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Market orientation and national homicide rates 市场导向和国家凶杀率

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70023

William Alex Pridemore, Meghan L. Rogers

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Why do people cooperate with the police and criminal courts? A test of procedural justice theory in 30 countries 为什么人们要与警察和刑事法庭合作？程序正义理论在30个国家的检验

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70022

Jonathan Jackson, Jouni Kuha, Ben Bradford, Mike Hough

{"title":"Why do people cooperate with the police and criminal courts? A test of procedural justice theory in 30 countries","authors":"Jonathan Jackson, Jouni Kuha, Ben Bradford, Mike Hough","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.70022","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a cross-national test of the portability of procedural justice theory (PJT). Drawing on nationally representative survey data from 30 diverse social, political, and legal contexts across Europe and beyond, we find that the theory travels well across national borders and that its psychological purchase is particularly pronounced in societies where fair policing is considered the norm. First, in most countries, a normative account of public cooperation with the police—grounded in procedural justice and legitimacy—has greater empirical traction than an instrumental account based on effectiveness and fear of crime. Second, although procedural justice consistently emerges as the strongest predictor of police legitimacy, it is especially important in contexts where the police are widely viewed as fair and inclusive authorities—a proxy for their status as a positive group authority. These findings help lay the groundwork for cross-national extensions of PJT, pointing to the need for further research into the social and institutional conditions that shape its psychological impact.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"64 1","pages":"59-87"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Does a rising tide lift all boats?: Evidence from a multicity randomized trial of procedural justice in hot spots policing 水涨船高吗？：来自多城市治安热点地区程序公正随机试验的证据

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70025

David Weisburd, Cody W. Telep, Kiseong Kuen, Taryn Zastrow

{"title":"Does a rising tide lift all boats?: Evidence from a multicity randomized trial of procedural justice in hot spots policing","authors":"David Weisburd, Cody W. Telep, Kiseong Kuen, Taryn Zastrow","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.70025","url":null,"abstract":"A recent multicity procedural justice (PJ) training experiment at crime hot spots showed that police could be trained to behave in procedurally just ways, and that this behavioral change could lead to reductions in arrests, improved citizen evaluations of the police, and decreases in crime. In this paper, we extend analyses of the original study to identify whether improvements in PJ behavior in interactions with citizens were conditioned by race/ethnicity. Simply stated, do the improvements apply to all racial/ethnic groups, like a rising tide that lifts all boats, or do the benefits of the training program accrue inequitably across groups? Using systematic social observations of officer interactions with citizens, and mixed-effects regression models that controlled for possible selection biases by officers, we do not find evidence of significant differing impacts across the groups. In concluding, we argue that PJ training for hot spots policing officers is a promising approach to increasing PJ in interactions across racial/ethnic groups.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"64 1","pages":"207-218"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Noise in judicial decision-making: A research note 司法决策中的噪音：一份研究报告

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70021

Andrzej Uhl, Justin T. Pickett

{"title":"Noise in judicial decision-making: A research note","authors":"Andrzej Uhl, Justin T. Pickett","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.70021","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers suspect large unsystematic variation (noise) in criminal sentencing, but past attempts to quantify it have used short hypothetical vignettes administered in low-stakes settings to small, heterogeneous samples of judges. Such vignettes are deficient in detail and ecological validity. Sample heterogeneity also makes it difficult to separate noise from systematic variation (e.g., experience effects). In the current study, these concerns were mitigated with a naturally occurring noise audit: an early-career judicial exam in Poland, which included a 390-min, high-stakes sentencing task, wherein performance affected career prospects. Based on a uniform court file of over 100 pages, each judicial candidate (N = 232) composed a sentencing judgement in a criminal case and then justified their decision at length. The proposed sentences exhibited substantial disparities in the type and amount of punishment; different judges gave the same defendant a small fine or a long prison term. Continuous sentencing outcomes (e.g., fine amounts and imprisonment terms) were widely dispersed. The implication is that statutory sentencing ranges, which are intended to allow adjustments for aggravating and mitigating circumstances, also give judges room to treat identical defendants differently.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"64 1","pages":"195-206"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The (non)offensive nature of “white power” music, a research note 一份研究报告指出，“白人权力”音乐的（非）冒犯性

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70013

Matthew Valasik, Timothy T. Reling, Shannon E. Reid

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Hard to Read, Harder to Access: US Disability Policy of State Correctional Departments 难以阅读，更难接近：美国各州惩教部门的残疾政策

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70015

Alicen Potts, Natalie Artman, Brittany Hayes, Myrinda Schweitzer Smith, Samantha Boch

{"title":"Hard to Read, Harder to Access: US Disability Policy of State Correctional Departments","authors":"Alicen Potts, Natalie Artman, Brittany Hayes, Myrinda Schweitzer Smith, Samantha Boch","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.70015","url":null,"abstract":"In the United States, people who are incarcerated average a fifth grade reading level, and approximately one in four persons incarcerated have a cognitive disability. Given the necessity of health and safety within correctional institutions and federal rights around accessibility, practical information held in policies, particularly policies about people with disabilities, should be written at a level that is comprehensible to those incarcerated. The current study evaluates the readability of publicly available general disability, as well as intellectual or developmental disability (IDD), titled correctional policies using three standard readability metrics (Flesch Reading Ease Score, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook). Overall, 33 states (66%) had either publicly available general disability or IDD titled correctional policies. Only three states had both general and IDD-specific policies. Nearly one-third of states lacked publicly available disability policies; those available far exceeded recommended fifth to sixth grade reading levels. On average, 1-year post-bachelor's degree education is needed to comprehend general disability policies (41 policies, 32 states), and a bachelor's degree is needed to comprehend IDD-specific policies (5 policies, 4 states). Disability policies that are difficult to comprehend may increase harm for incarcerated individuals with disabilities, underscoring the need for state correctional policies to be written at accessible reading levels.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"64 1","pages":"161-172"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147565111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“It's such a terrible drug”: Narratives of fentanyl dealers amid the opioid overdose crisis “这是一种可怕的毒品”：芬太尼经销商在阿片类药物过量危机中的叙述

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70014

Brittney M. Schwehr, Sandra M. Bucerius

{"title":"“It's such a terrible drug”: Narratives of fentanyl dealers amid the opioid overdose crisis","authors":"Brittney M. Schwehr, Sandra M. Bucerius","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.70014","url":null,"abstract":"The fentanyl-fueled overdose crisis is historically lethal, yet the voices of those who sell fentanyl remain understudied. While research has focused extensively on people who use drugs (PWUD), the perspectives of people who sell fentanyl (PWSF) are largely absent from academic and policy discussions. This study draws on 87 in-depth interviews with incarcerated individuals in Western Canada who have experience using and selling fentanyl. Using a narrative criminological approach, we allowed participants’ stories to guide the interviews, exploring how they interpret their actions, identities, and harm. Thematic coding revealed how PWSF navigate tensions between control, responsibility, and victimhood as they attempt to morally frame or neutralize their role in distributing a deadly substance. Our findings show that fentanyl's extreme lethality complicates traditional neutralization techniques, amplifying feelings of moral and legal accountability. Compared to other people who sell drugs (PWSD), PWSF demonstrate three distinct characteristics: stronger harm reduction practices, heightened moral awareness, and greater acceptance of legal consequences.This research sheds light on the complex realities of fentanyl distribution, emphasizing the need for harm reduction and criminal justice responses that consider the ethical and structural dimensions shaping the actions of low-level sellers.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"64 1","pages":"5-27"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bridging the gap between PETs in books and PETs in action: privacy-enhancing techniques for criminological research 弥合书本上的宠物和行动中的宠物之间的差距：犯罪学研究的隐私增强技术

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70020

Celien De Stercke, Kevin De Boeck, Jenno Verdonck, Michiel Willocx, Jelle Janssens, Vincent Naessens

{"title":"Bridging the gap between PETs in books and PETs in action: privacy-enhancing techniques for criminological research","authors":"Celien De Stercke, Kevin De Boeck, Jenno Verdonck, Michiel Willocx, Jelle Janssens, Vincent Naessens","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.70020","url":null,"abstract":"The Big data turn and the increasing amount of information in criminological research and practice puts emerging privacy risks on the agenda. Especially in a field where sensitive data are not rare and data sharing a common practice, privacy is a major concern. However, increasing the level of privacy risks reducing the data's utility as little would be left to “learn.” Hence, the objective is to analyze the impact of applying privacy-enhancing techniques (PETs) on the utility of data. To assess the utility level of privacy-enhanced data, a sample of sickness absences across the entire Belgian police organization was applied in a pre-experimental design. In the first phase, descriptive, predictive analyses, and machine learning models were conducted using the original data. In the second phase, the dataset was anonymized with state-of-the-art PETs after which the same analyses were applied. We have found that PETs can be applied with a negligible cost on the data's research utility, indicating there is room for privacy gains in criminological science. Taking into account the size of the dataset, the research objectives, and the sensitivity of the data, PETs can be applied on a case-to-case basis and support quantitative research in criminology.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"64 1","pages":"173-194"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating the causal mechanisms from procedural justice to police legitimacy and compliance in the United States: An in-depth mixed-methods approach 评估美国从程序正义到警察合法性和遵从性的因果机制：一种深入的混合方法方法

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70024

Amy E. Nivette, Isabelle van der Vegt

{"title":"Evaluating the causal mechanisms from procedural justice to police legitimacy and compliance in the United States: An in-depth mixed-methods approach","authors":"Amy E. Nivette, Isabelle van der Vegt","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.70024","url":null,"abstract":"Procedural justice theory states that when police treat people in a fair, respectful, and neutral manner, individuals are more likely to perceive the police as legitimate and obey the law. To test this perspective, researchers often use experimental vignettes that depict police–citizen interactions and measure subsequent attitudes. However, it is not straightforward to determine causal effects from these designs, as one must assess whether the effect runs only through the intended theoretical pathways. This paper advances beyond “traditional” experimental designs to evaluate the mechanisms linking police–citizen interactions, attitudes, and behavioral intentions. The data consist of a representative sample of 2003 adults residing in the United States. We use a mixed-methods approach combining a pre-registered 3 × 2 × 2 experimental vignette depicting a traffic stop by police with follow-up closed- and open-ended questions, allowing respondents to explain their reasoning. We found that the quality of treatment was statistically related to subsequent perceptions of police legitimacy, but not compliance. However, follow-up placebo tests and open-text responses revealed several issues limiting the strength of causal and theoretical claims. Research using (quasi-)experimental designs should not rely only on statistical significance and should incorporate methods that can better assess intermediate processes and causal assumptions more rigorously when theory testing.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"64 1","pages":"113-145"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Is updating racialized? Differential effects of (dis)respectful police contact on perceptions of police legitimacy 更新是种族化的吗？（不）尊重警察接触对警察合法性认知的不同影响

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Criminology Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.70016

Andrew Thompson, Theodore Wilson, Brandon Behlendorf

{"title":"Is updating racialized? Differential effects of (dis)respectful police contact on perceptions of police legitimacy","authors":"Andrew Thompson, Theodore Wilson, Brandon Behlendorf","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.70016","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the updating process of police legitimacy in adolescence is crucial, as it is a formative period where early encounters with law enforcement form the foundation of legal orientations, particularly in a racially stratified society where such interactions can confirm or defy expectations of respect by ethnoracial group membership. The current study explores how (dis)respectful police contacts during adolescence and early adulthood update perceptions of police legitimacy, and whether this process is racialized. We utilize 11 waves of the Pathways to Desistance study, applying fixed effects modeling to capture how police respect updates posterior legitimacy perceptions. Additionally, we examine how ethnoracial identity, a largely time-invariant factor, contours the dynamic and time-varying process of legal socialization. Our findings suggest that although disrespectful police encounters uniformly hinder legitimacy evaluations, respectful treatment has varied effects: It improves legitimacy for Hispanic respondents but is not statistically influential among Black and White respondents. These findings are consistent with loss aversion, where negative experiences disproportionately impact legal orientations, but also highlight the racialized nature of the police legitimacy updating process. Our findings highlight the importance of minimizing disrespectful treatment by police and suggest that building trust among Black Americans through procedural justice is inhibited by accumulated experiences.","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"64 1","pages":"28-58"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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