Hello! 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 tip sheet (M-F) that publishes a curated selection of recent research related to crime and justice. Each tip sheet 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. Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints, published in Policing and Society.
2. Techno-digital policing and speculative fictions: Towards a criminology of the future, published in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal.
3. It’s Just a Distance Thing: Affordances and Decisions in Online Disclosure of Sexual Violence Victimization, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
4. The geographies and complexities of online networks in the off-street sex market, published in Criminology & Criminal Justice.
5. The use of XR technology in criminological research: a scoping review, published in Journal of Experimental 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.