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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct522
To tent and protect: Homeless encampments as “protective facilities”38
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Deconstructing journey-to-crime's questionable validity in theft-related crimes27
Patrol officer activity by single- versus double-crewed status: The call-related output of one-officer and two-officer patrol units26
Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health25
A sexual frustration theory of aggression, violence, and crime25
Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior: Low resting heart rate in fathers predicts elevated criminality in sons22
Delineating the paradox: Gauging foreign nationals' “Target Suitability” to robbery in the United States20
Emotion dysregulation – A bridge between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior19
Firearm acquisition patterns and characteristics of California mass and active shooters19
The links between sleep, self-control, and internalizing/externalizing problems: A meta-analysis19
Machine learning analysis of a national sample of U.S. case law involving mental health evidence18
Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan16
The threat of gun violence and mass shootings: The extent of avoidance and protective behaviors among the American public15
Weeding out the Truth: A Survey Experiment on the Role of Scientific Evidence in Shaping Public Opinion on Marijuana Policy14
Examining a third level of police organizational climate: Does organizational self-legitimacy shape officer attitudes on the job?14
Problems of cross-cultural criminology no more! Testing two central tenets of Self-Control Theory across 28 nations14
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 offenders14
Drug offence detection during the pandemic: A spatiotemporal study of drug markets14
Psychopathy and the prospective prediction of adult offending through age 29: Revisiting unfulfilled promises of developmental criminology14
The influence of spirituality and religious participation on binge drinking: An investigation into subjective and structural mechanisms of desistance13
Testing the utility of the psychopathy construct for predicting criminal recidivism among detained girls13
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 officers12
Willingness to change and coming home from prison12
Psychopathy and crimes against humanity: A conceptual and empirical examination of human rights violators12
A dynamic factor model to predict homicides with firearm in the United States11
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Tracing changes in behavior across the extended solitary confinement process11
Gender and the commission of violent street robbery in Liverpool, 1850–1870. A historic criminology approach11
In-hand handgun retention: A crossover RCE comparing two techniques11
Revenge Effects and Electronic Control Weapons: A Cautionary Tale about the Unintended Consequences of Technology in the American Justice System11
The emergence and spread of the summons in lieu of arrest, 1907–198010
Beyond urban centers: Investigating general strain theory and opioid use among rural adolescents10
The shortsighted victim: Short-term mindsets mediate the link between victimization and later offending10
Public perceptions on police use of information technologies: Findings from a randomized vignette experiment10
Family structure, unstructured socializing, and delinquent behavior10
Exploring further determinants of citizen satisfaction with the police: The role of strain10
Formalizing and expanding school resource officer presence: Examining the influence on student arrests10
Examining the potential association between perceived life expectations and violent behaviors, criminal justice processing, and victimization: A longitudinal analysis9
“After that, I was leery about giving anybody a break about anything”: Officer-perceived consequences of trauma exposure on interactions with the public9
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
The utility of social network analysis to examine conflict and collaboration across boundaries: A review and research agenda for Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs8
Still meteoric after all these years: Acknowledgements8
A systematic review of experimental studies investigating attitudes towards sexual revictimization: Findings, ecological validity, and scientific rigor8
Risks considerations when resentencing juvenile homicide offenders: Unresolved science, policy and law issues post-Jones v. Mississippi8
Juvenile fatalities in law enforcement encounters8
The generalizability of public judgments of procedural justice across police interaction and demographic variables8
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
Racial/ethnic disparities in police recovery of stolen property: A previously unexplored facet of police/victim interaction8
Consequences of fearing police: Associations with youths' mental health and felt obligation to obey both the law and school rules8
Health conditions and victimization among incarcerated individuals in U.S. jails8
The impact of the Detroit crime gun intelligence center on fatal and nonfatal shooting clearance rates8
What is a neighborhood? A concept consensus review of recent criminological literature8
Neuropsychological deficits, adverse home environments, and cascading behaviors and consequences: An examination of relationships from childhood through adolescence8
Family incarceration and prison adaptation: Investigating the impact of family incarceration history on prison misconduct8
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement: The moderating role of socioeconomic status in a sample of urban youth8
The use of restrictive housing with incarcerated persons with mental illness: Variation in placement disparities by restrictive housing type8
Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model8
A test of faith: Exploring the attitudes and experiences of Catholics in the aftermath of the Church's child sexual abuse scandal8
Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course8
Correlates of victim services for fraud and identity theft among victim service providers7
The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras: Results from six German police departments7
Turnover intention among Indian police: Do organizational and community stressors matter?7
Beyond George Floyd: Assessing sentiments on police fund reallocation and its intersection with race and racial resentment7
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform: Lessons from Philadelphia7
“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
Psychopathic traits predict patterns of gun-carrying among a sample of justice-involved youth7
The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother7
From mobility to crime: Collective patterns of human mobility and gun violence in Baltimore City6
Disparities in extreme contexts: The impact of gender and mental health status on the criminal justice outcomes of extremists6
Incremental validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised above and beyond the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder regarding recidivism in sexual offenders6
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Revisiting the sexual recidivism drop in Canada and the United States: A meta-analysis of 468 empirical studies involving 388,994 individuals6
Community perspectives on gun violence and safety: The role of policing in Baltimore City6
Estimating the prevalence and frequency of adolescent substance use using zero-inflated models and variables associated with social learning, social bond, and opportunity6
Moving beyond “Does it reduce crime”: The curvilinear and moderating effects of greenspace6
Promoting disengagement: Effects of a gang intervention and exiting Program on negative police contacts6
Perceptual saturation in deterrence: Examining the nonlinear relationships between arrest rate signal and perceptions of risk and reward6
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of judicial supervision on recidivism and well-being factors of criminal offenders6
Associations of neighborhood disadvantage and offender concentration with criminal behavior: Between-within analysis in Finnish registry data6
The accumulated impact of direct and indirect workplace violence exposure on mental health and physiological activity among correctional officers6
An exploration of use of force among law enforcement officers with military service5
Explaining the relationship between neighborhood disorder and crime fear: The perceptual role of neighbors and the police5
The limits of digital liberation: The social locations of gang-affiliated girls and women in the digital streets5
Veto players and gun violence in drug markets: Analysis based on field observations of eighty drug-selling spots on the Westside of Chicago5
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The effects of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders on street and cybercrimes in a Brazilian city5
The predictive performance of criminal risk assessment tools used at sentencing: Systematic review of validation studies5
Hot spots policing as part of a city-wide violent crime reduction strategy: Initial evidence from Dallas5
Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers5
Who is to blame? Youth crime and attribution of responsibility in urban Mexico5
County jail incarceration rates and food hardship in the United States5
Is the recent surge in violence in American cities due to contagion?5
Social correlates of specialized versus versatile offending patterns in intimate partner violence: A register-based study in Finland5
Prediction of reoffending risk in men convicted of sexual offences: development and validation of novel and scalable risk assessment tools (OxRIS)5
Stalking victims' decisions to access victim services: A social ecological approach5
Density, diversity, and design: Three measures of the built environment and the spatial patterns of crime in street segments5
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Do everyday proactive policing activities reduce vehicle crashes? Examining a commonly held law enforcement belief using a novel method5
Bias in prosecutorial decision making: Bridging focal concerns & group threat4
Examining impacts of street characteristics on residents' fear of crime: Evidence from a longitudinal study of crime hot spots4
Greener the safer? Effects of urban green space on community safety and perception of safety using satellite and street view imagery data4
Childhood abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and juvenile recidivism: The mediating role of social bonds4
Healthcare utilization and type of criminal-legal system contact: The importance of employment and health insurance4
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
Head injury and aggressive behavior: Examining sex differences and the role of related risk factors4
The journey-to-crime buffer zone: Measurement issues and methodological challenges4
Microcosms of violence among street gang members: Social contagion, propensity to violence, and gang embeddedness4
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Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth4
A global comparison of long prison sentences4
Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response4
Recruiting the warrior cop: Assessing predictors of highly militarized recruitment videos4
Gang injunction, What's your function? Investigating the relationship between civil gang injunctions and gang associates' patterns of association4
Public preferences for opioid reform in a post-COVID era: Consensus and divides4
Time after time: Factors predicting murder series' duration4
Domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic - Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis4
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Focal concerns theory and case advancement in sexual assault cases: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
The impact of building the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on crime in Atlanta, GA4
Day and night: Evaluating the impact of CCTV and street lighting on urban crime prevention in Detroit4
“Get rich quick,” scheme or script? The effect of cryptoculture on the susceptibility of fraud victimization among cryptocurrency purchasers4
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
Beware the truth effect: Why efforts to debunk rape myths may backfire3
Searching for a big score: Analyzing drug yield from search warrant executions3
Mental illness, race, gender and sentencing in state homicide cases3
Shootings and land use3
To report or not to report: Exploring the motivations and factors associated with reporting of ransomware victimisation among entrepreneurs3
Understanding corrections fatigue and perceptions of natural landscaping at work: An exploratory study with staff at a corrections center for women3
Gender, adverse childhood experiences, and the development of self-control3
Crime down in the Paris of the prairies: Spatial effects of COVID-19 and crime during lockdown in Saskatoon, Canada3
The role of community policing in communities with serious gang problems: Insights from Trinidad and Tobago3
Assessing the feasibility and performance of risk assessment instruments for early intervention and prevention services in Juvenile Justice3
Household occupancy and burglary: A case study using COVID-19 restrictions3
Measuring normative obligation to obey the police: An empirical assessment of a new police legitimacy scale3
Adverse childhood experiences and delinquency: Does age of assessment matter?3
Predictors of perceived wrongfulness and harmfulness of crime among residents in Portugal3
“I knew if I did that, they'd catch me again”: Changes in deterrability over the criminal career3
Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: An exploratory study3
Criminal court responses to the modern opioid and methamphetamine twindemic3
Gang intervention during COVID-19: A qualitative study of multidisciplinary teams and street outreach in Denver3
Prediction of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England: External validation study of a risk assessment tool (OxRec)3
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
New editorship at Journal of Criminal Justice: Carrying the baton2
Where are the guns?2
The math of serial murder: Understanding victim numbers and series duration2
Gender differences in serious police misconduct: A machine-learning analysis of the New York Police Department (NYPD)2
Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department2
Space matters: An examination of the circumstances surrounding violence against correctional staff2
The developmental sequences of events underlying persistence in criminal convictions during adulthood2
Exploring trajectories of offender harm: An alternative approach to understanding offending pathways over the life-course2
Ending the stigma of male domestic violence and abuse victims: A mixed-methods study2
The role of poor sleep on the development of self-control and antisocial behavior from adolescence to adulthood2
Hunting in the digital jungle: Exploring cyberstalking with higher order moderation in situational action theory2
Disagreeable and out of control: Applicability of the Big Five and low self-control in predicting offending2
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Understanding police decisions to arrest: The impact of situational, officer, and neighborhood characteristics on police discretion2
Testing the predictive and incremental validity of callous-unemotional traits versus the multidimensional psychopathy construct in preschool children2
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
Exploring mental health profiles of male youth detained in forensic settings: Implications for research and clinical practice2
Parental criminality as an extralegal biasing factor in being processed through the criminal justice system2
The Indianapolis harmspot policing experiment2
The role of employment as a mediator in correctional education's impact on recidivism: A quasi-experimental study of multiple programs2
Does the public support anti-gang policies and practices and can opinions be swayed? Experimental evidence from a National Survey of Americans2
Does pretrial detention influence time until re-involvement with the criminal legal system?2
Identifying signals of mental health crisis in calls for police service2
Proactive policing embedded in two models: A geospatial analysis of proactive activities by patrol officers and COP officers2
Adverse childhood experiences, developmental differences in impulse control and sensation seeking, and delinquency: A prospective multi-cohort study2
Drug overdose death rates and criminal sentencing of federal drug offenders in the United States2
The Rodney King incident and verdict revisited: Examining opinion-mobilizing effects using data from Southern California in 1991 and 19922
Public assessments of the criminal justice system in addressing mental health2
Reinvestigating the relationship between cities and the spatial distribution of robbery: A tale of eight cities2
Beyond a binary: Introducing the role of timing in understanding the link between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization in the Global South2
Solitary confinement, parole, and criminalization2
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The structure of cooperation among organized crime groups: A network study of Merseyside, UK1
Differential compliance with the reporting of hate crime statistics as a function of state laws1
‘Till death do us part’: An integrated multi-theoretical approach to identify predictors of intimate partner homicide1
Convicted women's trajectories of community and financial adversity and race1
Discretion as weakness: Exploring the relationship between correctional officers' attitudes toward discretion and attempted boundary violations1
Are gun ownership rates and regulations associated with firearm incidents in American schools? A forty-year analysis (1980–2019)1
Predicting parole for emerging adult lifers: Do age, culpability, and rehabilitation matter?1
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), psychotropic medication prescription, and continued offending among youth with serious offending histories in juvenile justice residential placement1
How prior experience and belief in redeemability impact employers' willingness to hire applicants with a criminal record1
Elucidating the relevance of dissociation and emotion dysregulation for aggression in forensic and community samples1
Examining the relationship between resting heart rate and callous-unemotional traits in juvenile delinquency1
Gold, silver, and bronze: Measuring the impact of the Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics on crime1
The great methods bake-off: Comparing performance of machine learning algorithms1
Turnover in large US policing agencies following the George Floyd protests1
A multiplex network approach to understanding extremist organizations: A case study of the Proud Boys1
Nightlife activity and crime: The impact of COVID-19 related nightlife restrictions on violent crime1
The dynamic emotional experience of online fraud victims during the process of being defrauded: A text-based analysis1
The impact of COVID-19 on police officer activities1
Does routine activity theory still matter during COVID-19 restrictions? The geography of sexual assaults before, during, and after COVID-19 restrictions1
Examining psychopathy as a predictor of recidivism in a sample of women who have sexually offended1
Are police as “guardian-oriented” as they should be? Expectation-reality discrepancies are related to perceptions of legitimacy1
Stuck in the cycle? Assessing a reciprocal model of incarceration, health, and relative risk over twenty-five years1
Small area variation in crime effects of COVID-19 policies in England and Wales1
Using machine learning to assess rape reports: “Signaling” words about victims' credibility that predict investigative and prosecutorial outcomes1
Drunk and dangerous? Exploring the tenuous links among drunk driving, alcohol arrests, and firearm violence in an urban context1
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A theory of change driven approach to evaluating a multi-agency stalking intervention programme1
Mental illness, focal concerns, and intersectionality: The relationship between types of mental illness, types of crime, and race and gender in sentencing in state courts1
Are white-collar prisoners special? Prison adaptation and the special sensitivity hypothesis1
Public support for safe-storage laws: White nationalism and politics as barriers to evidence-based gun policy1
Police dispatch times: The effects of neighborhood structural disadvantage1
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
The disproportionate impact of post-George Floyd violence increases on minority neighborhoods in Philadelphia1
Proactive monitoring and operator discretion: A systematic social observation of CCTV control room operations1
Justifiability and culpability in lethal self-defense: Police officers vs. civilians1
Exploring the effects on capital punishment sentencing of aggravating and mitigating factors that are not accepted1
Examining recidivism during reentry: Proposing a holistic model of health and wellbeing1
Rape by any other name… Comparing sexual assault cases labeled “suspicious circumstances” to those labeled sex crimes1
Do early environmental factors influence the relationship between psychopathy and crime: Longitudinal findings from the transitions in Amsterdam study1
How maternal and paternal parenting behaviors predict developmental changes in self-control and deviance during early adolescence1
When failure is the option: Unravelling sexual assault outcomes1
Public perceptions of, and preferences toward, police vehicle designs: A mixed-method test of a theoretical question1
Vulnerable identities? Examining the association between disability with risk and consequences of identity theft1
Revisiting the correlates of youth attitudes toward the police: The role of conservative and liberal crime ideology1
Sexual assault proclivity and sexual aggression in college men: Associations with psychopathic traits and sex drive1
Expanding the ACEs index beyond the household: A gendered assessment of the adversity-delinquency nexus1
Reaffirming the relationship between routine activities and violent victimization in prison1
Criminal lifestyle, psychopathy, and prison adjustment among female inmates1
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Violence in the Big Apple throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: A borough-specific analysis1
Citizen satisfaction with the police and college-based informal social controls: An unexpected finding1
Historical criminology, a moving target: Understanding and challenging trends in British and American periodization1
Being the first: Women and the memory of San José Police School 1930–19641
Police use of force at street segments: Do street-level characteristics matter?1
The impacts of length of prison stay on recidivism of non-violent offenders in Oregon1
Disciplining risk: Governing through conditions on bail in the community pre-trial1
The impact of incarceration on reoffending: A period-to-period analysis of Canadian youth followed into adulthood1
Why did the use of force go up? Investigating the unexpected impact of a body-worn camera program on a use of force time series1
Territory, residency, and routine activities: A typology of gang member mobility patterns with implications for place-based interventions1
Fledgling psychopathy meets social determinants of health: Evidence of childhood homicidal ideation among pediatric emergency department patients1
Dynamic risk trajectories, community context, and juvenile recidivism1
Have offender demographics changed since the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from money mules in South Korea1
Drug treatment courts and community-level crime1
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