OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency is 4. 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
Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Police and Prosecutorial Drug Charging: Analyzing Organizational Overlap in Charging Patterns at Arrest, Filing, and Conviction	34
Immigration and Crime: The Role of Immigrant Heterogeneity	23
Toward Measuring Objective Procedural Justice: Commentary on Terpstra and van Wijck (2022)	22
Revisiting the Structural (In)Variances of Homicide: Examining the Differential Effects of Context Across Homicide Types	20
Childhood Exposure to Family Violence, Residential Instability, and Parental Incarceration: Compounding Household Adversities and Adolescent Delinquency	17
Selection and Facilitation: Is the Gang Membership-Psychopathic Traits Link a Product of Individual Differences, Social Influences, or Both?	15
Trends in Prison Sentences and Racial Disparities: 20-Years of Sentencing Under Florida’s Criminal Punishment Code	14
Immigration and School Threat?: Exploring the Significance of the Border	13
The Racial-Partisan Gradient in Policing Attitudes: Toward a Framed-Group-Position Theory	13
Crime, Choice, and Context	12
Radicalized Environmental Extremism and Situational Decision Making	12
Bounded Engagement and Institutional Interdependency: Exploring Formerly Incarcerated Adults’ (Non)Engagement Experiences and Perceptions	10
Situational Moral Evaluations: The Role of Rationalizations & Moral Identity	10
Beyond Legal Deterrence: A Replication and Extension Study on Psychopathy, Self-Control, and Crime-Specific Willingness to Offend	10
How Little Does It Take to Trigger a Peer Effect? An Experiment on Crime as Conditional Rule Violation	10
Specifying the Temporal Bounds of the Situational Peer Effect	9
Vulnerability in the Neighborhood: A Study of Perceived Control Over Victimization	9
The Contextual Generality of Crime: Workplace and Street Crime	9
Moving Beyond Self-Defense: Reevaluating the (Gendered) Motivations for Female Homicide Offending Across the Victim–Offender Relationship	8
Diverging Realities: Differential George Floyd Effects on Violence Against the Police	8
What Adolescents Do or Say to Actively Influence Peers: Compliance-Gaining Tactics and Adolescent Deviance	8
The Evolution of Anti-Blackness in the American South: How Slavery and Segregation Perpetuates the Victimization of Black People	8
Partners in Force? Understanding Police Use of Force from a Network Perspective	7
Disentangling the Relationships among Prior Police Contact, Victim Cooperation, Investigatory Effort, and Case Clearance: Evidence from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and Police Public	7
An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prison Misconduct Punishment	7

Parenting and Young Adult Crime: The Enduring Effects of Parental Attitudes and Behaviors	7
The “Dark Figure” of Incarceration—The Imposition of Consecutive Incarceration Sentences as a Window of Discretion	7
Victim and third-party reporting of violent victimization to the police in incidents involving victims with disabilities	7
Who Believes that the Police Use Excessive Force? Centering Racism in Research on Perceptions of the Police	6
Perceptions of White-Collar Crime Seriousness: Unpacking and Translating Attitudes into Policy Preferences	6
Collective Self-Control as a Feature of Social Contexts: Theoretical Arguments and a Multilevel Empirical Test	5
Corrigendum to Do Street Robbery Location Choices Vary Over Time of Day or Day of Week? A Test in Chicago	5
The Role of Normative Age-Graded Transitions and Human Agency in Patterns and Variations of Financial Exploitation of Older Adults	5
“Dickheads” and “Cool Cops”: The Impact of Officers’ Perceived Cultural and Contextual Competence on Black Men's Appraisals of Police	5
School Transitions, Peer Processes, and Delinquency: A Social Network Approach to Turning Points in Adolescence	5
Receiving Visits and the Relative Timing of Inmates’ Infractions: Investigations into how Inmates’ Behavior Change Before and After Visits in Dutch Prisons	5
Traveling to Criminal Opportunity: Defendant Mobility, Socioeconomic Context, and Prosecutorial Charge Reductions	4
The Theorizing of Terrorism Within Criminology	4
Exploring Gender Disparities in Prosecutorial and Judicial Decision-Making in the Global South: Evidence from Argentina	4
Anger About Police-Civilian Relations and Support for Policing Reforms	4
Centering Race in the Study of Crime and Criminal Justice	4
Generations of Criminalization: Resistance to Desegregation and School Punishment	4
Social Embeddedness, Multiplexity, and Criminal Collaboration Within the Sinaloa Cartel	4
Citizen Complaints as an Accountability Mechanism: Uncovering Patterns Using Topic Modeling	4