Annual Review of Criminology

Papers
(The median citation count of Annual Review of Criminology is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Can Conservative Criminal Justice Reform Survive a Rise in Crime?83
The Transformative Potential of Restorative Justice: What the Mainstream Can Learn from the Margins64
Concealed Carry Laws and Violence in America48
From Crimes to Crime Statistics: Conceptual Challenges in the Measurement of Violence44
Renewing Historical Criminology: Scope, Significance, and Future Directions42
Agent-Based Modeling in Criminology42
The Rise of Progressive Prosecutors in the United States: Politics, Prospects, and Perils37
The Meaning of the Victim–Offender Overlap for Criminological Theory and Crime Prevention Policy36
History, Linked Lives, Timing, and Agency: New Directions in Developmental and Life-Course Perspective on Gangs28
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Surveillance Technologies and Constitutional Law25
My Unexpected Adventure Pursuing a Career in Motion24
Sanctions, Perceptions, and Crime23
Analytic Criminology: Mechanisms and Methods in the Explanation of Crime and its Causes23
The Centrality of Child Maltreatment to Criminology20
Group Threat and Social Control: Who, What, Where, and When20
Studying Repeat Victimization: A Consideration of Measurement Issues18
Revitalizing Ethnographic Studies of Immigration and Crime17
The Trajectories of Lethal Violence: Analyzing Long-Term Homicide Trends in England and Wales17
Challenges and Prospects for Evidence-Informed Policy in Criminology16
The Changing Landscape of Police Interviewing and Interrogation16
Concerning Cars: Automobility and the Contours of Control, Order, and Harm16
Code of the Street25 Years Later: Lasting Legacies, Empirical Status, and Future Directions16
Assessing the Impact of the Violence Against Women Act16
Green Criminology: Capitalism, Green Crime and Justice, and Environmental Destruction15
Reproductive Policing: A Review15
Instrumental Variables Regression for Criminological Research14
Violent Conflict in the Human Record: A Review of the Bioarchaeological Evidence14
Toward Targeted Interventions: Examining the Science Behind Interventions for Youth Who Offend14
Re-Centering the Community in Violence Intervention: Reclaiming Legacies of Street Outreach in the Provision of Public Safety14
Negotiating Decriminalization: Carceral Power and Legal Change12
The Opioid Crisis: The War on Drugs Is Over. Long Live the War on Drugs12
Homelessness, Offending, Victimization, and Criminal Legal System Contact10
Beyond Predatory Peace10
The Failed Regulation and Oversight of American Prisons10
Addressing Hate Crime in the 21st Century: Trends, Threats, and Opportunities for Intervention10
LatCrit and Criminology: Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Latino/a/x Crime and Criminal Legal System Involvement9
The Role of Networks in Policing9
Desistance as an Intergenerational Process9
Crime and Governance in the Global South9
The 50th Anniversary of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS): The Benefits of a Half Century of Measuring Crime from the Perspective of Victims8
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Short-Term Mindsets and Crime7
Police Unionism, Accountability, and Misconduct7
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Birds of a Feather Born Together? On Siblings, Crime, and Criminal Legal System Contact7
Trauma and Prospects for Reentry6
Stereotypes, Crime, and Policing6
Criminal Justice in the Age of Crimmigration6
Nationalism and Criminal Justice in Europe6
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