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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The long arm of the gang: Disengagement under gang governance in Central America	42
A gendered journey to crime: Routine activities, types of businesses, and neighborhood context	29
The company you keep: The influence of popular delinquents and deviant brokers on offending trajectories	26
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Guilt and depression in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda	24
How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired	24
System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration	22
Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement	21
The dynamics of criminal collaboration: Multiplex ties in mafia networks	20
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Issue Information	20
The transferal of criminal record stigma in the employment context: Evidence from conjoint and vignette experiments	19
Corrigendum to “When police pull back: Neighborhood‐level effects of de‐policing on violent and property crime, a research note”	19
“We don't tolerate each other; we actually respect and love each other”: Chosen family as a turning point among LGBTQ+ people	19
Thin markets and thick networks: Social and street capital in New York City's underground gun market	19
Justice: word, idea, practice	18
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Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime	17
Rational choice models of crime decision‐making: A flexible utility framework	17
Delinquency, unstructured socializing, and social change: The rise and fall of a teen culture of independence	16
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Issue Information	14
“The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions	14
Reframing the debate on legal financial obligations and crime: How accruing monetary sanctions impacts recidivism	14
Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system	13

Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice	12
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times	12
When men fight with women (versus other men): Limited offending during disputes	11
Defining and measuring homicide rates for birth cohorts: Methodological and theoretical challenges and solutions	11
Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails	11
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The waiting game: Anticipatory stress and its proliferation during jail incarceration	11
Glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonist use and violent crime among US adults	10
“It's like a reverse Robin Hood—We all know they can't pay”: How court actors navigate the logics of monetary sanctions	10
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Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest	9
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Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality	9
How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities	9
The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime	7
Weaker the gang, harder the exit	7
Flexibility in variable operationalization in social disorganization theory: A pilot study	7
Issue Information	7
Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting	6
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs	6
Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: A content analysis of my hate mail	6
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Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics	6
Triggering factors: Examining the influence of alcohol outlets and neighborhood context on firearm violence	6
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923	6
The role of case management in misdemeanor prosecution	5
“I've seen injustice”: Challenging colorblindness in prosecution	5
The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest	5
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The (non)offensive nature of “white power” music, a research note	5
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Macro‐historical influences, cohort dynamics, and the (in)stability of the age–crime distribution: The case of the Republic of Korea	5
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“Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships	4
Examining disparity in police behavior during the 2020 social and political protests	4
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd^*	4
Whose decision is it anyway? Defendants’ prior experience shapes prosecutorial case dismissal	4
How do people react to policy reform? Group cues and persuasion in criminal justice	3
Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime	3
Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior	3
Of deviance and patriarchy: Mechanisms of gender discrimination in public‐sector corruption	3
Is updating racialized? Differential effects of (dis)respectful police contact on perceptions of police legitimacy	3
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison	3
The future of crime data	3
Does a rising tide lift all boats?: Evidence from a multicity randomized trial of procedural justice in hot spots policing	3
“If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life”: Survival strategies and isolation in a long‐running gun conflict	3
Examining the effects of firearm lethality and aggressors’ intentions to kill on injurious firearm violence at American schools: A research note	3
“It's such a terrible drug”: Narratives of fentanyl dealers amid the opioid overdose crisis	3

Issue Information	3
The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime	2
Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?	2
Multidisciplinary teams, street outreach, and gang intervention: Mixed methods findings from a randomized controlled trial in Denver	2
Affordances, dread, and online fraud: Exploring and advancing social learning theory in online contexts	2
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship	2
A prosecutor's “ideal” sexual assault case: A mixed‐method approach to understanding sexual assault case processing	2
Issue Information	2
Toronto's drug policy paradox: Harm reduction sites and drug police occurrences in Toronto neighborhoods (1992–2020)	2
Hard to Read, Harder to Access: US Disability Policy of State Correctional Departments	2
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“My shot caller was the one who snitched on me”: Symbolic interactionism, identity, and motives for gang exit among Hmong gang members	2
From prison to profession: Postsecondary education and access to middle‐skill jobs	2
The problem with criminal records: Discrepancies between state reports and private‐sector background checks	2