What You Missed This Week

A recap of The Art of Explaining Crime Season 2, Episode 3

This is The Art of Explaining Crime, an independent newsletter that helps you think and write about crime.

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Hello from Southwestern Ontario and, more specifically, from Guelph, a city that describes itself as “a city built over rich Indigenous histories.”¹

I’ve had a bump in subscribers this week, both paid and unpaid. I just want to let you know that I appreciate you and you help keep this newsletter going.

In case you missed any of this week’s posts, which I refer to collectively as “Episode 3”, I’ve collected links below.

For example, on Wednesday, the popular What I Do series returned thanks to a nudge and connection from friend of the stack

Catrina Marshall

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• What I Do #10: Ernie Webb, III, author of "Goodbye, Butterfly: Murder, faith and forgiveness in a small Kansas town" tells us about what he does

What I Do used to be a weekly series, but will now appear on Wednesdays when I have someone to feature. Can you think of someone in the crime content space who you’d like me to feature? Let me know in a comment or direct message.

This week’s free Five Studies About tip sheets included:

• What was found when researchers studied children who went missing as children over time (Five Studies About: The Missing)

• How sexual homicides of hitchhikers differ from those of sex workers (Five Studies About: Homicide)

This week’s paid Crime Research Update tip sheets included the following posts. Please remember that each post’s headline highlights a carefully selected study, the link to which appears before the paywall.

• What we know about “pig-butchering scams" (romance fraud) in China

• How researchers defined and conceptualized “tech abuse”

• What lessons does the UK shift in focus from ‘money laundering’ to ‘illicit finance’ hold for Australia?

• Chronic offenders were responsible for nearly 70% of the homicides in a study of 5,623 Brazilians born in 1982. They made up 5% of the participants.

• How students can help in anti-bullying efforts

Here’s a Bluesky post that’s relevant to this newsletter:

I asked this question of the Bluesky criminology and criminal justice community because while I’ve been monitoring new research for the last year and a half, I graduated from my M.A. program 15 years ago and want to know about anything important that I’ve missed. You can click through and see the insightful responses.

Oh, and did you miss any earlier episodes? I’ve got you covered:

• Season 2, Episode 1

• Season 2, Episode 2

And that about sums up Season 2, Episode 3. Thank you for reading! See you next week.

1. I’m working on text to acknowledge the history of the land I have the privilege to live on and do the work of this newsletter from. As I do that, I’m also reflecting on what I can do to contribute to reconciliation in my country.