Three times a week, I publish a post, like this one, with a curated selection of research that I’m considering for my newsletter about nonfiction crime writing or one of my Medium publications. For some of the research, I include a first draft of a “Research Short” where I’ve written up something short about the research.
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 considering the following new research from the last few days for further coverage.
Research in consideration for True Crime Adjacent
1. Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the prospects of global abolition, published in Theoretical Criminology.
2. “You’re just constantly on alert”: Women and Gender-Diverse People’s Experiences of Sexual Violence on Public Transport, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
3. Investigating the Dynamics of Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Co-Offending Networks: The Utility of Relational Hyper Event Models, published in Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
4. Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams, published in Policing and Society .
Research in consideration for Nonfiction Crime Writing
The Impact of an Expressive Writing and Storytelling Program on Ex-Offenders: A Pilot Study, published in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
6 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. Rescuing women from the brinks of whiteness: Carceral restoration in a human trafficking court, published in The British Journal of Criminology.
2. Judges’ characteristics and sentencing in Hong Kong, published in Criminology & Criminal Justice.
3. Difference between forensic patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in Italy and other European countries: Results of the EU-VIORMED project, published in Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health.
4. “A Panel of Good ol’ Boys”: Women Navigating the Police Promotions Process, published in American Journal of Criminal Justice.
5. The Geography of Race and Ethnicity Effects in Federal Sentencing: A Descriptive and Spatial Analysis, published in Criminal Justice and Behavior.
6. Reducing Family Violence Through Child Welfare Intervention: A Propensity Score-Matched Study of Fathers for Change, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.