Violence against woment accounts for most of those incidents — The CSEW is a major yearly victimization survey that relies on a nationally representative sample of about 35,000 adults. Victimization surveys are considered more accurate than police counts of crime because police numbers don’t include crimes not reported to the police. The CSEW uses a system for classifying incidents of…

Researchers seeking to understand less common reasons that… —

Research finds that offending characteristics differ in ways that can help investigators — There hasn’t been a lot of research about the differences in modus operandi in cases of sexual homicide where the victim and offender know each other versus when they don’t, especially in mainland China. This gap in the research literature reflects a larger gap in scholarly research of sexual homicide…

Using a “transdisciplinary” approach where researchers from across disciplines work together, researchers looked at homicides in Harris County, Texas, from 2016 through 2020. — They looked at Harris County, in part, because it’s the most densely populated county in Texas and also had the most incidents of violent crime of any Texas county. Researchers were trying to better understand things such as how often different types of domestic homicide happened during the study time…

Working with data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, researchers found that youth with more “grit” (maintaining perseverance toward and interest in long-term goals) were less likely to be arrested. The NLSY97 has surveyed the same people since 1997. When the higher-grit individuals were arrested at all, these…

Researchers set out to discover whether the release of video showing police fatally shooting Laquan McDonald, 17, in 2015 led to “depolicing,” or a decrease in policing. They found that felony and misdemeanor arrest rates went down in Chicago. However, there was “no discernable impact on traffic stop rates, contraband…

Using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey in the U.S., researchers found that the presence of a third party during a sexual assault wasn’t associated with seeking help and only a little associated with reporting to the police. Research: But Someone Was Right There: An Examination of How Third-Party…

Researchers reviewed case histories of 87 patients of the EMPOWER Center in New York (who were enrolled in the EMPOWER Center Study) with histories of sex trafficking to better understand their experience. All 87 were women, and 23 had been re-trafficked at some point after having initially escaped. …

Researchers sought the contribution, if any, of policing to neighbourhood collective efficacy (“a neighbourhood social process that emphasizes social ties among neighbours and a willingness to intervene to solve local problems”). …

5 crime and criminal justice studies from this week — 1. Trustworthiness of police helps neighbours work together 2. Risk of re-trafficking higher for women who have been undocumented in the past: New York study 3. The presence of a third party during a rape not associated with victims seeking help 4. Researchers find evidence of “depolicing” in Chicago after…

A selection of new research that may interest true crime fans (and many others), briefly summarized — 1. A New Classification of Sexual Homicide Offenders: When the Heterogeneity of Types Allows the Detection of Potential Serial Offenders, published in Homicide Studies. Keywords: Sexual homicide offenders, serial offenders, classification. Researchers compared “120 men who had committed a sexual homicide in France between 1975 and 2012.” Of these men…