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Published: Nov 30, 2023
Due to the emergence of data-driven technologies in Aotearoa New Zealand that use Māori data,there is a need for values-based frameworks to guide thinking around balancing the tension betweenthe opportunities these create, and the inherent risks that these technologies can ...
Published: Nov 30, 2023
The past three decades have seen at least 3,200 exonerations across North America. While this number continues to grow, attention must be turned to facilitating successful re-entry amongst this group. By conducting a content analysis of 57 Canadian exonerees, I gathered ...
Published: Nov 27, 2023
Despite the widespread public concern regarding abduction, research on this type of crime is scarce. This lack of research is even more pronounced when looking at cases that end with the death of the victim. In fact, all of the research looking at lethal outcomes in cases of ...
Published: Nov 27, 2023
Introduction: Personal, behavioral, and environmental risk factors are correlated to varying degrees with each other and with the overall likelihood of violent reinjury. When used with fidelity, risk assessment instruments, including the violence reinjury risk assessment ...
Published: Nov 27, 2023
There is evidence showing that personality feedback can increase goals to change in a socially desirable way on morality-related traits (e.g., Honesty-Humility; Thielmann & De Vries, 2021). Although others may be more accurate than the self in judging traits that are highly ...
Published: Nov 27, 2023
Engagement with smartphone-based interventions stimulates adherence and improves the likelihood of gaining benefits from intervention content. Research often relies on system usage data to capture engagement. However, to what extent usage data reflect engagement is still an ...
Published: Nov 22, 2023
Previous research has documented the effects of uniforms and accouterments on public perceptions of police in acontextual settings. Drawing upon a vignette-based survey, we explored the perceptual effects of various police uniforms and accouterments in the context of five ...
Published: Nov 22, 2023
Researchers from St Mary’s SARC and the University of Manchester are carrying out research into the long-term support needs of sexual abuse survivors. They want to learn more about what sexual abuse survivors need in the months following the assault so that services can be ...
Published: Nov 22, 2023
This study tests whether (1) shots fired calls for service in the gunshot detection technology (GDT) target area are more likely to be classified as unfounded; (2) police responses to shootings in the GDT target area are more likely to recover ballistic evidence or firearms; ...
Published: Nov 22, 2023
There is demand for valid risk assessment of individuals with child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) offenses. We compared the predictive performance of the Risk Matrix 2000/Sex (RM2000/S) and the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT) among 365 men convicted of CSEM ...
Published: Nov 22, 2023
We developed and tested a smartphone-based intervention, FutureU, that aims to stimulate future-oriented thinking and behavior by strengthening the degree to which people identify with their future self. In order to examine the potential of this intervention prototype and ...
Published: Nov 21, 2023
We apply the microsynthetic control method to evaluate the gun violence prevention effect of gunshot detection technology (GDT) in Kansas City, MO. We measure the influence of GDT on process measures (ballistic evidence collection and gun recoveries) and outcome measures ...
Published: Nov 21, 2023
The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs are seeking to fill an open-rank Teaching Professor position in the areas of Computational Social Science and Data Analytics, or Geographic Information Systems and Spatial ...
Published: Nov 20, 2023
Explaining prosocial behavior is a central goal in classic and contemporary behavioral science. Here, for the first time, we apply modern machine learning techniques to uncover the full predictive potential that personality traits have for prosocial behavior. We utilize a ...
Published: Nov 13, 2023
Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) video surveillance cameras have become a popular crimecontrol tool around the world. While the diffusion of CCTV initially occurred absent a scientificknowledge base, the technology has since become well researched. A body of literature ...
Published: Nov 13, 2023
A key issue in criminology is to account for variation in rates of violence across time and place. An important variable largely neglected in the literature is individualism. Building on theoretical ideas proposed by Durkheim, Black, and Baumgartner, we illustrate the role ...
Published: Nov 13, 2023
This briefing shares the results of research investigating why police in England and Wales close rape cases. It is part of the large-scale, UK Government funded Operation Soteria Bluestone which aims to improve police investigations of rape and other sexual offences. It is ...
Published: Nov 12, 2023
This briefing shares the results of research investigating the real scale and nature of rape reporting to and recording by the police, as well as the charge rate, in England and Wales. It is part of the large-scale, UK Government funded Operation Soteria Bluestone which aims ...
Published: Nov 06, 2023
As part of the present research, we employed a field study paradigm to test the effects of an unoccupied police vehicle on speed(ing) along a voluminous highway offramp in Western Canada. During the intervention period, a randomly assigned, marked police vehicle was parked ...
Published: Nov 05, 2023
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine received widespread international condemnation. In Slovakia, the invasion became a subject of much political discussion with large number of MPs openly advocating Russian interests. This study investigates Slovak political discourse on ...
Published: Nov 05, 2023
Published: Nov 01, 2023
To inform preparedness and population health action, we need to understand the effects of COVID-19 on health inequities. In this study, we assess the impact of COVID-19 on opioid toxicity deaths among people who experience incarceration compared to others in the general ...
Published: Nov 01, 2023
To support service provision, we sought to advance the existing evidence base about the characteristics of—and potential predictors of reported revictimization for—women identified as being at high risk of experiencing ongoing intimate partner violence (IPV).
Published: Nov 01, 2023
The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, which is located at the University ofMissouri-St. Louis campus, invites applications for one Assistant or Associate Professor positionbeginning in August 2024 (or negotiable). Strong candidates conducting research in all ...
Published: Oct 31, 2023
This is a preprint. Before I publish its version-of-record, I'm looking for feedback. I welcome criticisms, suggestions, etc. on how to improve this Pub. Think of yourself as a reviewer, if you're so inclined.
Published: Oct 27, 2023
This article presents first-hand experience of those delivering counter fraud services, demonstrating the extent of disjointedness in responses to fraud against the National Health Service (NHS). This sample study of local counter fraud specialists working across England, ...
Published: Oct 26, 2023
CrimRxiv, criminology’s global open access hub and repository, has announced its new Director, Nicholas Lord, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Digital Trust & Society at the University of Manchester (UoM). “It’s an honour and privilege to be CrimRxiv’s ...
Published: Oct 24, 2023
When we die, we will decompose and we may be colonized by carrion insects. These insects recycle our bodies back to the earth but, as insects develop at a predictable rate and colonize in a predictable sequence, they can be used to indicate the minimum elapsed time since ...
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The police response to domestic violence has changed dramatically: from a hands-off approach to one that mandates an arrest be made. Identifying what works in policing domestic violence can be challenging given the often-competing goals of …
Published: Oct 23, 2023
While major crimes capture the headlines, minor offenses (and even more minor norm violations that fall short of legal offenses) are much more common. And despite being minor, the experience of them can be uncomfortable, annoying, offensive, or even scary. This set of facts ...
Published: Oct 21, 2023
Using data on participants born around 100 years ago, Laub and Sampson asserted that early developmental risk factors are not informative of social outcomes in adulthood. More specifically, they claimed that early risk factors were not informative of adulthood ...
Published: Oct 20, 2023
This Research Note describes the MAXLab Aggression and Bystander Intervention Scenario Set (MAXLab_ABISS). This modular stimulus set contains various immersive 360° videos that can be used to study decision making in situations of interpersonal violence. The goal of ...
Published: Oct 19, 2023
A strong organisational cybersecurity culture (CSC) is critical to the success of any cybersecurity effort, and understanding and measuring CSC is essential if it is to succeed. To facilitate the framing and measurement of CSC we conducted a rapid evidence assessment (REA) to ...
Published: Oct 16, 2023
A Research Associate is required to work on the ADVANCE-D in Probation Project, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NiHR). The Greater Manchester fieldwork for the project will by directed by Professor David Gadd in the Department of Criminology, School of ...
Published: Oct 16, 2023
The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its nine tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, the college collaborates across the university, the Northeastern network, and partners around the ...
Published: Oct 16, 2023
Here we introduce a Special Section of Child Development entitled “Formalizing Theories of Child Development.” This Special Section features five papers that use mathematical models to advance our understanding of central questions in the study of child development. This ...
Published: Oct 11, 2023
Over the past years, research has shown that virtual reality (VR) technology can be used to observe, interpret, and change human behavior and cognition in a variety of domains. This chapter explores the potential of VR as a tool to observe, interpret, and change human ...
Published: Oct 10, 2023
Although increasingly deployed worldwide, human trafficking hotlines are sorely under-researched. Situated within a complex systems framework, we conceptualise such helplines as both a product of and an influence on broader anti-trafficking ecosystems. Taking the UK as a case ...
Published: Oct 08, 2023
Police administrative data systems are an increasingly accessible and varied source of crime data. This chapter outlines the many human and technological intricacies of working with police crime data as a researcher–which are often learnt as tricks of the trade over many ...
Published: Oct 06, 2023
This is a follow-up to a report by the authors that developed a forecasting model for crime rates in the United States (Austin, Clear, and Rosenfeld 2020). The report argued that the twenty-five-year decline in crime should be expected to continue into 2021, absent unforeseen ...
Published: Oct 05, 2023
Although raw numbers are important, it is critical to understand the context surrounding criminal justice data to fully understand the raw numbers. This area shows the most recent Data Stories where we consider data and criminal justice issues.
Published: Oct 05, 2023
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Published: Oct 05, 2023
The purpose of this website is to provide the public with transparent, comprehensive, and centralized data on the Philadelphia criminal justice system. We hope that Philadelphians will visit this website regularly to learn about long-term criminal justice trends and new ...
The Drop in Worry about Crime and Its Gender Gap: Trends in England and Wales from 1998 to 2019/2020
Published: Oct 04, 2023
Using data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, this research explores trends in worry about crime and its gender gap between 1998 and 2019/20. Worry about different types of crime follows a downward trajectory, with worries about car-related crimes showing the …
Published: Oct 03, 2023
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is recognised as a global environmental, economic, and social problem, taking place in all kinds of fisheries. Preventing it is however difficult and there is a continuous need to expand the knowledge base on how the issue can ...
Published: Oct 02, 2023
The School of Criminology invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of justice and victims. The School of Criminology of the University of Montreal is the largest criminology department in the Francophonie ...
Published: Oct 02, 2023
The School of Criminology invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the field of intervention with adult offenders. The School of Criminology at the University of Montreal is the largest criminology department in the Francophonie ...
Published: Oct 02, 2023
Trigger warnings have been at the heart of a heated debate within academic circles since they burst into higher education in 2013. Using an intersectional feminist disability studies pedagogy, this article traces the ableist assumptions underscoring anti-trigger warning ...
Published: Oct 02, 2023
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Published: Sep 30, 2023
The Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law,in Freiburg, Germany is seeking to recruit several Behavioral Scientists at the Postdoc Level.
Published: Sep 30, 2023
The Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law,in Freiburg, Germany is seeking to recruit several Behavioral Scientists at the Postdoc Level.
Reducing Correction Officer Stress by Improving Prison Climate: The Importance of Support and Safety
Published: Sep 30, 2023
Prior research has identified the importance of social climate in psychiatric and correctional facilities. In studies of correctional officer stress, organizational measures are typically the strongest correlates. This article combines these research areas, examining the ...
Published: Sep 30, 2023
We examined the prevalence of experiencing sexual misconduct—rape, contact sexual violence, sexual harassment—in college and whether students reported to Title IX coordinators or campus counseling services by students’ race/ethnicity. Data from the 2019 Association of ...
Published: Sep 30, 2023
Police officers’ use of force (UoF) has traditionally been understood vis-à-vis subject resistance, but researchers have recently argued for a greater emphasis on subject threat. We examine the role of static and dynamic threat measures, consisting of indicators for ability, ...
Published: Sep 29, 2023
In this study, we investigated the relation between the different stages of women trafficking (i.e. recruitment, entrance, accommodation, labor, and finance) and the structure of five criminal networks involved in women trafficking in the Netherlands (Ns ranging from 6 to 15 ...
Published: Sep 29, 2023
This article presents a discussion of the emerging ethical issue of geodata privacy in geographical research. The paper highlights the importance of considering challenges to privacy when working with geographically explicit data and explores explicit ways in which ...
Published: Sep 27, 2023
With the advent of the internet, romance fraud – or instances wherein individuals use fake identities and sham romantic relationships to defraud others – has moved online. Victims of this crime experience harms to their financial, social, and personal well-being. While ...
Published: Sep 27, 2023
Purpose. The introduction of community policing led to a significant increase in the number of police stations, particularly in urban settings. Police stations are largely assumed to have an impact on crime but there are few studies dedicated to the issue. ...
Published: Sep 27, 2023
Numerous corporate and state processes have long underpinned harms related to human trafficking and exploitation. A consequence of these processes has been a growing interest in how public and private sector organisations co-operate to address key challenges, including ...
Published: Sep 21, 2023
The School of Criminology is inviting applications for two distinct continuing tenure-track faculty positionsat the rank of Assistant Professor to start July 15, 2024.
Published: Sep 21, 2023
Monty Howell was the eldest son of Rastafari pioneer Leonard Howell; in this book Linda Ainouche presents his recollections of his father and memories of life in and after Pinnacle, the first Rastafarian camp. Most of the stories involve struggles by his father and other ...
Published: Sep 20, 2023
Recent research suggests that sexual recidivism rates have been declining, which contrasts with observations regarding general recidivism rates as well as perceptions of sexual reoffending risk. If sexual recidivism rates are in decline, it raises fundamental policy questions ...
Published: Sep 20, 2023
For over a century, a small network of scholars, extending from the University of Chicago, shaped community criminology research. Drawing on human ecology, they argued that poor structural factors—poverty, ethnic heterogeneity, population mobility—cause crime. As this network ...
Published: Sep 19, 2023
Prison violence is a major safety issue for people in prison and staff. In Aotearoa New Zealand, all prison incidents are recorded on the Department of Corrections (Ara Poutama Aotearoa) COBRA database. An analysis of prison violence at the unit level is applied using machine ...
Published: Sep 19, 2023
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated MPhil and PhD Programmes Administrator to join our friendly, supportive and hard-working graduate team within the Institute of Criminology. Situated on the Sidgwick site in central Cambridge, the Institute is one of the leading ...
Published: Sep 19, 2023
This study provides the first comprehensive introduction to exponential random graph models (ERGM) in the Czech academic literature. In it we apply ERGM to a network of 68 organisations involved in the Czech coal policy subsystem. First, we summarise the major limitations of ...
Published: Sep 17, 2023
Developmental victimology theory suggests that developmental features of risk and impact stemming from various types of victimization depend on the age of the child or adolescent. A next step is studying the developmental victimization trajectories of individuals involved in ...
Published: Sep 13, 2023
We are seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to support CrimRxiv, undertake research on the legal, ethical and technical barriers faced by green open access platforms across disciplines, and contribute to the sustainability of CrimRxiv.
Published: Sep 08, 2023
It is well known that police recorded crime data is susceptible to substantial measurement error. However, despite its limitations, police data is widely used in regression models exploring the causes and effects of crime, which can lead to different types of bias. Here, we ...
Published: Sep 08, 2023
A major part of the HEALing Communities Study (HCS), launched in 2019 to address the growing opioid epidemic, is evaluating the study’s intervention implementation process through an implementation science (IS) approach. One component of the IS approach involves ...
Published: Sep 01, 2023
This article has two main objectives. First, to interrogate the concept and/or conception of ‘economic crime’ (framed as a singular thing). We argue that current policy, and subsequently, social scientific (or criminological more specifically) framings, tend to arbitrarily ...
Published: Aug 29, 2023
We examine a new form of online fraud closely related to traditional online romance fraud and catfishing, but which is “industrialized” through enterprise business practices, software platforms, and customer service processes. We conducted an inductive analysis of publicly ...
Published: Aug 25, 2023
Employment theoretically serves as a source of informal social control that can promote desistance from crime (Sampson & Laub, 1993). Findings from studies assessing the effects of employment, however, have been mixed. In a seminal study, Uggen (2000) reanalyzed data from the ...
Published: Aug 23, 2023
Much of the literature on eyewitness identification neglects the social context in which identifications are made.As the number of cognitive psychologists conducting eyewitness research increased so did the use of signal detection theory and ROC analyses. With the resulting ...
Published: Aug 23, 2023
In this review article, we critically analyze the relationship between change in dynamic risk (i.e., intraindividual change) and recidivism. We start by reviewing the empirical evidence, which indicates intraindividual change is associated with recidivism. However, we ...
Published: Aug 22, 2023
Carjacking is a violent crime with a broad motivational landscape related to the unique opportunities that a motor vehicle, as the item targeted, makes available to offenders once it is stolen. Although carjacking is technically a form of robbery, carjacking is a hybrid ...
Published: Aug 20, 2023
Explanations for human behaviour can be framed in many different ways, from the social-structural context to the individual motivation down to the neurobiological implementation. We know comparatively little about how people interpret these explanatory framings, and what they inf
Published: Aug 17, 2023
Scholars and police organizations argue that when police officers don a uniform, they imbue a certificate of legitimacy. In our study of 238 police officers, we test the assumption that the police uniform impacts officers’ beliefs about their own legitimacy, and, in turn, ...
Published: Aug 16, 2023
This chapter examines how darknet drug marketplaces operate within platform capitalism. While capitalist power relations remain underexplored in research on digital drug markets, the analysis shows that the basic foundation of cryptomarkets relies on the infrastructure of ...
Published: Aug 16, 2023
This chapter explores the disruptive potential of the Internet to transform illicit drug markets while also challenging stereotypical depictions and superficial understandings of supply and demand. It argues that the digital transformation of illicit drug markets combines, on ...
Published: Aug 15, 2023
Purpose. This study examines the relationship between social support and victimization of Latino youth over time, utilizing the stress prevention and support deterioration models. Methods. To address the research questions we utilized data from Waves 1 and 2 (n = 574) of ...
Published: Aug 10, 2023
An open-access journal publishing original research papers on the life and writings of the utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham.
Published: Aug 09, 2023
One of the main objectives of this study is to help prioritize targets for law enforcement by analyzing online websites hosting child exploitation material and finding key players within. Key players are defined as websites that display a combination of high connectivity and ...
Published: Aug 08, 2023
The problem of intimate partner violence (IPV) and the role of various organizations—including shelters, courts, law enforcement, and child protective services, among others—is a pervasive one affecting every demographic in society. The issue is compounded by structures of ...
Published: Aug 05, 2023
JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE postprint | We examine whether police resignations and retirements significantly changed in the two years following public backlash related to the police murder of George Floyd. We employ Bayesian Structural Time Series to compare observed trends ...
Published: Aug 03, 2023
Although the typical end goal of an online grooming event is to lure a minor into performing sexual activity (either online or offline), no previous study has examined the relevance of targets’ sexual knowledge on the progression of these events. To address this gap, we ...
Published: Aug 03, 2023
Although the typical end goal of an online grooming event is to lure a minor into performing sexual activity (either online or offline), no previous study has examined the relevance of targets’ sexual knowledge on the progression of these events. To address this gap, we ...
Published: Jul 29, 2023
Background. Despite the heightened risk for substance use (SU) among youth in the juvenile justice system, many do not receive the treatment that they need. Objectives. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which youth under community supervision by juvenile ...
Published: Jul 26, 2023
The juvenile justice system can process youth in myriad ways. Youth who are formally processed, relative to being informally processed, may experience more public and harsh sanctions that label youth more negatively as “deviant.” Drawing on labeling theory, the current study ...
Published: Jul 23, 2023
Most research finds that individuals are drawn to the correctional officer occupation for the pay and benefits or because it provides a new and exciting opportunity. However, these are not the only interests for choosing a correctional officer position. The current study ...
Published: Jul 19, 2023
Published: Jul 19, 2023
Forensic entomology is an important component of criminal investigations, providing information surrounding a death using region-specific data on the local necrophagous community. To understand the community within the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada, ...
Published: Jul 16, 2023
The study of sanctioning effects has a rich history in deterrence and labeling theory. Most analyses have only used official data to study these effects. Yet, some more recent studies indicate that it is necessary to investigate self-reported as well as official data since it ...
Published: Jul 14, 2023
This article introduces a new method for eliciting prior distributions from experts. The method modelsan expert decision-making process to infer a prior probability distribution for a rare event A. Morespecifically, assuming there exists a decision-making process closely ...
