OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

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

Article	Citations
The long arm of the gang: Disengagement under gang governance in Central America	91
“We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor*	42
Guilt and depression in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda	34
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Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement	32
How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired	30
System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration	28
The transferal of criminal record stigma in the employment context: Evidence from conjoint and vignette experiments	24
Corrigendum to “When police pull back: Neighborhood‐level effects of de‐policing on violent and property crime, a research note”	20
“We don't tolerate each other; we actually respect and love each other”: Chosen family as a turning point among LGBTQ+ people	19
Issue Information	19
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Delinquency, unstructured socializing, and social change: The rise and fall of a teen culture of independence	18
Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime	18
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Reframing the debate on legal financial obligations and crime: How accruing monetary sanctions impacts recidivism	16
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times	16
Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice	15
Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system	15
“The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions	14
Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails	14
The waiting game: Anticipatory stress and its proliferation during jail incarceration	14
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When men fight with women (versus other men): Limited offending during disputes	14

How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities	13
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“It's like a reverse Robin Hood—We all know they can't pay”: How court actors navigate the logics of monetary sanctions	12
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When guardians become offenders: Understanding guardian capability through the lens of corporate crime*	11
The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime	9
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Weaker the gang, harder the exit	9
Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest	9
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923	8
Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality	8
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs	7
Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics	7
Issue Information	7
Triggering factors: Examining the influence of alcohol outlets and neighborhood context on firearm violence	7
Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting	7
Macro‐historical influences, cohort dynamics, and the (in)stability of the age–crime distribution: The case of the Republic of Korea	6
Issue Information	6
“Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships	6
Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: A content analysis of my hate mail	6
Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing*	6
The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest	5
The American racial divide in fear of the police	5
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Gender equality and the shifting gap in female‐to‐male prison admission rates*	5
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd^*	5
Collective efficacy and the built environment*	5
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Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship	4
Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime	4
Of deviance and patriarchy: Mechanisms of gender discrimination in public‐sector corruption	4
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Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior	4
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison	4
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The price of a sex offense conviction: A comparative analysis of the costs of community supervision	4
“If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life”: Survival strategies and isolation in a long‐running gun conflict	4
Examining disparity in police behavior during the 2020 social and political protests	4
Examining the effects of firearm lethality and aggressors’ intentions to kill on injurious firearm violence at American schools: A research note	4
The future of crime data	4
“My shot caller was the one who snitched on me”: Symbolic interactionism, identity, and motives for gang exit among Hmong gang members	3
Body‐worn cameras, lawful police stops, and NYPD officer compliance: A cluster randomized controlled trial*	3
In the shadow of 9/11: How the study of political extremism has reshaped criminology*	3
Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?	3
A prosecutor's “ideal” sexual assault case: A mixed‐method approach to understanding sexual assault case processing	3
Issue Information	3
Police contact and future orientation from adolescence to young adulthood: Findings from the Pathways to Desistance Study	2
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The problem with criminal records: Discrepancies between state reports and private‐sector background checks	2

Issue Information	2
Social order and social justice: Moral intuitions, systemic racism beliefs, and Americans’ divergent attitudes toward Black Lives Matter and police	2
Labor markets and incarceration: The China shock to American punishment	2
Sex, drugs, and coercive control: Gendered narratives of methamphetamine use, relationships, and violence	2
Multidisciplinary teams, street outreach, and gang intervention: Mixed methods findings from a randomized controlled trial in Denver	2
Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism	2