Criminology

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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The long arm of the gang: Disengagement under gang governance in Central America82
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Guilt and depression in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda40
Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement33
System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration32
How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired29
“We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor*29
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The transferal of criminal record stigma in the employment context: Evidence from conjoint and vignette experiments26
Corrigendum to “When police pull back: Neighborhood‐level effects of de‐policing on violent and property crime, a research note”21
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Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime17
Reframing the debate on legal financial obligations and crime: How accruing monetary sanctions impacts recidivism17
Delinquency, unstructured socializing, and social change: The rise and fall of a teen culture of independence17
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Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system16
Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice15
Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails14
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times14
“The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions14
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The waiting game: Anticipatory stress and its proliferation during jail incarceration13
“It's like a reverse Robin Hood—We all know they can't pay”: How court actors navigate the logics of monetary sanctions13
When men fight with women (versus other men): Limited offending during disputes13
When guardians become offenders: Understanding guardian capability through the lens of corporate crime*12
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How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities12
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Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest9
Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality9
The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime9
Prior punishments and cumulative disadvantage: How supervision status impacts prison sentences*9
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs8
Are guns the new dog whistle? Gun control, racial resentment, and vote choice*8
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–19238
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Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: A content analysis of my hate mail7
Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics7
Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting6
“Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships6
Collective efficacy and the built environment*6
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The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest6
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd*5
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison5
Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime5
The American racial divide in fear of the police5
Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing*5
Examining disparity in police behavior during the 2020 social and political protests5
Macro‐historical influences, cohort dynamics, and the (in)stability of the age–crime distribution: The case of the Republic of Korea5
Gender equality and the shifting gap in female‐to‐male prison admission rates*5
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Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior4
Body‐worn cameras, lawful police stops, and NYPD officer compliance: A cluster randomized controlled trial*4
The price of a sex offense conviction: A comparative analysis of the costs of community supervision4
The future of crime data4
Public fear of protesters and support for protest policing: An experimental test of two theoretical models*4
Of deviance and patriarchy: Mechanisms of gender discrimination in public‐sector corruption4
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship4
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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 members3
Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?3
In the shadow of 9/11: How the study of political extremism has reshaped criminology*3
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A prosecutor's “ideal” sexual assault case: A mixed‐method approach to understanding sexual assault case processing3
“If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life”: Survival strategies and isolation in a long‐running gun conflict3
Police contact and future orientation from adolescence to young adulthood: Findings from the Pathways to Desistance Study2
Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism2
Comparing deep‐end confinement in England & Wales and Norway2
Social order and social justice: Moral intuitions, systemic racism beliefs, and Americans’ divergent attitudes toward Black Lives Matter and police2
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Labor markets and incarceration: The China shock to American punishment2
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Sex, drugs, and coercive control: Gendered narratives of methamphetamine use, relationships, and violence2
Mental health disparities in solitary confinement2
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