Your First Five Crime Studies of January 26
Today's crime studies include work on Mr. Big operations
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.