OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminology & Public Policy is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Elevated police turnover following the summer of George Floyd protests: A synthetic control study	77
What does the public want police to do during pandemics? A national experiment	52
Assessing the impact of de‐escalation training on police behavior: Reducing police use of force in the Louisville, KY Metro Police Department	42
Beyond the eternal criminal record: Public support for expungement	35
Mass support for proposals to reshape policing depends on the implications for crime and safety	31
Crime, quarantine, and the U.S. coronavirus pandemic	31
The policy lessons learned from the criminal justice system response to COVID‐19	24
Gang‐related crime in Los Angeles remained stable following COVID‐19 social distancing orders	23
“Defund the police:” Perceptions among protesters in the 2020 March on Washington	23
Comparing 911 and emergency hotline calls for domestic violence in seven cities: What happened when people started staying home due to COVID‐19?	20
How many complaints against police officers can be abated by incapacitating a few “bad apples?”	20
An apple in one hand, a gun in the other: Public support for arming our nation's schools	17
COVID‐19 frauds: An exploratory study of victimization during a global crisis	16
Did de‐escalation successfully reduce serious use of force in Camden County, New Jersey? A synthetic control analysis of force outcomes	15
The social ecology of sexual victimization against transgender women who are incarcerated: A call for (more) research on modalities of housing and prison violence	15
Crime under lockdown: The impact of COVID‐19 on citizen security in the city of Buenos Aires	14
“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	14
Use of extreme risk protection orders to reduce gun violence in Oregon	13
Bad apples and incredible certitude	12
Focus on prevention: The public is more supportive of “overdose prevention sites” than they are of “safe injection facilities”	12
Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance	11
Risk and implications of COVID‐19 among the community supervised population	11
The effect of the Seattle Police‐Free CHOP zone on crime: A microsynthetic control evaluation	11
Racial bias and DUI enforcement: Comparing conviction rates with frequency of behavior	11
Ambiguity and legal compliance	11

The impact and policy relevance of street lighting for crime prevention: A systematic review based on a half‐century of evaluation research	10
Goldilocks and the three “Ts”: Targeting, testing, and tracking for “just right” democratic policing	10
The sexual recidivism drop in Canada: A meta‐analysis of sex offender recidivism rates over an 80‐year period	10
Restorative justice programs and practices in juvenile justice: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis for effectiveness	9
Pretrial risk assessment instruments in practice: The role of judicial discretion in pretrial reform	9
News media and public attitudes toward the protests of 2020: An examination of the mediating role of perceived protester violence	9
Gun violence is a public health crisis that needs more applied criminologists	8
De‐prosecution and death: A synthetic control analysis of the impact of de‐prosecution on homicides	8
Does racial congruence between police agencies and communities reduce racialized police killings of civilians?	8
The end of American exceptionalism: An enlightened corrections	7
Toward victim‐sensitive body‐worn camera policy: Initial insights	7
What motivates users to adopt cybersecurity practices? A survey experiment assessing protection motivation theory	7
Does police patrol in large areas prevent crime? Revisiting the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment	7
Random drug testing in prisons: Does a little testing go a long way?	6
What is the best approach for preventing recruitment to terrorism? Findings from ABM experiments in social and situational prevention	6
Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?	6
Revisiting the effectiveness of HOPE/swift‐certain‐fair supervision programs: A meta‐analytic review	6
Can deterrence persist? Long‐term evidence from a randomized experiment in street lighting	6
Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri: A microsynthetic control evaluation	5
Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program expansion evaluation—A qualitative study	5
Firearm restrictions in domestic violence protection orders: Implementation, vetting, compliance, and enforcement	5
Suspicious places make people suspicious: Officers’ perceptions of place‐based conditions in racialized drug enforcement	5
Are progressive chief prosecutors effective in reducing prison use and cumulative racial/ethnic disadvantage? Evidence from Florida	5
Disorder in the eye of the beholder: Black and White residents’ perceptions of disorder on high‐crime street segments	4
Where racial and ethnic disparities in policing come from: The spatial concentration of arrests across six cities	4
Assessing nation‐state‐sponsored cyberattacks using aspects of Situational Crime Prevention	4
Deregulation of public civilian gun carrying and violent crimes: A longitudinal analysis 1981–2019	4
A wall of treatments: An integrative problem‐solving approach to the prevention of stone‐throwing in East Jerusalem	4
Can “race‐neutral” program eligibility requirements in criminal justice have disparate effects? An examination of race, ethnicity, and prison industry employment	4
Understanding (non)involvement in terrorist violence: What sets extremists who use terrorist violence apart from those who do not?	4
The online behaviors of Islamic state terrorists in the United States	4
Testing public policy at the frontier: The effect of the $15 minimum wage on public safety in Seattle	4
Disarming abusers: Domestic violence protective order (DVPO) firearm restriction processes and dispositions	4
Does scientific research change minds? Linking criminology and public perceptions of policing	4
Is Criminology & Public Policy “influential?” Answers from altmetrics	3
A hidden cost of convenience: Disparate impacts of a program to reduce burden on probation officers and participants	3
Understanding the circumstances and stakeholder perceptions of gun violence restraining order use in California: A qualitative study	3
Do body‐worn cameras reduce disparities in police behavior in minority communities? Evidence of nuanced influences across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods	3
Clearing crimes in the aftermath of police lethal violence	3
“I knew it was a scam”: Understanding the triggers for recognizing romance fraud	3
Pain, suffering, and jury awards: A study of the cost of wrongful convictions	3
Minor‐focused sextortion by adult strangers: A crime script analysis of newspaper and court cases	3
Regulatory intermediaries and the challenge of democratic policing	3
Police diversity and crime clearance for Black and Hispanic victims	3
Hydra: Lessons from the world's largest darknet market	2
Validating a novel tool for coding body worn camera footage of police‐community member interactions	2
Immigration policy, immigrant detention, and the U.S. jail system	2
Counter‐terrorism policies in the Middle East: Why democracy has failed to reduce terrorism in the Middle East and why protecting human rights might be more successful	2
Student absenteeism and the role of police encounters	2
An examination of harm reduction strategies in Oxycodone and Adderall buyer feedback on AlphaBay	2

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George Floyd protests and the criminal justice system	2
Progressing policy toward a risk/need informed sanctioning model	2
Estimating the effects of shrinking the criminal justice system on criminal recidivism	2
On guard but not sworn: The relationship between school security guards, school resource officers, and student behavior, discipline, and arrests	2
The spatial (in)stability of mental health calls for police service	2
Dating hot spot to fraud hot spot: Targeting the social characteristics of romance fraud victims in England and Wales	2
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	2
Licensed firearm dealers, legal compliance, and local homicide: A case study	2
The effect of online ad campaigns on DDoS‐attacks: A cross‐national difference‐in‐differences quasi‐experiment	2
Federal–local partnerships on immigration law enforcement: Are the policies effective in reducing violent victimization?	2