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 series (M-F) that publishes a curated selection of recent research related to crime and justice. Each post is more a tip sheet than an article and contains links to new studies (each related to a single topic) that I hope will enhance your work explaining crime. The publication schedule is in flux until June.
These new studies related to criminology and criminal justice were published recently by journals I monitor.
1. The role of perpetrator interventions in acknowledging children as victim-survivors of domestic and family violence in their own right, published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice.
2. Delusions and Delinquencies: A Comparison of Violent and Non-Violent Offenders With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, published in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
3. Stalking Perpetration in Adolescents in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence, published in Victims & Offenders.
4. The Compounding Effect: How Co-Offending Exacerbates the Harm Caused by Violent Offenders, published in American Journal of Criminal Justice.
5. The Significance of Duration Weighted Neighborhood Effects for Violent Behavior and Explanation of Ethnoracial Differences, published in Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
I might cover some of these studies further in Understanding Crime. If one sounds interesting or important, let me know in the comments.
Your First Five and the directories I'm experimenting with are the output of my research discovery system. That system is intended to furnish a wide variety of crime research leads and facilitate choices of what new research to actually report on, both for myself and for the journalists among you. I hope others will find these tip sheets useful too.