OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of 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
Parental and Sibling Confinement: Exploring Their Role in Youth Mental Health	38
Workplace Characteristics and Mental Illness among Canadian Correctional Leaders: a Short Report	32
Correction to: Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	25
Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	24
The Color of Confinement: Racial Bias and Jail Populations Across America	19
Correlates of Racially Profiled Consumers’ Attitudes on Perpetrator Accountability: An Exploratory Study of Canadian Shoppers	18
“You Can’t Get There from Here”: Use of Crime Scripts in Validity Testing	16
An Empirical Analysis of the Heinous, Atrocious, and Cruel (HAC) Aggravating Circumstance: A Focal Concerns Approach	15
Perceived Rehabilitation Across Types of Justice-Involved Individuals: An Experiment	13
The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: a Systematic Review	13
Progressive Prosecution Policies in Philadelphia: An Assessment of Implementation Fidelity	13
To What Are We Inferring? The Widespread Misuse of Inferential Testing in the Most Cited Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals	12
“Grounds for a Ride Out”: Understanding the Role Housing Challenges Play in Prison Rule Violations	12
“A Panel of Good ol’ Boys”: Women Navigating the Police Promotions Process	11
Empathy and Immigration: Public Attitudes Toward Border Security and Deportation Policies in the United States	10
The Influence of Community Disadvantage and Opioid Pill Prescriptions on Overdose Deaths in American Counties	9
Translational Criminology and Law Enforcement	8
Understanding the Spatial Co-Occurrence of Different Crime Types and Brokerage Crime in NYC Block Groups	8
Religion and Rehabilitation as Moral Reform: Conceptualization and Preliminary Evidence	7
COVID-19’s Effect on Crisis Intervention Team Calls for Service in Houston	7
Public Perceptions of Hot Spots Policing: How Crime Reduction Stats and Stigma Narratives Affect Public Perceptions	7
Birds of a Feather Get High Together: A Reconceptualization of the Social Bond with Latent Class Analysis and a Test with Different Forms of Drug Use	7
Assessing the Fear of Package Theft	6
Firearm Theft in Tennessee: A Short Report on Characteristics and Trends	6
A Social Network Analysis of Chronic Violent Offenders	6

Owning Police Reform: The Path Forward for Practitioners and Researchers	6
Item Values and Prior Offenses: An Examination of Key Elements in Shoplifting Charging Decisions in a Rural Jurisdiction	6
Unequal Policing of Black Motorists in Black Communities by Age and Gender: A Short Report on Intraracial Applications of the Veil-of-Darkness Test	5
Juvenile Delinquency and Precarious Employment in Adulthood: A Longitudinal Sibling Fixed Effects Analysis of Educational and Institutional Pathways	5
Examining the Relationship Between Interpersonal Racial Discrimination and Reentry Optimism Among an Incarcerated Sample	5
Assessing Individual Level Predictors of Intermediate Outcomes in a Misdemeanor Diversion Drug Court	5
Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Reform	5
Recidivism Outcomes Under a Shifting Continuum of Control	5
Effects of the Communities that Care (CTC) Prevention System on Youth Violence Outcomes in Two Violence-Impacted Denver Communities	5
Translational Criminology Through an Evaluation Framework: Improving Research and Policy	4
Advances in Biometric and Administrative Data Analysis: a Feasibility Study of Intra-Person Variation in Electrodermal Activity Among Police Officers by Stage and Type of Call for Service	4
Long-Term Health and Economic Consequences Associated with Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System for Males	4
Justice and Mental Health: Bridging Divides and Fostering Reform	4
Organizational and Coalition Strategies for Youth Violence Prevention: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study	4
Belief in Redeemability: American Public Opinion about Second Chances	4
Police Radio Communications as a Measure	4
The Mental Health Consequences of Parental Incarceration: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Adolescents through Adulthood in the United States	4
Stalking and its Impact on Victim Fear and Emotional Distress: An Advanced Latent Class analysis of National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Data	4
Research Training for Criminal Justice Reform	4
Race and Rationality Revisited: an Empirical Examination of Differential Travel Patterns to Acquire Drugs Across Geographic Contexts	4
The Power of Story: Assessing Crime Attribution before and After Watching Videos of Incarcerated People Serving Life Without Parole Sentences	4
An Examination of Probation Officers’ Views on the Mental Health of People on Misdemeanor Probation in Florida	4
Attrition from Jail Reentry Program Increases Recidivism	4
A Qualitative Examination of Precautionary Measures in a Virtual Reality Fear Environment	3
SAVRY Predictive Validity of Mississippi Justice-Involved Youth Recidivism: A Latent Variable Approach	3
Development and Evaluation of the Trauma Bonding Scale for Adults© in the Context of Sex Trafficking	3
Representing Victims in Juvenile Lifer Parole Hearings: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Victim Impact	3
Thin Blue Line: The Effect of Racial Attitudes on Perceptions of Police	3
“How Do You Knit Together Two Parts of a Single Life Lived Decades Apart?”: Reentry Planning of Juvenile Lifers	3
The Only Thing Constant is Change: Temporal Analyses of Racial/Ethnic Sentencing Disparities	3
Differentiating Insider and Outsider Cyberattacks on Businesses	3
A Community-Based Examination of the Association between Perceived and Actual Homicide Clearance Rates and Cooperation with Homicide Investigations	3
Crimmigration in the wake of Title 42’s Summary Expulsions	3
Newspapers as Capable Guardians? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Police Misreporting of Crime Statistics	3
Juvenile Recidivism: An Examination of State Measurement Strategies	3
Does Measurement Matter? Examining the Impact of Outcome Measurement Variation On the Rates and Predictors of Juvenile Recidivism	2
There’s No Place Like Home: Importance of Housing Stability for Reentry	2
Slowing Down Reinvolvement in the System: A Multi-Site Examination of the Effects of COVID on Time Until Readmission into Jail	2
Validating the Brief Anger and Aggression Questionnaire (BAAQ) on a Correctional Population: Evidence from Minnesota	2
Gang Homicide and the Unequal Distribution of Disadvantage: Revisiting Krivo and Peterson’s Threshold Effects 25 Years Later	2
Crisis, Continuity, and Change: A Case Study of a Local Prosecutor’s Office Under COVID-19 and its Implications for Reform	2
Does Procedural Justice Moderate the Effect of Collective Efficacy on Police Legitimacy?	2
The Role of Officer Characteristics in the Post-Floyd Era: A New Approach to De-Policing Research	2
Marijuana Enforcement since Drug Policy Reform: An Exploration of Officer Discretion in Six States	2
Unwanted Pregnancies and Unwanted Laws: Public Support for the Criminalization of Abortion and the Consequences for Criminal Justice Officials	2
Do Community Views of Local Police Agencies Change During “Crises of Legitimacy”? Results of a Multi-wave Random Sample Community Survey in a Large Suburban Jurisdiction	2
Waiting for the Stop Sign to Turn Green: Contemporary Issues on Drug and Alcohol Impaired Driving Policy	2
Fault Lines and Atmospheric Shifts: Understanding Temporal Spikes in Racially Motivated Hate Crimes in Los Angeles County	2
Direct and Indirect Effects of Parental Influence on the Relation Between Violent Offending and Mental Health Problems	2
Why Don’t the Police Make Me Feel Safe? Using Black’s Theory of Law to Potentially Extend Current Findings on Crime Victims’ Fear	2

Pathways of Punishment: Racial Differences in the Relationships Between ACEs and Behavioral and Punitive Consequences	2
Discrepancies in Measures of Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	2
Understanding the Status of Juvenile Institutional Misconduct Research: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Research on Delinquency Behind Bars	2
Reframing a Socioecological Model of Carceral and Post-Carceral Suicide Prevention	2
Fatal Police Shootings and Community Health in the United States: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study	2
More Rights, More Danger for Police: An Experimental Look at How Messaging Shapes Public Views about Constitutional Carry	2
Do White and Black People Truly View the Police Differently? Findings from a Study of Crime Hot Spots in Baltimore, Maryland	2
Creating Punitiveness: Examining the Impact of Election Proximity on Public Punitiveness	1
The Deleterious Health Consequences of COVID in United States Prisons	1
Examining Deviant Peer Association as a Predictor of Dual Systems Model Development: Testing for Moderation Effects of Age	1
The Cost of Punitiveness: How Economic Conditions Shape Public Support for Punitive Policy	1
A Scoping Review of the Relationships Between Cash Bail, Failure to Appear, Re-Arrest, Health and Well-Being, Race, and Gender	1
From Recidivism Reduction to Rehabilitation: Evaluating the Broader Effects of Prison-Based Drug Treatment	1
Confronting Community Gun Violence Through Research Translation: A Case Study of Challenges and Facilitators	1
Safer or Endangered at Home?: An Examination of Neighborhood Effects on Family Violence Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Safer-at-Home Order	1
ACEs, Steeling Effects, and the Recidivism of Serious and Violent Incarcerated Delinquents	1
COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research	1
Parental Marital Quality and Female Juvenile Arrest: The Mediating Role of Substance Use	1
How White is Low-Level White-Collar Crime? A Multi-Level Comparison of Fraud and Street Crime	1
The Impact of California’s Zero Dollar Bail Policy On Crime	1
Low self-control, the Dark Triad, and Dark Web use: An exploratory study	1
Gendered Mental Health Consequences of Violent Victimization: An Asymmetric Fixed Effects Analysis	1
Race and the Sanctioning of Misdemeanor Defendants	1
College Education, Politics, and Attitudes Towards Capital Punishment	1
Changes in Online Illegal Drug Buying during COVID-19: Assessing Effects due to a Changing Market or Changes in Strain using a Longitudinal Sample Design	1
Expecting Less and Hurting More: The Cascading Effects of Low Expectations on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Justice-Involved Adolescents	1
What About the kids? A Multimethod Approach to Understanding Law Enforcement Policies Pertaining to the Arrest of Children in Florida	1
Crime Concentration at Buildings: Nordic Evidence on the Impact of Housing Ownership on Crime	1
Time in Crime: An Added Dimension to the Study of Crime Guns	1
Officer Acceptance and Use of AI-Driven Body-Worn Camera Footage Review	1
Sex Differences in Deviant Peer Association: Examining Mediation Effects of Dual Systems Imbalance	1
Children are Different? Comparing Officers’ Views About Supervising Juvenile and Adult Probation Clients	1
Extra-Legal Contextual Factors, Judge Demographic Characteristics, and the Sentencing of Drug Crimes: Using Pennsylvania Commission of Sentencing Data to Examine Drug Sentencing Severity, 2014–2019	1
Translational Criminology, Politics, and Promising Practices	1
Tailgates, Traffic, Police Militarization, and the Shadow of the Next School Shooting: Campus Police and the 1033 Program	1
From Causal Mechanisms to Policy Mechanisms: Why Did Crime Decline and What Lessons Can Be Learned from It?	1
Trajectories of Offending: Comparing US Born and Non-US Born Respondents in the Add Health	1
Democratic Policing, Building Trust, and Willingness to Call 911: Examining the Relationship between Law Enforcement Legitimacy and Calling the Police	1
Police Organizations, Fiscal Distress, and Police Employment Among Sworn and Non-Sworn Employees	1
Assessing the Efficacy of a Justice-Mental Health Collaborative Program to Reduce Violence	1
Federal Cocaine Sentences Before and After Passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010	1
“It was there when I came home”: young adults and jail reentry in the context of COVID-19	1
Sexual Assault, Female Immigrant Victims, and Judicial Focal Concerns in U.S. and Canadian Courts	1
Redlining, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Crime: The Effects of Discriminatory Government Policies on Urban Violent Crime	1
Comparing the Risk Factors of Youth Detained for Running Away or Commercial Sexual Exploitation to more Serious Youth Offenders	1
Child Sexual Abuse as a Predictor of Impulsivity Dimensions: Examining Depression/Anxiety and Deviant Peer Association as Mediating Mechanisms	1
Treatment Works, Behaviors Change: Investigating the Impact of Trauma Focused Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Disciplinary Infractions Among Women in Prison	1
Spotlighting Pretrial Reform: Media Effects on Perceptions of Bail Reform and Pretrial Risk Assessments	1
Social Media Discourse Around School Shootings: Application of Natural Language Processing to Understand the Case of Uvalde	1
“We Are People Who Kill…Murder Machines” An Empirical Study of Lifetime Inmate Homicide among Capital Defendants	1