How drought relates to violent crime in California
As found in one of the studies in today’s Crime Research Update
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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:
Dry Aggression: The Impact of Drought on Violent Crime Trends in California Counties
Journal: American Journal of Criminal Justice
Keywords: aggression, violent, criminal justice
First author: Noah D. Cohen

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
Who’s at the Bottom of the Hiring List? Exploring the Compounding Effects of Applicant Race and Offense History on Employability
Journal: Sexual Abuse
Keywords: sexual abuse
First author: Meera Patel (University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA) [+5 other authors]
Polling Pedophilic Preferences: Analyzing Responses to User-Generated Member Polls on a Darknet Child Sexual Abuse Forum
Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: sexual abuse, darknet
First author: Robert J. B. Lehmann (MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany) [+9 other authors]
Dry Aggression: The Impact of Drought on Violent Crime Trends in California Counties
Journal: American Journal of Criminal Justice
Keywords: aggression, violent, criminal justice
First author: Noah D. Cohen
Attitudes towards violence against women among second-generation refugee, migrant and native Swiss adolescents in Zurich, Switzerland
Journal: European Journal of Criminology
Keywords: aggression, violence, punishment
First author: Lana Ghuneim (University of Sheffield, UK) [+2 other authors]
Investigation of the Relationship Between Spousal Violence and Quality of Life Experienced by Cancer Patients Receiving Immunosuppressive Therapy
Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence
First author: Sema İçel (Faculty of Health Sciences, Gaziantep Islam, Science and Technology University, Gaziantep, Turkey) [+1 other author]
Property
None found today.
Drugs
Criminal Justice System Involvement Among U.S. Military Veterans: Prevalence, Correlates, and Mental Health Burden
Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: substance use, trauma, criminal justice system, criminal justice
First author: Andrew W. Meisler [+2 other authors]
Developing a comprehensive inventory to define harm reduction housing
Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: substance use, harm reduction, illicit, drug
First author: Sofia Zaragoza [+9 other authors]
Trends and Association between Smoking and the Socio-Demographic Index Among 11 South American Countries, 1990–2019
Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use
First author: Oladipo K. Afolayan (Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA) [+7 other authors]
Pregnant and Recently Pregnant People’s Views on Policies That Punish Pregnant People Who Use Cannabis
Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use, cannabis
First author: M. Antonia Biggs (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Oakland, California, USA) [+3 other authors]
Frequent Alcohol Use of Adolescents in Low-Income Families: Application of the Multiple Disadvantage Model
Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use
First author: Tyrone C. Cheng (School of Social Work, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA) [+1 other author]
White Collar
None found today.
Organized
Justice denied! COVID-19 and human trafficking in India and the USA
Journal: Contemporary Justice Review
Keywords: human trafficking
First author: Tamanna M. Shah (Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA) [+2 other authors]
Child Trafficking in China: A Human Rights-Based Perspective
Journal: Journal of Human Trafficking
Keywords: human trafficking
First author: Rismawati Nur (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia) [+2 other authors]
Technology Facilitated
Polling Pedophilic Preferences: Analyzing Responses to User-Generated Member Polls on a Darknet Child Sexual Abuse Forum
Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: sexual abuse, darknet
First author: Robert J. B. Lehmann (MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany) [+9 other authors]
Research by criminal justice/legal system stage
Offending
Maternal Incarceration and Health Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents: A Latent Class Analysis
Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: offender, incarceration
First author: Qianwei Zhao (Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, Baylor University, Houston, TX, USA)
Risk Factors of Chronic Offending: Maltreatment and Education
Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: offending
First author: Matthew D. Moore (University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, USA) [+2 other authors]
Community multiculturalism and self-reported immigrant crime: Testing three theoretical mechanisms
Journal: European Journal of Criminology
Keywords: offending, police
First author: Arjen S. Leerkes (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands UNU-Merit/Maastricht University, the Netherlands) [+3 other authors]
Victimization
Criminal Justice System Involvement Among U.S. Military Veterans: Prevalence, Correlates, and Mental Health Burden
Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: substance use, trauma, criminal justice system, criminal justice
First author: Andrew W. Meisler [+2 other authors]
Providing feedback in simulated investigative interviews with adult witness avatars increases the use of free recall and open questions
Journal: International Journal of Police Science & Management
Keywords: victim, police
First author: Mari-Liis Tohvelmann (Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Tallinn University, Estonia) [+4 other authors]
Policing
Shaping police self-efficacy: a content analysis of officer views towards their duty assignments, working locations, and working times
Journal: Journal of Crime and Justice
Keywords: police
First author: Logan J. Somers (Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA, USA) [+1 other author]
Balancing duty and family: the effects of support systems on women in law enforcement
Journal: Police Practice and Research
Keywords: police, law enforcement, law
First author: Kathleen E. Padilla (School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA) [+2 other authors]
Community multiculturalism and self-reported immigrant crime: Testing three theoretical mechanisms
Journal: European Journal of Criminology
Keywords: offending, police
First author: Arjen S. Leerkes (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands UNU-Merit/Maastricht University, the Netherlands) [+3 other authors]
Police recruits’ perceptions of the utility of viewing body-worn camera footage following use-of-force incidents
Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: police, policing
First author: Sarah L. Deck (Centre for Investigative Interviewing, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia) [+3 other authors]
A qualitative exploration of school resource officer training in a Florida school district
Journal: Policing: An International Journal
Keywords: policing
First author: Melanie F.P. Soderstrom
Providing feedback in simulated investigative interviews with adult witness avatars increases the use of free recall and open questions
Journal: International Journal of Police Science & Management
Keywords: victim, police
First author: Mari-Liis Tohvelmann (Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Tallinn University, Estonia) [+4 other authors]
The Validity and Reliability of Body-Worn Camera Meta-Data and Its Utility for Understanding Policing
Journal: Justice Quarterly
Keywords: policing
First author: Kayla Freemon (DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA) [+2 other authors]
Courts
Framing the harms of wrongful convictions: how different narratives shape public opinion
Journal: Journal of Experimental Criminology
Keywords: conviction
First author: Sishi Wu [+1 other author]
Corrections
Maternal Incarceration and Health Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents: A Latent Class Analysis
Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: offender, incarceration
First author: Qianwei Zhao (Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, Baylor University, Houston, TX, USA)
Attitudes towards violence against women among second-generation refugee, migrant and native Swiss adolescents in Zurich, Switzerland
Journal: European Journal of Criminology
Keywords: aggression, violence, punishment
First author: Lana Ghuneim (University of Sheffield, UK) [+2 other authors]
Who cares?: The burdens of care borne by the loved ones of incarcerated men
Journal: Punishment & Society
Keywords: prison, incarceration, incarcerate, rehabilitation, correctional, carceral, release, punishment
First author: Alysha McDonald (Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada) [+3 other authors]
Public Policy
Criminal Justice System Involvement Among U.S. Military Veterans: Prevalence, Correlates, and Mental Health Burden
Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: substance use, trauma, criminal justice system, criminal justice
First author: Andrew W. Meisler [+2 other authors]
Balancing duty and family: the effects of support systems on women in law enforcement
Journal: Police Practice and Research
Keywords: police, law enforcement, law
First author: Kathleen E. Padilla (School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA) [+2 other authors]
Dry Aggression: The Impact of Drought on Violent Crime Trends in California Counties
Journal: American Journal of Criminal Justice
Keywords: aggression, violent, criminal justice
First author: Noah D. Cohen
Unsorted Research
The following research doesn't appear to mention any of the terms my code searches for in order to sort research by crime type.
“ I didn’t Leave Inceldom; Inceldom Left me ”: Examining Male Ex-Incel Navigations of Complex Masculinities Identity Rebuilding Following Rejection of Incel-Culture
Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: -
First author: Nicholas Norman Adams (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland) [+1 other author]
Undermining Peace: Banditry, Gold, and Elite Collusion in Northwest Nigeria
Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: -
First author: Oluwole Ojewale (Regional Organised Crime Observatory Coordinator – Central Africa, Dakar, Senegal)
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