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.