OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Quantitative Criminology is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Significance of Duration Weighted Neighborhood Effects for Violent Behavior and Explanation of Ethnoracial Differences	54
Co-offending and the Persistence of Violence: A Dynamic Analysis	33
The Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Routine Activities and Online Crime	18
Sexual Distance in Victim-Offender Relationships: Expanding the Social Distance Hypothesis for Rape Sentencing in China	16
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
Chaos Before Peace: The Impact of Exposure to a Prison Riot on Incarcerated Persons	13
The Emergence and Evolution of Problematic Properties: Onset, Persistence, Aggravation, and Desistance	13
Incremental Propensity Score Effects for Criminology: An Application Assessing the Relationship Between Homelessness, Behavioral Health Problems, and Recidivism	13
Placing Perceptions of Unsafety: Examining Spatial Concentrations and Temporal Patterns of Unsafe Locations at Micro-Places	11
Mobility Network-based Measurement of Local Collective Efficacy and its Consequences for the Spatial Patterning of Violent Crime	11
Addressing Ethnic Differences in the Validity of Self-reported Criminal Behaviour Through a Social Desirability Measure	10
Building the Statistical Evidence Base for Crime Linkage Decision-Support Tools with Sexual Offences	9
An Algorithmic Assessment of Parole Decisions	9
Where is the Evidence? Comparing the Effects of Evidence Strength and Demographic Characteristics on Plea Discounts	8
Correction: Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums	8
Racial and Temporal Barriers in the Journey to Crime for Black and White Drug Suspects	7
Spillover Effects of Drug Markets on Gun Violence Across a Network of Neighborhoods in Three Cities	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	6
When ‘Eyes on the Street’ Are Not Enough: Insights from Itinerant Street Markets	5
Economic Booms and Recidivism	5
A Robust Measure to Uncover Community Brokerage in Illicit Networks	5
Searching for Smurfs: Testing if Money Launderers Know Alert Thresholds	5
The Co-evolution of Friendship and Power Relations in a Men's Prison Unit	5
Accounting for Socio-Economic Context in Quantifying the Attractive and Repellent Influence of Built Environment on Firearms Violence in Multiple Cities	5

Hate-Motivated Violence in America: Conceptualizing an Expanded and Updated Typology Using Latent Class Analysis	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