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. “I Had to Allow Myself to Heal”: How Survivors of Sex Trafficking Have Experienced Healing From Trauma Bonding, published in Violence Against Women.
2. Using Epistemic Injustice to Examine Scholarship About Sexual Violence Among Students With Minoritized Identities, published in Violence Against Women.
3. Endorsing Precarious Manhood Beliefs Is Associated With Sexual Harassment Myths Acceptance in Italian Men and Women, published in Violence Against Women.
4. Legal Decision-Making in an Adult Rape Case Involving DNA Evidence, published in Violence Against Women.
5. Culturally Diverse Students’ Perspectives on Sexual Violence Policies: Recommendations for Culturally Sensitive Approaches to Prevention in Higher Education, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
I might cover some of these studies further in Understanding Crime. If one sounds interesting or important, let me know in the comments.
If you’ve seen a few of these posts and are wondering: Yes, I use a template. These posts 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, which I’ve been working on and streamlining. That system is intended to furnish a wide variety of crime research 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 interesting too.