Your First Five Crime Studies of March 5
Today's crime studies include work on prison work
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. Procedural Justice in Their Eyes: A Qualitative Interview Study Among Detainees, published in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. (Restricted access)
2. Extending the Shadow of Sexual Assault Hypothesis: Fear of Sexual Violence and Hate Crimes among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons, published in Violence Against Women. (Restricted access)
3. ‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work, published in The British Journal of Criminology. (Restricted access)
4. The private harms of detention: why Serco’s violence is not criminalised, published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice. (Open access)
5. Predicting Burnout, Well-Being, and Posttraumatic Growth in Correctional Officers, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior. (Open 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:
Our findings help contemplate the implications of navigating emotion within dehumanizing contexts and illustrate that how staff treat the incarcerated has implications for their own sense of humanity.