Annual Review of Criminology

Papers
(The median citation count of Annual Review of Criminology is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Can Conservative Criminal Justice Reform Survive a Rise in Crime?70
The Transformative Potential of Restorative Justice: What the Mainstream Can Learn from the Margins50
The Meaning of the Victim–Offender Overlap for Criminological Theory and Crime Prevention Policy40
The Rise of Progressive Prosecutors in the United States: Politics, Prospects, and Perils40
Agent-Based Modeling in Criminology32
History, Linked Lives, Timing, and Agency: New Directions in Developmental and Life-Course Perspective on Gangs31
Renewing Historical Criminology: Scope, Significance, and Future Directions31
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My Unexpected Adventure Pursuing a Career in Motion22
The Centrality of Child Maltreatment to Criminology21
Surveillance Technologies and Constitutional Law20
Sanctions, Perceptions, and Crime19
Analytic Criminology: Mechanisms and Methods in the Explanation of Crime and its Causes18
Studying Repeat Victimization: A Consideration of Measurement Issues18
Group Threat and Social Control: Who, What, Where, and When18
Revitalizing Ethnographic Studies of Immigration and Crime17
Challenges and Prospects for Evidence-Informed Policy in Criminology14
Concerning Cars: Automobility and the Contours of Control, Order, and Harm14
Assessing the Impact of the Violence Against Women Act13
Code of the Street25 Years Later: Lasting Legacies, Empirical Status, and Future Directions12
Toward Targeted Interventions: Examining the Science Behind Interventions for Youth Who Offend12
The Opioid Crisis: The War on Drugs Is Over. Long Live the War on Drugs12
Re-Centering the Community in Violence Intervention: Reclaiming Legacies of Street Outreach in the Provision of Public Safety12
Green Criminology: Capitalism, Green Crime and Justice, and Environmental Destruction12
Addressing Hate Crime in the 21st Century: Trends, Threats, and Opportunities for Intervention11
Homelessness, Offending, Victimization, and Criminal Legal System Contact11
The Failed Regulation and Oversight of American Prisons11
Beyond Predatory Peace10
Crime and Governance in the Global South9
Desistance as an Intergenerational Process9
LatCrit and Criminology: Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Latino/a/x Crime and Criminal Legal System Involvement9
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Police Unionism, Accountability, and Misconduct7
Short-Term Mindsets and Crime7
Birds of a Feather Born Together? On Siblings, Crime, and Criminal Legal System Contact7
Stereotypes, Crime, and Policing6
Don't Call It a Comeback: The Criminological and Sociological Study of Subfelonies6
Trauma and Prospects for Reentry6
Rural Criminology: Unveiling Its Importance and the Path Forward5
The Justice Department's Pattern-or-Practice Police Reform Program, 1994–2017: Goals, Achievements, and Issues5
Black Political Mobilization and the US Carceral State: How Tracing Community Struggles for Safety Changes the Policing Narrative5
Bail and Pretrial Justice in the United States: A Field of Possibility5
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