Journal of Criminal Justice

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Criminal Justice 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Patrol officer activity by single- versus double-crewed status: The call-related output of one-officer and two-officer patrol units34
Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct32
Deconstructing journey-to-crime's questionable validity in theft-related crimes28
Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior: Low resting heart rate in fathers predicts elevated criminality in sons28
To tent and protect: Homeless encampments as “protective facilities”24
From theory to conceptualization, through operationalization: Comparing indicators of desistance from crime23
Delineating the paradox: Gauging foreign nationals' “Target Suitability” to robbery in the United States23
The links between sleep, self-control, and internalizing/externalizing problems: A meta-analysis21
Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health20
A sexual frustration theory of aggression, violence, and crime18
Emotion dysregulation – A bridge between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior17
Firearm acquisition patterns and characteristics of California mass and active shooters17
The threat of gun violence and mass shootings: The extent of avoidance and protective behaviors among the American public16
Neighborhoods, violence, and guns: Unraveling the drivers of youth gun carrying in adjudicated populations16
Leveraging code enforcement units to reduce crime: A difference-in-difference analysis of a targeted crime prevention intervention16
Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan16
Examining a third level of police organizational climate: Does organizational self-legitimacy shape officer attitudes on the job?15
Is the Static-99R valid for all men with ‘identifiable’ victims? Examining cases of online sexual solicitation of children14
Shame coping and psychopathy: A replication and extension in a sample of male incarcerated offenders13
Machine learning analysis of a national sample of U.S. case law involving mental health evidence13
Psychopathy and the prospective prediction of adult offending through age 29: Revisiting unfulfilled promises of developmental criminology13
Weeding out the Truth: A Survey Experiment on the Role of Scientific Evidence in Shaping Public Opinion on Marijuana Policy13
The hidden harms of bond reform: Examining the impact of bond reform on restrictive conditions of release13
Drug offence detection during the pandemic: A spatiotemporal study of drug markets13
Formalizing and expanding school resource officer presence: Examining the influence on student arrests12
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Gender and the commission of violent street robbery in Liverpool, 1850–1870. A historic criminology approach12
A dynamic factor model to predict homicides with firearm in the United States12
The influence of spirituality and religious participation on binge drinking: An investigation into subjective and structural mechanisms of desistance12
Revenge Effects and Electronic Control Weapons: A Cautionary Tale about the Unintended Consequences of Technology in the American Justice System12
Testing the utility of the psychopathy construct for predicting criminal recidivism among detained girls11
Willingness to change and coming home from prison11
Tracing changes in behavior across the extended solitary confinement process11
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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
Psychopathy and crimes against humanity: A conceptual and empirical examination of human rights violators11
In-hand handgun retention: A crossover RCE comparing two techniques11
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
Family structure, unstructured socializing, and delinquent behavior10
Firearm Acquisition and Criminal Use: Legal and illegal possession of Crime Guns in California (2010−2021)10
Examining the potential association between perceived life expectations and violent behaviors, criminal justice processing, and victimization: A longitudinal analysis10
Beyond urban centers: Investigating general strain theory and opioid use among rural adolescents10
The emergence and spread of the summons in lieu of arrest, 1907–198010
The shortsighted victim: Short-term mindsets mediate the link between victimization and later offending10
Still meteoric after all these years: Acknowledgements9
Consequences of fearing police: Associations with youths' mental health and felt obligation to obey both the law and school rules9
The utility of social network analysis to examine conflict and collaboration across boundaries: A review and research agenda for Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs9
Family incarceration and prison adaptation: Investigating the impact of family incarceration history on prison misconduct9
Corrigendum to “Public Cooperation with Police in Ghana: Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Social Identity” [Journal of Criminal Justice 94 (2024) 1–10/102235]9
Racial/ethnic disparities in police recovery of stolen property: A previously unexplored facet of police/victim interaction9
Domestic violence perpetrated against men in Kigamboni Municipality, Tanzania: Evidence from social ecological framework9
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement: The moderating role of socioeconomic status in a sample of urban youth8
Neuropsychological deficits, adverse home environments, and cascading behaviors and consequences: An examination of relationships from childhood through adolescence8
Turnover intention among Indian police: Do organizational and community stressors matter?8
“We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future”: The time capsule of developmental and life-course criminology8
The use of restrictive housing with incarcerated persons with mental illness: Variation in placement disparities by restrictive housing type8
Voices from inside focused deterrence: Implications for implementation8
Exploring crime through physical and social neighborhood factors: Greenspace and social disconnection in Los Angeles8
A dyadic analysis of social network stability before and after incarceration8
Risks considerations when resentencing juvenile homicide offenders: Unresolved science, policy and law issues post-Jones v. Mississippi8
Probation and parole agent communication patterns as antecedents to clients' reactance and acts to restore freedoms: Moderating effects of emerging adult status and gender8
Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model8
The generalizability of public judgments of procedural justice across police interaction and demographic variables7
A test of faith: Exploring the attitudes and experiences of Catholics in the aftermath of the Church's child sexual abuse scandal7
Perceptual saturation in deterrence: Examining the nonlinear relationships between arrest rate signal and perceptions of risk and reward7
Revisiting the sexual recidivism drop in Canada and the United States: A meta-analysis of 468 empirical studies involving 388,994 individuals7
The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras: Results from six German police departments7
Juvenile fatalities in law enforcement encounters7
What is a neighborhood? A concept consensus review of recent criminological literature7
From mobility to crime: Collective patterns of human mobility and gun violence in Baltimore City7
Disparities in extreme contexts: The impact of gender and mental health status on the criminal justice outcomes of extremists7
The accumulated impact of direct and indirect workplace violence exposure on mental health and physiological activity among correctional officers7
Adolescent sexual offending: A comparison of female and male adolescents on the ERASOR, and background and offense characteristics7
Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course7
The impact of the Detroit crime gun intelligence center on fatal and nonfatal shooting clearance rates7
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Estimating the prevalence and frequency of adolescent substance use using zero-inflated models and variables associated with social learning, social bond, and opportunity7
The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother6
Moving beyond “Does it reduce crime”: The curvilinear and moderating effects of greenspace6
Community perspectives on gun violence and safety: The role of policing in Baltimore City6
Neighborhood level predictors of rape: A novel spatial regression approach6
Is the recent surge in violence in American cities due to contagion?6
Promoting disengagement: Effects of a gang intervention and exiting Program on negative police contacts6
Incremental validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised above and beyond the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder regarding recidivism in sexual offenders6
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform: Lessons from Philadelphia6
Psychopathic traits predict patterns of gun-carrying among a sample of justice-involved youth6
Do everyday proactive policing activities reduce vehicle crashes? Examining a commonly held law enforcement belief using a novel method6
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Correlates of victim services for fraud and identity theft among victim service providers6
Beyond George Floyd: Assessing sentiments on police fund reallocation and its intersection with race and racial resentment6
Social correlates of specialized versus versatile offending patterns in intimate partner violence: A register-based study in Finland6
Prediction of reoffending risk in men convicted of sexual offences: development and validation of novel and scalable risk assessment tools (OxRIS)6
The predictive performance of criminal risk assessment tools used at sentencing: Systematic review of validation studies6
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Who is to blame? Youth crime and attribution of responsibility in urban Mexico5
Explaining the relationship between neighborhood disorder and crime fear: The perceptual role of neighbors and the police5
Hot spots policing as part of a city-wide violent crime reduction strategy: Initial evidence from Dallas5
A global comparison of long prison sentences5
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Public preferences for opioid reform in a post-COVID era: Consensus and divides5
Density, diversity, and design: Three measures of the built environment and the spatial patterns of crime in street segments5
Veto players and gun violence in drug markets: Analysis based on field observations of eighty drug-selling spots on the Westside of Chicago5
An exploration of use of force among law enforcement officers with military service5
A methodological template for the next generation: Redesigning the STRONG-R needs assessment5
Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers5
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Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth5
The limits of digital liberation: The social locations of gang-affiliated girls and women in the digital streets5
The effects of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders on street and cybercrimes in a Brazilian city5
County jail incarceration rates and food hardship in the United States5
Stalking victims' decisions to access victim services: A social ecological approach5
Greener the safer? Effects of urban green space on community safety and perception of safety using satellite and street view imagery data5
Time after time: Factors predicting murder series' duration5
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
Searching for a big score: Analyzing drug yield from search warrant executions4
Day and night: Evaluating the impact of CCTV and street lighting on urban crime prevention in Detroit4
To report or not to report: Exploring the motivations and factors associated with reporting of ransomware victimisation among entrepreneurs4
Recruiting the warrior cop: Assessing predictors of highly militarized recruitment videos4
How can restrictive housing be prevented or reduced? Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues confronting research and policy4
The journey-to-crime buffer zone: Measurement issues and methodological challenges4
Beyond the joystick: Exploring the relationship between game addiction trajectories and aggression dimensions4
Head injury and aggressive behavior: Examining sex differences and the role of related risk factors4
The role of community policing in communities with serious gang problems: Insights from Trinidad and Tobago4
Household occupancy and burglary: A case study using COVID-19 restrictions4
A neighborhood analysis of U.S homicide clearances in 50 cities: Examining race and disadvantage across neighborhood types4
The influence of acute life stressors on mass shooter outcomes4
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Bias in prosecutorial decision making: Bridging focal concerns & group threat4
Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response4
Healthcare utilization and type of criminal-legal system contact: The importance of employment and health insurance4
Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: An exploratory study4
Childhood abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and juvenile recidivism: The mediating role of social bonds4
“Get rich quick,” scheme or script? The effect of cryptoculture on the susceptibility of fraud victimization among cryptocurrency purchasers4
Focal concerns theory and case advancement in sexual assault cases: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
Gang injunction, What's your function? Investigating the relationship between civil gang injunctions and gang associates' patterns of association4
Microcosms of violence among street gang members: Social contagion, propensity to violence, and gang embeddedness4
Examining impacts of street characteristics on residents' fear of crime: Evidence from a longitudinal study of crime hot spots4
The incremental usefulness of teacher-rated psychopathic traits in 5- to 7-year olds in predicting teacher-, parent-, and child self-reported antisocial behavior at a six-year follow-up3
Exploring mental health profiles of male youth detained in forensic settings: Implications for research and clinical practice3
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Parental criminality as an extralegal biasing factor in being processed through the criminal justice system3
Identifying signals of mental health crisis in calls for police service3
Does variation across judicial circuits matter? Examining the role of bail schedules and pretrial detention on drug case outcomes in Florida3
Crime down in the Paris of the prairies: Spatial effects of COVID-19 and crime during lockdown in Saskatoon, Canada3
When life domains become problematic: A criminological exploration of academic dishonesty in Iran using Agnew's general theory of crime and delinquency3
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
Assessing the feasibility and performance of risk assessment instruments for early intervention and prevention services in Juvenile Justice3
Beware the truth effect: Why efforts to debunk rape myths may backfire3
Mental illness, race, gender and sentencing in state homicide cases3
Exploring trajectories of offender harm: An alternative approach to understanding offending pathways over the life-course3
Space matters: An examination of the circumstances surrounding violence against correctional staff3
Disagreeable and out of control: Applicability of the Big Five and low self-control in predicting offending3
Ending the stigma of male domestic violence and abuse victims: A mixed-methods study3
Hunting in the digital jungle: Exploring cyberstalking with higher order moderation in situational action theory3
A life-course analysis of radicalization among extremists in the Philippines using the life history calendar3
Prediction of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England: External validation study of a risk assessment tool (OxRec)3
“I knew if I did that, they'd catch me again”: Changes in deterrability over the criminal career3
Reinvestigating the relationship between cities and the spatial distribution of robbery: A tale of eight cities3
Adverse childhood experiences and delinquency: Does age of assessment matter?3
Understanding corrections fatigue and perceptions of natural landscaping at work: An exploratory study with staff at a corrections center for women3
Gang intervention during COVID-19: A qualitative study of multidisciplinary teams and street outreach in Denver3
Beyond a binary: Introducing the role of timing in understanding the link between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization in the Global South3
Group-individual probability confusion: Implications for suspect prioritization in criminal investigations3
Public assessments of the criminal justice system in addressing mental health3
Does pretrial detention influence time until re-involvement with the criminal legal system?3
Where are the guns?3
Solitary confinement, parole, and criminalization3
Predictors of perceived wrongfulness and harmfulness of crime among residents in Portugal3
A systematic review of therapeutic alternatives to segregation placement: Progress toward rehabilitative goals or a euphemistic rebranding?3
The developmental sequences of events underlying persistence in criminal convictions during adulthood3
The enduring lessons of war: Connecting culture, masculinities & violence across the life course3
Criminal court responses to the modern opioid and methamphetamine twindemic3
Shootings and land use3
Examining how structural characteristics and the physical environment simultaneously impact crime in neighborhoods: Using a semi-parametric strategy3
Are white-collar prisoners special? Prison adaptation and the special sensitivity hypothesis2
Predicting parole for emerging adult lifers: Do age, culpability, and rehabilitation matter?2
Discretion as weakness: Exploring the relationship between correctional officers' attitudes toward discretion and attempted boundary violations2
The structure of cooperation among organized crime groups: A network study of Merseyside, UK2
Spatiotemporal population mix (SPM) as a criminogenic mechanism: Testing environmental-criminology hypotheses with mobility clusters derived from mobile-device geotracking2
How maternal and paternal parenting behaviors predict developmental changes in self-control and deviance during early adolescence2
Nightlife activity and crime: The impact of COVID-19 related nightlife restrictions on violent crime2
Fledgling psychopathy meets social determinants of health: Evidence of childhood homicidal ideation among pediatric emergency department patients2
The disproportionate impact of post-George Floyd violence increases on minority neighborhoods in Philadelphia2
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Consistently inconsistent: Examining variability in police decision-making in mental health calls using a novel noise audit approach2
An early social support network analysis of men facing reentry2
Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department2
Exploring corporate violations through public data: A comparative analysis of financial offending in the UK and US2
Turnover in large US policing agencies following the George Floyd protests2
Examining the relationship between resting heart rate and callous-unemotional traits in juvenile delinquency2
When failure is the option: Unravelling sexual assault outcomes2
Vulnerable identities? Examining the association between disability with risk and consequences of identity theft2
Is rehabilitative approach to criminal justice better for young adults? Evidence from Santa Clara County, CA2
Police dispatch times: The effects of neighborhood structural disadvantage2
Why did the use of force go up? Investigating the unexpected impact of a body-worn camera program on a use of force time series2
The impacts of length of prison stay on recidivism of non-violent offenders in Oregon2
The math of serial murder: Understanding victim numbers and series duration2
Testing the predictive and incremental validity of callous-unemotional traits versus the multidimensional psychopathy construct in preschool children2
Adverse childhood experiences, developmental differences in impulse control and sensation seeking, and delinquency: A prospective multi-cohort study2
Interpretable Machine Learning and Criminological Theories: Global Evidence on Bullying Perpetration and Victimization (2001–2014)2
Rape by any other name… Comparing sexual assault cases labeled “suspicious circumstances” to those labeled sex crimes2
How prior experience and belief in redeemability impact employers' willingness to hire applicants with a criminal record2
Have offender demographics changed since the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from money mules in South Korea2
Citizen satisfaction with the police and college-based informal social controls: An unexpected finding2
Youth gun carriage: The interplay of community violence, family adversity, interpersonal violence, and substance use2
Does the public support anti-gang policies and practices and can opinions be swayed? Experimental evidence from a National Survey of Americans2
Being the first: Women and the memory of San José Police School 1930–19642
Exploring the effects on capital punishment sentencing of aggravating and mitigating factors that are not accepted2
New editorship at Journal of Criminal Justice: Carrying the baton2
The Rodney King incident and verdict revisited: Examining opinion-mobilizing effects using data from Southern California in 1991 and 19922
Proactive policing embedded in two models: A geospatial analysis of proactive activities by patrol officers and COP officers2
The role of poor sleep on the development of self-control and antisocial behavior from adolescence to adulthood2
Gender differences in serious police misconduct: A machine-learning analysis of the New York Police Department (NYPD)2
The effects of youth incarceration in adult institutions on future incarceration1
Violence in the Big Apple throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: A borough-specific analysis1
Ambiguous calls: Public preferences for law enforcement responses to people in crisis1
Stuck in the cycle? Assessing a reciprocal model of incarceration, health, and relative risk over twenty-five years1
Buy-in for police early intervention systems: An initial exploration of what works1
Revisiting the correlates of youth attitudes toward the police: The role of conservative and liberal crime ideology1
A theoretical critique of deterrence-based policy1
Parental criminality and children's educational attainment: A population-based extended family study1
Exploring child welfare pathways and dual system involvement1
Short timers and idle populations in overcrowded prisons1
Criminal lifestyle, psychopathy, and prison adjustment among female inmates1
Differential compliance with the reporting of hate crime statistics as a function of state laws1
Understanding violence in juvenile correctional facilities: A National study of victim-offender overlap in the United States1
Holding anti-feminist gender role beliefs mediate the relationship between family-related adverse childhood experiences and different forms of intimate partner violence perpetration in adulthood1
What makes risky facilities “risky?” A remote systematic social observation of environmental crime predictors at bars in Denver using Google street view imagery1
Economic correlates of crime: An empirical test in Houston1
“There is a common thread”: Shifting court culture through collaborative processes as a core component of pretrial reform1
The impact of plea bargaining on sexual offences in Spain: An analysis of judicial sentences1
On the Robustness of Black Americans’ Support for the Police: Evidence From a National Experiment1
Revisiting the influence of police response time: Examining the effects of response time on arrest and how it varies by call type1
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), psychotropic medication prescription, and continued offending among youth with serious offending histories in juvenile justice residential placement1
Self-reported offending and drug use after prison release: The pernicious role of stress during reentry1
Does New York State bail reform moderate the impact of pretrial detention on conviction rates?1
Is school discipline decapitalizing America's youth?: Examining the effect of school discipline on family, peer, teacher, and school social capital1
Neuropsychological functioning and its association with juvenile arrest and adulthood incarceration: Findings from a longitudinal sample of youth1
Drug treatment courts and community-level crime1
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Out of sight: Contextualizing risk avoidant routine activity1
Mental health outcomes from direct and indirect exposure to firearm violence: A cohort study of nonfatal shooting survivors and family members1
Pipe dreams: Cannabis legalization and the persistence of racial disparities in jail incarceration1
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd on victim and third-party reporting of domestic violence to the police in the US1
Victims' satisfaction with police communication strategies in discontinued cases: Unveiling the limits through a randomised controlled trial in Israel1
Measuring coercive control from police reports of intimate partner violence1
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