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. Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers, published in The British Journal of Criminology.
2. A grasp of police research: characteristics of empirical research on police careers based on multiple scoping reviews, published in Policing: An International Journal.
3. Supporting Victims of Sexual Assault: The Effect of “Real Rape Mythology” and “Worthy Victim” Stereotypes on Police Decisions Regarding Service Referral and Advocate Involvement in Sexual Assault Cases, published in Crime & Delinquency.
4. Informing the recruitment crisis in policing: Evaluating which incentives can entice the best candidates among college students, published in Criminology & Public Policy.
5. Does national police accreditation undermine local control?, published in Policing: An International Journal.
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.