This is an overview based on the article, "Science Under Scrutiny: Strengthening Criminal Justice Research through Transparency and Local Engagement" (https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.f827ad5d ). We create these "Crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, an overview 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. Stay tuned for the launch of our new sites, https://crimconsortium.com and https://crimhub.com.

Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana restricted states’ ability to impose life without parole for youth under age 18 (henceforth JLWOP). Since Miller, 46 pieces of legislation across 34 states and the District of Columbia have altered JLWOP sentencing policies. The ...

Despite their importance as a tool for criminal groups and their potential role in helping law enforcement combat organized crime, there is still a lack of studies on aftermarket compartments (AMC) as the main object of inquiry. This report aimed to change this by ...

Criminal justice research is unfolding in a moment of uncertainty: universities are facing political scrutiny, federal funding streams remain unstable, and public trust in science is increasingly fragile. At the same time, partnerships with local agencies highlight both the...

This study analysed 58 casefiles from the National Childhood Mortality Database of children in England fatally stabbed between 2019 and 2024. We examined experiences of violence and harm across home, school, and public spaces, revealing missed intervention opportunities. All...

Continuum is an Ar.io Digital Preservation Initiative (DPI) - an open effort to align decentralized, verifiable data permanence with established digital-preservation standards. Built on Arweave’s permanent-storage layer and the ar.io gateway network, Continuum demonstrates ...

This is an overview based on the article, "AI in Policing: Capturing Police Performance (Good and Bad) in Routine, Rare, and Novel Events" (https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.c691ef98 ). We create these "Crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, an overview 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. Stay tuned for the launch of our new sites, https://crimconsortium.com and https://crimhub.com.

This is an overview based on the article, "AI in Policing: Capturing Police Performance (Good and Bad) in Routine, Rare, and Novel Events" (https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.c691ef98 ). We create these "Crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, an overview 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. Stay tuned for the launch of our new sites, https://crimconsortium.com and https://crimhub.com.

This retrospective cross-sectional study examined 347 murdered persons cases from Oregon and Washington states covering the period of 1952-2025 to develop an evidence-based system for prioritizing body deposition site (BDS) search areas. Victim demographics were analyzed as...

Police departments produce vast amounts of body-worn camera (BWC) footage, sometimes petabytes worth of data. While this footage contains valuable information for police departments, researchers, and the public, there has been no efficient way of synthesizing the footage to...

Whitehouse, E., Wilwerding, M., Richards, T. N., & Gillespie, L. K. (2025). College health services should implement trauma-informed design to reduce the negative health effects of sexual misconduct. Journal of American College Health, 73(5), 1880–1883.

This is an overview based on the article, "Mapping the Situational Structure of Workplace Exploitation" (https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.62a11f9c). We create these "Crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, an overview 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. Stay tuned for the launch of our new sites, https://crimconsortium.com and https://crimhub.com.

This is an overview based on the article, "The transfer problem in police training: From training hours to operational readiness" (https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.51ece764). We create these "Crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, an overview 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. Stay tuned for the launch of our new sites, https://crimconsortium.com and https://crimhub.com.

This is an overview based on the article, "The transfer problem in police training: From training hours to operational readiness" (https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.51ece764). We create these "Crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, an overview 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. Stay tuned for the launch of our new sites, https://crimconsortium.com and https://crimhub.com.

This is an overview based on the article, "The Effect of Concerts on Crime (Taylor's Version)" (https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.c3f515bf). We create these "Crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, an overview 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. Stay tuned for the launch of our new sites, https://crimconsortium.com and https://crimhub.com.

This is an overview based on the article, "Short infrequent police stops maximize crime-free time at street segments: revisiting the Koper curve to establish optimal police dosage" (available at https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.dea33d31). We create these "Crimversations" with the AI tool Google NotebookLM. While we strive for accuracy, an overview 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. Stay tuned for the launch of our new sites, https://crimconsortium.com and https://crimhub.com.

Tompson, L. (2026). Beyond ‘what works’: why systematisation matters and what more it can do for the criminal justice evidence base. Evidence Base. https://doi.org/10.1080/30679125.2025.2607626

Police training is intended to produce professional competence, yet it often functions as a compliance system that rewards course hours, checklists, and isolated proficiency tests without reliably producing field-ready performance. Using firearms as a clear case, we show a...

This is an announcement based on the article, "CrimRxiv Consortium joined by Erasmus University Rotterdam Library" (available at https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.0200765b). For more information, please refer directly to the article. We create these announcements with the AI tool ElevenLabs. To join CrimRxiv Consortium as an individual, visit https://app.joinit.com/o/crimconsortium.

Despite increasing attention to prosecutors' role in shaping criminal justice outcomes, there is limited empirical research on what prosecutors do. While most theories of prosecutorial discretion emphasize overarching goals related to justice and safety, our paper shifts the ...

Discourse around drug policy presents a stark contrast between policing and harm reduction models, sparking debates on the state's regulatory versus protective role. Canada is an ideal case to study drug policy models due to its global recognition as a leader in harm ...

The severity of the effects on organisms, especially human males, of histamine and serotonin biochemical interactions - and their subsequent behaviors - has been vastly underestimated in the scientific community. Humans, like all life, are sensitive to their environment...

Academic freedom is imperative to evidence-based public policy. Yet the mechanisms by which donor influence, political governance, and control of data infrastructure reshape what counts as ‘evidence’ remain underexplored. This essay draws distinctions between documented ...

Evidence-based policing has reached a critical inflection point. While decades of evaluation studies have clarified which strategies reduce crime, this progress has created a ‘burden of knowledge’ that makes further innovation harder and exposes large areas of policing ...

Post-mortem imaging, in particular computed tomography (PMCT), is increasingly used for death investigation in England and Wales, yet unlike ‘live’ clinical imaging, this data falls outside traditional health record legislation, creating uncertainty around data ownership, ...