OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency is 4. 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
Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Police and Prosecutorial Drug Charging: Analyzing Organizational Overlap in Charging Patterns at Arrest, Filing, and Conviction	29
Immigration and Crime: The Role of Immigrant Heterogeneity	26
Shifting Peaks and Cumulative Consequences: Disqualifying Convictions in High-security Jobs	19
Toward Measuring Objective Procedural Justice: Commentary on Terpstra and van Wijck (2022)	19
Childhood Exposure to Family Violence, Residential Instability, and Parental Incarceration: Compounding Household Adversities and Adolescent Delinquency	17
Revisiting the Structural (In)Variances of Homicide: Examining the Differential Effects of Context Across Homicide Types	16
Unpacking the Criminogenic Aspects of Stress Over the Life Course: The Joint Effects of Proximal Strain and Childhood Abuse on Violence and Substance Use in a High-Risk Sample of Women	14
Arrested Friendships? Justice Involvement and Interpersonal Exclusion among Rural Youth	13
Trends in Prison Sentences and Racial Disparities: 20-Years of Sentencing Under Florida’s Criminal Punishment Code	13
Immigration and School Threat?: Exploring the Significance of the Border	12
The Racial-Partisan Gradient in Policing Attitudes: Toward a Framed-Group-Position Theory	11
Crime, Choice, and Context	10
Radicalized Environmental Extremism and Situational Decision Making	9
Not (Entirely) Guilty: The Role of Co-offenders in Diffusing Responsibility for Crime	9
The Racial Divide at Micro Places: A Pre/Post Analysis of the Effects of the Newark Consent Decree on Field Inquiries (2015–2017)	8
How Little Does It Take to Trigger a Peer Effect? An Experiment on Crime as Conditional Rule Violation	8
Specifying the Temporal Bounds of the Situational Peer Effect	8
Situational Moral Evaluations: The Role of Rationalizations & Moral Identity	8
Vulnerability in the Neighborhood: A Study of Perceived Control Over Victimization	8
What Adolescents Do or Say to Actively Influence Peers: Compliance-Gaining Tactics and Adolescent Deviance	7
An Examination of Noncompleted Sexual Offences, Offenders’ Perceptions of Risks and Difficulties and Related Situational Factors	7
The Contextual Generality of Crime: Workplace and Street Crime	7
The Evolution of Anti-Blackness in the American South: How Slavery and Segregation Perpetuates the Victimization of Black People	7
Victim and third-party reporting of violent victimization to the police in incidents involving victims with disabilities	7
Receiving Visits and the Relative Timing of Inmates’ Infractions: Investigations into how Inmates’ Behavior Change Before and After Visits in Dutch Prisons	6

Perceptions of White-Collar Crime Seriousness: Unpacking and Translating Attitudes into Policy Preferences	6
Who Believes that the Police Use Excessive Force? Centering Racism in Research on Perceptions of the Police	6
“Dickheads” and “Cool Cops”: The Impact of Officers’ Perceived Cultural and Contextual Competence on Black Men's Appraisals of Police	6
The “Dark Figure” of Incarceration—The Imposition of Consecutive Incarceration Sentences as a Window of Discretion	6
Parenting and Young Adult Crime: The Enduring Effects of Parental Attitudes and Behaviors	6
Partners in Force? Understanding Police Use of Force from a Network Perspective	6
An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prison Misconduct Punishment	6
The Role of Normative Age-Graded Transitions and Human Agency in Patterns and Variations of Financial Exploitation of Older Adults	5
Collective Self-Control as a Feature of Social Contexts: Theoretical Arguments and a Multilevel Empirical Test	5
Childhood Head Injury as an Acquired Neuropsychological Risk Factor for Adolescent Delinquency	5
Corrigendum to Do Street Robbery Location Choices Vary Over Time of Day or Day of Week? A Test in Chicago	5
Development and Application of Individual and National Opportunity to the Experience of Intimate Partner Violence among Married Women in the Global South	4
School Transitions, Peer Processes, and Delinquency: A Social Network Approach to Turning Points in Adolescence	4
Citizen Complaints as an Accountability Mechanism: Uncovering Patterns Using Topic Modeling	4
The Theorizing of Terrorism Within Criminology	4
Examining the Impact of Mental Health, Substance Use, and Co-Occurring Disorders on Juvenile Court Outcomes	4
Generations of Criminalization: Resistance to Desegregation and School Punishment	4
Traveling to Criminal Opportunity: Defendant Mobility, Socioeconomic Context, and Prosecutorial Charge Reductions	4
Centering Race in the Study of Crime and Criminal Justice	4