Last week's crime research, by geography
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This is an experimental1 directory of crime research published in the last week by the academic journals that I monitor.
I'm Aaron Jacklin, and this is Explaining Crime, an independent newsletter that helps you explain crime to your audience.
This directory of new crime research2 is intended as a tool for journalists and advocates to find research local to them, but I hope it'll be useful beyond that audience.
The currently supported regions3 reflect the audience of Explaining Crime as I understand it; be sure to let me know if you live outside the supported countries and I'll prioritize4 supporting your location next!
N.B.: This is a beta release.
Total studies: 27
Supported countries
Canada
Using Latent Class Analysis to Identify Need Typologies and Recidivism Likelihood Among Women Who Perpetrate Violence, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
“We’ve Got History Now”: Victim and Justice-Involved Youth Experiences During Mediation Sessions, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior.
Understanding carceral mobilities in and through lived experiences of incarceration, published in Punishment & Society.
Playing “mental judo”: Mapping staff compassion in Canadian federal prisons, published in Punishment & Society.
Quebec
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada, published in The British Journal of Criminology.
United Kingdom
Concentrations of harm: Geographic and demographic patterning in human trafficking and related victimisation, published in Criminology & Criminal Justice.
The Compounding Effect: How Co-Offending Exacerbates the Harm Caused by Violent Offenders, published in American Journal of Criminal Justice.
England
Joint enterprise in England and Wales: why problems persist despite legal change, published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice.
Exploring reconvictions and ‘crime-free’ gaps over time: What were the experience of one cohort of English probationers?, published in Criminology & Criminal Justice.
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales, published in Policing and Society.
Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector, published in The British Journal of Criminology.
Scotland
Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector, published in The British Journal of Criminology.
Glasgow
Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs, published in The British Journal of Criminology.
Wales
Joint enterprise in England and Wales: why problems persist despite legal change, published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice.
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales, published in Policing and Society.
United States
Disorder policing to reduce crime: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis, published in Criminology & Public Policy.
“We’ve Got History Now”: Victim and Justice-Involved Youth Experiences During Mediation Sessions, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior.
New Hampshire
Concord [Note: Categorization error! This “concordance” research didn’t take place in Concord, NH.)
Caregiver Report of Children’s Exposure to Adverse Life Events: Concordance Between Questionnaire and Interview Approaches, published inJournal of Interpersonal Violence.
New York
Buffalo
Hot spot policing in two stages: informal and formal programs in Buffalo, published in Journal of Experimental Criminology.
Unsupported countries
Africa
Ghana
“Pleasure to Pain?” The Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Sexual Violence in Marriages: Experiences of Rural Ghanaian Women, published in Violence Against Women.
Asia
Afghanistan
The Prevalence of Sexual Harassment and Bullying Among Norwegian Afghanistan Veterans: Does Workplace Harassment Disproportionately Impact the Mental Health and Life Satisfaction of Female Soldiers?, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Europe
Norway
The Prevalence of Sexual Harassment and Bullying Among Norwegian Afghanistan Veterans: Does Workplace Harassment Disproportionately Impact the Mental Health and Life Satisfaction of Female Soldiers?, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Oceania
Australia
Developments in DNA analysis and forensic procedures legislation: comparisons across Australian jurisdictions, published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice.
South America
Peru
SDGs Managers’ Assessment Bias and Their Implications for Preventing Violence Against Women in Companies, published in Violence Against Women.
Location not identified
The following studies don't appear to mention any of the terms my code searches for in titles or abstracts. No doubt some should have been categorized above.
PRINT® Survey as an Opportunity-Reduction Supervision Tool: Outcomes for Justice-Involved Individuals on Supervised Release, published in Crime & Delinquency.
The Great Resignation, published in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal.
Better safe than sorry? Police officers’ identification of and responses to vulnerable crime victims, published in Policing and Society.
Lifetime Polyvictimization and Mental Health Outcomes in Women With vs Without Incarceration Histories: A Population-Based Latent Class Analysis, published in Violence Against Women.
“I Put Her in the Baby Stroller and Left”: The Escape Route From Violence to a Domestic Violence Shelter for Mothers and Children, published in Violence Against Women.
The role of perpetrator interventions in acknowledging children as victim-survivors of domestic and family violence in their own right, published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice.
Does Measurement Matter? Examining the Impact of Outcome Measurement Variation On the Rates and Predictors of Juvenile Recidivism, published in American Journal of Criminal Justice.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Electronic Monitoring with Probationers, published in Corrections.
Expect some categorization errors!
Studies were published in the last week and may appear in more than one place in the directory depending on which regions they reference. For readability, I omitted any states, provinces, or territories that I didn't match with any studies.
The currently supported countries are Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. “Supported” means not only are mentions of the country used to categorize studies, but also mentions of subcategories such as provinces in Canada and states in the United States and large cities in those subcategories.
I wrote and use simple code to help organize the studies and create this templated directory. Studies were categorized based on a mention in their title or abstract of the country, respective provinces, states, or territories, or large, currently supported cities. Future editions of this directory will get better as I improve the underlying code and provide support for other countries.
I really like this geographical organization system!
Thank you! Loved the Glasgow gangs paper.