Your First Five Crime Studies of April 4
All of today's research relates to criminal investigation
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 series (M-F) that publishes a curated selection of recent research related to crime and justice. Each post 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 for the moment.
These new studies related to criminology and criminal justice were published recently by journals I monitor:
1. Timely Intelligence Enhances Criminal Investigations: Investigators’ Ratings of Ballistics Imaging Across Three Cities, published in Crime & Delinquency. (Restricted access)
2. Illegal rural enterprise – developing a framework to help identify and investigate shadow infrastructures and illicit criminal networks, published in Policing: An International Journal. (Restricted access)
3. Too risky yet not risky enough: the intersecting characteristics, vulnerabilities, harm indicators and guardianship issues associated with seriously harmed missing children, published in Policing and Society. (Open access)
4. ‘Strands in a cable’: effective investigator decision-making using forensic identification evidence in volume crime investigations, published in Policing and Society. (Open access)
5. The effect of checklists on evidence collection during initial investigations: a randomized controlled trial in virtual reality, published in Journal of Experimental Criminology. (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. The following passage caught my eye:
We identify academic and practical implications in relation to the investigation of [illegal rural enterprise] IRE crime and from an academic perspective in relation to researching the phenomenon.