Criminology

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The long arm of the gang: Disengagement under gang governance in Central America72
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How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired33
“We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor*32
Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement30
Guilt and depression in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda29
System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration28
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The transferal of criminal record stigma in the employment context: Evidence from conjoint and vignette experiments26
Corrigendum to “When police pull back: Neighborhood‐level effects of de‐policing on violent and property crime, a research note”24
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Reconsidering the “gang effect” in the face of intermittency: Do first‐ and second‐time gang membership both matter?*23
Delinquency, unstructured socializing, and social change: The rise and fall of a teen culture of independence20
Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime18
Reframing the debate on legal financial obligations and crime: How accruing monetary sanctions impacts recidivism18
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Can the group disincentivize offending? Considering opt‐out thresholds and decision reversals*16
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times15
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Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system14
“The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions13
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The waiting game: Anticipatory stress and its proliferation during jail incarceration12
Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice12
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When men fight with women (versus other men): Limited offending during disputes12
Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails12
Authoritarian exclusion and laissez‐faire inclusion: Comparing the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway*12
“It's like a reverse Robin Hood—We all know they can't pay”: How court actors navigate the logics of monetary sanctions10
How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities10
Prosecutors, court communities, and policy change: The impact of internal DOJ reforms on federal prosecutorial practices*9
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The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime9
Prior punishments and cumulative disadvantage: How supervision status impacts prison sentences*9
When guardians become offenders: Understanding guardian capability through the lens of corporate crime*9
Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality9
Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest8
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs8
Are guns the new dog whistle? Gun control, racial resentment, and vote choice*8
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Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–19237
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Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics6
Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: A content analysis of my hate mail6
Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting6
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd*5
“Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships5
Macro‐historical influences, cohort dynamics, and the (in)stability of the age–crime distribution: The case of the Republic of Korea5
The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest5
Collective efficacy and the built environment*5
Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing*5
The American racial divide in fear of the police5
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Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime4
Gender equality and the shifting gap in female‐to‐male prison admission rates*4
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison4
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Of deviance and patriarchy: Mechanisms of gender discrimination in public‐sector corruption3
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“God is real”: Narratives of religiously motivated desistance*3
“If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life”: Survival strategies and isolation in a long‐running gun conflict3
The future of crime data3
The price of a sex offense conviction: A comparative analysis of the costs of community supervision3
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship3
Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior3
Body‐worn cameras, lawful police stops, and NYPD officer compliance: A cluster randomized controlled trial*2
Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?2
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Social order and social justice: Moral intuitions, systemic racism beliefs, and Americans’ divergent attitudes toward Black Lives Matter and police2
Public fear of protesters and support for protest policing: An experimental test of two theoretical models*2
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Police contact and future orientation from adolescence to young adulthood: Findings from the Pathways to Desistance Study2
In the shadow of 9/11: How the study of political extremism has reshaped criminology*2
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A prosecutor's “ideal” sexual assault case: A mixed‐method approach to understanding sexual assault case processing2
The ties that bribe: Corruption's embeddedness in Chicago organized crime*2
Sex, drugs, and coercive control: Gendered narratives of methamphetamine use, relationships, and violence2
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