Your First Five Crime Studies of February 26
Today's crime studies include work on COVID-19's perceived impact
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. Perceived Impact of COVID-19 on Cyberabuse, Sexual Aggression, and Intimate Partner Violence Among U.S. Young Adults, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Restricted access)
2. “Context Is to Data What Water Is to a Dolphin”*: Social-Historical Conditions, Criminal Histories, and Recidivism Across Five Prisoner Cohorts, published in Crime & Delinquency. (Restricted access)
3. Prototypes of Hate and Expectations of the Model Victim, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Open access)
4. Shiftwork and pregnancy loss among police officers: a preliminary investigation, published in Policing: An International Journal. (Restricted access)
5. The challenges of community policing in maintaining community security: the case of Harar City, Ethiopia, published in Policing and Society. (Restricted 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 2. Here's why:
Missing from this line of research has been the extent to which rates of recidivism are also affected by social-historical conditions. This paper examines the characteristics and recidivism patterns of five national-level prisoner release cohorts between 1983 and 2012.