OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminology is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The long arm of the gang: Disengagement under gang governance in Central America	31
A gendered journey to crime: Routine activities, types of businesses, and neighborhood context	25
The company you keep: The influence of popular delinquents and deviant brokers on offending trajectories	24
How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired	24
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Guilt and depression in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda	23
Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement	22
The dynamics of criminal collaboration: Multiplex ties in mafia networks	22
System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration	21
Thin markets and thick networks: Social and street capital in New York City's underground gun market	20
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The transferal of criminal record stigma in the employment context: Evidence from conjoint and vignette experiments	19
Corrigendum to “When police pull back: Neighborhood‐level effects of de‐policing on violent and property crime, a research note”	18
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“We don't tolerate each other; we actually respect and love each other”: Chosen family as a turning point among LGBTQ+ people	18
Justice: word, idea, practice	17
Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime	16
Delinquency, unstructured socializing, and social change: The rise and fall of a teen culture of independence	15
Rational choice models of crime decision‐making: A flexible utility framework	15
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Issue Information	14
Reframing the debate on legal financial obligations and crime: How accruing monetary sanctions impacts recidivism	13
Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system	13
“The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions	12

Defining and measuring homicide rates for birth cohorts: Methodological and theoretical challenges and solutions	11
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times	11
Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice	11
The informal prisoner justice system: Classification, identification, and punishment of sex offenders behind bars	11
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Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails	10
The waiting game: Anticipatory stress and its proliferation during jail incarceration	10
When men fight with women (versus other men): Limited offending during disputes	10
Glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonist use and violent crime among US adults	10
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How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities	9
“It's like a reverse Robin Hood—We all know they can't pay”: How court actors navigate the logics of monetary sanctions	9
Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality	8
Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest	8
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Flexibility in variable operationalization in social disorganization theory: A pilot study	6
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs	6
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923	6
The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime	6
Triggering factors: Examining the influence of alcohol outlets and neighborhood context on firearm violence	6
Weaker the gang, harder the exit	6
Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics	5
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The role of case management in misdemeanor prosecution	5
“I've seen injustice”: Challenging colorblindness in prosecution	5
Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting	5
Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: A content analysis of my hate mail	5
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Examining disparity in police behavior during the 2020 social and political protests	4
“Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships	4
The (non)offensive nature of “white power” music, a research note	4
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The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest	4
Whose decision is it anyway? Defendants’ prior experience shapes prosecutorial case dismissal	4
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd^*	4
Macro‐historical influences, cohort dynamics, and the (in)stability of the age–crime distribution: The case of the Republic of Korea	4
Examining the effects of firearm lethality and aggressors’ intentions to kill on injurious firearm violence at American schools: A research note	3
Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime	3
Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior	3
The future of crime data	3
Of deviance and patriarchy: Mechanisms of gender discrimination in public‐sector corruption	3
How do people react to policy reform? Group cues and persuasion in criminal justice	3
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison	3
“It's such a terrible drug”: Narratives of fentanyl dealers amid the opioid overdose crisis	3
Does a rising tide lift all boats?: Evidence from a multicity randomized trial of procedural justice in hot spots policing	3
A prosecutor's “ideal” sexual assault case: A mixed‐method approach to understanding sexual assault case processing	2

Affordances, dread, and online fraud: Exploring and advancing social learning theory in online contexts	2
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The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime	2
“If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life”: Survival strategies and isolation in a long‐running gun conflict	2
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“My shot caller was the one who snitched on me”: Symbolic interactionism, identity, and motives for gang exit among Hmong gang members	2
Is updating racialized? Differential effects of (dis)respectful police contact on perceptions of police legitimacy	2
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Hard to Read, Harder to Access: US Disability Policy of State Correctional Departments	2
From prison to profession: Postsecondary education and access to middle‐skill jobs	2
Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?	2
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship	2
Toronto's drug policy paradox: Harm reduction sites and drug police occurrences in Toronto neighborhoods (1992–2020)	2
Labor markets and incarceration: The China shock to American punishment	1
The problem with criminal records: Discrepancies between state reports and private‐sector background checks	1
More immigrants, less death: An analysis of immigration effects on county‐level drug overdose deaths, 2000–2015	1
Racial bifurcation and social control: Toward a general group conflict theory	1
The countervailing impacts of significant 2020 events on youth delinquency	1
Reactive guardianship: Who intervenes? How? And why?	1
Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence	1
Mixed signals from prison? Postsecondary vocational credentials, race, and postrelease employment	1
Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism	1
Comparing deep‐end confinement in England & Wales and Norway	1
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Seeing the state in action: Public preferences about and judgments of common police–civilian interactions	1
Disappearing race in criminology: Stigma, race, and loss	1
Evaluating the causal mechanisms from procedural justice to police legitimacy and compliance in the United States: An in‐depth mixed‐methods approach	1
Noise in judicial decision‐making: A research note	1
Improving police behavior through artificial intelligence: Pre‐registered experimental results in two large US agencies	1
Multidisciplinary teams, street outreach, and gang intervention: Mixed methods findings from a randomized controlled trial in Denver	1
“[It's] what you do after the mistake that counts”: Positive employment credentials, criminal record stigma, and potential pathways of mediation	1
Firearms, policy, and intimate partner homicide: A structural and disaggregated examination of Black, Latina, and White female victimization	1
Statewide sanctuary policies and female homicide rates, 2016–2021	1
The role of police perceptions of gender variation in California police stops: A research note	1