OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminology & Public Policy 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
De‐prosecution and death: A synthetic control analysis of the impact of de‐prosecution on homicides	58
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Does police patrol in large areas prevent crime? Revisiting the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment	31
Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program expansion evaluation—A qualitative study	30
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Challenges in creating humane and equitable policing: A focus on the Global South	24
“Defund the police:” Perceptions among protesters in the 2020 March on Washington	22
The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula	22
Assessing the impact of de‐escalation training on police behavior: Reducing police use of force in the Louisville, KY Metro Police Department	20
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A test of the bifurcation hypothesis in prosecutorial diversion	17
Can enhanced street lighting improve public safety at scale?	16
Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy	16
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Scaling up effective juvenile delinquency programs by focusing on change levers: Evidence from a large meta‐analysis	15
Can “race‐neutral” program eligibility requirements in criminal justice have disparate effects? An examination of race, ethnicity, and prison industry employment	15
“Like aspirin for arthritis”: A qualitative study of conditional cyber‐deterrence associated with police crackdowns on the dark web	15
Police reform in public housing contexts: Body‐worn cameras, surveillance, and harm reduction in New York City Housing Authority developments	13
The impact and policy relevance of street lighting for crime prevention: A systematic review based on a half‐century of evaluation research	13
State efforts to enforce firearm dispossession through relinquishment laws	13
Disorder policing to reduce crime: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	12
Beyond impunity: An evaluation of New York State's nonfatal shooting initiative	12
Situational crime prevention as a harm mitigation policy for active shooter incidents	11

The spatial (in)stability of mental health calls for police service	11
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Estimating the effects of shrinking the criminal justice system on criminal recidivism	10
Disparities in court orders to relinquish firearms in civil domestic violence protection orders	10
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Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri: A microsynthetic control evaluation	10
Fair Chance Act failures? Employers’ hiring of people with criminal records	10
Firearm restrictions in domestic violence protection orders: Implementation, vetting, compliance, and enforcement	10
Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?	9
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A cluster randomized experiment of a life coaching intervention designed to improve correctional officer mental health	8
Deregulation of public civilian gun carrying and violent crimes: A longitudinal analysis 1981–2019	8
Ambiguity and legal compliance	8
Focus on prevention: The public is more supportive of “overdose prevention sites” than they are of “safe injection facilities”	8
Examining the prevalence of experiencing sexual misconduct and reporting to Title IX and counseling services across student race/ethnicity: Findings from the 2019 Association of American Universities	8
Student absenteeism and the role of police encounters	7
Are progressive chief prosecutors effective in reducing prison use and cumulative racial/ethnic disadvantage? Evidence from Florida	7
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Locked up and awaiting trial: Testing the criminogenic and punitive effects of spending a week or more in pretrial detention	7
What motivates users to adopt cybersecurity practices? A survey experiment assessing protection motivation theory	7
Coerced motherhood behind bars: Public support for abortion access for incarcerated women	7
Public mental health facility closures and criminal justice contact in Chicago	7
An examination of harm reduction strategies in Oxycodone and Adderall buyer feedback on AlphaBay	7
Implementation science (IS)—A game changer for criminology and criminal justice	6
Minor‐focused sextortion by adult strangers: A crime script analysis of newspaper and court cases	6
Understanding markers of trust within the online stolen data market: An examination of vendors’ signaling behaviors relative to product price point	6
Building an understanding of the collision of crime, places, race, and ethnicity	6
Do foster youth face harsher juvenile justice outcomes? Reinvestigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing	6
Police body‐worn camera policies as democratic deficits? Comparing public support for policy alternatives	6
Goldilocks and the three “Ts”: Targeting, testing, and tracking for “just right” democratic policing	5
Immigration policy, immigrant detention, and the U.S. jail system	5
Pretrial risk assessment instruments in practice: The role of judicial discretion in pretrial reform	5
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Identifying high‐risk firearms dealers: A machine learning study of rapidly diverted firearm sales in California	4
The effect of the Seattle Police‐Free CHOP zone on crime: A microsynthetic control evaluation	4
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Police diversity and crime clearance for Black and Hispanic victims	4
The sexual recidivism drop in Canada: A meta‐analysis of sex offender recidivism rates over an 80‐year period	4
Do body‐worn cameras reduce disparities in police behavior in minority communities? Evidence of nuanced influences across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods	4
George Floyd protests and the criminal justice system	4
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De‐prosecution and death: A reply to an imprecise and ideological critique	4
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A wall of treatments: An integrative problem‐solving approach to the prevention of stone‐throwing in East Jerusalem	4
Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance	4
Understanding what violent street crime, globalization, and ice cream have in common	4

Prosecutor‐driven reform and racial disparities	3
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Diverting 911 calls: Lessons from early adopting urban jurisdictions	3
Understanding (non)involvement in terrorist violence: What sets extremists who use terrorist violence apart from those who do not?	3
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Does humanizing the police improve the effectiveness of police recruiting efforts?	3
“This is everyone's issue”: Policy entrepreneurs, issue framing, and coalition building in the passage of automatic criminal record expungement	3
The effect of online ad campaigns on DDoS‐attacks: A cross‐national difference‐in‐differences quasi‐experiment	3
Neck‐restraint bans, law enforcement officer unions, and police killings	3
Does scientific research change minds? Linking criminology and public perceptions of policing	3
Regulatory intermediaries and the challenge of democratic policing	3
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: An in‐depth examination of police officer perceptions of body‐worn camera implementation and their relationship to policy, supervision, and training	3
Federal–local partnerships on immigration law enforcement: Are the policies effective in reducing violent victimization?	3
Assessing nation‐state‐sponsored cyberattacks using aspects of Situational Crime Prevention	3