Hello! I'm Aaron Jacklin, and this is Explaining Crime, an independent newsletter that helps you explain crime to your audience.
This is an experimental1 directory of crime research published in the last week by the academic journals that I monitor.2 This directory of new crime research3 is intended as a tool for journalists, advocates, and other researchers to find research local to them, but I hope it'll also be useful beyond that audience.
The currently supported regions4 reflect the audience of Explaining Crime as I understand it right now; be sure to let me know if you live outside the supported countries and I'll prioritize5 supporting your location next!
N.B.: This is a beta release.
Total studies: 43
Supported countries
Canada
Women’s Homelessness and the Justice System: A Study of Desistance and Social (Re)integration Among Canadian Women Who Used or Did Not Use Criminal Activities to Survive [Criminal Justice and Behavior]
Far-right extremist narratives in Canadian and Swedish COVID-19 protests: a comparative case study of the Freedom Movement and Freedom Convoy [Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression]
United Kingdom
Police peer supporters in a domestic abuse-specific peer support initiative: Motivations, experiences and challenges [International Journal of Police Science & Management]
England
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers [The British Journal of Criminology]
Police recruitment and positive action: The social building blocks of service [International Journal of Police Science & Management]
Wales
Police recruitment and positive action: The social building blocks of service [International Journal of Police Science & Management]
United States
Deadly consequences: lessons from the evolution of terrorist attacks against United States diplomats [Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism]
U.S. Law Enforcement Officers’ Stress, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, and Resilience: A National Sample [Police Quarterly]
Does national police accreditation undermine local control? [Policing: An International Journal]
Longitudinal Exploration of Prenatal and Postnatal Intimate Partner Violence, Postpartum Depression, and Child–Mother Attachment: A Mediation Model [Violence Against Women]
“My Coping Doesn’t Really Matter:” How Military Lawyers Navigate Vicarious Trauma Through Emotional Labor and Emotion Work [Feminist Criminology]
California
Where Do Cops Stop? A New Dimension to Explore Spatial Patterns of Police Contacts [Criminal Justice and Behavior]
Pennsylvania
Universal Sexual Violence Intervention Effects in a Cluster-Randomized Trial: Moderation by Sexual Orientation [Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
Virginia
Universal Sexual Violence Intervention Effects in a Cluster-Randomized Trial: Moderation by Sexual Orientation [Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
West Virginia
Universal Sexual Violence Intervention Effects in a Cluster-Randomized Trial: Moderation by Sexual Orientation [Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
Unsupported locations
Africa
Asia
India
Exploring the link between intelligence and drug abuse among juvenile felons in India [The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology]
Iran
Intimate Partner Violence and Attachment Styles as Factors Associated with Coping Stress Styles Among Iranian Women [Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
Europe
A grasp of police research: characteristics of empirical research on police careers based on multiple scoping reviews [Policing: An International Journal]
Triggering Violence? The Impact of Firearms on the Nature and Lethality of Violent Encounters: A European Perspective [Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice]
Finland
Juveniles and Animal Abuse in Finland – Prevalence and Associations with Antisocial Behavior [Deviant Behavior]
Norway
‘Violence is completely normal’: Managing Violence Through Narrative Normalization [The British Journal of Criminology]
Sweden
Estimating the incapacitation effect among first-time incarcerated offenders [European Journal of Criminology]
Far-right extremist narratives in Canadian and Swedish COVID-19 protests: a comparative case study of the Freedom Movement and Freedom Convoy [Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression]
Firearm and Criminal Milieu Homicide in Sweden [Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice]
North America
A grasp of police research: characteristics of empirical research on police careers based on multiple scoping reviews [Policing: An International Journal]
Oceania
Australia
Bordered welfare in Australia: Income management as a bordering technology of neoliberal and colonial governance [Punishment & Society]
Do Australian police engage in racial profiling? A method for identifying racial profiling in the absence of police data [Current Issues in Criminal Justice]
Investigating the Impact of Reproductive Coercion and Intimate Partner Violence on Psychological and Sexual Wellbeing [Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
New Zealand
“Able to stop things from escalating” – Stakeholders’ perspectives of police, ambulance and mental health co-response to 911-mental health calls [The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles]
Contextualizing Indigenous people and the state of exception: New Zealand's Waikeria Prison protest [Punishment & Society]
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. Studies with abstracts unavailable to my code-driven collection methods will often be categorized here because the absence of an abstract decreases the chances that geographic information will be found.
Opportunities for success: perceptions of intensive supervision probation with services [Journal of Crime and Justice]
Incarceration without Dehumanization: Public Support for Policies to Reduce Correctional Officer Misconduct [Justice Quarterly]
Social Vulnerability and Firearm Violence: An Examination of the Correlates of Fatal and Nonfatal Shootings [Homicide Studies]
Offender Journeys in Restorative Youth Justice Conferencing: The Overlap Between Restorative Justice and Desistance [Deviant Behavior]
Staff As a Conduit for Contraband: Developing and Testing Key Assumptions of Professional Boundary Violations in Prison [Deviant Behavior]
Love in the time of stigma: relationship interest following criminal conviction [Journal of Crime and Justice]
LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes: Understanding Victim Reasons for Non-Reporting [Crime & Delinquency]
Informing the recruitment crisis in policing: Evaluating which incentives can entice the best candidates among college students [Criminology & Public Policy]
Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints [Policing and Society]
Techno-digital policing and speculative fictions: Towards a criminology of the future [Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal]
Cybercriminal Networks and Operational Dynamics of Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scammers: Insights from the “Black Axe” Confraternity [Deviant Behavior]
The impact of COVID-19 on police officer wellness [Policing and Society]
Police leaders’ support for civilian oversight and implicit bias training: assessing the influence of perceptions of systemic racism [Police Practice and Research]
Children’s stress and inattention during forensic interviews: the role of facility dogs [Police Practice and Research]
Institutional Betrayal in the Criminal and Civil Legal Systems: Exploratory Factor Analysis with a Sample of Black and Hispanic Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence [Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
Expect some categorization errors!
This week, I doubled the number of journals I monitor to about 60.
Studies were published online for the first time between May 12 and 18 and may appear in more than one place in the directory depending on which regions they reference. This may seem overly repetitive, especially in weeks with fewer studies, but this is meant as a feature instead of a bug. Say there’s a study that mentions both St. Louis and Missouri. If we only categorize it under St. Louis, someone outside St. Louis but looking for studies for Missouri in general may overlook it under St. Louis. (What if the title or abstract contains "St. Louis, Missouri"? Good question. That's why I do a manual read of each abstract, but I really want to find those instances with code soon.) Additionally, for readability, I omitted any countries, states, provinces, territories, or cities 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.
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.