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. Linking police and citizen data: a multilevel analysis on the effects of organizational effectiveness and fairness on procedural justice, published in Policing: An International Journal.
2. Exploring the Interplay of Intergenerational Transmission, Structural Inequalities, and Relative Resources in Domestic Violence: Evidence From a Nationally Representative Dataset, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
3. “Context Is to Data What Water Is to a Dolphin”*: Social-Historical Conditions, Criminal Histories, and Recidivism Across Five Prisoner Cohorts, published in Crime & Delinquency.
4. Intellectual and developmental disabilities in Ontario's criminal justice and forensic mental health systems: Using data to tell the story, published in Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health.
5. What is a ‘good enough’ prison? An empirical analysis of key thresholds using prison moral quality data, published in European Journal of Criminology.
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.