Last Week's Crime Research, Sorted by Geography
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Canada
Ontario
Ottawa
The Role of Complainant/Defendant Gender and Form of Sexual Assault on Jurors’ Perceptions of Prototypicality and Verdicts [By Cassandra Starosta [Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada] + 2 other authors; Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
Quebec
Montréal
A Latent Class Analysis of Reproductive Coercion Experiences Based on Victim-Survivors’ Acknowledgment and Disclosure Patterns [By Sylvie Lévesque [Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada] + 2 other authors; Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
Saskatchewan
Regina
Youth and Young Terror: Canadian Case Law and the Socio-Carceral Dynamics of Youth and Young Offenders Convicted of Terrorism Offences [By James Gacek [University of Regina, Regina, Canada] + 4 other authors; Crime & Delinquency]
United Kingdom
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom [By John Bahadur Lamb [Institute of Policing, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK] + 5 other authors; Policing and Society]
Education or indoctrination? An exploration of the resistance towards making policing a degree-level profession [By Tom Andrews [College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, University of Derby, Derby, UK]; The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles]
England
Probation practice and attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder [By Jane E. Wood [Department of Community and Criminal Justice Division, Department of Health and Life Sciences De Montfort University Leicester UK]; Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health]
Oxford
The importance of excluding selected samples when estimating prevalence of mental disorders in the general prison population—A response to Baggio and Efthimiou (2024) [By Seena Fazel [Department of Psychiatry University of Oxford Oxford UK] + 1 other author; Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health]
Scotland
Edinburgh
Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique [By Michelle Burgis-Kasthala [University of Edinburgh Senior Lecturer in Public International Law, , UK] + 1 other author; Journal of International Criminal Justice]
Wales
Cardiff
Readmission after discharge from a medium secure service between 1999 and 2017: A retrospective cohort study [By Charlotte Hill [Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences Llandaff Campus Cardiff Metropolitan University Cardiff UK] + 2 other authors; Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health]
United States
Washington, DC
Political Ideology and Attitudes Toward Pretrial Justice: Exploring the Mediating Role of Racial Resentment [By Stacie St. Louis [Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology, American University, Washington, DC, US] + 1 other author; Justice Quarterly]
Colorado
Denver
The prison boom, local interpersonal violence, and domestic violence homicide [By Kaitlyn M. Sims [Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA] + 3 other authors; Journal of Crime and Justice]
Florida
Relative Labor Market Utility Perceptions and Offending: A Rational Choice Perspective on the Benefits of Licit and Illicit Work [By Chae M. Jaynes [Department of Criminology, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA]; Crime & Delinquency]
Tampa
Relative Labor Market Utility Perceptions and Offending: A Rational Choice Perspective on the Benefits of Licit and Illicit Work [By Chae M. Jaynes [Department of Criminology, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA]; Crime & Delinquency]
Kansas
Improvements in Literacy, Stigmatic Views, and Microaggressions Towards Mental Illness for Undergraduate Criminal Justice Majors [By April N. Terry [Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, USA]; Journal of Criminal Justice Education]
Michigan
Ann Arbor
State efforts to enforce firearm dispossession through relinquishment laws [By Stephen N. Oliphant [Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention University of Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan USA] + 1 other author; Criminology & Public Policy]
Detroit
“We Grow Together.” Perspectives of Latina Survivors and Providers on the Benefits of Incorporating Culturally Specific Factors into Intimate Partner Violence Services [By Lisa S. Panisch [School of Social Work, Wayne State University School of Social Work, Detroit, Michigan, USA] + 4 other authors; Victims & Offenders]
Missouri
St. Louis
Political Ideology and Attitudes Toward Pretrial Justice: Exploring the Mediating Role of Racial Resentment [By Stacie St. Louis [Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology, American University, Washington, DC, US] + 1 other author; Justice Quarterly]
New Jersey
Psychological and Emotional Impacts on Families of People Involved in the Legal System for Sex Offenses [By Douglas N. Evans [Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, USA] + 1 other author; Crime & Delinquency]
New York
Helpful or Harmful? The Gendered Effect of Virginity Pacts on Later Sexual Victimization [By Nicole C. McKenna [John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA] + 3 other authors; Crime & Delinquency]
Syracuse
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring [By Gabriela Kirk-Werner [Syracuse University, USA]; Theoretical Criminology]
North Carolina
Using Scammers’ Data to Estimate the Impact and Importance of Preventing Repeat Mail Fraud Victimization [By Lynn Langton [RTI International, Research Triangle Park , NC 27709 , USA] + 3 other authors; The British Journal of Criminology]
Ohio
Cincinnati
Online and Terrestrial Identity Theft: A Comparison of Victims and Examination of Reporting Decisions Across Modalities [By Cooper A. Maher [University of Cincinnati, OH, USA]; Crime & Delinquency]
Texas
Immigrant Culture and Neighborhood Perceived Violent Crime and Violent Victimization: A Multi-Level Test of Enculturation to México, Acculturation to the US, and Support for the Code of the Street [By Theodore R. Curry [Department of Criminal Justice, University of Texas, El Paso, USA] + 2 other authors; Justice Quarterly]
Virginia
The dangers of federalizing crime law: consequences of the Adam Walsh Act and sex offender registry expansion [By James Freeman [Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA]; Journal of Crime and Justice]
West Virginia
Warning intelligence and high consequence environments: a comparative assessment to integrate human factors to support warning analysis [By Nicole K. Drumhiller [Intelligence Studies Department, American Public University System, Charles Town, WV, USA] + 2 other authors; Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism]
Unsupported locations
Asia
Bangladesh
Environmental Damage in Ukraine as Environmental War Crime under the Rome Statute [By Shah Maruf [University of Dhaka, Bangladesh . Editor-in-Chief of Dhaka Law Review (DHLR)]; Journal of International Criminal Justice]
Indonesia
Sibling and School Bullying Victimization and Its Relation With Children’s Subjective Well-Being in Indonesia: The Protective Role of Family and School Climate [By Ihsana Sabriani Borualogo [Universitas Islam Bandung, Indonesia] + 2 other authors; Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
South Korea
Why People in Prison Disobey the Rules: The Influence of Legitimacy on Misconduct in South Korean Prisons [By Ha-Neul Yim [Department of Security Management, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Republic of Korea] + 2 other authors; Victims & Offenders]
Europe
Belgium
Turnover Intentions of Police Officers when Facing Discretionary Ethical Dilemmas: The Explanatory Roles of Professional Disillusionment and Job Stress [By Stephanie Demoulin [Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium] + 1 other author; Police Quarterly]
Germany
When Violence Is Not an Option: Perceived Choice Sets and Differential Deterrability Among Adolescents in Germany [By Clemens Kroneberg [University of Cologne, Köln, Germany] + 1 other author; Crime & Delinquency]
Italy
The Aut Dedere Aut Judicare System for Crimes Against Humanity [By Matteo Colorio [Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies PhD Candidate, (Pisa, Italy)]; Journal of International Criminal Justice]
Russia
Environmental Damage in Ukraine as Environmental War Crime under the Rome Statute [By Shah Maruf [University of Dhaka, Bangladesh . Editor-in-Chief of Dhaka Law Review (DHLR)]; Journal of International Criminal Justice]
Sweden
Persist to desist: How to maintain desistance from crime in the face of severe setbacks [By Robin Gålnander [Stockholm University, Sweden]; Criminology & Criminal Justice]
Concurrent Associations Between Callous-Unemotional Traits, Moral Disengagement, and Bullying Perpetration in Adolescence [By Robert Thornberg [Linköping University, Sweden] + 4 other authors; Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
Ukraine
Environmental Damage in Ukraine as Environmental War Crime under the Rome Statute [By Shah Maruf [University of Dhaka, Bangladesh . Editor-in-Chief of Dhaka Law Review (DHLR)]; Journal of International Criminal Justice]
Location not identified
The following research doesn't appear to mention any of the terms my code searches for in titles, abstracts, or primary author affiliations.
Does the public want the police to stop, stopping? An experimental look at the impact of outcome data on public perceptions of police discretionary traffic stops [By Hunter M. Boehme + 4 other authors; Journal of Experimental Criminology]