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

Article	Citations
Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Police and Prosecutorial Drug Charging: Analyzing Organizational Overlap in Charging Patterns at Arrest, Filing, and Conviction	34
Immigration and Crime: The Role of Immigrant Heterogeneity	30
Revisiting the Structural (In)Variances of Homicide: Examining the Differential Effects of Context Across Homicide Types	21
Toward Measuring Objective Procedural Justice: Commentary on Terpstra and van Wijck (2022)	21
Childhood Exposure to Family Violence, Residential Instability, and Parental Incarceration: Compounding Household Adversities and Adolescent Delinquency	20
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	18
Selection and Facilitation: Is the Gang Membership-Psychopathic Traits Link a Product of Individual Differences, Social Influences, or Both?	17
Immigration and School Threat?: Exploring the Significance of the Border	15
The Racial-Partisan Gradient in Policing Attitudes: Toward a Framed-Group-Position Theory	14
Trends in Prison Sentences and Racial Disparities: 20-Years of Sentencing Under Florida’s Criminal Punishment Code	12
Crime, Choice, and Context	12
Radicalized Environmental Extremism and Situational Decision Making	12
Situational Moral Evaluations: The Role of Rationalizations & Moral Identity	11
Vulnerability in the Neighborhood: A Study of Perceived Control Over Victimization	10
How Little Does It Take to Trigger a Peer Effect? An Experiment on Crime as Conditional Rule Violation	10
The Contextual Generality of Crime: Workplace and Street Crime	9
Specifying the Temporal Bounds of the Situational Peer Effect	9
The Evolution of Anti-Blackness in the American South: How Slavery and Segregation Perpetuates the Victimization of Black People	9
Beyond Legal Deterrence: A Replication and Extension Study on Psychopathy, Self-Control, and Crime-Specific Willingness to Offend	9
An Examination of Noncompleted Sexual Offences, Offenders’ Perceptions of Risks and Difficulties and Related Situational Factors	8
What Adolescents Do or Say to Actively Influence Peers: Compliance-Gaining Tactics and Adolescent Deviance	8
Moving Beyond Self-Defense: Reevaluating the (Gendered) Motivations for Female Homicide Offending Across the Victim–Offender Relationship	8
Parenting and Young Adult Crime: The Enduring Effects of Parental Attitudes and Behaviors	7
Who Believes that the Police Use Excessive Force? Centering Racism in Research on Perceptions of the Police	7
“Dickheads” and “Cool Cops”: The Impact of Officers’ Perceived Cultural and Contextual Competence on Black Men's Appraisals of Police	7

Partners in Force? Understanding Police Use of Force from a Network Perspective	7
Victim and third-party reporting of violent victimization to the police in incidents involving victims with disabilities	7
An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prison Misconduct Punishment	7
The “Dark Figure” of Incarceration—The Imposition of Consecutive Incarceration Sentences as a Window of Discretion	7
Perceptions of White-Collar Crime Seriousness: Unpacking and Translating Attitudes into Policy Preferences	7
Corrigendum to Do Street Robbery Location Choices Vary Over Time of Day or Day of Week? A Test in Chicago	6
The Role of Normative Age-Graded Transitions and Human Agency in Patterns and Variations of Financial Exploitation of Older Adults	6
Receiving Visits and the Relative Timing of Inmates’ Infractions: Investigations into how Inmates’ Behavior Change Before and After Visits in Dutch Prisons	6
Childhood Head Injury as an Acquired Neuropsychological Risk Factor for Adolescent Delinquency	5
Traveling to Criminal Opportunity: Defendant Mobility, Socioeconomic Context, and Prosecutorial Charge Reductions	5
Generations of Criminalization: Resistance to Desegregation and School Punishment	5
Examining the Impact of Mental Health, Substance Use, and Co-Occurring Disorders on Juvenile Court Outcomes	5
Collective Self-Control as a Feature of Social Contexts: Theoretical Arguments and a Multilevel Empirical Test	5
The Theorizing of Terrorism Within Criminology	5
School Transitions, Peer Processes, and Delinquency: A Social Network Approach to Turning Points in Adolescence	5
Exploring Gender Disparities in Prosecutorial and Judicial Decision-Making in the Global South: Evidence from Argentina	4
Comment from the Editors	4
Social Embeddedness, Multiplexity, and Criminal Collaboration Within the Sinaloa Cartel	4
Centering Race in the Study of Crime and Criminal Justice	4
Citizen Complaints as an Accountability Mechanism: Uncovering Patterns Using Topic Modeling	4
Cumulative Racial and Ethnic Disparities Along the School-to-Prison Pipeline	4