Who confesses and who doesn’t — New research into police interrogations and confessions by extrafamilial murderers found three types of killers. The clusters of offenders found in each type differed in many ways, including whether they confessed and their relationships to their victims. Conducted using coroner’s reports and police investigation files from cases where victims were…

The same women and girls are also more at risk of being trafficked — Recent work examining the limited body of research into sex trafficking in Canada found that “Indigenous, im/migrant, and other marginalized women and girls” are “particularly impacted” by “gaps and barriers in anti-trafficking responses.” The authors of the study wrote: “The findings of this review highlight the importance of addressing the…

Research examining the new practice found that the data-driven approach to policing also lacks sufficient evaluation and raises questions of accountability — Predictive policing is a relatively new approach that uses data science and crime data to try to prevent crime by altering how police are deployed in the field. However, research suggests that the practice has some challenges that should be addressed.

Called the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway, the approach aims to treat people with severe personality disorder who have committed violent crimes — Researchers spoke extensively to two dozen men who had been through the program to understand its impact. “The men recruited to the study were all residing in a high-security prison in England and Wales,” said the researchers, writing in a recent journal article.

Recent research suggests that predictive policing — the practice that purports to use data to predict and prevent crime — doesn’t rely on neutral, objective pictures of reality. …

Decades of research on pre-arrest diversion programs shows an association between use of the programs and reductions in recidivism and costs, according to a recent analysis of the research. “Police diversion programs can be seen as one major social justice strategy to reduce dependence on mass incarceration to resolve social…