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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Significance of Duration Weighted Neighborhood Effects for Violent Behavior and Explanation of Ethnoracial Differences	45
Familial Clustering of Trends in Aggression	28
The Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Routine Activities and Online Crime	27
Co-offending and the Persistence of Violence: A Dynamic Analysis	23
Sexual Distance in Victim-Offender Relationships: Expanding the Social Distance Hypothesis for Rape Sentencing in China	14
Causal Effect of Small Businesses on Street Theft: Evidence from a Natural Experiment of the Beijing Cleanup Campaign	14
Chronic Exposure to Community Violence and Criminal Behavior: A Marginal Structural Modeling Approach	14
Location Choice of Snatching Offenders in Chennai City	13
Non-random Study Attrition: Assessing Correction Techniques and the Magnitude of Bias in a Longitudinal Study of Reentry from Prison	13
Questionable Research Practices and Open Science in Quantitative Criminology	13
Chaos Before Peace: The Impact of Exposure to a Prison Riot on Incarcerated Persons	13
Incremental Propensity Score Effects for Criminology: An Application Assessing the Relationship Between Homelessness, Behavioral Health Problems, and Recidivism	12
Do Police Body-Worn Cameras Reduce Citizen Fatalities? Results of a Country-Wide Natural Experiment	12
The Emergence and Evolution of Problematic Properties: Onset, Persistence, Aggravation, and Desistance	11
The Importance of Importance Sampling: Exploring Methods of Sampling from Alternatives in Discrete Choice Models of Crime Location Choice	11
Placing Perceptions of Unsafety: Examining Spatial Concentrations and Temporal Patterns of Unsafe Locations at Micro-Places	10
Addressing Ethnic Differences in the Validity of Self-reported Criminal Behaviour Through a Social Desirability Measure	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	8
Where is the Evidence? Comparing the Effects of Evidence Strength and Demographic Characteristics on Plea Discounts	8
An Algorithmic Assessment of Parole Decisions	8
Racial and Temporal Barriers in the Journey to Crime for Black and White Drug Suspects	7
Understanding Changes in Violent Extremist Attitudes During the Transition to Early Adulthood	7
Correction: Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums	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
Economic Booms and Recidivism	5

A Robust Measure to Uncover Community Brokerage in Illicit Networks	5
Accounting for Socio-Economic Context in Quantifying the Attractive and Repellent Influence of Built Environment on Firearms Violence in Multiple Cities	5
The Co-evolution of Friendship and Power Relations in a Men's Prison Unit	4
The Benefits of Patrol Officers Using Unallocated Time for Everyday Crime Prevention	4
Officer Networks and Firearm Behaviors: Assessing the Social Transmission of Weapon-Use	4
Industry-specific Labour Demand, Post-prison Employment and Recidivism – Evidence from Finland	4
Equity in the Police Districting Problem: Balancing Territorial and Racial Fairness in Patrolling Operations	4
Reflecting on the Interaction of Self-Control and Morality in Situational Action Theory: Comparing Absolute and Relative Effects of Self-control in 28 Countries	4
Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums	4
Moral Rules, Self-Control, and School Context: Additional Evidence on Situational Action Theory from 28 Countries	4
Does Reaching the Statute of Limitations Affect the Recidivist Behavior of Environmental Aggressors in Brazil?	3
Addressing the ‘Dirty Little Secret’ of Deterrence: Testing the Effects of Increased Police Presence on Perceptions of Arrest Risk	3
Absence of Street Lighting May Prevent Vehicle Crime, but Spatial and Temporal Displacement Remains a Concern	3
The Problem of Uneven Contribution: Investigating the Implications of Place for System-Wide Estimates of Race/Ethnicity	3
Can We Compare Attitudes Towards Crime Around the World? Assessing Measurement Invariance of the Morally Debatable Behavior Scale Across 44 Countries	3
To Blend in or Hide Out? A Network Analysis on Maritime Criminal Co-voyages in Taiwan	3
Impulsivity or Discounting? Evaluating the Influence of Individual Differences in Temporal Orientation on Offending	3
Hate in Word and Deed: The Temporal Association Between Online and Offline Islamophobia	2
Measuring Online–Offline Spillover of Gang Violence Using Bivariate Hawkes Processes	2
Space-Time Association between Gunshot Detection Alerts, Calls for Service, and Police Enforcement in Chicago: Differences Across Citizen Race and Incident Type	2
Visualizing Changes in the Age-Distributions of Homicides in the United States: 1964–2019	2
Correction to: An Algorithmic Assessment of Parole Decisions	2
Trajectories of Change in Acute Dynamic Risk Ratings and Associated Risk for Recidivism in Paroled New Zealanders: A Joint Latent Class Modelling Approach	2
Exploring the Neighborhood-Level Impact of Retail Marijuana Outlets on Crime in Washington State	2
Educational Consequences of Paternal Incarceration: Evidence from a Danish Policy Reform	2
When Things Turn Sour: A Network Event Study of Organized Crime Violence	2
Advances in Place-Based Methods: Editors’ Introduction	2
Identification Problems in Probabilistic Measures of Perceived Arrest Risk: Estimating a Partially-Identified Certainty Effect	2
The Effect of a Pre-Arraignment Legal Representation Pilot on Pretrial Release and Criminal Case Outcomes	2