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20 Crim. Just. Stud. 1 (2007)

handle is hein.journals/cjscj20 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Justice Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2007, p. 1 From the Editor's Desk Roslyn Muraskin 'Explaining Homicide Clearance: An Analysis of Chicago Homicide Data 1965-1995' by Allan Young Jiao provides an understanding of the effect of victim incident and the environmental characteristics on homicide clearances. The hypotheses that he tested were developed from a police perspective with the intention of capturing how different types of victims, circumstances of homicides, and officers' immediate work environ- ment may influence homicide clearance cases. Kim Davies, Carolyn Rebecca Block, and Jacquelyn Campbell have done a compre- hensive study on 'Seeking Help from the Police: Battered Women's Decisions and Experiences.' Their work was supported by a grant awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. For their study they looked at the varying factors that affect battered women's decisions to contact law enforcement and their experiences with the police, as well as the severity and frequency of such violence, the harassing behavior by the abuser, the length of their relationships as well as the support system available to the abused women. 'Arming Probation Officers: Correlates of the Decision to Arm at the Departmental Level,' by Thomas Roscoe, David E. Duffee, Craig Rivera, and Tony R. Smith, uses departmental data from probation officers to ascertain the demand to be armed by the officers and finds that the perceptions of the need for safety are not related to external threat variables, but rather appear to be idiosyncratic. William V. Pelfrey and Michele White Covington's article, 'Deaths in Custody: The Utility of Data Collected from County Coroners,' was research sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs at the South Carolina Department of Public Safety. The Deaths in Custody Act was expanded to require all states to collect data on deaths occurring while in the custody of law enforcement officers. One of the criticisms of such reporting is the quarterly data collection requirement. Deaths in custody are a rare occurrence, but the need to look at the data is important for researchers to identify demographic, geographic, and situational patterns. They conclude that expanded data may support comparisons of the efficacy of different laws or policies. ISSN 1478-601X (print)/ISSN 1478-6028 (online) © 2007 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/14786010701241226

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