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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program expansion evaluation—A qualitative study	51
Does police patrol in large areas prevent crime? Revisiting the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment	41
Issue Information	35
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RETRACTION: A Cluster Randomized Experiment of a Life Coaching Intervention Designed to Improve Correctional Officer Mental Health	29
Issue Information	28
The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula	26
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Challenges in creating humane and equitable policing: A focus on the Global South	22
Issue Information	20
The hidden inhumanity of incarceration: Quantifying the suffering caused by banning sexual intimacy behind bars	18
Prosecutorial power in probation: Discretion, violations, and the pathway to incarceration	18
Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy	17
Issue Information	17
Can enhanced street lighting improve public safety at scale?	17
“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	15
Scaling up effective juvenile delinquency programs by focusing on change levers: Evidence from a large meta‐analysis	15
Issue Information	12
Situational crime prevention as a harm mitigation policy for active shooter incidents	12
Fair Chance Act failures? Employers’ hiring of people with criminal records	12
State efforts to enforce firearm dispossession through relinquishment laws	12
Disparities in court orders to relinquish firearms in civil domestic violence protection orders	12
The spatial (in)stability of mental health calls for police service	12
Disorder policing to reduce crime: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	12

Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri: A microsynthetic control evaluation	12
RETRACTED: A cluster randomized experiment of a life coaching intervention designed to improve correctional officer mental health	11
Issue Information	11
Evaluating performances pretrial: The role of defendant performances in prosecutors’ plea bargaining decisions	11
Firearm restrictions in domestic violence protection orders: Implementation, vetting, compliance, and enforcement	11
Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?	11
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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	10
Law enforcement policies for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A mixed‐methods analysis	10
Deregulation of public civilian gun carrying and violent crimes: A longitudinal analysis 1981–2019	10
Learning to predict violence: Deep learning approaches to violent crime prediction during pretrial release	9
Are progressive chief prosecutors effective in reducing prison use and cumulative racial/ethnic disadvantage? Evidence from Florida	9
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A longitudinal examination of the effects of drug policy shifts on PCS charging practices in Oregon	9
Issue Information	8
“It's a start”: Formerly incarcerated adults’ perceptions of second‐chance employers and policies	8
An examination of harm reduction strategies in Oxycodone and Adderall buyer feedback on AlphaBay	8
What motivates users to adopt cybersecurity practices? A survey experiment assessing protection motivation theory	8
Coerced motherhood behind bars: Public support for abortion access for incarcerated women	8
Locked up and awaiting trial: Testing the criminogenic and punitive effects of spending a week or more in pretrial detention	8
Student absenteeism and the role of police encounters	8
Public mental health facility closures and criminal justice contact in Chicago	7
A national examination of firearm injuries described as “suicide by cop” among injurious shootings by police	7
Do foster youth face harsher juvenile justice outcomes? Reinvestigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing	7
Building an understanding of the collision of crime, places, race, and ethnicity	7
Understanding markers of trust within the online stolen data market: An examination of vendors’ signaling behaviors relative to product price point	7
Focused deterrence can reduce crime: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials and quasi‐experiments	7
Minor‐focused sextortion by adult strangers: A crime script analysis of newspaper and court cases	7
Failure	7
Issue Information	6
A pretrial release policy based on risk assessment would reduce unnecessary incarceration, increase racial fairness, and save money	6
Issue Information	6
Progressive prosecution in context: Examining the impact of prosecutorial administration change on case‐processing patterns and racial disparities	6
Developing a new typology of risky facilities to improve situational crime prevention strategies	6
Implementation science (IS)—A game changer for criminology and criminal justice	6
Rethinking rules for 911: Dispatching alternative responders in Denver and San Francisco	5
Identifying high‐risk firearms dealers: A machine learning study of rapidly diverted firearm sales in California	5
Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance	5
Police diversity and crime clearance for Black and Hispanic victims	4
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Issue Information	4
The effect of online ad campaigns on DDoS‐attacks: A cross‐national difference‐in‐differences quasi‐experiment	4
The impact of prosecutors’ office caseloads on case processing outcomes	4
Issue Information	4
Understanding what violent street crime, globalization, and ice cream have in common	4
Diverting 911 calls: Lessons from early adopting urban jurisdictions	4
Neck‐restraint bans, law enforcement officer unions, and police killings	4
The sexual recidivism drop in Canada: A meta‐analysis of sex offender recidivism rates over an 80‐year period	4
Do late‐night closure ordinances reshape crime risk around adult entertainment venues?	4
De‐prosecution and death: A reply to an imprecise and ideological critique	4

Issue Information	4
“This is everyone's issue”: Policy entrepreneurs, issue framing, and coalition building in the passage of automatic criminal record expungement	4
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A wall of treatments: An integrative problem‐solving approach to the prevention of stone‐throwing in East Jerusalem	4
Federal–local partnerships on immigration law enforcement: Are the policies effective in reducing violent victimization?	3
Prosecutor‐driven reform and racial disparities	3
Does humanizing the police improve the effectiveness of police recruiting efforts?	3
Assessing nation‐state‐sponsored cyberattacks using aspects of Situational Crime Prevention	3
Issue Information	3
Understanding (non)involvement in terrorist violence: What sets extremists who use terrorist violence apart from those who do not?	3
Focused deterrence, strategic management, and effective gun violence prevention	3
Does scientific research change minds? Linking criminology and public perceptions of policing	3