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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Patrol officer activity by single- versus double-crewed status: The call-related output of one-officer and two-officer patrol units56
Deconstructing journey-to-crime's questionable validity in theft-related crimes47
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From theory to conceptualization, through operationalization: Comparing indicators of desistance from crime34
The links between sleep, self-control, and internalizing/externalizing problems: A meta-analysis31
Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct29
The geographical aspect of offending across crime types: A study on the journey to crime and co-offender dispersion27
A longitudinal qualitative analysis of probation and parole officer stress and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic27
The Other perspectives on the development and life course of offending22
Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior: Low resting heart rate in fathers predicts elevated criminality in sons22
To tent and protect: Homeless encampments as “protective facilities”21
Delineating the paradox: Gauging foreign nationals' “Target Suitability” to robbery in the United States20
Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health20
Leveraging code enforcement units to reduce crime: A difference-in-difference analysis of a targeted crime prevention intervention19
Firearm acquisition patterns and characteristics of California mass and active shooters19
Is the Static-99R valid for all men with ‘identifiable’ victims? Examining cases of online sexual solicitation of children18
Examining a third level of police organizational climate: Does organizational self-legitimacy shape officer attitudes on the job?17
The importance of social dynamics in a prison environment: Learning from the concerns of incarcerated people17
The hidden harms of bond reform: Examining the impact of bond reform on restrictive conditions of release17
Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan16
Psychopathy and the prospective prediction of adult offending through age 29: Revisiting unfulfilled promises of developmental criminology15
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 Policy13
The influence of spirituality and religious participation on binge drinking: An investigation into subjective and structural mechanisms of desistance13
Machine learning analysis of a national sample of U.S. case law involving mental health evidence13
Honesty as a “communicative tool” in sentencing: A study of judges in the U.S. and Australia13
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 10213
Emotion dysregulation – A bridge between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior13
Neighborhoods, violence, and guns: Unraveling the drivers of youth gun carrying in adjudicated populations13
Gender and the commission of violent street robbery in Liverpool, 1850–1870. A historic criminology approach12
In-hand handgun retention: A crossover RCE comparing two techniques12
Firearm Acquisition and Criminal Use: Legal and illegal possession of Crime Guns in California (2010−2021)12
Tracing changes in behavior across the extended solitary confinement process12
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A dynamic factor model to predict homicides with firearm in the United States12
Revenge Effects and Electronic Control Weapons: A Cautionary Tale about the Unintended Consequences of Technology in the American Justice System12
Psychopathy and crimes against humanity: A conceptual and empirical examination of human rights violators11
Willingness to change and coming home from prison11
The shortsighted victim: Short-term mindsets mediate the link between victimization and later offending11
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
Testing the utility of the psychopathy construct for predicting criminal recidivism among detained girls11
Formalizing and expanding school resource officer presence: Examining the influence on student arrests11
Examining the potential association between perceived life expectations and violent behaviors, criminal justice processing, and victimization: A longitudinal analysis10
Exploring further determinants of citizen satisfaction with the police: The role of strain10
The emergence and spread of the summons in lieu of arrest, 1907–198010
Domestic violence perpetrated against men in Kigamboni Municipality, Tanzania: Evidence from social ecological framework10
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
Consequences of fearing police: Associations with youths' mental health and felt obligation to obey both the law and school rules10
The use of restrictive housing with incarcerated persons with mental illness: Variation in placement disparities by restrictive housing type9
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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 Gangs9
Beyond urban centers: Investigating general strain theory and opioid use among rural adolescents9
Racial/ethnic disparities in police recovery of stolen property: A previously unexplored facet of police/victim interaction9
Neuropsychological deficits, adverse home environments, and cascading behaviors and consequences: An examination of relationships from childhood through adolescence9
Still meteoric after all these years: Acknowledgements9
Risks considerations when resentencing juvenile homicide offenders: Unresolved science, policy and law issues post-Jones v. Mississippi9
Public perceptions on police use of information technologies: Findings from a randomized vignette experiment9
Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model9
Family structure, unstructured socializing, and delinquent behavior9
Family incarceration and prison adaptation: Investigating the impact of family incarceration history on prison misconduct9
Does time heal all? Evaluating the effect of time since conviction on employability9
Pathways to sexual aggression according to modus operandi in male and female perpetrators: A systematic review9
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement: The moderating role of socioeconomic status in a sample of urban youth9
A dyadic analysis of social network stability before and after incarceration8
Exploring crime through physical and social neighborhood factors: Greenspace and social disconnection in Los Angeles8
A test of faith: Exploring the attitudes and experiences of Catholics in the aftermath of the Church's child sexual abuse scandal8
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Juvenile fatalities in law enforcement encounters8
Adolescent sexual offending: A comparison of female and male adolescents on the ERASOR, and background and offense characteristics8
The generalizability of public judgments of procedural justice across police interaction and demographic variables8
Turnover intention among Indian police: Do organizational and community stressors matter?8
The impact of the Detroit crime gun intelligence center on fatal and nonfatal shooting clearance rates8
Voices from inside focused deterrence: Implications for implementation8
Probation and parole agent communication patterns as antecedents to clients' reactance and acts to restore freedoms: Moderating effects of emerging adult status and gender8
Fear of cybercrime victimisation: Examining the relationship between fear and victimisation8
Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course8
What is a neighborhood? A concept consensus review of recent criminological literature8
The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother7
Incremental validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised above and beyond the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder regarding recidivism in sexual offenders7
Disparities in extreme contexts: The impact of gender and mental health status on the criminal justice outcomes of extremists7
Revisiting the sexual recidivism drop in Canada and the United States: A meta-analysis of 468 empirical studies involving 388,994 individuals7
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From mobility to crime: Collective patterns of human mobility and gun violence in Baltimore City7
Justice by privilege? Social inequality in waivers of prosecution among youth.7
“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
Perceptual saturation in deterrence: Examining the nonlinear relationships between arrest rate signal and perceptions of risk and reward7
Estimating the prevalence and frequency of adolescent substance use using zero-inflated models and variables associated with social learning, social bond, and opportunity7
The intricate nature of vulnerability to victimization: Low self-control, age, and economic status7
Moving beyond “Does it reduce crime”: The curvilinear and moderating effects of greenspace7
Promoting disengagement: Effects of a gang intervention and exiting Program on negative police contacts6
Beyond George Floyd: Assessing sentiments on police fund reallocation and its intersection with race and racial resentment6
The accumulated impact of direct and indirect workplace violence exposure on mental health and physiological activity among correctional officers6
Correlates of non-suicidal self-injury in South Korean juvenile detention facilities: A general strain theory perspective6
Does classroom composition of immigrant versus non-immigrant adolescents explain violence perpetration? A cross-cultural study6
Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth6
County jail incarceration rates and food hardship in the United States6
Veto players and gun violence in drug markets: Analysis based on field observations of eighty drug-selling spots on the Westside of Chicago6
Neighborhood level predictors of rape: A novel spatial regression approach6
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
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform: Lessons from Philadelphia6
The predictive performance of criminal risk assessment tools used at sentencing: Systematic review of validation studies6
Hot spots policing as part of a city-wide violent crime reduction strategy: Initial evidence from Dallas6
The effects of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders on street and cybercrimes in a Brazilian city6
A global comparison of long prison sentences6
The association of gang embeddedness and sexual victimization with mental health outcomes6
Community perspectives on gun violence and safety: The role of policing in Baltimore City6
Correlates of victim services for fraud and identity theft among victim service providers6
The pursuit of gun safety in a new era: Exploring predictors of firearm storage practices among the public6
Social correlates of specialized versus versatile offending patterns in intimate partner violence: A register-based study in Finland6
Greener the safer? Effects of urban green space on community safety and perception of safety using satellite and street view imagery data6
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The journey-to-crime buffer zone: Measurement issues and methodological challenges5
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
Beyond the joystick: Exploring the relationship between game addiction trajectories and aggression dimensions5
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Head injury and aggressive behavior: Examining sex differences and the role of related risk factors5
Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response5
Microcosms of violence among street gang members: Social contagion, propensity to violence, and gang embeddedness5
Examining impacts of street characteristics on residents' fear of crime: Evidence from a longitudinal study of crime hot spots5
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Who is to blame? Youth crime and attribution of responsibility in urban Mexico5
Lethal violence in a Tourist City of the global south: Evidence from Recife, Brazil5
Prediction of reoffending risk in men convicted of sexual offences: development and validation of novel and scalable risk assessment tools (OxRIS)5
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Healthcare utilization and type of criminal-legal system contact: The importance of employment and health insurance5
The impact of building the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on crime in Atlanta, GA5
Bias in prosecutorial decision making: Bridging focal concerns & group threat5
Criminal legal sanctions and the false dichotomy between deterrence and rehabilitation: Implications for sentencing research and policy5
An exploration of use of force among law enforcement officers with military service5
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
Stalking victims' decisions to access victim services: A social ecological approach5
Time after time: Factors predicting murder series' duration5
A neighborhood analysis of U.S homicide clearances in 50 cities: Examining race and disadvantage across neighborhood types5
The influence of acute life stressors on mass shooter outcomes5
Day and night: Evaluating the impact of CCTV and street lighting on urban crime prevention in Detroit5
Public preferences for opioid reform in a post-COVID era: Consensus and divides5
Police bias units and hate crime reporting: Insights from the geocoded version of the National Crime Victimization Survey4
Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?: Examining how parental and youth perceptions of future system involvement predict early adulthood criminal involvement4
Social network analysis as a tool for understanding mass shooting prevention: A case study of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting4
Mental illness, race, gender and sentencing in state homicide cases4
“Get rich quick,” scheme or script? The effect of cryptoculture on the susceptibility of fraud victimization among cryptocurrency purchasers4
Criminal court responses to the modern opioid and methamphetamine twindemic4
Recruiting the warrior cop: Assessing predictors of highly militarized recruitment videos4
Wrongful convictions in Spain: Systematic analysis of judgments from 1996 to 20224
Understanding corrections fatigue and perceptions of natural landscaping at work: An exploratory study with staff at a corrections center for women4
Measuring normative obligation to obey the police: An empirical assessment of a new police legitimacy scale4
Beware the truth effect: Why efforts to debunk rape myths may backfire4
To report or not to report: Exploring the motivations and factors associated with reporting of ransomware victimisation among entrepreneurs4
Examining how structural characteristics and the physical environment simultaneously impact crime in neighborhoods: Using a semi-parametric strategy4
Childhood abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and juvenile recidivism: The mediating role of social bonds4
How can restrictive housing be prevented or reduced? Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues confronting research and policy4
Gang intervention during COVID-19: A qualitative study of multidisciplinary teams and street outreach in Denver4
Predictors of perceived wrongfulness and harmfulness of crime among residents in Portugal4
“I knew if I did that, they'd catch me again”: Changes in deterrability over the criminal career4
Shootings and land use4
Household occupancy and burglary: A case study using COVID-19 restrictions4
Searching for a big score: Analyzing drug yield from search warrant executions4
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
Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: An exploratory study4
The role of community policing in communities with serious gang problems: Insights from Trinidad and Tobago4
Who is fatigued? A repeated cross-sectional survey of officer attitudes towards people who use opioids, naloxone, and their role in responding to opioid overdoses4
The developmental sequences of events underlying persistence in criminal convictions during adulthood3
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Parental criminality as an extralegal biasing factor in being processed through the criminal justice system3
Patterns of informal mentorship in policing: A case study3
Proactive policing embedded in two models: A geospatial analysis of proactive activities by patrol officers and COP officers3
Does pretrial detention influence time until re-involvement with the criminal legal system?3
Ending the stigma of male domestic violence and abuse victims: A mixed-methods study3
When life domains become problematic: A criminological exploration of academic dishonesty in Iran using Agnew's general theory of crime and delinquency3
Solitary confinement, parole, and criminalization3
High resting heart rate reduces risk of white-collar criminality3
The enduring lessons of war: Connecting culture, masculinities & violence across the life course3
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
Does variation across judicial circuits matter? Examining the role of bail schedules and pretrial detention on drug case outcomes in Florida3
A life-course analysis of radicalization among extremists in the Philippines using the life history calendar3
Exploring mental health profiles of male youth detained in forensic settings: Implications for research and clinical practice3
Where are the guns?3
The tangled history of social network analysis and gang research—A long way from Street Corner Society3
Identifying signals of mental health crisis in calls for police service3
Exploring trajectories of offender harm: An alternative approach to understanding offending pathways over the life-course3
Public assessments of the criminal justice system in addressing mental health3
Hunting in the digital jungle: Exploring cyberstalking with higher order moderation in situational action theory3
Crime down in the Paris of the prairies: Spatial effects of COVID-19 and crime during lockdown in Saskatoon, Canada3
Prediction of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England: External validation study of a risk assessment tool (OxRec)3
A systematic review of therapeutic alternatives to segregation placement: Progress toward rehabilitative goals or a euphemistic rebranding?3
Why we need juror education in rape and serious sexual offence cases3
The impact of officer and supervisor training in police use of force incidents3
Disagreeable and out of control: Applicability of the Big Five and low self-control in predicting offending3
Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department3
Pandemic, protests, and policing: Clearing crime in 20203
Group-individual probability confusion: Implications for suspect prioritization in criminal investigations3
Reinvestigating the relationship between cities and the spatial distribution of robbery: A tale of eight cities3
Beyond a binary: Introducing the role of timing in understanding the link between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization in the Global South3
Adverse childhood experiences and delinquency: Does age of assessment matter?3
Assessing the feasibility and performance of risk assessment instruments for early intervention and prevention services in Juvenile Justice3
The sentencing of emerging adult offenders: The impact of youthfulness on sentence departures2
Through the survivor’s lens: How focal concerns theory shapes decisions to report sexual violence2
Exploring corporate violations through public data: A comparative analysis of financial offending in the UK and US2
Examining facility-level differences in the early decisions of the disciplinary process and use of disciplinary segregation2
Trajectories of control: Exposure to punitive social control over time and its associated consequences2
How maternal and paternal parenting behaviors predict developmental changes in self-control and deviance during early adolescence2
New editorship at Journal of Criminal Justice: Carrying the baton2
How prior experience and belief in redeemability impact employers' willingness to hire applicants with a criminal record2
The Rodney King incident and verdict revisited: Examining opinion-mobilizing effects using data from Southern California in 1991 and 19922
The structure of cooperation among organized crime groups: A network study of Merseyside, UK2
Adverse childhood experiences, developmental differences in impulse control and sensation seeking, and delinquency: A prospective multi-cohort study2
Gender differences in serious police misconduct: A machine-learning analysis of the New York Police Department (NYPD)2
Space matters: An examination of the circumstances surrounding violence against correctional staff2
Being the first: Women and the memory of San José Police School 1930–19642
Citizen satisfaction with the police and college-based informal social controls: An unexpected finding2
Are police as “guardian-oriented” as they should be? Expectation-reality discrepancies are related to perceptions of legitimacy2
Turnover in large US policing agencies following the George Floyd protests2
Drunk and dangerous? Exploring the tenuous links among drunk driving, alcohol arrests, and firearm violence in an urban context2
Vulnerable identities? Examining the association between disability with risk and consequences of identity theft2
The impacts of length of prison stay on recidivism of non-violent offenders in Oregon2
The disproportionate impact of post-George Floyd violence increases on minority neighborhoods in Philadelphia2
Exploring the effects on capital punishment sentencing of aggravating and mitigating factors that are not accepted2
Have offender demographics changed since the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from money mules in South Korea2
Is rehabilitative approach to criminal justice better for young adults? Evidence from Santa Clara County, CA2
Exploring the factors that differentiate individual and group offenders in cyber-dependent crime2
Does the public support anti-gang policies and practices and can opinions be swayed? Experimental evidence from a National Survey of Americans2
The role of poor sleep on the development of self-control and antisocial behavior from adolescence to adulthood2
Youth gun carriage: The interplay of community violence, family adversity, interpersonal violence, and substance use2
Testing the predictive and incremental validity of callous-unemotional traits versus the multidimensional psychopathy construct in preschool children2
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
Interpretable Machine Learning and Criminological Theories: Global Evidence on Bullying Perpetration and Victimization (2001–2014)2
Guns do kill people: Novel global evidence on the cross-national relationship between gun ownership and (gun) homicide2
Sexual assault proclivity and sexual aggression in college men: Associations with psychopathic traits and sex drive2
The math of serial murder: Understanding victim numbers and series duration2
Discretion as weakness: Exploring the relationship between correctional officers' attitudes toward discretion and attempted boundary violations2
Police dispatch times: The effects of neighborhood structural disadvantage2
Fledgling psychopathy meets social determinants of health: Evidence of childhood homicidal ideation among pediatric emergency department patients2
Exploring the mobility-crime dynamics across various stages of a Global Health crisis: Temporal evidence from 25 cities in the United States2
Nightlife activity and crime: The impact of COVID-19 related nightlife restrictions on violent crime2
Examining the relationship between resting heart rate and callous-unemotional traits in juvenile delinquency2
Spatiotemporal population mix (SPM) as a criminogenic mechanism: Testing environmental-criminology hypotheses with mobility clusters derived from mobile-device geotracking2
Predicting parole for emerging adult lifers: Do age, culpability, and rehabilitation matter?2
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
Mobility-based neighborhood disadvantage and crime in Houston2
Rape by any other name… Comparing sexual assault cases labeled “suspicious circumstances” to those labeled sex crimes2
When failure is the option: Unravelling sexual assault outcomes2
Police capacity for cybercrime response: Assessing the impact of officers’ perceptions and agency-level factors on England and Wales constables’ capability responding to computer hacking offenses2
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