Springer Criminology

This article on human trafficking investigations in Mexico by Alessa S. Juarez is freely available from @SpringerCrim until mid-July. @ascdicX link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Another Open Access article from our March 2026 issue by Klaus Boers and colleagues examines the impact of machine learning on social control. @ascdicX @SpringerCrim link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Fresh online in JQC (@SpringerCrim) w/ @jillkpeterson, @chrisuggen, and others! We use an ITS design to examine the changes in the Twin Cities in relation to the pandemic and the police murder of George Floyd. Finding summaries below! Link here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… 1/n

Our first issue of 2026 features an Open Access article by @TreiberKyle and Robert Svensson comparing the relationship between self-control, intoxication, and violence between England and Sweden. link.springer.com/article/10.100… @ascdicX @SpringerCrim

🚨 Excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology! Big thanks to my co-authors and supervisors @CampedelliGian & @mtizzoni for their guidance. Looking forward to continuing to explore the intersection of criminology and AI! 🕵

Springer Nature #transformativeagreements are driving #OA growth globally. Discover how three agreements in the USA, South Africa, and Slovenia are enhancing accessibility and fairness of research for institutions and their researchers. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4ioCrMn

Springer Nature has provided the STM Integrity Hub with its AI tool for identifying AI-generated nonsense text in research manuscripts. This initiative supports the publishing community's efforts to uphold research integrity and credibility. bit.ly/4jMjpBl

We are proud to have signed our first unlimited and uncapped OA agreement in the Americas with @BigTenAcademic. Through this two-year deal, participating authors can publish their work openly in all Springer hybrid journals without paying APCs. Learn more: spklr.io/6018hNuy

🔓 We have published our fourth annual Open Access (OA) report, providing a data-led overview of developments in OA publishing and access across Springer Nature. 🔗 Read the press release here: spklr.io/6010B1zwy

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Can at-home electronic monitoring, a.k.a. house arrest, be more effective than jail? New findings "show that introducing the possibility to transform a prison stay to EM at home reduced 10-year reconviction and reincarceration rates". In full: tinyurl.com/35fuzmw9 #OA

Last year, an avatar was viciously mass-assaulted in virtual reality. Behind the avatar was a real 16-year-old, & U.K. police stepped in. New research describes the unprecedented case & analyzes questions around crime, technology, & victimhood it unleashed:

Peer reviewers play a crucial part, together with journal editors and publishers, in helping to ensure the quality and credibility of published journal articles. But a lack of time and review guidance can limit reviewers’ ability to raise concerns. spklr.io/6015BygY1

Criminologists: your thoughts?

Early this year, Crime, Law and Social Change—a journal both prolific & profound—used data from 500 athletes in 49 countries to report on & analyze "sextortion" in women's sports. Six (& counting) major news stories featured the findings. Read in full: tinyurl.com/cer9e57z #OA

Undeniably, #AI is affecting scholarly research & Publishing in ways we're still exploring. At @SpringerNature, one thing's clear: our journey forward must be led by human-centered values – and we walk the walk. Read about it here: tinyurl.com/44fvc8ze

🚨 Police #visibility = impt metric for many #policing activities. It’s often assumed that physical presence of 🚔 = ppl see the 🚔. But do ppl always see the 🚔 when they're present? In my new JOEX article, I find the answer is *no*: doi.org/10.1007/s11292…. A 🧵: 1/5

Happy to share this new article in Crime, Law & Social Change led by my doctoral student Kylie McCarthy - the study explores media conceptualizations of the first investigated rape in the metaverse. Well done, Kylie! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

With @sebafossati and @nicotrajtenberg, we leverage the staggered rollout of Montevideo’s itinerant street markets as a quasi-experimental setting to identify the causal effect of retail activity on crime. Now out in JQC (@SpringerNature): link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The Special Issue of Criminal Law Forum, "Celebrating the Career of Michael Tonry", co-edited with Julian Roberts (@OxfordCrim), is now officially published. link.springer.com/journal/10609/…