Your First Five Crime Studies of March 1
Today's crime studies include work on coercive control
I'm Aaron Jacklin, and this is Explaining Crime, an independent newsletter that helps you explain crime to your audience.
Your First Five is a daily (M-F) series that publishes a curated selection of recent research related to crime and justice. Each post contains links to new studies that I hope will enhance your work explaining crime. Published each weekday at about 7 a.m., E.S.T.
These new criminology and criminal justice studies were published recently by journals I monitor:
1. Bystander Intervention in Coercive Control: Do Relationship to the Victim, Bystander Gender, and Concerns Influence Willingness to Intervene?, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Open access)
2. U.S. District Court Judicial Diversity: The Impact of Race and Sex Composition on Sentencing Outcomes at the District Level, published in Crime & Delinquency. (Restricted access)
3. Toward a Contextually Sensitive Understanding of Polyvictimization: A Latent Class Analysis of Violence, Risks, and Protections Among South African Adolescents From Highly Deprived Settings, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Open access)
4. Examining the Association Between Citizenship and Ethnicity on Identity Theft Risk: Findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey, published in American Journal of Criminal Justice. (Restricted access)
5. Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa, published in The British Journal of Criminology. (Open access)
I might cover some of these studies further in Understanding Crime. If one sounds interesting or important, let me know in the comments.
Right now, I'm considering number 1. Here's why:
The results indicated that friends were significantly more willing to intervene than colleagues or strangers, while strangers reported the highest concerns about intervening. Females reported significantly higher willingness to intervene than men despite also reporting higher concerns. Exploratory analysis of concerns about intervening revealed that the participants were most concerned about risk of harm and their beliefs in their ability to successfully intervene.