Restorative justice can be compatible with the criminal justice paradigm, depending on the stage of the criminal justice system

As argued in one of the studies in today's Crime Research Update

Feb 17, 2025

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Analysis of whether restorative justice and criminal justice are incompatible justice paradigms
Journal: Contemporary Justice Review
Keywords: restorative, criminal justice
First author: Shilun Zhou (University of Edinburgh)

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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.”

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Research by type of crime

Violence

Aggression and Victimization Among Employees in Departments of Social Services in Israel

Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Keywords: aggression, violence, victim, victimization
First author: Keren Hadar (School of Social Work, Hadassah Academic College, Israel) [+2 other authors]

Childhood Maltreatment Experience Within a Patriarchal and Islamic Religious Context: Impacts on Dependent Self-Image of Salar Muslim Women

Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Keywords: violence
First author: Weiyi Xie (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) [+3 other authors]

When Victims Become Abusers: A Study Among the Male Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in Bangladesh

Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Keywords: violence, sexual abuse, arson, victim, victimization, survivor, trauma, policy
First author: Md. Abu Bakkar Siddik (Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China) [+5 other authors]

What risk assessment tools can be used with men convicted of child sexual exploitation material offenses? Recommendations from a review of current research.

Journal: Law and Human Behavior
Keywords: child sexual exploitation material, exploitation, law
First author: L. Maaike Helmus [+2 other authors]

Exploring neutralisation in extremist narratives: a study of Brenton Tarrant’s ‘the great replacement’

Journal: Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
Keywords: aggression, terrorism
First author: Katrien Vanlerberghe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) [+2 other authors]

Property

When Victims Become Abusers: A Study Among the Male Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in Bangladesh

Explaining fear of cybercrime: A focus on interpersonal and property cybercrime differences

Journal: European Journal of Criminology
Keywords: theft, fraud, property, cybercrime, malware, identity theft
First author: Inês Sousa Guedes (University of Porto, Portugal) [+2 other authors]

Drugs

Addressing viral hepatitis C reinfections in a low-threshold programme for people who inject drugs in Slovenia

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: harm reduction, opioid, drug, incarceration
First author: Jasna Černoša [+5 other authors]

Adverse Effects of Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Abuse in Athletes and Physically Active Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Journal: Substance Use & Misuse
Keywords: substance use
First author: Liu Mingxing (School of Physical Education, Tonghua Normal University, Dongchang District, Tonghua city, Jilin Province, 134002, China) [+1 other author]

Boundary Parenting: A Framework for Reducing Deviance Among Young People

Journal: Youth Justice
Keywords: substance use, arrest
First author: Nicholas Lassi

White Collar

Explaining fear of cybercrime: A focus on interpersonal and property cybercrime differences

Journal: European Journal of Criminology
Keywords: theft, fraud, property, cybercrime, malware, identity theft
First author: Inês Sousa Guedes (University of Porto, Portugal) [+2 other authors]

Organized

The spider’s web of organized crime: structural configuration of a real criminal organization and its relevance for the management of its security and efficiency needs

Journal: Psychology, Crime & Law
Keywords: organized crime, law
First author: Clara Soler Prieto (General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions, Ministry of Home Affairs) [+1 other author]

Technology Facilitated

Explaining fear of cybercrime: A focus on interpersonal and property cybercrime differences

Journal: European Journal of Criminology
Keywords: theft, fraud, property, cybercrime, malware, identity theft
First author: Inês Sousa Guedes (University of Porto, Portugal) [+2 other authors]

What risk assessment tools can be used with men convicted of child sexual exploitation material offenses? Recommendations from a review of current research.

Journal: Law and Human Behavior
Keywords: child sexual exploitation material, exploitation, law
First author: L. Maaike Helmus [+2 other authors]

Pandemic and predation: an analysis of economic stressors and online scam susceptibility during COVID-19

Journal: Journal of Crime and Justice
Keywords: -
First author: George Burruss (University of South Florida) [+3 other authors]

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

The Effect of Impression Management on Ex-offender Hiring Outcomes Is Not Moderated by Race and Ethnicity of the Ex-offender and Hiring Manager

Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: offender, strategy, supervision
First author: Diana Campos (The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, USA) [+1 other author]

Victimization

Aggression and Victimization Among Employees in Departments of Social Services in Israel

When Victims Become Abusers: A Study Among the Male Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in Bangladesh

Policing

The Effect of Impression Management on Ex-offender Hiring Outcomes Is Not Moderated by Race and Ethnicity of the Ex-offender and Hiring Manager

Exploring the predictors of public trust in police services in Somalia

Journal: Policing: An International Journal
Keywords: police, policing, law enforcement, policy, law
First author: Ahmed-Nor Mohamed Abdi [+2 other authors]

“The Dream Team”: Using a Health Equity and Social Justice Lens to Define the “T” in CIT

Journal: Criminal Justice Policy Review
Keywords: police, police officer, criminal justice, policy, reform
First author: Sabrina Taylor (Arizona State University, Tempe, USA) [+1 other author]

Boundary Parenting: A Framework for Reducing Deviance Among Young People

Journal: Youth Justice
Keywords: substance use, arrest
First author: Nicholas Lassi

Courts

Limit-setting in online gambling: a comparative policy review of European approaches

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: harm reduction, jurisdiction, policy
First author: Virve Marionneau [+3 other authors]

Adding nuance to the role of juror anger and sadness at trial: moderating effects of juror gender and sympathy on verdicts in a battered woman case

Journal: Psychology, Crime & Law
Keywords: trial, verdict, law
First author: Kimberly Schweitzer (University of North Dakota) [+3 other authors]

Corrections

The Effect of Impression Management on Ex-offender Hiring Outcomes Is Not Moderated by Race and Ethnicity of the Ex-offender and Hiring Manager

Analysis of whether restorative justice and criminal justice are incompatible justice paradigms

Journal: Contemporary Justice Review
Keywords: restorative, criminal justice
First author: Shilun Zhou (University of Edinburgh)

Addressing viral hepatitis C reinfections in a low-threshold programme for people who inject drugs in Slovenia

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: harm reduction, opioid, drug, incarceration
First author: Jasna Černoša [+5 other authors]

Public Policy

When Victims Become Abusers: A Study Among the Male Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in Bangladesh

Exploring the predictors of public trust in police services in Somalia

Journal: Policing: An International Journal
Keywords: police, policing, law enforcement, policy, law
First author: Ahmed-Nor Mohamed Abdi [+2 other authors]

What risk assessment tools can be used with men convicted of child sexual exploitation material offenses? Recommendations from a review of current research.

Journal: Law and Human Behavior
Keywords: child sexual exploitation material, exploitation, law
First author: L. Maaike Helmus [+2 other authors]

Diffusing translational criminology: An intergroup communication and accommodation approach

Journal: Criminology & Criminal Justice
Keywords: criminal justice, policy
First author: Edward R Maguire (Arizona State University, USA; University of South Wales, Wales) [+2 other authors]

Analysis of whether restorative justice and criminal justice are incompatible justice paradigms

Journal: Contemporary Justice Review
Keywords: restorative, criminal justice
First author: Shilun Zhou (University of Edinburgh)

Limit-setting in online gambling: a comparative policy review of European approaches

Journal: Harm Reduction Journal
Keywords: harm reduction, jurisdiction, policy
First author: Virve Marionneau [+3 other authors]

“The Dream Team”: Using a Health Equity and Social Justice Lens to Define the “T” in CIT

Journal: Criminal Justice Policy Review
Keywords: police, police officer, criminal justice, policy, reform
First author: Sabrina Taylor (Arizona State University, Tempe, USA) [+1 other author]

Adding nuance to the role of juror anger and sadness at trial: moderating effects of juror gender and sympathy on verdicts in a battered woman case

Journal: Psychology, Crime & Law
Keywords: trial, verdict, law
First author: Kimberly Schweitzer (University of North Dakota) [+3 other authors]

The spider’s web of organized crime: structural configuration of a real criminal organization and its relevance for the management of its security and efficiency needs

Journal: Psychology, Crime & Law
Keywords: organized crime, law
First author: Clara Soler Prieto (General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions, Ministry of Home Affairs) [+1 other author]

Unsorted Research

The following research doesn't appear to mention any of the terms my code searches for in order to sort research by crime type.

To Be Deviant or Not to Be: Exploring Bar Dancers’ Narratives in Indian Documentaries

Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: -
First author: Sikha Mohanty (Indian Institute of Technology) [+1 other author]

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