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 2022-06-01 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
Understanding the Spatial Co-Occurrence of Different Crime Types and Brokerage Crime in NYC Block Groups	8
Translational Criminology and Law Enforcement	8
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
Religion and Rehabilitation as Moral Reform: Conceptualization and Preliminary Evidence	7
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
Assessing the Fear of Package Theft	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
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
Translational Criminology Through an Evaluation Framework: Improving Research and Policy	4
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
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