The Justice Reinvestment Initiative has been identified as one of the most significant criminal justice reforms of the 21st century, involving partnerships between the federal government and individual states. The theoretical background of justice reinvestment suggests that...

Writing in Science almost 120 years ago, anthropologist Berthold Laufer (1874-1934) penned an impassioned plea for the study of the history of medicine and other natural sciences (Laufer 1907). Laufer was unequivocal: "It is not mere chance that at the dawn of the new age the ...

This is a podcast based on the article, "A Plea for the Study of the History of Medicine and Criminology" (available at https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.bedaed39). We create "crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, a conversation may not perfectly reflect the original article, a limitation common to both AI-generated and human-led podcasts. For definitive information, please refer directly to the article.

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Using the internet increases the risk of experiencing a wide range of harms, such as threats of violence or sexual harassment. Different online harms have commonly been examined as distinct phenomena; we propose that they ought to be considered jointly. Illustrating this point...

Leaders, providers, and supporters of open criminology, on CrimRxiv and off

In neighbourhood research, the concept of collective efficacy has been particularly successful in capturing key dimensions of the social fabric of communities, i.e. social cohesion and expectations for social control actions amongst residents. Yet, very few scholars have ...

Advancing experimental methods with validated, systematically varied officer images.

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This is a podcast based on the article, "Digital punishment, lateral surveillance & the sex offense registry" (available at hhttps://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.38f3a853). We create "crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, a conversation may not perfectly reflect the original article, a limitation common to both AI-generated and human-led podcasts. For definitive information, please refer directly to the article.

The maintenance of a public sex offense registry has been codified as a non-punitive civil policy since the 2003 Supreme Court case of Smith v. Doe. But since then, sex offense registries have transformed from a centralized state repository of information to a sprawling ...

This study examines whether the impact of verbal communications on a potential offender’s perceptions of legal risks and anticipated social costs from crime varies depending on whether the communication is from a friend or a stranger.

We conducted a formative evaluation and evaluability assessment of a novel approach to domestic violence (DV) intervention treatment in Seattle, Washington: The Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP). The DVIP seeks to intervene on DV through court-ordered DV ...

Detectives require analytic tools for the evaluation of deception, truth, and probability as police investigations need to assess the validity of suspect alibis, witness claims, victim allegations, and crime theory feasibility.

Founded in 1999, RECPC became one of the most influential Spanish-language journals in criminal law and criminology. After a 2024 change of management, articles of dubious authorship and quality linked to non-existent institutions have appeared, raising concerns that the...

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Objectives. Peer effects are a perennial and central topic in criminological research. While prior research has demonstrated that exposure to deviant peers increases the likelihood of delinquency, the current study aims to examine how selection and influence intersect and the ...

The criminalization of sex work continues to stigmatize people who sell sex. Nevertheless, people who sell sex are not a monolith. In this study, we draw from semistructured interviews with 50 active sex workers, most of whom were white and from middle-class backgrounds, to ...

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CrimRxiv Consortium announces its partnership with Onboard, which helps organizations to meet their storage and compute needs with Arweave and AO. Arweave is a decentralized network for storing data permanently online. AO is its computing layer that allows anyone to run ...