How police academies across the U.S. are failing to change

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

Jan 17, 2025

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Today's directory contains links to studies published online in the last few days, including this one:

The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula
Journal: Criminology & Public Policy
Keywords: police, police officer, policing, law enforcement, policy, law, public policy
First author: John J. Sloan (J. Frank Barefield Department of Criminal Justice The University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham Alabama 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.”

Research by type of crime

Violence

Factors Affecting Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward the Severity of Dating Violence in South Korea

Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: violence, victim, police, police officer, criminal justice
First author: Minseo Boo [+1 other author]

Lost Highways: An Examination of the Question of Risk Involved in Sexual Homicides of Hitchhiking Victims

Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: homicide, murder, theft, offender, victim, confinement
First author: Eric Beauregard (School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada) [+2 other authors]

The Roles of Empathy and Theory of Mind in Sexual Violence Perpetration: An Integrated Social Information Processing Framework

Journal: Sexual Abuse
Keywords: violence, sexual abuse, sexual violence
First author: Sarah Tibbels (University of Lille, Lille, France) [+1 other author]

The Predictive Value of Criminogenic Needs on Institutional Misconduct in a Dutch Forensic Hospital

Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: aggression, violent, substance abuse, offender
First author: Marije Keulen-de Vos (Forensic Psychiatric Center de Rooyse Wissel, Venray, The Netherlands) [+1 other author]

Re-reading Pistorius. How Do Hegemonic Masculinity, Celebrity Status, and Affective Atmosphere Help Us Understand Pistorius's Crime?

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence, violent, murder, parole
First author: Przemysław Nosal (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland) [+1 other author]

Facing dilemmas: how intelligence analysts navigate emotional, cognitive, and structural challenges

Journal: Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
Keywords: terrorism, policing
First author: Adrian Wolfberg (Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA)

Property

None found today.

Drugs

Social Network Barriers to Extended-Release Naltrexone Within Rural Appalachia: Perspectives from Justice-Involved Clients and Clinicians

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use, release
First author: Amanda M. Bunting (Department of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA) [+5 other authors]

“New Normal:” Opportunities and Challenges Faced by Syringe Service Programs Following the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use
First author: Elizabeth J. Austin (Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA) [+13 other authors]

The Predictive Value of Criminogenic Needs on Institutional Misconduct in a Dutch Forensic Hospital

Opioid-related harms and experiences of care among people in justice settings in New South Wales, Australia: evidence from the National Ambulance Surveillance System

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: drug use, harm reduction, heroin, opioid, drug, surveillance, incarceration, detention
First author: Naomi Beard [+7 other authors]

Reducing medical cannabis use risk among Veterans: A descriptive study

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: harm reduction, cannabis
First author: Laura M. Harris-Lane [+7 other authors]

White Collar

None found today.

Organized

Health and Slavery: A Healthcare Provider’s Guide to Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking

Journal: Journal of Human Trafficking
Keywords: human trafficking
First author: Maria Jia Fernandez (Department Master of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia) [+3 other authors]

Technology Facilitated

None found today.

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

Lost Highways: An Examination of the Question of Risk Involved in Sexual Homicides of Hitchhiking Victims

The Predictive Value of Criminogenic Needs on Institutional Misconduct in a Dutch Forensic Hospital

Victimization

Factors Affecting Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward the Severity of Dating Violence in South Korea

Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: violence, victim, police, police officer, criminal justice
First author: Minseo Boo [+1 other author]

Lost Highways: An Examination of the Question of Risk Involved in Sexual Homicides of Hitchhiking Victims

Policing

Factors Affecting Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward the Severity of Dating Violence in South Korea

Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: violence, victim, police, police officer, criminal justice
First author: Minseo Boo [+1 other author]

The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula

Journal: Criminology & Public Policy
Keywords: police, police officer, policing, law enforcement, policy, law, public policy
First author: John J. Sloan (J. Frank Barefield Department of Criminal Justice The University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham Alabama USA) [+2 other authors]

Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility

Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: police, policing
First author: Ben Scott (Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Clayton, Australia) [+2 other authors]

“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance

Journal: Theoretical Criminology
Keywords: arrest, surveillance, bail, supervision, punishment
First author: Faith M Deckard (University of California, USA)

Facing dilemmas: how intelligence analysts navigate emotional, cognitive, and structural challenges

Opioid-related harms and experiences of care among people in justice settings in New South Wales, Australia: evidence from the National Ambulance Surveillance System

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: drug use, harm reduction, heroin, opioid, drug, surveillance, incarceration, detention
First author: Naomi Beard [+7 other authors]

Courts

“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance

Journal: Theoretical Criminology
Keywords: arrest, surveillance, bail, supervision, punishment
First author: Faith M Deckard (University of California, USA)

Corrections

Lost Highways: An Examination of the Question of Risk Involved in Sexual Homicides of Hitchhiking Victims

Social Network Barriers to Extended-Release Naltrexone Within Rural Appalachia: Perspectives from Justice-Involved Clients and Clinicians

Incarcerated Women and Mental Illness: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)

Journal: Crime & Delinquency
Keywords: prison, incarceration, incarcerate, custody, policy
First author: Sarah E. King (Department of Government, Criminology, & Sociology, Lander University, Greenwood, SC, USA) [+2 other authors]

“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance

Journal: Theoretical Criminology
Keywords: arrest, surveillance, bail, supervision, punishment
First author: Faith M Deckard (University of California, USA)

Re-reading Pistorius. How Do Hegemonic Masculinity, Celebrity Status, and Affective Atmosphere Help Us Understand Pistorius's Crime?

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence, violent, murder, parole
First author: Przemysław Nosal (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland) [+1 other author]

Probation pracademics: Protectors of the ‘honourable profession’?

Journal: Probation Journal
Keywords: probation
First author: Samantha Ainslie (Sheffield Hallam University, South Yorkshire, UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) [+1 other author]

Opioid-related harms and experiences of care among people in justice settings in New South Wales, Australia: evidence from the National Ambulance Surveillance System

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: drug use, harm reduction, heroin, opioid, drug, surveillance, incarceration, detention
First author: Naomi Beard [+7 other authors]

Public Policy

Factors Affecting Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward the Severity of Dating Violence in South Korea

Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: violence, victim, police, police officer, criminal justice
First author: Minseo Boo [+1 other author]

Incarcerated Women and Mental Illness: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)

The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula

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.

Patterns of Early Risk Factors for Juvenile Justice Outcomes in Youth with High-Incidence Disabilities

Journal: Crime & Delinquency
Keywords: -
First author: Minhae Cho (The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA) [+3 other authors]

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How police academies across the U.S. are failing to change

As found by 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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