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. Improving Sex Trafficking Victim Identification: Indicators of Trafficking in Online Escort Ads [Journal of Human Trafficking]
2. Bi-Directional Exploitation of Human Trafficking Victims: Both Targets and Perpetrators in Cybercrime [Journal of Human Trafficking]
3. Concentrations of harm: Geographic and demographic patterning in human trafficking and related victimisation [Criminology & Criminal Justice]
4. Examining Individual and Contextual Correlates of Victimization for Juvenile Human Trafficking in Florida [Journal of Interpersonal Violence]
5. The Reconsecration of the Self: A Qualitative Analysis of Sex Trafficking Survivors’ Experience of the Body [Violence Against Women]
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.