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

Article	Citations
The long arm of the gang: Disengagement under gang governance in Central America	95
“We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor*	44
Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement	36
Guilt and depression in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda	33
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How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired	30
System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration	24
Issue Information	22
The dynamics of criminal collaboration: Multiplex ties in mafia networks	22
“We don't tolerate each other; we actually respect and love each other”: Chosen family as a turning point among LGBTQ+ people	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”	17
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Justice: word, idea, practice	17
The transferal of criminal record stigma in the employment context: Evidence from conjoint and vignette experiments	17
Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime	17
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Delinquency, unstructured socializing, and social change: The rise and fall of a teen culture of independence	16
Reframing the debate on legal financial obligations and crime: How accruing monetary sanctions impacts recidivism	15
Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system	15
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times	14
“The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions	14
Defining and measuring homicide rates for birth cohorts: Methodological and theoretical challenges and solutions	14
Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice	14
Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails	13

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When men fight with women (versus other men): Limited offending during disputes	11
The waiting game: Anticipatory stress and its proliferation during jail incarceration	11
How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities	9
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“It's like a reverse Robin Hood—We all know they can't pay”: How court actors navigate the logics of monetary sanctions	9
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Weaker the gang, harder the exit	8
When guardians become offenders: Understanding guardian capability through the lens of corporate crime*	8
Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest	8
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Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality	7
Triggering factors: Examining the influence of alcohol outlets and neighborhood context on firearm violence	7
Flexibility in variable operationalization in social disorganization theory: A pilot study	7
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923	7
The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime	7
Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting	6
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Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics	6
Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: A content analysis of my hate mail	6
The (non)offensive nature of “white power” music, a research note	6
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs	6
Issue Information	6
The role of case management in misdemeanor prosecution	6
Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing*	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
“Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships	5
Collective efficacy and the built environment*	5
Issue Information	4
Examining disparity in police behavior during the 2020 social and political protests	4
Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime	4
The American racial divide in fear of the police	4
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison	4
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Gender equality and the shifting gap in female‐to‐male prison admission rates*	4
“I've seen injustice”: Challenging colorblindness in prosecution	4
Examining the effects of firearm lethality and aggressors’ intentions to kill on injurious firearm violence at American schools: A research note	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
The future of crime data	3
Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior	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
Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?	2
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship	2
Issue Information	2
“If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life”: Survival strategies and isolation in a long‐running gun conflict	2

“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
Issue Information	2
Hard to Read, Harder to Access: US Disability Policy of State Correctional Departments	1
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Improving police behavior through artificial intelligence: Pre‐registered experimental results in two large US agencies	1
The problem with criminal records: Discrepancies between state reports and private‐sector background checks	1
Issue Information	1
Multidisciplinary teams, street outreach, and gang intervention: Mixed methods findings from a randomized controlled trial in Denver	1
Issue Information	1
Noise in judicial decision‐making: A research note	1
Comparing deep‐end confinement in England & Wales and Norway	1
A prosecutor's “ideal” sexual assault case: A mixed‐method approach to understanding sexual assault case processing	1
Social order and social justice: Moral intuitions, systemic racism beliefs, and Americans’ divergent attitudes toward Black Lives Matter and police	1
Mental health disparities in solitary confinement	1
Labor markets and incarceration: The China shock to American punishment	1