Today’s post came late because I’m trying to make what I publish more useful to you and Im reworking my publishing workflow and the format and content of what I publish.
I hope you’ll find some research in this post to write about. I’d love to read it or watch/listen to it, so please let me know in the comments!
I’m not considering any new research for Nonfiction Crime Writing or End of Sentence, but am considering the following research for True Crime Adjacent.
1. In a recent study of homicide in a Texas county, domestic violence homicides made up more than 40% of the cases where the relationship between victim and offender was known
Using a “transdisciplinary” approach where researchers from across disciplines work together, researchers looked at homicides from Harris County, Texas, in 2016 through 2020. They looked at Harris County, in part, because it’s the most densley 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 frame. Among their findings: Of the 1,079 homicides where the relationship between the victim and offender was known, 448 were domestic violence homicides. That’s 41.5%; Of those 448, 189 (42.2%) were intimate partner homicides, 166 (37.1%) were familial homicides (when the victim and offender are both “family members but no intimate partners were involved”), and 93 (20.7%) were homicides related to intimate partner violence (when “the homicide occurred in the context” of intimate partner violence or homicide, but when victims were someone “other than the intimate partner of the perpetrator”).
Research: A Transdisciplinary Analysis of Domestic Violence Homicides in Harris County, Texas (2016-2020), published in Homicide Studies.
3 bonus research studies
Though I’m not considering the following research to write about at the moment, you might. (I did include it in the most recent public post, but you might have missed it.)
1. Exiting the captaverse: Digital resistance and its limits pre and post the Covid-19 pandemic, published in Criminology & Criminal Justice.
2. Using a Syndemic Framework and Structural Equation Modeling to Assess the Co-occurrence and Mutual Impact of Violence Experiences and Substance Use Behaviors Among Adolescents, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
3. Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality, published in Criminology.