Fleeting civilities: Narrative accounts from agents and migrants at the US-Mexico border

Journal: Punishment & Society
Keywords: patrol, arrest, court, detention, punishment, governance
First author: Amada Armenta (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) [+1 other author]

Probation, Technical Compliance and the ‘Drowning’ of Hope

Journal: The British Journal of Criminology
Keywords: probation, supervision, criminal justice system, criminal justice, reform
First author: Jake Phillips (Sheffield Hallam University , Heart of the Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BQ ,) [+5 other authors]

Correction to: The Ideal Client: Selecting Candidates for Drug Treatment in Prison

Journal: The British Journal of Criminology
Keywords: drug, prison
First author:

Is There a Communication Perspective for Digital Restorative Justice? Insights From the Experience of Spanish Facilitators

Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: digital, restorative, criminal justice
First author: Pablo Romero-Seseña (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Cycles of Neglect: A Statutory Review of State Policies Regarding Feminine Hygiene Product Provision During Incarceration

Assessing the Landscape for PrEP Provisions in Prisons: A Systematic Review

Public Policy

Fleeting civilities: Narrative accounts from agents and migrants at the US-Mexico border

Journal: Punishment & Society
Keywords: patrol, arrest, court, detention, punishment, governance
First author: Amada Armenta (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) [+1 other author]

A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory

Journal: Psychology, Crime & Law
Keywords: law
First author: Christoph Herrmann (University of Cambridge)

Economic Sanctions as State Crime: Empire, Law and the United States’ Economic Warfare in Latin America

Probation, Technical Compliance and the ‘Drowning’ of Hope

Is There a Communication Perspective for Digital Restorative Justice? Insights From the Experience of Spanish Facilitators

Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: digital, restorative, criminal justice
First author: Pablo Romero-Seseña (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Cycles of Neglect: A Statutory Review of State Policies Regarding Feminine Hygiene Product Provision During Incarceration

Homicides in England and Wales: The Effects of Victim and Offense Characteristics on Case Clearance

Journal: Homicide Studies
Keywords: homicide, drug, gang, victim, policy
First author: Rebecca Nicholls (University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK) [+3 other authors]

Unsorted Research

All of today's research was sorted into the above categories.

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How big data techniques can help gender-based violence research

As found in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

Research by type of crime

Violence

Property

Drugs

White Collar

Organized

Technology Facilitated

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

Victimization

Policing

Courts

Corrections

Public Policy

Unsorted Research

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