OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminology is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The long arm of the gang: Disengagement under gang governance in Central America	79
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Guilt and depression in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda	38
Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement	33
How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired	32
System management and compensatory parenting: Educational involvement after maternal incarceration	30
“We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor*	29
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”	25
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Delinquency, unstructured socializing, and social change: The rise and fall of a teen culture of independence	20
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Reframing the debate on legal financial obligations and crime: How accruing monetary sanctions impacts recidivism	18
Pacifying problem places: How problem property interventions increase guardianship and reduce disorder and crime	18
Can the group disincentivize offending? Considering opt‐out thresholds and decision reversals*	17
Citizenship, legal status, and misdemeanor justice	17
Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system	17
The social foundations of racial inequalities in arrest over the life course and in changing times	16
“The roughest form of social work:” How court officials justify bail decisions	15
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The waiting game: Anticipatory stress and its proliferation during jail incarceration	14
Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails	14
When men fight with women (versus other men): Limited offending during disputes	14

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When guardians become offenders: Understanding guardian capability through the lens of corporate crime*	12
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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
Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest	12
How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities	12
The ecology of business environments and consequences for crime	11
Prior punishments and cumulative disadvantage: How supervision status impacts prison sentences^*	11
Criminal record stigma, race, and neighborhood inequality	11
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs	10
Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923	9
Issue Information	9
Are guns the new dog whistle? Gun control, racial resentment, and vote choice*	9
Transphobic discourse and moral panic convergence: A content analysis of my hate mail	8
Issue Information	7
The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest	7
Autonomy: A study of social exchange in a carceral setting	7
“Even though we're married, I'm single”: The meaning of jail incarceration in romantic relationships	7
Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics	7
The American racial divide in fear of the police	6
Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing*	6
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd^*	6
Collective efficacy and the built environment*	6
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison	5
Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime	5
Gender equality and the shifting gap in female‐to‐male prison admission rates*	5
Issue Information	5
Macro‐historical influences, cohort dynamics, and the (in)stability of the age–crime distribution: The case of the Republic of Korea	5
Examining disparity in police behavior during the 2020 social and political protests	5
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Degrees of difference: Do college credentials earned behind bars improve labor market outcomes?	4
Of deviance and patriarchy: Mechanisms of gender discrimination in public‐sector corruption	4
“If it don't kill you, it'll take away your life”: Survival strategies and isolation in a long‐running gun conflict	4
Body‐worn cameras, lawful police stops, and NYPD officer compliance: A cluster randomized controlled trial*	4
A prosecutor's “ideal” sexual assault case: A mixed‐method approach to understanding sexual assault case processing	4
The price of a sex offense conviction: A comparative analysis of the costs of community supervision	4
Correctional officers and the use of force as an organizational behavior	4
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship	4
Issue Information	4
The future of crime data	4
Issue Information	4
Public fear of protesters and support for protest policing: An experimental test of two theoretical models*	4
Issue Information	3
Sex, drugs, and coercive control: Gendered narratives of methamphetamine use, relationships, and violence	3
The ties that bribe: Corruption's embeddedness in Chicago organized crime*	3
“My shot caller was the one who snitched on me”: Symbolic interactionism, identity, and motives for gang exit among Hmong gang members	3
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In the shadow of 9/11: How the study of political extremism has reshaped criminology*	3
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