Factors Influencing Criminologists' Open Research Data Practices: Trust, Contract, and Value.

This study investigated how researchers in criminology dealt with their research data and explored the potential factors that would influence their willingness to share and reuse others' research data. Our findings unveiled three factors, trust, contract, and value, deeply rooted in researchers' attitudes and their data sharing and reuse patterns and behaviors. Through comprehending their concern behind sharing and reusing research data, we seek crucial insights that could be beneficial in developing a criminological research data repository, further consolidating the research data infrastructure in social science. Sharing and reusing data can advance scientific research and provide innovative possibilities for practice in criminology (e.g., new correctional methods, new crime prevention policies), providing sustained and thriving energy for the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]