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. Estimating the incapacitation effect among first-time incarcerated offenders, published in European Journal of Criminology.
2. Incarceration without Dehumanization: Public Support for Policies to Reduce Correctional Officer Misconduct, published in Justice Quarterly.
3. Women’s Homelessness and the Justice System: A Study of Desistance and Social (Re)integration Among Canadian Women Who Used or Did Not Use Criminal Activities to Survive, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior.
4. Child Contact, Partner Conflict, and Psychological Distress Among Incarcerated Fathers: Testing the Mediating Role of Perceived Social Support, published in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
5. Predictive Validity of the YLS/CMI in a Sample of Portuguese Young Offenders, published in Crime & Delinquency.
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.