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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	34
The Color of Confinement: Racial Bias and Jail Populations Across America	29
The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: a Systematic Review	25
Correlates of Racially Profiled Consumers’ Attitudes on Perpetrator Accountability: An Exploratory Study of Canadian Shoppers	22
Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	21
Progressive Prosecution Policies in Philadelphia: An Assessment of Implementation Fidelity	21
“You Can’t Get There from Here”: Use of Crime Scripts in Validity Testing	20
Parental and Sibling Confinement: Exploring Their Role in Youth Mental Health	19
Perceived Rehabilitation Across Types of Justice-Involved Individuals: An Experiment	17
To What Are We Inferring? The Widespread Misuse of Inferential Testing in the Most Cited Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals	15
“Grounds for a Ride Out”: Understanding the Role Housing Challenges Play in Prison Rule Violations	14
The Influence of Community Disadvantage and Opioid Pill Prescriptions on Overdose Deaths in American Counties	14
“A Panel of Good ol’ Boys”: Women Navigating the Police Promotions Process	14
Religion and Rehabilitation as Moral Reform: Conceptualization and Preliminary Evidence	14
Associations between Severity and Attributions: Differences for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization	13
Translational Criminology and Law Enforcement	13
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	13
COVID-19’s Effect on Crisis Intervention Team Calls for Service in Houston	12
Examining the Relationship Between Interpersonal Racial Discrimination and Reentry Optimism Among an Incarcerated Sample	11
Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Reform	11
Owning Police Reform: The Path Forward for Practitioners and Researchers	11
Assessing the Fear of Package Theft	10
A Social Network Analysis of Chronic Violent Offenders	10
Effects of the Communities that Care (CTC) Prevention System on Youth Violence Outcomes in Two Violence-Impacted Denver Communities	9
Organizational and Coalition Strategies for Youth Violence Prevention: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study	8

Item Values and Prior Offenses: An Examination of Key Elements in Shoplifting Charging Decisions in a Rural Jurisdiction	8
Correction to: Associations between Severity and Attributions: Differences for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization	7
Cybercrime: Victimization, Perpetration, and Techniques	7
Research Training for Criminal Justice Reform	6
Assessing Individual Level Predictors of Intermediate Outcomes in a Misdemeanor Diversion Drug Court	6
Recidivism Outcomes Under a Shifting Continuum of Control	6
Race and Rationality Revisited: an Empirical Examination of Differential Travel Patterns to Acquire Drugs Across Geographic Contexts	6
Police Radio Communications as a Measure	5
Translational Criminology Through an Evaluation Framework: Improving Research and Policy	5
Neutralizing Cyber Attacks: Techniques of Neutralization and Willingness to Commit Cyber Attacks	5
Belief in Redeemability: American Public Opinion about Second Chances	5
Family Support, Family Incarceration, and Substance Use Among Adjudicated Youth Across Time	5
The Power of Story: Assessing Crime Attribution before and After Watching Videos of Incarcerated People Serving Life Without Parole Sentences	5
Attrition from Jail Reentry Program Increases Recidivism	4
Differentiating Insider and Outsider Cyberattacks on Businesses	4
Residentially-Placed Youth and the Adverse Childhood Experiences-Recidivism Relationship: Considering Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences	4
Long-Term Health and Economic Consequences Associated with Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System for Males	4
An Examination of Probation Officers’ Views on the Mental Health of People on Misdemeanor Probation in Florida	4
Juvenile Recidivism: An Examination of State Measurement Strategies	4
The Mental Health Consequences of Parental Incarceration: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Adolescents through Adulthood in the United States	4
Justice and Mental Health: Bridging Divides and Fostering Reform	4
SAVRY Predictive Validity of Mississippi Justice-Involved Youth Recidivism: A Latent Variable Approach	3
Crimmigration in the wake of Title 42’s Summary Expulsions	3
Stalking and its Impact on Victim Fear and Emotional Distress: An Advanced Latent Class analysis of National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Data	3
Comparing Official Measures of Recidivism in Juvenile Justice	3
“How Do You Knit Together Two Parts of a Single Life Lived Decades Apart?”: Reentry Planning of Juvenile Lifers	3
Development and Evaluation of the Trauma Bonding Scale for Adults© in the Context of Sex Trafficking	3
A Qualitative Examination of Precautionary Measures in a Virtual Reality Fear Environment	3
Beating the House: Ethnographic Insights into a Web-Based Marijuana Grey Market	3
A Community-Based Examination of the Association between Perceived and Actual Homicide Clearance Rates and Cooperation with Homicide Investigations	3
Marijuana Enforcement since Drug Policy Reform: An Exploration of Officer Discretion in Six States	3
The Only Thing Constant is Change: Temporal Analyses of Racial/Ethnic Sentencing Disparities	3
Representing Victims in Juvenile Lifer Parole Hearings: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Victim Impact	3
Letter from the Editor	3
Policing the Cybercrime Script of Darknet Drug Markets: Methods of Effective Law Enforcement Intervention	3
The Role of Officer Characteristics in the Post-Floyd Era: A New Approach to De-Policing Research	2
Understanding the Status of Juvenile Institutional Misconduct Research: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Research on Delinquency Behind Bars	2
Slowing Down Reinvolvement in the System: A Multi-Site Examination of the Effects of COVID on Time Until Readmission into Jail	2
Reframing a Socioecological Model of Carceral and Post-Carceral Suicide Prevention	2
Waiting for the Stop Sign to Turn Green: Contemporary Issues on Drug and Alcohol Impaired Driving Policy	2
Neighborhood Fixer Uppers: Do Home Improvement Loans Influence Crime Across Race and over Time?	2
Does Procedural Justice Moderate the Effect of Collective Efficacy on Police Legitimacy?	2
Local Incarceration as Social Control: A National Analysis of Social, Economic, and Political Determinants of Jail Use in the United States	2
Pathways of Punishment: Racial Differences in the Relationships Between ACEs and Behavioral and Punitive Consequences	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
Fault Lines and Atmospheric Shifts: Understanding Temporal Spikes in Racially Motivated Hate Crimes in Los Angeles County	2
Gang Homicide and the Unequal Distribution of Disadvantage: Revisiting Krivo and Peterson’s Threshold Effects 25 Years Later	2
Fatal Police Shootings and Community Health in the United States: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study	2
Unwanted Pregnancies and Unwanted Laws: Public Support for the Criminalization of Abortion and the Consequences for Criminal Justice Officials	2
Does Measurement Matter? Examining the Impact of Outcome Measurement Variation On the Rates and Predictors of Juvenile Recidivism	2

Discrepancies in Measures of Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	2
There’s No Place Like Home: Importance of Housing Stability for Reentry	2
Do White and Black People Truly View the Police Differently? Findings from a Study of Crime Hot Spots in Baltimore, Maryland	2
Crisis, Continuity, and Change: A Case Study of a Local Prosecutor’s Office Under COVID-19 and its Implications for Reform	2
Who Needs the Dark Web? Exploring the Trade in Critically Endangered Plants on eBay	2
Federal Cocaine Sentences Before and After Passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010	1
Substance Use On Campus: Exploring the Implications of Paranormal Beliefs	1
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	1
An examination of sentencing outcomes in rural and urban locations	1
Treatment Works, Behaviors Change: Investigating the Impact of Trauma Focused Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Disciplinary Infractions Among Women in Prison	1
Comparing the Risk Factors of Youth Detained for Running Away or Commercial Sexual Exploitation to more Serious Youth Offenders	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
“We Are People Who Kill…Murder Machines” An Empirical Study of Lifetime Inmate Homicide among Capital Defendants	1
Gendered Mental Health Consequences of Violent Victimization: An Asymmetric Fixed Effects Analysis	1
COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research	1
Democratic Policing, Building Trust, and Willingness to Call 911: Examining the Relationship between Law Enforcement Legitimacy and Calling the Police	1
Trajectories of Offending: Comparing US Born and Non-US Born Respondents in the Add Health	1
Direct and Indirect Effects of Parental Influence on the Relation Between Violent Offending and Mental Health Problems	1
Children are Different? Comparing Officers’ Views About Supervising Juvenile and Adult Probation Clients	1
Tailgates, Traffic, Police Militarization, and the Shadow of the Next School Shooting: Campus Police and the 1033 Program	1
How White is Low-Level White-Collar Crime? A Multi-Level Comparison of Fraud and Street Crime	1
Redlining, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Crime: The Effects of Discriminatory Government Policies on Urban Violent Crime	1
Time in Crime: An Added Dimension to the Study of Crime Guns	1
The Deleterious Health Consequences of COVID in United States Prisons	1
Disentangling the Impact of Covid-19: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Crime in New York City	1
Low self-control, the Dark Triad, and Dark Web use: An exploratory study	1
A Scoping Review of the Relationships Between Cash Bail, Failure to Appear, Re-Arrest, Health and Well-Being, Race, and Gender	1
Confronting Community Gun Violence Through Research Translation: A Case Study of Challenges and Facilitators	1
Examining Deviant Peer Association as a Predictor of Dual Systems Model Development: Testing for Moderation Effects of Age	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
“It was there when I came home”: young adults and jail reentry in the context of COVID-19	1
Officer Acceptance and Use of AI-Driven Body-Worn Camera Footage Review	1
Translational Criminology, Politics, and Promising Practices	1
Child Sexual Abuse as a Predictor of Impulsivity Dimensions: Examining Depression/Anxiety and Deviant Peer Association as Mediating Mechanisms	1
From Causal Mechanisms to Policy Mechanisms: Why Did Crime Decline and What Lessons Can Be Learned from It?	1
What About the kids? A Multimethod Approach to Understanding Law Enforcement Policies Pertaining to the Arrest of Children in Florida	1
Creating Punitiveness: Examining the Impact of Election Proximity on Public Punitiveness	1
Social Media Discourse Around School Shootings: Application of Natural Language Processing to Understand the Case of Uvalde	1