Here’s why I do it — I write about criminology and criminal justice research, but I also write about writing about crime, specifically nonfiction crime content. I’m talking mostly about crime journalism and true crime here. In whatever medium. But why write about crime at all? Because crime content can be a force for good. I…

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Post-concussion syndrome ended my journalism career.* For a while, that’s eclipsed everything else, but I’m trying to change that.​ I’m also a dad, a writer, an editor, and an amateur coder. I’ve worked in nonprofit news and as a criminological research assistant. …

Today’s new research includes work on hate crime, unusual sexual interests among Dutch men, and loving a trauma survivor — Take a look at these new criminology & criminal justice studies from the journals I monitor. 1. Variations in Hate Crime Cases by Bias Motivation Type: Findings From the National Hate Crime Investigation Study (NHCIS), published in Crime & Delinquency. 2. Factor Analysis With Unusual Sexual Interests: A Replication Study…

Today’s new research includes work on physical and sexual dating violence — Take a look at these new criminology & criminal justice studies from the journals I monitor. 1. Perpetration-Focused Prevention: The Perceptions of Victim-Survivors, published in Sexual Abuse. 2. The next jailor: An empirical study of danger to the public immigration detentions in Canada (summer 2021), published in Punishment & Society.

Today’s new research includes work on intimate partner violence, police perception of community support for police, and the South Korean age-crime curve — Take a look at these new criminology & criminal justice studies from the journals I monitor. 1. Chinese Women’s Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women, published in Violence Against Women. 2. Social Change, Cohort Effects, and Dynamics of the Age–Crime Relationship: Age and Crime in South Korea from 1967…

Today’s new research includes work on gang governance, officer displays of doubt in rape cases, and predicting risk of fatal overdose Take a look at these new criminology & criminal justice studies from the journals I monitor. 1. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: A Simulation and Illustration of…

Today’s new research includes work on police decisions in rape scenarios, violence against women with insecure migration status, and improving juror understanding of forensic science — Take a look at these new criminology & criminal justice studies from the journals I monitor. 1. A Forensic Science Informational Video Can Help Mock Jurors Evaluate Forensic Expert Testimony, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior.

Today’s new research includes work related to sexual abuse, transgender homicide, and “undue police violence” — Take a look at these new criminology & criminal justice studies from the journals I monitor. 1. A Classification System to Guide Treatment Needs for Juveniles Who Have Engaged in Abusive Sexual Behavior, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior. 2. A Descriptive Account of the Nature and Extent of Transgender…