Your First Five Crime Studies of March 19
Each of today's studies are related to police
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. The publication schedule is in flux for the moment.
These new criminology and criminal justice studies were published recently by journals I monitor:
1. Algorithmic crime prevention. From abstract police to precision policing, published in Policing and Society. (Open access)
2. Needs assessment of police pre-deployment training for dispatch experts in international development cooperation of policing, published in Policing: An International Journal. (Restricted access)
3. “It's kind of preventative maintenance”: social capital and policing in rural schools, published in Policing: An International Journal. (Restricted access)
4. Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria, published in Policing and Society. (Restricted access)
5. Navigating Police Contact: How Situations Shape Police–Youth Relations, published in The British Journal of Criminology. (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 1. Here's why:
While the notion of abstract police assumes that computerisation distances police officers from their community, our empirical investigation of a geo-analysis unit in a German Land Office of Criminal Investigation shows that the adoption of abstract procedures does not by itself imply a detachment from local reference and community contact.