CrimPapers daily update

Welcome to the CrimPapers daily update for Friday 30 January 2026, containing 14 articles from 13 journals.

Trauma, Violence and Abuse

Personal and Structural Barriers Reporting Intimate Partner Violence to the Police: A Systematic Review of Women’s Experiences and Societal Influences by Rocio Vicente-Garcia, Daniel La Parra-Casado, Carmen Vives-Cases

Theoretical Criminology

Book Review: Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight For Racial Justice By Owusu-Bempah Akwasi and Rehmatullah Tahira by Michele Cadiganarizona State University, T Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Tempe, Az, USA

Legal and Criminological Psychology

From Childhood Trauma to Malicious Creativity: the Parallel Mediation of Impulsivity and Callous‐unemotional Traits in Male Juvenile Offenders by Zheng Zhang, runjia Zhang, yijie Wang, yuanyuan Wang

Crime, Law and Social Change

Manufacturing Deviance: Resistance to Corporate Harm, Issue Entrepreneurship and Opposition to Transgenic Cotton in India

American Journal of Criminal Justice

Public Perceptions of Hot Spots Policing: How Crime Reduction Stats and Stigma Narratives Affect Public Perceptions

Social and Legal Studies

Criminal Law and the Politics of Exclusion: the Case of Ahmadis in Pakistan by Adnan Sattarlahore University of Management Sciences (lums), Pakistan

Criminal Justice Review

The Effects of Physical Victimization in Prison on Perceptions of Personal Safety and Culture of Violence by Grant Duwe, Susan McNeeley, Valerie Clark, Michael Palmieri1research and Evaluation, 116193minnesota Department of Corrections, St. Paul, Mn, USA

Criminal Justice Studies

Tipping Point: Exploring the Linear and Non-Linear Effects of Time to Adjudication on Guilty Pleas and Case Dismissals by Joshua H. Williams Luis C. Torres A Department of Studies in Justice, Culture, and Social Change, University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, Mn, Usab Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University Philadelphia, Pa, USA

Journal of Crime and Justice

The Role of Criminal History, Low Self-Control, and Social Learning Variables in Accessing the Dark Web by Ryan C. Meldrum Raymond D. Partin Peter S. Lehmann A School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fl, Usab Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Al, Usac Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Tx, Usadr. Ryan C. Meldrum Is the Director of and Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice At Florida Atlantic University. His Research Interests Include Testing and Refining Theories of Delinquency and Crime, Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Behavior and Health, and Adolescent Health and Development.dr. Raymond D. Partin Is An Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice At the University of Alabama. His Research Focuses on the Dark Web, With A Special Interest in the Criminological Differences Between Dark Web Users and Non-Users. He Leads the Network Intrusion Lab and Is Co-Pi of the Nsf Scholarship For Service Program (sfs) At the University of Alabama.dr. Peter S. Lehmann Is An Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology At Sam Houston State University. His Research Interests Include Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, Criminal Sentencing, Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Punishment, School Discipline and Safety, and Public Opinion on Crime and Criminal Justice Policy.

Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

Voices From the Field: Hostage International Addressing the Human Impact of Hostage Diplomacy by Lara Symons Hostage International, London, UK

Justice Evaluation Journal

Probabilities Over P-Values: A Decision Framework For Evidence-Based Policing by Scott M. Mourtgos Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

CrimRxiv pre prints

Politicising Safety and Racialised and Gendered Criminalisation: Political Agenda-Setting and the Case of Albanian Asylum-Seekers in the UK by Ingi Iusmen, William Shankley

Approaches to Teaching Sensitive Topics in Criminology: Insights From University Educators in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand by Samantha Keene, Rachel Loney-Howes, Mark A. Wood, April Murphy, Mary Iliadis, Jessamy Gleeson, Kate Hutton Burns

Research and Analysis publications

Review of English Language Assessment Methods by HM Government

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