Your First Five Crime Studies of February 22
Today's crime studies include work on sexual homicide
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. Who Is Centered in the Humanitarian Response to Gender-Based Violence? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Survivor-Centered Approach, published in Violence Against Women. (Open access)
2. Exploring Sexual Homicide by Overarching Groups of Victims, published in Crime & Delinquency. (Restricted access)
3. Investigating the Psychological Impact of Cyber-Sexual Harassment, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Open access)
4. Disparities Among Pediatric Firearm Suicides in the United States: An Analysis of the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2014 to 2018, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Restricted access)
5. Using Latent Class Analysis to Produce a Typology of Korean Stalking Based on Court Judgments, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior. (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 1. Here's why:
Shifting how GBV [gender-based violence] support for survivors is structured in practice depends primarily on returning to the fundamental precept that is meant to underpin a survivor-centered approach: trust survivors. Trust that survivors know what they need, what is best for them, and what is going to keep them safe, or at least safer. Trust that survivors, once given the safety and opportunity to do so, will ask for what they want and reject what they do not, seek those who are helpful, and dismiss those who are harmful.
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We consider a survivor-led response as a radical and necessary departure from the way the humanitarian system currently addresses GBV. A departure that disrupts the dominant thinking, organizing, and decision-making in the humanitarian system and fundamentally shifts the way power is distributed within that system.