Your First Five Crime Studies of January 23
Today's crime studies include work on sexual assault on campus
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. Unveiling Segregation’s Impact: Analyzing the Relationship Between Dimensions and Police-Involved Homicide of Minorities in U.S. Counties, published in Crime & Delinquency. (Restricted access)
2. Drinking, Diversity, and Discrimination: Campus-Level Factors that Influence Students’ Risk of Experiencing Sexual Assault, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (Restricted access)
3. Teaching-Learning Process in a Juvenile Delinquents’ Correction Center: Challenges in Focus, published in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. (Restricted access)
4. Whose confidence? Regional leaders’ perspectives on building confidence in a reconfigured probation service, published in Criminology & Criminal Justice. (Open access)
5. Development and Validation of the Bystander Engagement Scale for Witnessed Intimate Partner Violence: A South Korean Version, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. (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:
College students’ individual-level risk factors for sexual assault victimization have been studied for decades, but fewer studies have looked at whether and how campus-level factors, such as campus-level rates of discrimination and campus diversity, might also influence student victimization risk. Identifying these broader factors can inform efforts to develop more effective campus-level sexual assault preventive interventions.