How researchers defined and conceptualized “tech abuse”
As found in one of the studies shared in today’s Crime Research Update
Hello! I'm Aaron Jacklin, and this is The Art of Explaining Crime, an independent newsletter that helps you think and write about crime.
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.
Today's directory contains links to studies published online in the last few days, including this one:
Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Keywords: violence, technology-facilitated, digital, victim, policy
First author: Nikolaos Koukopoulos (University College London, UK) [+2 other authors]
These paid tip sheets get unlocked three weeks after their initial publication, and free subscribers get notified by email. (So sign up if you haven’t!)
But what if your situation means you can't wait three weeks for this week's research? In that case, become a paid subscriber to get five updates per week of the latest research.

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
Community sentiment and joint enterprise murder: Challenging the mandatory minimum sentence
Journal: Criminology & Criminal Justice
Keywords: murder, offender, sentencing, prison, parole, punishment, criminal justice
First author: Simone J Deegan (Flinders University, Australia) [+1 other author]
Defining and Conceptualizing Technology-Facilitated Abuse (“Tech Abuse”): Findings of a Global Delphi Study
Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Keywords: violence, technology-facilitated, digital, victim, policy
First author: Nikolaos Koukopoulos (University College London, UK) [+2 other authors]
Retributive punishment: Between vindication and healing
Journal: International Review of Victimology
Keywords: rape, victim, victimology, penal, punishment
First author: Halil Cesur (University of Warwick, UK)
Property
None found today.
Drugs
None found today.
White Collar
None found today.
Organized
None found today.
Technology Facilitated
Defining and Conceptualizing Technology-Facilitated Abuse (“Tech Abuse”): Findings of a Global Delphi Study
Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Keywords: violence, technology-facilitated, digital, victim, policy
First author: Nikolaos Koukopoulos (University College London, UK) [+2 other authors]
Research by criminal justice/legal system stage
Offending
Psychometric Examination of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder Self-Report (PSCD) Among an Adult Community Sample From Brazil
Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: offender, regulation
First author: Pedro Pechorro (University of Coimbra, Portugal) [+5 other authors]
Community sentiment and joint enterprise murder: Challenging the mandatory minimum sentence
Journal: Criminology & Criminal Justice
Keywords: murder, offender, sentencing, prison, parole, punishment, criminal justice
First author: Simone J Deegan (Flinders University, Australia) [+1 other author]
The Farrington Curve: A Commentary on How David Farrington Showed How to Prioritise the Most Harmful Offenders
Journal: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Keywords: offender
First author: Lawrence W. Sherman (Institute of Criminology University of Cambridge Cambridge UK)
Victimization
Defining and Conceptualizing Technology-Facilitated Abuse (“Tech Abuse”): Findings of a Global Delphi Study
Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Keywords: violence, technology-facilitated, digital, victim, policy
First author: Nikolaos Koukopoulos (University College London, UK) [+2 other authors]
Retributive punishment: Between vindication and healing
Journal: International Review of Victimology
Keywords: rape, victim, victimology, penal, punishment
First author: Halil Cesur (University of Warwick, UK)
Policing
‘To whom am I speaking?’; Public responses to crime reporting via live chat with human versus AI police operators
Journal: Policing and Society
Keywords: police, policing
First author: Ben Bradford (Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, London, UK) [+6 other authors]
Courts
Community sentiment and joint enterprise murder: Challenging the mandatory minimum sentence
Journal: Criminology & Criminal Justice
Keywords: murder, offender, sentencing, prison, parole, punishment, criminal justice
First author: Simone J Deegan (Flinders University, Australia) [+1 other author]
Corrections
Community sentiment and joint enterprise murder: Challenging the mandatory minimum sentence
Journal: Criminology & Criminal Justice
Keywords: murder, offender, sentencing, prison, parole, punishment, criminal justice
First author: Simone J Deegan (Flinders University, Australia) [+1 other author]
Retributive punishment: Between vindication and healing
Journal: International Review of Victimology
Keywords: rape, victim, victimology, penal, punishment
First author: Halil Cesur (University of Warwick, UK)
Public Policy
Psychometric Examination of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder Self-Report (PSCD) Among an Adult Community Sample From Brazil
Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: offender, regulation
First author: Pedro Pechorro (University of Coimbra, Portugal) [+5 other authors]
Community sentiment and joint enterprise murder: Challenging the mandatory minimum sentence
Journal: Criminology & Criminal Justice
Keywords: murder, offender, sentencing, prison, parole, punishment, criminal justice
First author: Simone J Deegan (Flinders University, Australia) [+1 other author]
Dangerous or Lazy: An Experimental Analysis of Defendant Characteristics and Public Support for Collateral Consequence Restrictions
Journal: American Journal of Criminal Justice
Keywords: criminal justice
First author: Kevin H. Wozniak [+2 other authors]
Defining and Conceptualizing Technology-Facilitated Abuse (“Tech Abuse”): Findings of a Global Delphi Study
Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Keywords: violence, technology-facilitated, digital, victim, policy
First author: Nikolaos Koukopoulos (University College London, UK) [+2 other authors]
Unsorted Research
All of today's research was sorted into the above categories.
If Crime Research Updates would be more valuable to you the day they're published, you should sign up for a paid subscription to The Art of Explaining Crime. Paid subscribers get full Crime Research Updates right away.
Crime Research Update and Five Studies About are the output of my research discovery system.