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. Coping With Incarceration: How Women Adjust to Being Separated From Their Children, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior. (Restricted access)
2. A Qualitative Exploration of Intimate Partner Violence Among HIV/TB Coinfected Persons With Problematic Alcohol Use Participating in an Incentive-Based Alcohol/Medication Adherence Intervention in Uganda During COVID-19, published in Violence Against Women. (Restricted access)
3. Who’s watching Mr Big? Scenario operations and induced confessions, published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice. (Open access)
4. States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland, published in Punishment & Society. (Open access)
5. Border control within Spanish prisons? Intersections between immigration control and imprisonment at the southern border of Europe, published in Punishment & Society. (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 3. Here's why:
Challenging Mr Big confessions in Australia has been unsuccessful. The lack of transparency and need for deception inherent in covert operations, however, exposes a potential for fabricated and coerced confessions and the risk of wrongful convictions.