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crim-writing-style
GitHub用于起草或润色犯罪学期刊稿件，确保符合APA格式、跨学科可读性及去偏见语言规范。通过强化贡献前置、精简术语和统一引用风格提升质量，不生成新内容。
Trigger Scenarios
撰写引言或最终润色阶段
对齐APA格式与期刊要求
检查针对涉案人群的无偏见语言
投稿前文本精简
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill crim-writing-style -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "crim-writing-style",
"description": "Use when drafting or polishing a Criminology (ASC \/ Wiley) manuscript so it reads for an interdisciplinary criminology audience, follows the journal's APA-based style, and uses bias-free, person-first language for justice-involved populations. Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content."
}
Writing Style (crim-writing-style)
A Criminology paper must be readable across the field's disciplines (sociology, psychology, criminal justice, economics), formatted to the journal's APA-based style, and written in bias-free, person-first language. This skill is about reaching the field and respecting the format — not about generating claims.
When to trigger
- Drafting the introduction, framing the contribution, or final polish
- Aligning citations/headings/format to the journal's APA-based style
- Checking language about offenders, victims, and justice-involved people
- Tightening prose before submission
Reach the interdisciplinary field
- Front-load the contribution. By the end of the introduction the reader knows the question, the theory, the design, and why it matters to criminology. Don't make a reader dig for the "so what."
- Lead with the mechanism, not the dataset. Frame around the criminological argument; the data are evidence for it, not the point of the paper.
- Minimize within-discipline jargon or define it on first use; a developmental psychologist and a criminal-justice scholar should both follow the paper. Spell out acronyms (UCR, NIBRS, NCVS, GBTM).
- Signpost. Clear theory → design → results → implications structure.
Format to the journal's APA-based style
- Citations: the journal uses a form of APA; for anything unspecified, follow APA (6th ed.) — author-date in text, an alphabetical reference list. Keep one consistent style (manage with Zotero/BibTeX).
- Manuscript: prepare an anonymized main document plus a separate title page (the review model is double anonymized). Include a short author biography per author on the title page (< 100 words each).
- Formatting: double-space everything (text, notes, tables, references); follow current Wiley online submission file requirements.
- Length / abstract: no numeric cap is encoded here; confirm on the live author-guidelines page and stay within it.
Bias-free, person-first language (a Criminology expectation)
- Follow APA bias-free language guidance. Prefer "people who committed an offense," "people who were incarcerated," "people who experienced victimization" over stigmatizing labels ("offenders," "felons," "victims" as identities) where feasible.
- Apply the same care when discussing race, ethnicity, and the criminal-legal system.
Anti-patterns
- An intro that describes a dataset before stating the criminological question
- Burying the theoretical contribution in the middle of the paper
- Mixed citation styles; self-references or acknowledgments that break anonymity in the main document
- Stigmatizing labels for justice-involved people
- Unspelled acronyms that exclude readers from other disciplines
Style execution pass for Criminology
Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the crime/justice process, measurement validity, research design, and policy consequence; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: criminology reviewers who expect theory-linked crime, justice, or harm mechanisms plus transparent measurement.
- Do the pass: Rewrite the first two pages so each paragraph starts from the venue-level claim, not from chronology or method inventory; preserve exact source-map limits and move technical overflow to appendix or supplement.
- Return a ledger: give
claim / evidence / risk / manuscript locationrows, so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue. - Sibling guard: compare against Justice Quarterly for applied justice, Journal of Quantitative Criminology for methods focus, Social Problems for broader sociological framing; if a sibling owns the contribution, recommend re-routing before polishing format.
- Stop condition: do not give submission-ready advice until the pack's
resources/official-source-map.mdhas been checked for volatile rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.
Output format
【Contribution + theory stated by end of intro?】[Y/N]
【Reads across disciplines?】jargon defined / acronyms spelled? [Y/N]
【APA-based style consistent】[Y/N]
【Anonymized main doc + separate title page】[Y/N]
【Bias-free / person-first language】[Y/N]
【Length/abstract within live cap】[Y/N]
【Next】crim-data-and-transparency
Supplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— reference managers and APA-style tooling../../resources/official-source-map.md— APA-based style, double-anonymized review, bias-free language, live length/abstract guardrail
Version History
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