Your First Five Crime Studies of February 9
Today's crime studies include work on the Capitol insurrection
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. Levels of Involvement with Child Protection Services Associated with Early Adolescent Police Contact as a Victim and Person of Interest, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Open access)
2. Painting the Way Forward: An Ecological Cultural Visual Analysis of Anti-VAW Public Art in Rural Ecuador, published in Violence Against Women. (Restricted access)
3. ‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales, published in The British Journal of Criminology. (Open access)
4. Racial reckoning protests, the Capitol insurrection, and asymmetric social facts: A mixed-methods study of public opinion, published in Journal of Experimental Criminology. (Restricted access)
5. Well-being in institutionalised adolescents, published in Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. (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 3. Here's why:
The sense of despair and hopelessness that many such participants reported was very palpable to us as a research team,6 and we found the second wave of interviews not only more distressing than the first but also, in some respects, harder to interpret precisely because some participants, like Hudson, provided narratives that seemed internally inconsistent, or did not correspond with our own assessment of their apparent wellbeing. Much of the content of this essay derives from an attempt to reconcile such inconsistencies.