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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Return to Shelton	32
Cybercrime Correlates Among Adolescents in Europe and South America: A Cross-National Analysis Based on Situational Action Theory	25
A Social Network Analysis of Publishing Networks in the “Big 5” Journals in Criminology and Criminal Justice	17
The National Crime Victimization Survey at Fifty: Introduction to the Special Issue	13
Intentional Homicides and Alcohol Abuse in Lithuania	13
Youth Street Groups in Spain: Prevalence, Associated Factors, and Gender Differences	11
Forecasting Future Crime Rates	10
“This Place Will Wear You Down”: Examining the Organizational and Contagion Effects of Stress on Correctional Staff Working Overtime in U.S. Prisons	9
Violence Isn’t Only Physical: Mental Violence While Incarcerated	9
A Letter From a Michigan Prison Cell	8
Girls’ Violence in the Matrix of Domination: Skin Tone, Femininities, and Dignity Challenges	6
The Efficacy of Juvenile Court Supervision in Addressing Youth Risks and Needs	6
Violent Institutions: The Hidden Brutality Within American Prisons	6
The Shadow Police: User-Pays Policing in the State of Mexico	6
Plural Policing in Papua New Guinea: More Than the Sum of Its Parts?	6
A Standardized Matrix for Mental Health Diversion Program Reporting	6
The Evolution of the Measurement of Rape and Sexual Assault Over 50 Years: Milestones, Definitions, Operationalizations, and Classifications	6
Conditioned Emotional Response	6
Penality at the Periphery: Deficits, Absences, and Negation	5
Perspectives on Diversion in the Criminal Justice and Health care Systems	5
Unnesting the Matryoshka Doll: An Ecological Model of Probation and Parole Decision-Making in Ireland	5
Triggering Violence? The Impact of Firearms on the Nature and Lethality of Violent Encounters: A European Perspective	5
A Developmental and Life-Course Approach to Further Understanding of the Nature and Causes of Intimate Partner Violence and Femicide	5
Section 1: Violence Before Incarceration	4
The Development of the Irish Youth Justice System: Toward a Children’s Rights Model of Youth Justice?	4

Databases for Substance Use Research in Hong Kong: An Introduction	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
“Cameras Help, but Hurt”: The Role and Use of Prison Cameras for Accountability	4
Plea Bargaining and Trial Decisions in Context: An Examination of Disparities in Punishment	4
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) With Incarcerated Women: Exploring the Role of Prison Activities as a Determinant of Preparedness for Re-entry	4
Navigating the Borderlands: System-Impacted Latina Girls, Cultural Tyranny, and the Juvenile Legal System	4
Who Deserves Diversion? A Theoretical Critique of Mitigation, Consequentialism, and the Juvenile Court	4
Women’s Pathways to Incarceration in India and Sri Lanka: Insights From an Intersectional Narrative Analysis	4
In the Name of Dark Web Justice: A Crime Script Analysis of Hacking Services and the Underground Justice System	4
An Assessment of Cryptomixing Services in Online Illicit Markets	3
My Story	3
The Culture of Control in Schools: How Punitive and Disadvantaged Spaces Impact Race-Specific Suspension Rates	3
Does the Detention Decision Influence Juvenile Court Processing? An Examination of Cumulative Disadvantage	3
A Thematic Analysis of Case Managers’ Perspectives on Enablers and Constraints to Community Youth Justice Service Delivery in an Australian Jurisdiction	3
Opinions From an Inmate	3
Five Areas Which Make the Irish Organized Crime Milieu Distinctive	3
A Research Note on Suicidal Behavior as a Precursor to Domestic Homicide, With a Coda on Trends in Femicide Before, During and After COVID	3
Evaluating Research and Scholarly Impact in Criminology and Criminal Justice in the United Kingdom and Italy: A Comparative Perspective	3
The Hidden Violence of the State on Prisoners: Night Checks	3
Declining Trends in Crime Reporting and Victims’ Trust of Police in the United States and Major Metropolitan Areas in the 21st Century	3
The “Yelp-Ification” of the Dark Web: An Exploration of the Use of Consumer Feedback in Dark Web Markets	3
Theory Development and Crime Prevention Insights From the NCVS	3
Accessing Crime Data in Hong Kong: Haunted by Fragmentation	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
A Review of the Evolution of the NCS-NCVS Police Reporting and Response Questions and Their Application to Older Women Experiencing Violent Victimization	2
You Won’t Break My Soul: Black Women’s Pursuit of Joy in the Face of Racialized Police and Vigilante Violence	2
Outcomes of a Court-Based Substance Use Disorder Diversion Pilot Program: A Cost Analysis	2
Idle Time in Prison: The Emotional, Social, and Practical Impacts of Incapacitation	2
“Strikingly and Stubbornly High”: Investigating the Paradox of Public Confidence in the Irish Police	2
Guiding Cases and the Death Penalty in the Chinese Mainland	2
Cycle Breakers: How People, Not Systems, Are Ending the Cycle of Violence in Prison and Society	2
Beyond Citation Counts: Reassessing Top Criminologists’ “Influence” With Altmetric Scores	2
The Research Utility of the National Violent Death Reporting System for Understanding Homicide Trends	2
Issues Associated With the Formulation of a Small Area Model for Estimation of State-Level Crime Victimization Rates	2
City-Level Violent Crime Trends and Racial-Ethnic Income Inequality	2
Comparing the Determinants of Worldwide Homicide and Terrorism	2
Coming to a Roost Near You	2
The Dark Web: What Is It, How to Access It, and Why We Need to Study It	2
Introduction to the Special Issue—Many Paths Through the Forest: The Complex Realities of Prison Research and Innovation in the Modern Era	2
The Altmetrics Hot 100: What Are the Most Influential Articles in Criminology and Criminal Justice?	2
Thoughts of an Inmate	2
Deterring Drivers: A Process Evaluation of an Initiative to Reduce Car Theft and Joyriding by First Nations Young People	1
In Corrections: Punitive Correction is Violent Criminal Justice	1
A Violent Breed	1
The New Policing Family: Plural Policing of Public Spaces in Trinidad and Tobago	1
Diversion: Where Do We Go From Here?	1
The Evolution of Plural Policing in Ghana: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis	1
VIOLENCE: The Invisible Bars	1
ODOC Fines: The Scars of Our Poverty	1
Crime Reporting in Taiwan: Using Fraud as an Example	1

Firearm and Criminal Milieu Homicide in Sweden	1
Section 4: Violence Among People in Prison	1
Homicide in Global Extremes: Exploring the Feasibility of EHM-Based Analysis in Finland and South Africa	1
Femicide and Domestic Violence Against Women During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Israeli Case	1
Gender, Intersections, Crime and Justice	1
Femicide and COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the Situation in Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Slovenia	1
Indigenous iTaukei People’s Perceptions of the Bulubulu Method of Resolving Intimate Partner Violence in Fiji	1
The Dynamics of State and Nonstate Actor Cooperation in Violence Reduction: Perspectives From Trinidad and Tobago	1
Contemporary Issues in Youth Justice: Guest Editors’ Introduction	1
Exploring the Impact of Remorse on Recommendations for Sentencing Diversion for Defendants With Psychiatric Diagnoses	1
The Future of the NCVS: Findings From the Multiyear Effort to Design the New Instrument and Plans for Implementation	1
Improving Citation Analysis: Taking Account of Order of Authors and Number of Different Articles in Which a Scholar Is Cited	1
Intimate Partner Abuse and Homicide During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Situational Action Theory Analysis	1
The New Age Worker: Morale and Strain Among Staff During a Correctional Staffing Crisis	1
Was There a Universal Homicide Increase in 2014 to 2016 and 2019 to 2020?	1
Criminological Data With Macao Characteristics: Challenges and Opportunities	1
The Historical Context of Neighborhood Racial Diversity and Crime in Philadelphia, PA	1
Conceptualizing Police Violence for Research on Youth Exposure to Community Violence	1
Hate Crime Among Juveniles in Austria: Survey Results From the ISRD-4 Study	1
The Story of ENVIPE	1
Compounded Violence: An Intersectional Exploration of Transgender Survivors’ Victimization Experiences	1
Introduction to the Special Issue—Policing in Pacific Island Countries and Territories: Navigating Culture, Context, and Organizational Terrain	1
Administering Services for Dual System Youth: A Comparison of Processes Across Three Midwestern Jurisdictions	1
Trust Factors in the Social Figuration of Online Drug Trafficking: A Qualitative Content Analysis on a Darknet Market	1
How to Listen Through a Wall: Lessons From Conducting Participatory Action Research in an Urban Prison	1
Using a Community-Engaged Survey to Describe Prison Environments and Measure the Mental Health Status of Correctional Staff and Incarcerated Individuals	1