OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Criminal Justice is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental and Sibling Confinement: Exploring Their Role in Youth Mental Health	38
Correction to: Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	36
Correlates of Racially Profiled Consumers’ Attitudes on Perpetrator Accountability: An Exploratory Study of Canadian Shoppers	32
An Empirical Analysis of the Heinous, Atrocious, and Cruel (HAC) Aggravating Circumstance: A Focal Concerns Approach	26
Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	19
Progressive Prosecution Policies in Philadelphia: An Assessment of Implementation Fidelity	17
The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: a Systematic Review	16
Workplace Characteristics and Mental Illness among Canadian Correctional Leaders: a Short Report	14
“You Can’t Get There from Here”: Use of Crime Scripts in Validity Testing	14
The Color of Confinement: Racial Bias and Jail Populations Across America	13
“Grounds for a Ride Out”: Understanding the Role Housing Challenges Play in Prison Rule Violations	13
Perceived Rehabilitation Across Types of Justice-Involved Individuals: An Experiment	13
To What Are We Inferring? The Widespread Misuse of Inferential Testing in the Most Cited Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals	12
Empathy and Immigration: Public Attitudes Toward Border Security and Deportation Policies in the United States	12
“A Panel of Good ol’ Boys”: Women Navigating the Police Promotions Process	11
Translational Criminology and Law Enforcement	9
Religion and Rehabilitation as Moral Reform: Conceptualization and Preliminary Evidence	9
Mental Health and Police Calls for Service: A Comparison of Assessments by Police Dispatchers, Police Officers, and Mental Health Clinicians	9
Understanding the Spatial Co-Occurrence of Different Crime Types and Brokerage Crime in NYC Block Groups	8
The Influence of Community Disadvantage and Opioid Pill Prescriptions on Overdose Deaths in American Counties	8
Public Perceptions of Hot Spots Policing: How Crime Reduction Stats and Stigma Narratives Affect Public Perceptions	8
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
COVID-19’s Effect on Crisis Intervention Team Calls for Service in Houston	7
A Social Network Analysis of Chronic Violent Offenders	6
Juvenile Delinquency and Precarious Employment in Adulthood: A Longitudinal Sibling Fixed Effects Analysis of Educational and Institutional Pathways	6

Item Values and Prior Offenses: An Examination of Key Elements in Shoplifting Charging Decisions in a Rural Jurisdiction	6
Examining the Relationship Between Interpersonal Racial Discrimination and Reentry Optimism Among an Incarcerated Sample	6
Research Training for Criminal Justice Reform	5
Organizational and Coalition Strategies for Youth Violence Prevention: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study	5
Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Reform	5
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
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	5
Effects of the Communities that Care (CTC) Prevention System on Youth Violence Outcomes in Two Violence-Impacted Denver Communities	5
Firearm Theft in Tennessee: A Short Report on Characteristics and Trends	5
Police Radio Communications as a Measure	5
Assessing Individual Level Predictors of Intermediate Outcomes in a Misdemeanor Diversion Drug Court	5
Owning Police Reform: The Path Forward for Practitioners and Researchers	5
The Power of Story: Assessing Crime Attribution before and After Watching Videos of Incarcerated People Serving Life Without Parole Sentences	4
Long-Term Health and Economic Consequences Associated with Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System for Males	4
Stalking and its Impact on Victim Fear and Emotional Distress: An Advanced Latent Class analysis of National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Data	4
“How Do You Knit Together Two Parts of a Single Life Lived Decades Apart?”: Reentry Planning of Juvenile Lifers	4
Race and Rationality Revisited: an Empirical Examination of Differential Travel Patterns to Acquire Drugs Across Geographic Contexts	4
An Examination of Probation Officers’ Views on the Mental Health of People on Misdemeanor Probation in Florida	4
Thin Blue Line: The Effect of Racial Attitudes on Perceptions of Police	4
Justice and Mental Health: Bridging Divides and Fostering Reform	4
Belief in Redeemability: American Public Opinion about Second Chances	4
Translational Criminology Through an Evaluation Framework: Improving Research and Policy	4
Differentiating Insider and Outsider Cyberattacks on Businesses	4
Attrition from Jail Reentry Program Increases Recidivism	4
A Community-Based Examination of the Association between Perceived and Actual Homicide Clearance Rates and Cooperation with Homicide Investigations	3
The Mental Health Consequences of Parental Incarceration: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Adolescents through Adulthood in the United States	3
Development and Evaluation of the Trauma Bonding Scale for Adults© in the Context of Sex Trafficking	3
Pathways of Punishment: Racial Differences in the Relationships Between ACEs and Behavioral and Punitive Consequences	3
Discrepancies in Measures of Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	3
Representing Victims in Juvenile Lifer Parole Hearings: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Victim Impact	3
Crimmigration in the wake of Title 42’s Summary Expulsions	3
Marijuana Enforcement since Drug Policy Reform: An Exploration of Officer Discretion in Six States	3
There’s No Place Like Home: Importance of Housing Stability for Reentry	3
The Only Thing Constant is Change: Temporal Analyses of Racial/Ethnic Sentencing Disparities	3
SAVRY Predictive Validity of Mississippi Justice-Involved Youth Recidivism: A Latent Variable Approach	3
A Qualitative Examination of Precautionary Measures in a Virtual Reality Fear Environment	3
Newspapers as Capable Guardians? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Police Misreporting of Crime Statistics	3
Slowing Down Reinvolvement in the System: A Multi-Site Examination of the Effects of COVID on Time Until Readmission into Jail	3
Understanding the Status of Juvenile Institutional Misconduct Research: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Research on Delinquency Behind Bars	3