Journal of Criminal Justice

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Criminal Justice 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Patrol officer activity by single- versus double-crewed status: The call-related output of one-officer and two-officer patrol units66
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From theory to conceptualization, through operationalization: Comparing indicators of desistance from crime45
Deconstructing journey-to-crime's questionable validity in theft-related crimes42
The geographical aspect of offending across crime types: A study on the journey to crime and co-offender dispersion39
The links between sleep, self-control, and internalizing/externalizing problems: A meta-analysis37
Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct32
The Other perspectives on the development and life course of offending23
Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health23
Delineating the paradox: Gauging foreign nationals' “Target Suitability” to robbery in the United States22
A longitudinal qualitative analysis of probation and parole officer stress and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic22
What is theoretical support? Explanation as a central barometer in sentencing research21
A theory evaluation of U.S. firearm laws and their likely effectiveness in reducing gun-related crime21
Pathways to juvenile hacking: A stacking ensemble learning and decision tree analysis of cumulative risk factors19
Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior: Low resting heart rate in fathers predicts elevated criminality in sons19
Breaking point: Exploring side bets, support, and pension investment as predictors of turnover intention in urban policing18
To tent and protect: Homeless encampments as “protective facilities”18
The hidden harms of bond reform: Examining the impact of bond reform on restrictive conditions of release17
Corrigendum to “Do interactions with the police correlate with identity formation? Examining the relationship between police legitimacy, procedural justice, and self-identification over time” [JCJ 10217
Neighborhoods, violence, and guns: Unraveling the drivers of youth gun carrying in adjudicated populations17
Weeding out the Truth: A Survey Experiment on the Role of Scientific Evidence in Shaping Public Opinion on Marijuana Policy17
Firearm acquisition patterns and characteristics of California mass and active shooters17
Leveraging code enforcement units to reduce crime: A difference-in-difference analysis of a targeted crime prevention intervention16
Emotion dysregulation – A bridge between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior16
Rational choices in cyberspace: Quantitative insights into targeting and attack behavior among cyber offenders15
To intervene or not to intervene: Actual and intended bystander responses to sextortion14
Honesty as a “communicative tool” in sentencing: A study of judges in the U.S. and Australia14
Police de-escalation training and its effects on communication: Evidence from an experimental evaluation14
Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan14
Examining a third level of police organizational climate: Does organizational self-legitimacy shape officer attitudes on the job?13
Examining the role of the social bond in the formation of violent crime intentions among incarcerated men13
Machine learning analysis of a national sample of U.S. case law involving mental health evidence13
The importance of social dynamics in a prison environment: Learning from the concerns of incarcerated people13
Is the Static-99R valid for all men with ‘identifiable’ victims? Examining cases of online sexual solicitation of children13
The threat of gun violence and mass shootings: The extent of avoidance and protective behaviors among the American public13
A dynamic factor model to predict homicides with firearm in the United States12
Firearm Acquisition and Criminal Use: Legal and illegal possession of Crime Guns in California (2010−2021)12
Psychopathy and crimes against humanity: A conceptual and empirical examination of human rights violators12
Gender and the commission of violent street robbery in Liverpool, 1850–1870. A historic criminology approach12
The influence of spirituality and religious participation on binge drinking: An investigation into subjective and structural mechanisms of desistance12
Formalizing and expanding school resource officer presence: Examining the influence on student arrests12
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In-hand handgun retention: A crossover RCE comparing two techniques11
Corrigendum to ‘A global comparison of long prison sentences’ [Journal of Criminal Justice (2025), Volume 96, 102341]11
Revenge Effects and Electronic Control Weapons: A Cautionary Tale about the Unintended Consequences of Technology in the American Justice System11
Evaluating policy reforms over time: Multiple event time series regression analysis of justice reinvestment in Indiana and Oregon11
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The emergence and spread of the summons in lieu of arrest, 1907–198011
Police whistleblowing: A systematic review of the likelihood (and the barriers and facilitators) of the willingness of police officers to report the misconduct of fellow officers11
Willingness to change and coming home from prison11
Consequences of fearing police: Associations with youths' mental health and felt obligation to obey both the law and school rules11
Racial/ethnic disparities in police recovery of stolen property: A previously unexplored facet of police/victim interaction10
The shortsighted victim: Short-term mindsets mediate the link between victimization and later offending10
Corrigendum to “Public Cooperation with Police in Ghana: Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Social Identity” [Journal of Criminal Justice 94 (2024) 1–10/102235]10
Exploring further determinants of citizen satisfaction with the police: The role of strain10
Public perceptions on police use of information technologies: Findings from a randomized vignette experiment10
Examining the potential association between perceived life expectations and violent behaviors, criminal justice processing, and victimization: A longitudinal analysis10
Domestic violence perpetrated against men in Kigamboni Municipality, Tanzania: Evidence from social ecological framework10
Family structure, unstructured socializing, and delinquent behavior10
Pathways to sexual aggression according to modus operandi in male and female perpetrators: A systematic review10
Beyond urban centers: Investigating general strain theory and opioid use among rural adolescents10
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement: The moderating role of socioeconomic status in a sample of urban youth9
Does time heal all? Evaluating the effect of time since conviction on employability9
Family incarceration and prison adaptation: Investigating the impact of family incarceration history on prison misconduct9
Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model9
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Neuropsychological deficits, adverse home environments, and cascading behaviors and consequences: An examination of relationships from childhood through adolescence9
Voices from inside focused deterrence: Implications for implementation9
Risks considerations when resentencing juvenile homicide offenders: Unresolved science, policy and law issues post-Jones v. Mississippi9
A dyadic analysis of social network stability before and after incarceration9
Still meteoric after all these years: Acknowledgements9
The use of restrictive housing with incarcerated persons with mental illness: Variation in placement disparities by restrictive housing type9
Adolescent sexual offending: A comparison of female and male adolescents on the ERASOR, and background and offense characteristics8
Juvenile fatalities in law enforcement encounters8
The impact of the Detroit crime gun intelligence center on fatal and nonfatal shooting clearance rates8
Probation and parole agent communication patterns as antecedents to clients' reactance and acts to restore freedoms: Moderating effects of emerging adult status and gender8
Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course8
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The utility of social network analysis to examine conflict and collaboration across boundaries: A review and research agenda for Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs8
Exploring crime through physical and social neighborhood factors: Greenspace and social disconnection in Los Angeles8
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The generalizability of public judgments of procedural justice across police interaction and demographic variables8
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The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother7
Perceptual saturation in deterrence: Examining the nonlinear relationships between arrest rate signal and perceptions of risk and reward7
“We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future”: The time capsule of developmental and life-course criminology7
A test of faith: Exploring the attitudes and experiences of Catholics in the aftermath of the Church's child sexual abuse scandal7
Fear of cybercrime victimisation: Examining the relationship between fear and victimisation7
Disparities in extreme contexts: The impact of gender and mental health status on the criminal justice outcomes of extremists7
Moving beyond “Does it reduce crime”: The curvilinear and moderating effects of greenspace7
Turnover intention among Indian police: Do organizational and community stressors matter?7
Bail reform and public safety: Evidence from Philadelphia's prosecutor-led pretrial policies7
Conjunctive analysis of case configurations: A systematic quantitative literature review7
Community perspectives on gun violence and safety: The role of policing in Baltimore City7
What is a neighborhood? A concept consensus review of recent criminological literature7
You've got (no) mail: Unpacking risk of non-delivery fraud victimization among an online sample7
Examining antecedents of perceived procedural justice among people on community supervision6
Correlates of victim services for fraud and identity theft among victim service providers6
Revisiting the sexual recidivism drop in Canada and the United States: A meta-analysis of 468 empirical studies involving 388,994 individuals6
The intricate nature of vulnerability to victimization: Low self-control, age, and economic status6
Prediction of reoffending risk in men convicted of sexual offences: development and validation of novel and scalable risk assessment tools (OxRIS)6
Promoting disengagement: Effects of a gang intervention and exiting Program on negative police contacts6
The pursuit of gun safety in a new era: Exploring predictors of firearm storage practices among the public6
The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras: Results from six German police departments6
Psychopathic traits predict patterns of gun-carrying among a sample of justice-involved youth6
Estimating the prevalence and frequency of adolescent substance use using zero-inflated models and variables associated with social learning, social bond, and opportunity6
Justice by privilege? Social inequality in waivers of prosecution among youth.6
The association of gang embeddedness and sexual victimization with mental health outcomes6
Veto players and gun violence in drug markets: Analysis based on field observations of eighty drug-selling spots on the Westside of Chicago6
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No causal evidence that free markets and globalization reduce homicide: A quasi-experimental test of emerging consensus6
The accumulated impact of direct and indirect workplace violence exposure on mental health and physiological activity among correctional officers6
From mobility to crime: Collective patterns of human mobility and gun violence in Baltimore City6
Beyond George Floyd: Assessing sentiments on police fund reallocation and its intersection with race and racial resentment6
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform: Lessons from Philadelphia6
Neighborhood level predictors of rape: A novel spatial regression approach6
The predictive performance of criminal risk assessment tools used at sentencing: Systematic review of validation studies6
Correlates of non-suicidal self-injury in South Korean juvenile detention facilities: A general strain theory perspective6
Social correlates of specialized versus versatile offending patterns in intimate partner violence: A register-based study in Finland6
Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers5
Examining impacts of street characteristics on residents' fear of crime: Evidence from a longitudinal study of crime hot spots5
The limits of digital liberation: The social locations of gang-affiliated girls and women in the digital streets5
Help-seeking behaviors of stalking victims: Integrating machine learning and regression approaches to examine how victimization consequences shape victims' decisions5
A methodological template for the next generation: Redesigning the STRONG-R needs assessment5
Public preferences for opioid reform in a post-COVID era: Consensus and divides5
A global comparison of long prison sentences5
How can restrictive housing be prevented or reduced? Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues confronting research and policy5
The influence of acute life stressors on mass shooter outcomes5
Criminal legal sanctions and the false dichotomy between deterrence and rehabilitation: Implications for sentencing research and policy5
Microcosms of violence among street gang members: Social contagion, propensity to violence, and gang embeddedness5
The journey-to-crime buffer zone: Measurement issues and methodological challenges5
Crime reductions after enhanced implementation of Washington state's domestic violence protection order firearm relinquishment law5
County jail incarceration rates and food hardship in the United States5
Who is to blame? Youth crime and attribution of responsibility in urban Mexico5
Greener the safer? Effects of urban green space on community safety and perception of safety using satellite and street view imagery data5
Does classroom composition of immigrant versus non-immigrant adolescents explain violence perpetration? A cross-cultural study5
Stalking victims' decisions to access victim services: A social ecological approach5
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Focal concerns theory and case advancement in sexual assault cases: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response5
Childhood abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and juvenile recidivism: The mediating role of social bonds5
Time after time: Factors predicting murder series' duration5
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Under the shadow of the persistent offender: Rethinking recidivism and criminal records beyond rupture narratives5
Hot spots policing as part of a city-wide violent crime reduction strategy: Initial evidence from Dallas5
Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth5
Lethal violence in a Tourist City of the global south: Evidence from Recife, Brazil5
The effects of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders on street and cybercrimes in a Brazilian city5
Immigration and serious gang violence: Assessing the immigrant revitalization thesis on urban gang shootings5
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Head injury and aggressive behavior: Examining sex differences and the role of related risk factors5
Using a genetically informed direction-of-causation analysis to untangle the victim-offender overlap in adolescence5
Beyond the joystick: Exploring the relationship between game addiction trajectories and aggression dimensions5
Bias in prosecutorial decision making: Bridging focal concerns & group threat5
An exploration of use of force among law enforcement officers with military service5
“Get rich quick,” scheme or script? The effect of cryptoculture on the susceptibility of fraud victimization among cryptocurrency purchasers4
Healthcare utilization and type of criminal-legal system contact: The importance of employment and health insurance4
Beware the truth effect: Why efforts to debunk rape myths may backfire4
Police bias units and hate crime reporting: Insights from the geocoded version of the National Crime Victimization Survey4
To report or not to report: Exploring the motivations and factors associated with reporting of ransomware victimisation among entrepreneurs4
The enduring lessons of war: Connecting culture, masculinities & violence across the life course4
Shootings and land use4
Social network analysis as a tool for understanding mass shooting prevention: A case study of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting4
Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: An exploratory study4
A neighborhood analysis of U.S homicide clearances in 50 cities: Examining race and disadvantage across neighborhood types4
Mental illness, race, gender and sentencing in state homicide cases4
Searching for a big score: Analyzing drug yield from search warrant executions4
Race and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) behind bars: Examining their combined effect on prison misconduct4
Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?: Examining how parental and youth perceptions of future system involvement predict early adulthood criminal involvement4
“I knew if I did that, they'd catch me again”: Changes in deterrability over the criminal career4
Examining how structural characteristics and the physical environment simultaneously impact crime in neighborhoods: Using a semi-parametric strategy4
Gang intervention during COVID-19: A qualitative study of multidisciplinary teams and street outreach in Denver4
Understanding corrections fatigue and perceptions of natural landscaping at work: An exploratory study with staff at a corrections center for women4
Day and night: Evaluating the impact of CCTV and street lighting on urban crime prevention in Detroit4
Gang injunction, What's your function? Investigating the relationship between civil gang injunctions and gang associates' patterns of association4
Criminal court responses to the modern opioid and methamphetamine twindemic4
Household occupancy and burglary: A case study using COVID-19 restrictions4
Steal that car: A spatial analysis of motor vehicle theft in New South Wales, Australia4
The role of community policing in communities with serious gang problems: Insights from Trinidad and Tobago4
Co-offender dynamics and relational distance: Predicting arrest in child physical and sexual abuse incidents4
The impact of building the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on crime in Atlanta, GA4
Measuring normative obligation to obey the police: An empirical assessment of a new police legitimacy scale4
Exploring trajectories of offender harm: An alternative approach to understanding offending pathways over the life-course3
The impacts of length of prison stay on recidivism of non-violent offenders in Oregon3
Pandemic, protests, and policing: Clearing crime in 20203
Mobility-based neighborhood disadvantage and crime in Houston3
Multinational COVID-19 research in criminal justice: A scoping review of translational and transnational implications3
Parenting, self-control, and delinquent peers: A test of environmental effects on offspring development using a sample of adoptees3
Solitary confinement, parole, and criminalization3
Identifying signals of mental health crisis in calls for police service3
Prediction of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England: External validation study of a risk assessment tool (OxRec)3
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Hunting in the digital jungle: Exploring cyberstalking with higher order moderation in situational action theory3
Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department3
High resting heart rate reduces risk of white-collar criminality3
Proactive policing embedded in two models: A geospatial analysis of proactive activities by patrol officers and COP officers3
Wrongful convictions in Spain: Systematic analysis of judgments from 1996 to 20223
A systematic review of therapeutic alternatives to segregation placement: Progress toward rehabilitative goals or a euphemistic rebranding?3
Parental criminality as an extralegal biasing factor in being processed through the criminal justice system3
Fledgling psychopathy meets social determinants of health: Evidence of childhood homicidal ideation among pediatric emergency department patients3
Patterns of informal mentorship in policing: A case study3
New editorship at Journal of Criminal Justice: Carrying the baton3
Ending the stigma of male domestic violence and abuse victims: A mixed-methods study3
The tangled history of social network analysis and gang research—A long way from Street Corner Society3
Does variation across judicial circuits matter? Examining the role of bail schedules and pretrial detention on drug case outcomes in Florida3
The role of poor sleep on the development of self-control and antisocial behavior from adolescence to adulthood3
Exploring mental health profiles of male youth detained in forensic settings: Implications for research and clinical practice3
The Rodney King incident and verdict revisited: Examining opinion-mobilizing effects using data from Southern California in 1991 and 19923
Group-individual probability confusion: Implications for suspect prioritization in criminal investigations3
An early social support network analysis of men facing reentry3
Beyond a binary: Introducing the role of timing in understanding the link between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization in the Global South3
Consistently inconsistent: Examining variability in police decision-making in mental health calls using a novel noise audit approach3
Who is fatigued? A repeated cross-sectional survey of officer attitudes towards people who use opioids, naloxone, and their role in responding to opioid overdoses3
Space matters: An examination of the circumstances surrounding violence against correctional staff3
Assessing the feasibility and performance of risk assessment instruments for early intervention and prevention services in Juvenile Justice3
The developmental sequences of events underlying persistence in criminal convictions during adulthood3
Public assessments of the criminal justice system in addressing mental health3
Is rehabilitative approach to criminal justice better for young adults? Evidence from Santa Clara County, CA3
The impact of officer and supervisor training in police use of force incidents3
Does pretrial detention influence time until re-involvement with the criminal legal system?3
Profiles of childhood ecological risk and protective factors in school and home predicting black adolescent delinquency3
Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training: A case study of the perceptions of officers, leadership, and CIT trainers in a suburban-rural police department3
Where are the guns?3
Spatiotemporal population mix (SPM) as a criminogenic mechanism: Testing environmental-criminology hypotheses with mobility clusters derived from mobile-device geotracking3
Reinvestigating the relationship between cities and the spatial distribution of robbery: A tale of eight cities3
Disagreeable and out of control: Applicability of the Big Five and low self-control in predicting offending3
When life domains become problematic: A criminological exploration of academic dishonesty in Iran using Agnew's general theory of crime and delinquency3
Adverse childhood experiences, developmental differences in impulse control and sensation seeking, and delinquency: A prospective multi-cohort study3
Adverse childhood experiences and delinquency: Does age of assessment matter?3
Gender differences in serious police misconduct: A machine-learning analysis of the New York Police Department (NYPD)3
Predictors of perceived wrongfulness and harmfulness of crime among residents in Portugal3
Why we need juror education in rape and serious sexual offence cases3
A life-course analysis of radicalization among extremists in the Philippines using the life history calendar3
Trajectories of control: Exposure to punitive social control over time and its associated consequences3
Justifiability and culpability in lethal self-defense: Police officers vs. civilians2
Criminal network resilience: The evolution of a camorra clan in response to police intervention2
Financial pretrial release and innovations in outcome measurement2
The dynamic emotional experience of online fraud victims during the process of being defrauded: A text-based analysis2
Scapegoating halt: Contested legitimacy through formal conforming & informal rebuking2
Guns do kill people: Novel global evidence on the cross-national relationship between gun ownership and (gun) homicide2
A theory of change driven approach to evaluating a multi-agency stalking intervention programme2
Does routine activity theory still matter during COVID-19 restrictions? The geography of sexual assaults before, during, and after COVID-19 restrictions2
Disciplining risk: Governing through conditions on bail in the community pre-trial2
Territory, residency, and routine activities: A typology of gang member mobility patterns with implications for place-based interventions2
The impact of incarceration on reoffending: A period-to-period analysis of Canadian youth followed into adulthood2
The impact of COVID-19 on police officer activities2
Against optimization: Solitary confinement and the research-policy nexus2
Life courses, crime and global south migrants: Intercolonial transportation in the Australian historical context2
The great methods bake-off: Comparing performance of machine learning algorithms2
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