OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The organizational justice effect among criminal justice employees: A meta‐analysis^*	44
The American racial divide in fear of the police	38
Picking battles: Correctional officers, rules, and discretion in prison	28
The public salience of crime, 1960–2014: Age–period–cohort and time–series analyses^†	26
“I don't have time for drama”: Managing risk and uncertainty through network avoidance^*	26
Self‐reported experiences and consequences of unfair treatment by police^*	26
Public fear of protesters and support for protest policing: An experimental test of two theoretical models*	26
The contemporary transformation of american youth: An analysis of change in the prevalence of delinquency, 1991–2015	26
Social media, socialization, and pursuing legitimation of police violence*	21
Institutionalizing inequality in the courts: Decomposing racial and ethnic disparities in detention, conviction, and sentencing*	21
Long‐term consequences of being placed in disciplinary segregation^†	20
Changing routine activities and the decline of youth crime: A repeated cross‐sectional analysis of self‐reported delinquency in Sweden, 1999–2017^*	20
Neighborhood climates of legal cynicism and complaints about abuse of police power^†	19
Police contact and future orientation from adolescence to young adulthood: Findings from the Pathways to Desistance Study	18
Personality pathways to aggression: Testing a trait‐state model using immersive technology	18
Threat, emboldenment, or both? The effects of political power on violent hate crimes^*	17
Immigrant status, citizenship, and victimization risk in the United States: New findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)*	17
Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization: A partial test of rational choice theory^†	17
Asymmetry in process‐based model relationships: A longitudinal study of adjudicated adolescents*	15
Locking up my generation: Cohort differences in prison spells over the life course	14
Pubertal timing and adolescent delinquency^†	14
Social order and social justice: Moral intuitions, systemic racism beliefs, and Americans’ divergent attitudes toward Black Lives Matter and police	14
Sanction risk perceptions, coherence, and deterrence^*	13
Body‐worn cameras, lawful police stops, and NYPD officer compliance: A cluster randomized controlled trial*	12
Selection, stability, and spuriousness: Testing Gottfredson and Hirschi's propositions to reinterpret street gangs in self‐control perspective^*	12

Damned if you do, damned if you don't: How formerly incarcerated men navigate the labor market with prison credentials*	11
Structural predictors of choice: Testing a multilevel rational choice theory of crime	11
Institutional anomie and cross‐national differences in incarceration^†	11
“We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor*	11
The long arm of parenting: How parenting styles influence crime and the pathways that explain this effect^*	10
Romantic partners and young adult offending: Considering the role of partner's socioeconomic characteristics	10
Redemption and reproach: Religion and carceral control in action among women in prison	10
Feminist criminology in an era of misogyny^†	9
Are guns the new dog whistle? Gun control, racial resentment, and vote choice*	9
Authoritarian exclusion and laissez‐faire inclusion: Comparing the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway*	9
Continuing education: Toward a life‐course perspective on social learning	9
Fearful futures and haunting histories in women's desistance from crime: A longitudinal study of desistance as an uncanny process^*	8
Neighborhoods of last resort: How landlord strategies concentrate violent crime	8
The accumulation of disadvantage: Criminal justice contact, credit, and debt in the transition to adulthood^*	8
Sex, drugs, and coercive control: Gendered narratives of methamphetamine use, relationships, and violence	8
Life lessons: Examining sources of racial and ethnic disparity in federal life without parole sentences*	8
Effect of racial misclassification in police data on estimates of racial disparities	7
Race, ethnicity, and social change: The democratization of middle‐class crime*	7
In the eye of the beholder: Meaning and structure of informal status in women's and men's prisons*	7
Prior punishments and cumulative disadvantage: How supervision status impacts prison sentences^*	6
Prosecutors, court communities, and policy change: The impact of internal DOJ reforms on federal prosecutorial practices*	6
Confinement as a two‐stage turning point: Do changes in identity or social structure predict subsequent changes in criminal activity?^*	6
The ties that bribe: Corruption's embeddedness in Chicago organized crime*	6
Reconsidering the “gang effect” in the face of intermittency: Do first‐ and second‐time gang membership both matter?*	5
When guardians become offenders: Understanding guardian capability through the lens of corporate crime*	5
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd^*	5
More immigrants, less death: An analysis of immigration effects on county‐level drug overdose deaths, 2000–2015	5
“[It's] what you do after the mistake that counts”: Positive employment credentials, criminal record stigma, and potential pathways of mediation	5
“No idea whether he's Black, White, or purple”: Colorblindness and cultural scripting in prosecution*	5
Police legitimacy regimes and the suppression of citizen oversight in response to police violence	4
Unraveling mass incarceration: Criminology's role in the policy process*	4
“God is real”: Narratives of religiously motivated desistance*	4
In the shadow of 9/11: How the study of political extremism has reshaped criminology*	4
Can the group disincentivize offending? Considering opt‐out thresholds and decision reversals*	4
Collective efficacy and the built environment*	4
Procedural justice, legal orientations, and gang membership: Testing an alternative explanation to understand the gang–misconduct link	4
“That shit doesn't fly”: Subcultural constraints on prison radicalization	4
Mental health disparities in solitary confinement	3
Improving or declining: What are the consequences for changes in local crime?*	3
Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior	3
Gender equality and the shifting gap in female‐to‐male prison admission rates*	3
Situational factors and police use of force across micro‐time intervals: A video systematic social observation and panel regression analysis	3
Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing*	2
Racial attitudes and belief in redeemability: Most Whites believe justice‐involved Black people can change	2
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship	2
How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired	2
Value orientations, life transitions, and desistance: Assessing competing perspectives	2
Streetwork at the crossroads: An evaluation of a street gang outreach intervention and holistic appraisal of the research evidence	2