Your First Five Crime Studies of April 9
All of today's research relates to sexual violence
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 series (M-F) that publishes a curated selection of recent research related to crime and justice. Each post 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 for the moment.
These new studies related to criminology and criminal justice were published recently by journals I monitor:
1. Restorative Justice Responses to Sexual Violence: Perspectives and Experiences of Participating Persons Responsible and Persons Harmed, published in Victims & Offenders.
2. Relatively Unworthy Victims? Middle-Aged Women as Rape Survivors, published in Violence Against Women.
3. Rape Victims’ Perceptions of Quality of Encounters With the Swedish Police, published in Violence Against Women.
4. Preventing Sexual Violence Within the Continuum: Differences in Bystander Intervention Engagement Among College Students, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
5. Protective Factors for College Men’s Endorsement of Rape Myths, published in Victims & Offenders.
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 1. The following passage caught my eye:
Although there is some variation in responses, the findings indicate that a majority of both persons harmed and persons responsible generally had positive perspectives on and experiences of the restorative justice processes offered by Project Restore.