About
An open-access handbook for criminologists curious about user experience, and for user-experience researchers 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 people; user-experience teams already know how to ship. 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/crimux. 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: v0.2.0. A permanent DOI will be added for v1.0.
APA
Abrahams, T., & Jacques, S. (2026). The Criminologist's Guide to User Experience (UX): Making Criminal Justice Apps Work Better for the People Who Use Them (v0.2.0) [Open-access handbook]. CrimRxiv Consortium. https://crimux.com
Chicago (author-date)
Tara Abrahams, and Scott Jacques. 2026. “The Criminologist's Guide to User Experience (UX): Making Criminal Justice Apps Work Better for the People Who Use Them.” Version 0.2.0. CrimRxiv Consortium. https://crimux.com.
BibTeX
@book{abrahamsjacques2026,
author = {Tara Abrahams and Scott Jacques},
title = {The Criminologist's Guide to User Experience (UX): Making Criminal Justice Apps Work Better for the People Who Use Them},
version = {0.2.0},
year = {2026},
publisher = {CrimRxiv Consortium},
url = {https://crimux.com}
}