OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Quantitative Criminology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Significance of Duration Weighted Neighborhood Effects for Violent Behavior and Explanation of Ethnoracial Differences	52
Familial Clustering of Trends in Aggression	31
Co-offending and the Persistence of Violence: A Dynamic Analysis	28
The Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Routine Activities and Online Crime	17
Sexual Distance in Victim-Offender Relationships: Expanding the Social Distance Hypothesis for Rape Sentencing in China	15
Causal Effect of Small Businesses on Street Theft: Evidence from a Natural Experiment of the Beijing Cleanup Campaign	14
Chaos Before Peace: The Impact of Exposure to a Prison Riot on Incarcerated Persons	13
Chronic Exposure to Community Violence and Criminal Behavior: A Marginal Structural Modeling Approach	13
Incremental Propensity Score Effects for Criminology: An Application Assessing the Relationship Between Homelessness, Behavioral Health Problems, and Recidivism	12
Questionable Research Practices and Open Science in Quantitative Criminology	12
The Emergence and Evolution of Problematic Properties: Onset, Persistence, Aggravation, and Desistance	11
Placing Perceptions of Unsafety: Examining Spatial Concentrations and Temporal Patterns of Unsafe Locations at Micro-Places	11
Addressing Ethnic Differences in the Validity of Self-reported Criminal Behaviour Through a Social Desirability Measure	9
An Algorithmic Assessment of Parole Decisions	9
Is There a Long-Term Criminogenic Effect of the Exposure to a Paternal Conviction During Upbringing? An Analysis of Full Siblings Using Swedish Register Data	9
Building the Statistical Evidence Base for Crime Linkage Decision-Support Tools with Sexual Offences	9
Correction: Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums	8
Where is the Evidence? Comparing the Effects of Evidence Strength and Demographic Characteristics on Plea Discounts	7
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: A Simulation and Illustration of the Importance of Treating Incomplete Data in Estimating Race Effects in Sentencing	7
Racial and Temporal Barriers in the Journey to Crime for Black and White Drug Suspects	7
Searching for Smurfs: Testing if Money Launderers Know Alert Thresholds	6
Hate-Motivated Violence in America: Conceptualizing an Expanded and Updated Typology Using Latent Class Analysis	5
A Robust Measure to Uncover Community Brokerage in Illicit Networks	5
Economic Booms and Recidivism	5
Reflecting on the Interaction of Self-Control and Morality in Situational Action Theory: Comparing Absolute and Relative Effects of Self-control in 28 Countries	5

When ‘Eyes on the Street’ Are Not Enough: Insights from Itinerant Street Markets	5
Accounting for Socio-Economic Context in Quantifying the Attractive and Repellent Influence of Built Environment on Firearms Violence in Multiple Cities	5
Officer Networks and Firearm Behaviors: Assessing the Social Transmission of Weapon-Use	4
Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums	4
Can We Compare Attitudes Towards Crime Around the World? Assessing Measurement Invariance of the Morally Debatable Behavior Scale Across 44 Countries	4
The Co-evolution of Friendship and Power Relations in a Men's Prison Unit	4
Industry-specific Labour Demand, Post-prison Employment and Recidivism – Evidence from Finland	4
The Problem of Uneven Contribution: Investigating the Implications of Place for System-Wide Estimates of Race/Ethnicity	3
To Blend in or Hide Out? A Network Analysis on Maritime Criminal Co-voyages in Taiwan	3
Hate in Word and Deed: The Temporal Association Between Online and Offline Islamophobia	3
Does Reaching the Statute of Limitations Affect the Recidivist Behavior of Environmental Aggressors in Brazil?	3
Absence of Street Lighting May Prevent Vehicle Crime, but Spatial and Temporal Displacement Remains a Concern	3
Trajectories of Change in Acute Dynamic Risk Ratings and Associated Risk for Recidivism in Paroled New Zealanders: A Joint Latent Class Modelling Approach	3
Correction to: An Algorithmic Assessment of Parole Decisions	3
Addressing the ‘Dirty Little Secret’ of Deterrence: Testing the Effects of Increased Police Presence on Perceptions of Arrest Risk	3
Using Bayesian Mixed Effect Generalized Linear Models to Evaluate Criminological Interventions: An Application to Firearm Seizures during Directed Patrol	3
Using Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models to Identify Indicators of Vulnerability in Police Incident Narratives	3
When Things Turn Sour: A Network Event Study of Organized Crime Violence	3
The Benefits of Patrol Officers Using Unallocated Time for Everyday Crime Prevention	3
Opportunistic Organization of Illicit Supply Chains	2
Identification Problems in Probabilistic Measures of Perceived Arrest Risk: Estimating a Partially-Identified Certainty Effect	2
Law or Authority: How Czech Penal Elites Shaped Sentencing Policy by Non-Binding Interventions	2
Measuring Online–Offline Spillover of Gang Violence Using Bivariate Hawkes Processes	2
Educational Consequences of Paternal Incarceration: Evidence from a Danish Policy Reform	2
Visualizing Changes in the Age-Distributions of Homicides in the United States: 1964–2019	2
Exploring the Neighborhood-Level Impact of Retail Marijuana Outlets on Crime in Washington State	2
Space-Time Association between Gunshot Detection Alerts, Calls for Service, and Police Enforcement in Chicago: Differences Across Citizen Race and Incident Type	2