Your First Five Crime Studies of May 6
All of today's research relates to police and policing
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 is more a tip sheet than an article and 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. Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales, published in Policing and Society.
2. Detecting Bias in Traffic Searches: Examining False Searches of Innocent Drivers, published in Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
3. Hot spot policing in two stages: informal and formal programs in Buffalo, published in Journal of Experimental Criminology.
4. Disorder policing to reduce crime: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis, published in Criminology & Public Policy.
5. Better safe than sorry? Police officers’ identification of and responses to vulnerable crime victims, published in Policing and Society.
I might cover some of these studies further in Understanding Crime. If one sounds interesting or important, let me know in the comments.
Yes, I use a template for these posts, which are intended more as tip sheets than articles. Your First Five and the directories I'm experimenting with are the output of my research discovery system. I've worked on that system a great deal recently, particularly in late April. 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.
Great idea and the geographic breakdown (in your other post) was really helpful.