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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Mapping the Risk Terrain for Crime Using Machine Learning	41
Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City	32
Does Hot Spots Policing Have Meaningful Impacts on Crime? Findings from An Alternative Approach to Estimating Effect Sizes from Place-Based Program Evaluations	25
Measuring the Built Environment with Google Street View and Machine Learning: Consequences for Crime on Street Segments	25
Are Trustworthiness and Legitimacy ‘Hard to Win, Easy to Lose’? A Longitudinal Test of the Asymmetry Thesis of Police-Citizen Contact	21
Police Legitimacy and the Norm to Cooperate: Using a Mixed Effects Location-Scale Model to Estimate the Strength of Social Norms at a Small Spatial Scale	20
In Pursuit of Interpretable, Fair and Accurate Machine Learning for Criminal Recidivism Prediction	18
Global Crime Patterns: An Analysis of Survey Data from 166 Countries Around the World, 2006–2019	18
Explaining Crime Diversity with Google Street View	17
Non-random Study Attrition: Assessing Correction Techniques and the Magnitude of Bias in a Longitudinal Study of Reentry from Prison	16
The Relative Incident Rate Ratio Effect Size for Count-Based Impact Evaluations: When an Odds Ratio is Not an Odds Ratio	16
Is Gang Violent Crime More Contagious than Non-Gang Violent Crime?	14
Chains of Adversity: The Time-Varying Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Adolescent Behavior	14
Questionable Research Practices and Open Science in Quantitative Criminology	12
Who ‘Tweets’ Where and When, and How Does it Help Understand Crime Rates at Places? Measuring the Presence of Tourists and Commuters in Ambient Populations	12
Do Sports Programs Prevent Crime and Reduce Reoffending? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Effectiveness of Sports Programs	12
Modeling the Social and Spatial Proximity of Crime: Domestic and Sexual Violence Across Neighborhoods	11
Measuring Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force: Methods Matter	11
Too Fine to be Good? Issues of Granularity, Uniformity and Error in Spatial Crime Analysis	11
Residents, Employees and Visitors: Effects of Three Types of Ambient Population on Theft on Weekdays and Weekends in Beijing, China	9
Editor’s Introduction: Terrorism and Violent Extremism	9
Are Repeatedly Extorted Businesses Different? A Multilevel Hurdle Model of Extortion Victimization	9
A Network-Based Examination of the Longitudinal Association Between Psychopathy and Offending Versatility	9
Forecasting Spatio-Temporal Variation in Residential Burglary with the Integrated Laplace Approximation Framework: Effects of Crime Generators, Street Networks, and Prior Crimes	8
Dude, Where’s My Treatment Effect? Errors in Administrative Data Linking and the Destruction of Statistical Power in Randomized Experiments	8

A Natural Experiment to Test the Effect of Sanction Certainty and Celerity on Substance-Impaired Driving: North Dakota’s 24/7 Sobriety Program	8
Standard Errors in Quantitative Criminology: Taking Stock and Looking Forward	8
Moral Rules, Self-Control, and School Context: Additional Evidence on Situational Action Theory from 28 Countries	7
Do Police Body-Worn Cameras Reduce Citizen Fatalities? Results of a Country-Wide Natural Experiment	7
Pathways Through Juvenile Justice: A System-Level Assessment of Cumulative Disadvantage in the Processing of Juvenile Offenders	7
Recruitment into Organized Crime: An Agent-Based Approach Testing the Impact of Different Policies	7
Sobering Up After the Seventh Inning: Alcohol and Crime Around the Ballpark	7
Understanding Changes in Violent Extremist Attitudes During the Transition to Early Adulthood	7
Cohort Variation in U.S. Violent Crime Patterns from 1960 to 2014: An Age–Period–Cohort-Interaction Approach	7
Forecasting the Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States	7
When Do Offenders Commit Crime? An Analysis of Temporal Consistency in Individual Offending Patterns	7
Location Choice of Snatching Offenders in Chennai City	6
Gang Graffiti, Group Process, and Gang Violence	6
Street Light Outages, Public Safety and Crime Attraction	6
Explaining the Consumption of Illicit Cigarettes	6
The Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Routine Activities and Online Crime	5
Impulsivity, Peers, and Delinquency: A Dynamic Social Network Approach	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
Proactive Police Response in Property Crime Micro-time Hot Spots: Results from a Partially-Blocked Blind Random Controlled Trial	4
Understanding How Offending Prevalence and Frequency Change with Age in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development Using Bayesian Statistical Models	4
Intimate Partner Victimization and Depressive Symptoms: Approaching Causal Inference Using a Longitudinal Twin Design	4
Is Police Misconduct Contagious? Non-trivial Null Findings from Dallas, Texas	4
Hate in Word and Deed: The Temporal Association Between Online and Offline Islamophobia	4
Assessing Data Completeness, Quality, and Representativeness of Justifiable Homicides in the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports: A Research Note	4
Housing Instability Following Felony Conviction and Incarceration: Disentangling Being Marked from Being Locked Up	4
Both Sides of the Street: Introducing Measures of Physical and Social Boundaries Based on Differences Across Sides of the Street, and Consequences for Crime	3
p-value Problems? An Examination of Evidential Value in Criminology	3
Does Prison Deter Drunk-Drivers?	3
The Effect of a Death-in-Police-Custody Incident on Community Reliance on the Police	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
The Impact of Measurement Error in Regression Models Using Police Recorded Crime Rates	3
Capturing Crime at the Micro-place: A Spatial Approach to Inform Buffer Size	3
Third-Party Policing Approaches Against Organized Crime: An Evaluation of the Yakuza Exclusion Ordinances	3
Offending Frequency and Responses to Illegal Monetary Incentives	3
Exploring the Neighborhood-Level Impact of Retail Marijuana Outlets on Crime in Washington State	3
How and Why is Crime More Concentrated in Some Neighborhoods than Others?: A New Dimension to Community Crime	3
How Cohorts Changed Crime Rates, 1980–2016	2
A Conditional Likelihood Model of the Relationship Between Officer Features and Rounds Discharged in Police Shootings	2
Equity in the Police Districting Problem: Balancing Territorial and Racial Fairness in Patrolling Operations	2
The Influence of Temporal Specification on the Identification of Crime Hot Spots for Program Evaluations: A Test of Longitudinal Stability in Crime Patterns	2
Longitudinal Propensity Score Matching: A Demonstration of Counterfactual Conditions Adjusted for Longitudinal Clustering	2
Spatiotemporal Crime Patterns Across Six U.S. Cities: Analyzing Stability and Change in Clusters and Outliers	2
The Network of Neighborhoods and Geographic Space: Implications for Joblessness While on Parole	2
Impulsivity or Discounting? Evaluating the Influence of Individual Differences in Temporal Orientation on Offending	2
Investigating the Dynamics of Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Co-Offending Networks: The Utility of Relational Hyper Event Models	2
The Importance of Importance Sampling: Exploring Methods of Sampling from Alternatives in Discrete Choice Models of Crime Location Choice	2
When Things Turn Sour: A Network Event Study of Organized Crime Violence	2
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	2
Long-Term Dynamics of Neighborhoods and Crime: The Role of Education Over 40 Years	2
The Benefits of Patrol Officers Using Unallocated Time for Everyday Crime Prevention	2

Officer Networks and Firearm Behaviors: Assessing the Social Transmission of Weapon-Use	2
Juvenile Arrest and Later Economic Attainment: Strength and Mechanisms of the Relationship	2
Familial Clustering of Trends in Aggression	2