About
An open-access handbook for criminologists curious about Trust & Safety, and for Trust & Safety practitioners curious about criminology. Published by the CrimRxiv Consortium.
Forthcoming PhD · Georgia State University
Finishing her PhD in criminology and criminal justice at Georgia State University and a U.S. Air Force veteran. A qualitative and mixed-methods criminologist whose work focuses on offender decision-making, with a parallel craft in photojournalism that informs how she gathers, frames, and presents human evidence.
Professor · Georgia State University
Professor of criminology and criminal justice at Georgia State University, executive director of the CrimRxiv Consortium, and founder of CrimRxiv. A utilitarian criminologist working to make open-access research generate real-world return on investment.
Criminologists already know how to study harm; Trust & Safety teams already know how to keep platforms running. The handbook is the connective tissue — a plain-language, citation-rich bridge between the two crafts, with a bibliography of what's been studied and a list of what hasn't. It is a service of the CrimRxiv Consortium, part of our mission to make criminology useful. Find free, open-access criminology research at CrimRxiv.
Pull requests welcome at github.com/crimwork/crimts. Issues are the easiest way to propose a new open problem or a bibliography entry.
Pick a style or copy the BibTeX block below. Current version: v0.1.0. A permanent DOI will be added for v1.0.
APA
Abrahams, T., & Jacques, S. (2026). The Criminologist's Guide to Trust & Safety: Translating Criminology into the Work of Keeping Online Platforms Safe (v0.1.0) [Open-access handbook]. CrimRxiv Consortium. https://crimts.com
Chicago (author-date)
Tara Abrahams, and Scott Jacques. 2026. “The Criminologist's Guide to Trust & Safety: Translating Criminology into the Work of Keeping Online Platforms Safe.” Version 0.1.0. CrimRxiv Consortium. https://crimts.com.
BibTeX
@book{abrahamsjacques2026,
author = {Tara Abrahams and Scott Jacques},
title = {The Criminologist's Guide to Trust & Safety: Translating Criminology into the Work of Keeping Online Platforms Safe},
version = {0.1.0},
year = {2026},
publisher = {CrimRxiv Consortium},
url = {https://crimts.com}
}