How women experiencing intimate partner violence "maintain positive identities for themselves and their abusers in the face of stigma"
As found in one of the studies in this week's Crime Research Update: Crime Type Edition
Welcome to The Art of Explaining Crime, the 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. This week’s directory includes, for example, this study listing:
Neutralization of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis (Deviant Behavior) Lindsay Leban, Savannah L. Doherty, Ter’Ricka F. Brundidge
You’ll find more listings for this week’s new research below.

I’ve sorted the research into loose categories by type of crime.
Violence
Mapping Hate Crime Research in Europe: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions (Deviant Behavior) Álvaro Suárez-Vergne
Offence-supportive cognitions of individuals with a history of using child sexual exploitation materials: The influence of early maladaptive schemas and compulsive sexual behaviours (The British Journal of Criminology) Huseyin Mert Turhan, Elena Nixon 🔓
Predictive Ability of the Sexual Child Molestation Risk Assessment (SChiMRA+) (Sexual Abuse) Allison McMahan, Timothy J. Luke, Gerhard Andersson, et al. 🔓
Profile of child sexual abuse material offenders in Portugal: Considerations of a decade (2011–2021) (European Journal of Criminology) Mauro Paulino, Sofia Gabriel, Mariana Moniz, et al. 🔓
Walking a tightrope? Independent sexual violence advisors and their relationship with the police (European Journal of Criminology) Oona Brooks-Hay, Susan Hillyard, Kelly Johnson 🔓
Supplemental Material for Violence Following a Threat Assessment: Do Threat Classification and School Safety Measures Matter? (Law and Human Behavior)
“He will still know where I live”: harm reduction for women who use drugs and experience Gender-Based violence (Harm Reduction Journal) Anabel Ramírez-López, Carmen Meneses-Falcón, Nuria Romo-Avilés 🔓
Neutralization of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis (Deviant Behavior) Lindsay Leban, Savannah L. Doherty, Ter’Ricka F. Brundidge
Examining Risk and Victim Agency in Bystander Interventions in Intimate Partner Violence (Journal of Interpersonal Violence) Ella Kuskoff, Helen Mols, Cameron Parsell 🔓
Complainant Gender Biases Jurors’ Judgments in Rape Cases Despite Equivalent Perceptions of Expert Evidence (Journal of Interpersonal Violence) Patricia A. Ferreira, Twila Wingrove, Evelyn M. Maeder
Timing Matters: Maternal Intimate Partner Violence, Parent–Child Relationships, and Adolescent Internalizing in Latine Families (Journal of Interpersonal Violence) Zephorah Bissoon, R. Lillianne Macias, Nancy Nava, et al.
Property
Do cyber fraud experiences matter? Revisiting user motivations and satisfaction in driving FinTech continuance (Journal of Financial Crime) Anil Kumar Kashyap, Priyanka, Prashant Gupta
The Burglary Proclivity Scale: validation using a UK community sample (Psychology, Crime & Law) Matthew King-Parker, Faith Atkinson, Ross M. Bartels
Drugs
Emergency department-based testing for xylazine and other novel psychoactive substances in Central Alabama: a feasibility study (Harm Reduction Journal) William Bradford, Daniel Dye, Rebecca Jensen, et al. 🔓
Clinical outcomes from a mid-western opioid treatment program during covid-19 emergency regulations: a brief report on the effect of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) use on take home methadone access (Harm Reduction Journal) Erin T. LaCourt, Oranu Ibekie, Charles C. Dike, et al. 🔓
“You’re doing it because your freedom is on the line”: a qualitative study exploring how people who use opioids and methamphetamine navigate legal involvement and carceral treatment for substance use disorder (Harm Reduction Journal) Nicholas P. Iacobelli, Liberty Estrella, Mandy D. Owens, et al. 🔓
Perceptions of stigma of pregnant individuals experiencing substance use disorder receiving prenatal care at magdalene clinic: a cross-sectional study (Harm Reduction Journal) Hannah F. McKinnon, Melissa L. Fair, Jody Teel, et al. 🔓
Perceived Opioid-Related Health Beliefs Among Homeless-Experienced Individuals Engaging in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (Substance Use & Misuse) Danielle R. Fine, Natalia Critchley, Nora Sporn, et al.
Real-world deployment of machine learning models for opioid overdose and opioid use disorder: a systematic review of clinical and operational lessons for addiction medicine (Journal of Addictive Diseases) Kirolos Eskandar
Evoking Change Through Acceptance and Awareness: A Sysematic Review of Third-Wave Therapies for Substance Use Disorder (Substance Use & Misuse) Andrea Calderone, Desirèe Latella, Antonino Todaro, et al.
Safer inhalation devices: a rapid Health Impact Assessment of a harm reduction pilot for people who smoke crack cocaine (Harm Reduction Journal) Kathryn Ashton, Benjamin Gray, Rick Lines, et al. 🔓
Speaking from experience: the case for openness about drug use among researchers (Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy) Martine Skumlien, Jack Wilson
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, Treatment Length, and Treatment Completion Among Emerging Adults: The Moderating Role of Age and Sex (Substance Use & Misuse) Mariam Fatehi, Orion Mowbray
Toronto’s drug policy paradox: Harm reduction sites and drug police occurrences in Toronto neighborhoods (1992–2020) (Criminology) Taylor Domingos 🔓
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Individualized Treatment for Participants With Substance Use Disorder on Completion of Mental Health Courts Programs (Law and Human Behavior)
Evaluating the impact of an on-site drug testing facility providing real-time drug alerts upon first-aid presentations at a Belgian festival (Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy) Hanne Gworek, Tessa Lombaerts, Pascal Vanelderen, et al. 🔓
“He will still know where I live”: harm reduction for women who use drugs and experience Gender-Based violence (Harm Reduction Journal) Anabel Ramírez-López, Carmen Meneses-Falcón, Nuria Romo-Avilés 🔓
Expanding access to harm reduction in rural communities through community-informed public health vending machines (Harm Reduction Journal) Lori Ann Eldridge, Christian Dotson, Lauren Harrell, et al. 🔓
White Collar
Do cyber fraud experiences matter? Revisiting user motivations and satisfaction in driving FinTech continuance (Journal of Financial Crime) Anil Kumar Kashyap, Priyanka, Prashant Gupta
Organized Crime
Offence-supportive cognitions of individuals with a history of using child sexual exploitation materials: The influence of early maladaptive schemas and compulsive sexual behaviours (The British Journal of Criminology) Huseyin Mert Turhan, Elena Nixon 🔓
Technology Facilitated
Wired for Risk? TRDM, Self-Control, and Peer Deviance in Cybercrime (Criminal Justice and Behavior) Marii Paliienko, Olena Antonaccio, Ekaterina Botchkovar
An Examination of Cybercrime Trends Within the United States: Findings From the Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2015–2024 (American Journal of Criminal Justice) Timothy A. Engle, Sung Hwan Joo, Courtney Caudill, et al.
Corrigendum to “Online stalking in the age of socio-digital interaction: A Systematic literature review” (International Journal of Police Science & Management)
Do cyber fraud experiences matter? Revisiting user motivations and satisfaction in driving FinTech continuance (Journal of Financial Crime) Anil Kumar Kashyap, Priyanka, Prashant Gupta
Profile of child sexual abuse material offenders in Portugal: Considerations of a decade (2011–2021) (European Journal of Criminology) Mauro Paulino, Sofia Gabriel, Mariana Moniz, et al. 🔓
Crime Research Update and Five Studies About are the output of my research discovery system (update coming soon).

