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.
These new studies related to criminology and criminal justice were published recently by journals I monitor.
1. Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing [Policing and Society]
2. Clearance rates, arrest rates, and racial stratification: A time series analysis, 1965–2020 [Journal of Crime and Justice]
3. Collective bargaining, police pay, and racial differences in police lethality rates [Police Practice and Research]
4. A survey of US police on-the-scene and station witness interviews and recording practices [Psychology, Crime & Law]
5. Police compliance with the social contract as an antecedent of police legitimacy, of satisfaction with the police, and of willingness to obey: findings from a two-stage vignette experiment [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.