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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The long arm of the gang: Disengagement under gang governance in Central America	41
The company you keep: The influence of popular delinquents and deviant brokers on offending trajectories	26
The dynamics of criminal collaboration: Multiplex ties in mafia networks	25
Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement	22
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System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration	21
Guilt and depression in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda	20
How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired	20
Issue Information	20
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Corrigendum to “When police pull back: Neighborhood‐level effects of de‐policing on violent and property crime, a research note”	19
Thin markets and thick networks: Social and street capital in New York City's underground gun market	18
The transferal of criminal record stigma in the employment context: Evidence from conjoint and vignette experiments	18
“We don't tolerate each other; we actually respect and love each other”: Chosen family as a turning point among LGBTQ+ people	17
Delinquency, unstructured socializing, and social change: The rise and fall of a teen culture of independence	17
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Justice: word, idea, practice	16
Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime	16
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Defining and measuring homicide rates for birth cohorts: Methodological and theoretical challenges and solutions	14
Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice	14
Reframing the debate on legal financial obligations and crime: How accruing monetary sanctions impacts recidivism	14
“The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions	14
Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system	13
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times	12

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Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails	11
When men fight with women (versus other men): Limited offending during disputes	10
“It's like a reverse Robin Hood—We all know they can't pay”: How court actors navigate the logics of monetary sanctions	10
The waiting game: Anticipatory stress and its proliferation during jail incarceration	10
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Weaker the gang, harder the exit	9
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Flexibility in variable operationalization in social disorganization theory: A pilot study	9
Issue Information	9
The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime	9
How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities	9
Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality	8
Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest	8
Triggering factors: Examining the influence of alcohol outlets and neighborhood context on firearm violence	7
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923	7
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Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: A content analysis of my hate mail	6
The role of case management in misdemeanor prosecution	6
Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting	6
Issue Information	6
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs	6
Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics	6
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“I've seen injustice”: Challenging colorblindness in prosecution	5
“Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships	5
Whose decision is it anyway? Defendants’ prior experience shapes prosecutorial case dismissal	5
The (non)offensive nature of “white power” music, a research note	5
The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest	5
Macro‐historical influences, cohort dynamics, and the (in)stability of the age–crime distribution: The case of the Republic of Korea	5
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd^*	5
Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime	5
Examining disparity in police behavior during the 2020 social and political protests	4
Examining the effects of firearm lethality and aggressors’ intentions to kill on injurious firearm violence at American schools: A research note	4
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison	4
Gender equality and the shifting gap in female‐to‐male prison admission rates*	4
Issue Information	4
Of deviance and patriarchy: Mechanisms of gender discrimination in public‐sector corruption	3
Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior	3
The future of crime data	3
Does a rising tide lift all boats?: Evidence from a multicity randomized trial of procedural justice in hot spots policing	3
How do people react to policy reform? Group cues and persuasion in criminal justice	3
“It's such a terrible drug”: Narratives of fentanyl dealers amid the opioid overdose crisis	3
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Is updating racialized? Differential effects of (dis)respectful police contact on perceptions of police legitimacy	2
Hard to Read, Harder to Access: US Disability Policy of State Correctional Departments	2
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Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship	2
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Toronto's drug policy paradox: Harm reduction sites and drug police occurrences in Toronto neighborhoods (1992–2020)	2
Affordances, dread, and online fraud: Exploring and advancing social learning theory in online contexts	2
“If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life”: Survival strategies and isolation in a long‐running gun conflict	2
Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?	2
A prosecutor's “ideal” sexual assault case: A mixed‐method approach to understanding sexual assault case processing	2
“My shot caller was the one who snitched on me”: Symbolic interactionism, identity, and motives for gang exit among Hmong gang members	2
“[It's] what you do after the mistake that counts”: Positive employment credentials, criminal record stigma, and potential pathways of mediation	1
Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence	1
Disappearing race in criminology: Stigma, race, and loss	1
Seeing the state in action: Public preferences about and judgments of common police–civilian interactions	1
Improving police behavior through artificial intelligence: Pre‐registered experimental results in two large US agencies	1
Issue Information	1
More immigrants, less death: An analysis of immigration effects on county‐level drug overdose deaths, 2000–2015	1
Labor markets and incarceration: The China shock to American punishment	1
Evaluating the causal mechanisms from procedural justice to police legitimacy and compliance in the United States: An in‐depth mixed‐methods approach	1
The countervailing impacts of significant 2020 events on youth delinquency	1
Streetwork at the crossroads: An evaluation of a street gang outreach intervention and holistic appraisal of the research evidence	1
Mixed signals from prison? Postsecondary vocational credentials, race, and postrelease employment	1
Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism	1
Noise in judicial decision‐making: A research note	1
The problem with criminal records: Discrepancies between state reports and private‐sector background checks	1
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Statewide sanctuary policies and female homicide rates, 2016–2021	1
Reactive guardianship: Who intervenes? How? And why?	1
Firearms, policy, and intimate partner homicide: A structural and disaggregated examination of Black, Latina, and White female victimization	1
Comparing deep‐end confinement in England & Wales and Norway	1
Mental health disparities in solitary confinement	1
Multidisciplinary teams, street outreach, and gang intervention: Mixed methods findings from a randomized controlled trial in Denver	1