OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Contemporary 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Cybercrime Correlates Among Adolescents in Europe and South America: A Cross-National Analysis Based on Situational Action Theory	34
A Social Network Analysis of Publishing Networks in the “Big 5” Journals in Criminology and Criminal Justice	25
Intentional Homicides and Alcohol Abuse in Lithuania	17
The National Crime Victimization Survey at Fifty: Introduction to the Special Issue	15
Youth Street Groups in Spain: Prevalence, Associated Factors, and Gender Differences	13
Forecasting Future Crime Rates	12
“This Place Will Wear You Down”: Examining the Organizational and Contagion Effects of Stress on Correctional Staff Working Overtime in U.S. Prisons	11
A Standardized Matrix for Mental Health Diversion Program Reporting	10
The Efficacy of Juvenile Court Supervision in Addressing Youth Risks and Needs	9
The Shadow Police: User-Pays Policing in the State of Mexico	8
Girls’ Violence in the Matrix of Domination: Skin Tone, Femininities, and Dignity Challenges	7
Triggering Violence? The Impact of Firearms on the Nature and Lethality of Violent Encounters: A European Perspective	6
Penality at the Periphery: Deficits, Absences, and Negation	6
Databases for Substance Use Research in Hong Kong: An Introduction	6
A Developmental and Life-Course Approach to Further Understanding of the Nature and Causes of Intimate Partner Violence and Femicide	6
Perspectives on Diversion in the Criminal Justice and Health care Systems	6
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) With Incarcerated Women: Exploring the Role of Prison Activities as a Determinant of Preparedness for Re-entry	6
Unnesting the Matryoshka Doll: An Ecological Model of Probation and Parole Decision-Making in Ireland	6
The Evolution of the Measurement of Rape and Sexual Assault Over 50 Years: Milestones, Definitions, Operationalizations, and Classifications	6
Plural Policing in Papua New Guinea: More Than the Sum of Its Parts?	6
Plea Bargaining and Trial Decisions in Context: An Examination of Disparities in Punishment	5
Who Deserves Diversion? A Theoretical Critique of Mitigation, Consequentialism, and the Juvenile Court	5
The Development of the Irish Youth Justice System: Toward a Children’s Rights Model of Youth Justice?	5
“Cameras Help, but Hurt”: The Role and Use of Prison Cameras for Accountability	4
Navigating the Borderlands: System-Impacted Latina Girls, Cultural Tyranny, and the Juvenile Legal System	4

Women’s Pathways to Incarceration in India and Sri Lanka: Insights From an Intersectional Narrative Analysis	4
Declining Trends in Crime Reporting and Victims’ Trust of Police in the United States and Major Metropolitan Areas in the 21st Century	4
Corrigendum to Explaining the Extraordinary Decline in Chicago’s Homicide Arrest Rates, 1965 to 1994 and Beyond: Trends in Case Mix Versus Standards for Arrest	4
Five Areas Which Make the Irish Organized Crime Milieu Distinctive	4
Theory Development and Crime Prevention Insights From the NCVS	4
The Culture of Control in Schools: How Punitive and Disadvantaged Spaces Impact Race-Specific Suspension Rates	4
In the Name of Dark Web Justice: A Crime Script Analysis of Hacking Services and the Underground Justice System	4
Does the Detention Decision Influence Juvenile Court Processing? An Examination of Cumulative Disadvantage	4
A Research Note on Suicidal Behavior as a Precursor to Domestic Homicide, With a Coda on Trends in Femicide Before, During and After COVID	4
The “Yelp-Ification” of the Dark Web: An Exploration of the Use of Consumer Feedback in Dark Web Markets	4
Comparing the Determinants of Worldwide Homicide and Terrorism	3
A Thematic Analysis of Case Managers’ Perspectives on Enablers and Constraints to Community Youth Justice Service Delivery in an Australian Jurisdiction	3
A Review of the Evolution of the NCS-NCVS Police Reporting and Response Questions and Their Application to Older Women Experiencing Violent Victimization	3
Outcomes of a Court-Based Substance Use Disorder Diversion Pilot Program: A Cost Analysis	3
Idle Time in Prison: The Emotional, Social, and Practical Impacts of Incapacitation	3
Evaluating Research and Scholarly Impact in Criminology and Criminal Justice in the United Kingdom and Italy: A Comparative Perspective	3
Guiding Cases and the Death Penalty in the Chinese Mainland	3
An Assessment of Cryptomixing Services in Online Illicit Markets	3
The Research Utility of the National Violent Death Reporting System for Understanding Homicide Trends	3
You Won’t Break My Soul: Black Women’s Pursuit of Joy in the Face of Racialized Police and Vigilante Violence	3
Occupational Stress Associated With Technological Diversion Among Pretrial Services Officers: A Qualitative Case Study of GPS Supervision for Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence Cases	3
Accessing Crime Data in Hong Kong: Haunted by Fragmentation	3
Beyond Citation Counts: Reassessing Top Criminologists’ “Influence” With Altmetric Scores	3
Introduction to the Special Issue—Many Paths Through the Forest: The Complex Realities of Prison Research and Innovation in the Modern Era	3
Femicide and COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the Situation in Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Slovenia	2
The Altmetrics Hot 100: What Are the Most Influential Articles in Criminology and Criminal Justice?	2
The New Policing Family: Plural Policing of Public Spaces in Trinidad and Tobago	2
Using a Community-Engaged Survey to Describe Prison Environments and Measure the Mental Health Status of Correctional Staff and Incarcerated Individuals	2
The New Age Worker: Morale and Strain Among Staff During a Correctional Staffing Crisis	2
Improving Citation Analysis: Taking Account of Order of Authors and Number of Different Articles in Which a Scholar Is Cited	2
Issues Associated With the Formulation of a Small Area Model for Estimation of State-Level Crime Victimization Rates	2
“Strikingly and Stubbornly High”: Investigating the Paradox of Public Confidence in the Irish Police	2
Conceptualizing Police Violence for Research on Youth Exposure to Community Violence	2
The Historical Context of Neighborhood Racial Diversity and Crime in Philadelphia, PA	2
Femicide and Domestic Violence Against Women During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Israeli Case	2
Hate Crime Among Juveniles in Austria: Survey Results From the ISRD-4 Study	2
The Dark Web: What Is It, How to Access It, and Why We Need to Study It	2
City-Level Violent Crime Trends and Racial-Ethnic Income Inequality	2
Gender, Intersections, Crime and Justice	2
Criminological Data With Macao Characteristics: Challenges and Opportunities	2
Trust Factors in the Social Figuration of Online Drug Trafficking: A Qualitative Content Analysis on a Darknet Market	2
Intimate Partner Abuse and Homicide During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Situational Action Theory Analysis	1
Follow the Money: Analyzing Darknet Activity Using Cryptocurrency and the Bitcoin Blockchain	1
Neighborhood Immigrant Concentration, Interview Language, and Survey Nonresponse in the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)	1
Keeping Pace With the Evolution of Illicit Darknet Fentanyl Markets: Using a Mixed Methods Approach to Identify Trust Signals and Develop a Vendor Trustworthiness Index	1
Intimate Partner Violence, Femicide, and General Theories: Issues for Research and Policy From the View of Modern Control Theory	1
Firearm and Criminal Milieu Homicide in Sweden	1
Diversion: Where Do We Go From Here?	1
Deterring Drivers: A Process Evaluation of an Initiative to Reduce Car Theft and Joyriding by First Nations Young People	1
The Story of ENVIPE	1

Contemporary Issues in Youth Justice: Guest Editors’ Introduction	1
Homicide Patterns in Estonia During the 1994−2023 Period	1
Homicide and Mental Disorders—Perpetrators’ Prior Contacts With Psychiatric Services	1
Compounded Violence: An Intersectional Exploration of Transgender Survivors’ Victimization Experiences	1
The Evolution of Plural Policing in Ghana: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis	1
Was There a Universal Homicide Increase in 2014 to 2016 and 2019 to 2020?	1
How to Listen Through a Wall: Lessons From Conducting Participatory Action Research in an Urban Prison	1
Administering Services for Dual System Youth: A Comparison of Processes Across Three Midwestern Jurisdictions	1
Crime Reporting in Taiwan: Using Fraud as an Example	1
Indigenous iTaukei People’s Perceptions of the Bulubulu Method of Resolving Intimate Partner Violence in Fiji	1
Exploring the Impact of Remorse on Recommendations for Sentencing Diversion for Defendants With Psychiatric Diagnoses	1
Parental Violence and Family Stressors: A Comparative Study of Czech Adolescents in 2013 and 2023	1
Historical Gendered Institutional Violence: A Research Agenda for Criminologists	1
Community Satisfaction With Policing on Guam	1
Doing Criminology and Criminal Justice in Ireland: Perspectives From a Peripheral Nation	1
Citation Data and Analysis: Limitations and Shortcomings	1
The Dynamics of State and Nonstate Actor Cooperation in Violence Reduction: Perspectives From Trinidad and Tobago	1
Homicide in Global Extremes: Exploring the Feasibility of EHM-Based Analysis in Finland and South Africa	1
The Future of the NCVS: Findings From the Multiyear Effort to Design the New Instrument and Plans for Implementation	1
Introduction to the Special Issue—Policing in Pacific Island Countries and Territories: Navigating Culture, Context, and Organizational Terrain	1