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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The long arm of the gang: Disengagement under gang governance in Central America	87
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Guilt and depression in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda	40
How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired	33
“We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor*	33
System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration	31
Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement	30
Issue Information	28
The transferal of criminal record stigma in the employment context: Evidence from conjoint and vignette experiments	26
Corrigendum to “When police pull back: Neighborhood‐level effects of de‐policing on violent and property crime, a research note”	22
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“We don't tolerate each other; we actually respect and love each other”: Chosen family as a turning point among LGBTQ+ people	19
Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime	18
Delinquency, unstructured socializing, and social change: The rise and fall of a teen culture of independence	18
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Reframing the debate on legal financial obligations and crime: How accruing monetary sanctions impacts recidivism	17
Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system	16
Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice	16
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The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times	15
When men fight with women (versus other men): Limited offending during disputes	14
“The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions	14
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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	13

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When guardians become offenders: Understanding guardian capability through the lens of corporate crime*	13
How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities	12
“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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Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest	10
Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality	9
Prior punishments and cumulative disadvantage: How supervision status impacts prison sentences^*	9
Weaker the gang, harder the exit	9
The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime	9
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs	8
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923	8
Are guns the new dog whistle? Gun control, racial resentment, and vote choice*	8
Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics	7
Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting	7
Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: A content analysis of my hate mail	7
Issue Information	7
Collective efficacy and the built environment*	6
“Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships	6
Issue Information	6
Macro‐historical influences, cohort dynamics, and the (in)stability of the age–crime distribution: The case of the Republic of Korea	6
The American racial divide in fear of the police	5
Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime	5
Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing*	5
Issue Information	5
Examining disparity in police behavior during the 2020 social and political protests	5
The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest	5
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd^*	5
Gender equality and the shifting gap in female‐to‐male prison admission rates*	5
Examining the effects of firearm lethality and aggressors’ intentions to kill on injurious firearm violence at American schools: A research note	4
Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior	4
The future of crime data	4
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Of deviance and patriarchy: Mechanisms of gender discrimination in public‐sector corruption	4
Issue Information	4
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison	4
The price of a sex offense conviction: A comparative analysis of the costs of community supervision	4
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship	4
“If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life”: Survival strategies and isolation in a long‐running gun conflict	3
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
Public fear of protesters and support for protest policing: An experimental test of two theoretical models*	3
“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
Issue Information	3
A prosecutor's “ideal” sexual assault case: A mixed‐method approach to understanding sexual assault case processing	3
Comparing deep‐end confinement in England & Wales and Norway	2
Issue Information	2
Issue Information	2

Police contact and future orientation from adolescence to young adulthood: Findings from the Pathways to Desistance Study	2
The problem with criminal records: Discrepancies between state reports and private‐sector background checks	2
Labor markets and incarceration: The China shock to American punishment	2
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Sex, drugs, and coercive control: Gendered narratives of methamphetamine use, relationships, and violence	2
Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism	2
Multidisciplinary teams, street outreach, and gang intervention: Mixed methods findings from a randomized controlled trial in Denver	2
Social order and social justice: Moral intuitions, systemic racism beliefs, and Americans’ divergent attitudes toward Black Lives Matter and police	2