Journal of Criminal Justice

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Criminal Justice is 1. 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.)
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Delineating the paradox: Gauging foreign nationals' “Target Suitability” to robbery in the United States32
The links between sleep, self-control, and internalizing/externalizing problems: A meta-analysis30
From theory to conceptualization, through operationalization: Comparing indicators of desistance from crime28
Patrol officer activity by single- versus double-crewed status: The call-related output of one-officer and two-officer patrol units27
Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct22
Deconstructing journey-to-crime's questionable validity in theft-related crimes21
Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health21
To tent and protect: Homeless encampments as “protective facilities”20
Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior: Low resting heart rate in fathers predicts elevated criminality in sons18
A sexual frustration theory of aggression, violence, and crime18
Emotion dysregulation – A bridge between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior16
Firearm acquisition patterns and characteristics of California mass and active shooters16
Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan16
The threat of gun violence and mass shootings: The extent of avoidance and protective behaviors among the American public15
Shame coping and psychopathy: A replication and extension in a sample of male incarcerated offenders14
Examining a third level of police organizational climate: Does organizational self-legitimacy shape officer attitudes on the job?14
Drug offence detection during the pandemic: A spatiotemporal study of drug markets13
Is the Static-99R valid for all men with ‘identifiable’ victims? Examining cases of online sexual solicitation of children13
Neighborhoods, violence, and guns: Unraveling the drivers of youth gun carrying in adjudicated populations13
The hidden harms of bond reform: Examining the impact of bond reform on restrictive conditions of release12
Machine learning analysis of a national sample of U.S. case law involving mental health evidence12
Leveraging code enforcement units to reduce crime: A difference-in-difference analysis of a targeted crime prevention intervention12
Psychopathy and the prospective prediction of adult offending through age 29: Revisiting unfulfilled promises of developmental criminology12
Weeding out the Truth: A Survey Experiment on the Role of Scientific Evidence in Shaping Public Opinion on Marijuana Policy12
The influence of spirituality and religious participation on binge drinking: An investigation into subjective and structural mechanisms of desistance11
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Revenge Effects and Electronic Control Weapons: A Cautionary Tale about the Unintended Consequences of Technology in the American Justice System11
A dynamic factor model to predict homicides with firearm in the United States11
Testing the utility of the psychopathy construct for predicting criminal recidivism among detained girls11
Gender and the commission of violent street robbery in Liverpool, 1850–1870. A historic criminology approach11
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In-hand handgun retention: A crossover RCE comparing two techniques11
Police whistleblowing: A systematic review of the likelihood (and the barriers and facilitators) of the willingness of police officers to report the misconduct of fellow officers10
Formalizing and expanding school resource officer presence: Examining the influence on student arrests10
Public perceptions on police use of information technologies: Findings from a randomized vignette experiment10
The emergence and spread of the summons in lieu of arrest, 1907–198010
Psychopathy and crimes against humanity: A conceptual and empirical examination of human rights violators10
Firearm Acquisition and Criminal Use: Legal and illegal possession of Crime Guns in California (2010−2021)10
Exploring further determinants of citizen satisfaction with the police: The role of strain10
Willingness to change and coming home from prison10
Tracing changes in behavior across the extended solitary confinement process10
Examining the potential association between perceived life expectations and violent behaviors, criminal justice processing, and victimization: A longitudinal analysis10
Corrigendum to “Public Cooperation with Police in Ghana: Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Social Identity” [Journal of Criminal Justice 94 (2024) 1–10/102235]10
Consequences of fearing police: Associations with youths' mental health and felt obligation to obey both the law and school rules9
Family structure, unstructured socializing, and delinquent behavior9
Family incarceration and prison adaptation: Investigating the impact of family incarceration history on prison misconduct9
Beyond urban centers: Investigating general strain theory and opioid use among rural adolescents9
The shortsighted victim: Short-term mindsets mediate the link between victimization and later offending9
Domestic violence perpetrated against men in Kigamboni Municipality, Tanzania: Evidence from social ecological framework9
Still meteoric after all these years: Acknowledgements8
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement: The moderating role of socioeconomic status in a sample of urban youth8
Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model8
The use of restrictive housing with incarcerated persons with mental illness: Variation in placement disparities by restrictive housing type8
A dyadic analysis of social network stability before and after incarceration8
Neuropsychological deficits, adverse home environments, and cascading behaviors and consequences: An examination of relationships from childhood through adolescence8
What is a neighborhood? A concept consensus review of recent criminological literature8
Turnover intention among Indian police: Do organizational and community stressors matter?8
Racial/ethnic disparities in police recovery of stolen property: A previously unexplored facet of police/victim interaction8
The utility of social network analysis to examine conflict and collaboration across boundaries: A review and research agenda for Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs8
Risks considerations when resentencing juvenile homicide offenders: Unresolved science, policy and law issues post-Jones v. Mississippi8
Exploring crime through physical and social neighborhood factors: Greenspace and social disconnection in Los Angeles8
Juvenile fatalities in law enforcement encounters7
The impact of the Detroit crime gun intelligence center on fatal and nonfatal shooting clearance rates7
Adolescent sexual offending: A comparison of female and male adolescents on the ERASOR, and background and offense characteristics7
The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother7
Perceptual saturation in deterrence: Examining the nonlinear relationships between arrest rate signal and perceptions of risk and reward7
Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course7
“We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future”: The time capsule of developmental and life-course criminology7
From mobility to crime: Collective patterns of human mobility and gun violence in Baltimore City7
Disparities in extreme contexts: The impact of gender and mental health status on the criminal justice outcomes of extremists7
The generalizability of public judgments of procedural justice across police interaction and demographic variables7
A test of faith: Exploring the attitudes and experiences of Catholics in the aftermath of the Church's child sexual abuse scandal7
Probation and parole agent communication patterns as antecedents to clients' reactance and acts to restore freedoms: Moderating effects of emerging adult status and gender7
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Revisiting the sexual recidivism drop in Canada and the United States: A meta-analysis of 468 empirical studies involving 388,994 individuals7
Neighborhood level predictors of rape: A novel spatial regression approach6
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform: Lessons from Philadelphia6
Beyond George Floyd: Assessing sentiments on police fund reallocation and its intersection with race and racial resentment6
Do everyday proactive policing activities reduce vehicle crashes? Examining a commonly held law enforcement belief using a novel method6
Social correlates of specialized versus versatile offending patterns in intimate partner violence: A register-based study in Finland6
The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras: Results from six German police departments6
Moving beyond “Does it reduce crime”: The curvilinear and moderating effects of greenspace6
Community perspectives on gun violence and safety: The role of policing in Baltimore City6
Incremental validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised above and beyond the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder regarding recidivism in sexual offenders6
Promoting disengagement: Effects of a gang intervention and exiting Program on negative police contacts6
Estimating the prevalence and frequency of adolescent substance use using zero-inflated models and variables associated with social learning, social bond, and opportunity6
Correlates of victim services for fraud and identity theft among victim service providers6
The accumulated impact of direct and indirect workplace violence exposure on mental health and physiological activity among correctional officers6
Psychopathic traits predict patterns of gun-carrying among a sample of justice-involved youth6
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Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth5
Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers5
Hot spots policing as part of a city-wide violent crime reduction strategy: Initial evidence from Dallas5
An exploration of use of force among law enforcement officers with military service5
Who is to blame? Youth crime and attribution of responsibility in urban Mexico5
Is the recent surge in violence in American cities due to contagion?5
A global comparison of long prison sentences5
Veto players and gun violence in drug markets: Analysis based on field observations of eighty drug-selling spots on the Westside of Chicago5
Stalking victims' decisions to access victim services: A social ecological approach5
Greener the safer? Effects of urban green space on community safety and perception of safety using satellite and street view imagery data5
The effects of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders on street and cybercrimes in a Brazilian city5
The predictive performance of criminal risk assessment tools used at sentencing: Systematic review of validation studies5
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The limits of digital liberation: The social locations of gang-affiliated girls and women in the digital streets5
County jail incarceration rates and food hardship in the United States5
Density, diversity, and design: Three measures of the built environment and the spatial patterns of crime in street segments5
Explaining the relationship between neighborhood disorder and crime fear: The perceptual role of neighbors and the police5
Prediction of reoffending risk in men convicted of sexual offences: development and validation of novel and scalable risk assessment tools (OxRIS)5
The influence of acute life stressors on mass shooter outcomes4
Bias in prosecutorial decision making: Bridging focal concerns & group threat4
Microcosms of violence among street gang members: Social contagion, propensity to violence, and gang embeddedness4
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Day and night: Evaluating the impact of CCTV and street lighting on urban crime prevention in Detroit4
Shootings and land use4
To report or not to report: Exploring the motivations and factors associated with reporting of ransomware victimisation among entrepreneurs4
The role of community policing in communities with serious gang problems: Insights from Trinidad and Tobago4
Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response4
Childhood abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and juvenile recidivism: The mediating role of social bonds4
Public preferences for opioid reform in a post-COVID era: Consensus and divides4
Time after time: Factors predicting murder series' duration4
Recruiting the warrior cop: Assessing predictors of highly militarized recruitment videos4
Gang injunction, What's your function? Investigating the relationship between civil gang injunctions and gang associates' patterns of association4
Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: An exploratory study4
How can restrictive housing be prevented or reduced? Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues confronting research and policy4
Focal concerns theory and case advancement in sexual assault cases: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
A neighborhood analysis of U.S homicide clearances in 50 cities: Examining race and disadvantage across neighborhood types4
Examining impacts of street characteristics on residents' fear of crime: Evidence from a longitudinal study of crime hot spots4
The journey-to-crime buffer zone: Measurement issues and methodological challenges4
A methodological template for the next generation: Redesigning the STRONG-R needs assessment4
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Beyond the joystick: Exploring the relationship between game addiction trajectories and aggression dimensions4
The impact of building the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on crime in Atlanta, GA4
Searching for a big score: Analyzing drug yield from search warrant executions4
Head injury and aggressive behavior: Examining sex differences and the role of related risk factors4
“Get rich quick,” scheme or script? The effect of cryptoculture on the susceptibility of fraud victimization among cryptocurrency purchasers4
Healthcare utilization and type of criminal-legal system contact: The importance of employment and health insurance4
The enduring lessons of war: Connecting culture, masculinities & violence across the life course3
Assessing the feasibility and performance of risk assessment instruments for early intervention and prevention services in Juvenile Justice3
Gang intervention during COVID-19: A qualitative study of multidisciplinary teams and street outreach in Denver3
Beware the truth effect: Why efforts to debunk rape myths may backfire3
Examining how structural characteristics and the physical environment simultaneously impact crime in neighborhoods: Using a semi-parametric strategy3
Prediction of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England: External validation study of a risk assessment tool (OxRec)3
Where are the guns?3
Hunting in the digital jungle: Exploring cyberstalking with higher order moderation in situational action theory3
Public assessments of the criminal justice system in addressing mental health3
Solitary confinement, parole, and criminalization3
The incremental usefulness of teacher-rated psychopathic traits in 5- to 7-year olds in predicting teacher-, parent-, and child self-reported antisocial behavior at a six-year follow-up3
Understanding corrections fatigue and perceptions of natural landscaping at work: An exploratory study with staff at a corrections center for women3
Measuring normative obligation to obey the police: An empirical assessment of a new police legitimacy scale3
Household occupancy and burglary: A case study using COVID-19 restrictions3
Who is fatigued? A repeated cross-sectional survey of officer attitudes towards people who use opioids, naloxone, and their role in responding to opioid overdoses3
Adverse childhood experiences and delinquency: Does age of assessment matter?3
Parental criminality as an extralegal biasing factor in being processed through the criminal justice system3
Reinvestigating the relationship between cities and the spatial distribution of robbery: A tale of eight cities3
Exploring trajectories of offender harm: An alternative approach to understanding offending pathways over the life-course3
“I knew if I did that, they'd catch me again”: Changes in deterrability over the criminal career3
Predictors of perceived wrongfulness and harmfulness of crime among residents in Portugal3
Mental illness, race, gender and sentencing in state homicide cases3
Criminal court responses to the modern opioid and methamphetamine twindemic3
Crime down in the Paris of the prairies: Spatial effects of COVID-19 and crime during lockdown in Saskatoon, Canada3
The developmental sequences of events underlying persistence in criminal convictions during adulthood3
Group-individual probability confusion: Implications for suspect prioritization in criminal investigations3
Ending the stigma of male domestic violence and abuse victims: A mixed-methods study3
Exploring mental health profiles of male youth detained in forensic settings: Implications for research and clinical practice3
Beyond a binary: Introducing the role of timing in understanding the link between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization in the Global South3
Nightlife activity and crime: The impact of COVID-19 related nightlife restrictions on violent crime2
Does the public support anti-gang policies and practices and can opinions be swayed? Experimental evidence from a National Survey of Americans2
Proactive policing embedded in two models: A geospatial analysis of proactive activities by patrol officers and COP officers2
Discretion as weakness: Exploring the relationship between correctional officers' attitudes toward discretion and attempted boundary violations2
How maternal and paternal parenting behaviors predict developmental changes in self-control and deviance during early adolescence2
Being the first: Women and the memory of San José Police School 1930–19642
Consistently inconsistent: Examining variability in police decision-making in mental health calls using a novel noise audit approach2
Adverse childhood experiences, developmental differences in impulse control and sensation seeking, and delinquency: A prospective multi-cohort study2
The Rodney King incident and verdict revisited: Examining opinion-mobilizing effects using data from Southern California in 1991 and 19922
A systematic review of therapeutic alternatives to segregation placement: Progress toward rehabilitative goals or a euphemistic rebranding?2
Disagreeable and out of control: Applicability of the Big Five and low self-control in predicting offending2
Turnover in large US policing agencies following the George Floyd protests2
Does variation across judicial circuits matter? Examining the role of bail schedules and pretrial detention on drug case outcomes in Florida2
Fledgling psychopathy meets social determinants of health: Evidence of childhood homicidal ideation among pediatric emergency department patients2
Spatiotemporal population mix (SPM) as a criminogenic mechanism: Testing environmental-criminology hypotheses with mobility clusters derived from mobile-device geotracking2
Space matters: An examination of the circumstances surrounding violence against correctional staff2
Rape by any other name… Comparing sexual assault cases labeled “suspicious circumstances” to those labeled sex crimes2
When failure is the option: Unravelling sexual assault outcomes2
How prior experience and belief in redeemability impact employers' willingness to hire applicants with a criminal record2
Is rehabilitative approach to criminal justice better for young adults? Evidence from Santa Clara County, CA2
The role of poor sleep on the development of self-control and antisocial behavior from adolescence to adulthood2
Testing the predictive and incremental validity of callous-unemotional traits versus the multidimensional psychopathy construct in preschool children2
The math of serial murder: Understanding victim numbers and series duration2
Identifying signals of mental health crisis in calls for police service2
Citizen satisfaction with the police and college-based informal social controls: An unexpected finding2
Does pretrial detention influence time until re-involvement with the criminal legal system?2
Are white-collar prisoners special? Prison adaptation and the special sensitivity hypothesis2
The impacts of length of prison stay on recidivism of non-violent offenders in Oregon2
When life domains become problematic: A criminological exploration of academic dishonesty in Iran using Agnew's general theory of crime and delinquency2
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New editorship at Journal of Criminal Justice: Carrying the baton2
The structure of cooperation among organized crime groups: A network study of Merseyside, UK2
Police dispatch times: The effects of neighborhood structural disadvantage2
Exploring corporate violations through public data: A comparative analysis of financial offending in the UK and US2
An early social support network analysis of men facing reentry2
Gender differences in serious police misconduct: A machine-learning analysis of the New York Police Department (NYPD)2
Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department2
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Why did the use of force go up? Investigating the unexpected impact of a body-worn camera program on a use of force time series2
A life-course analysis of radicalization among extremists in the Philippines using the life history calendar2
Exploring the effects on capital punishment sentencing of aggravating and mitigating factors that are not accepted2
Mental illness, focal concerns, and intersectionality: The relationship between types of mental illness, types of crime, and race and gender in sentencing in state courts1
Are gun ownership rates and regulations associated with firearm incidents in American schools? A forty-year analysis (1980–2019)1
Criminal network resilience: The evolution of a camorra clan in response to police intervention1
Using machine learning to assess rape reports: “Signaling” words about victims' credibility that predict investigative and prosecutorial outcomes1
A theory of change driven approach to evaluating a multi-agency stalking intervention programme1
Differential compliance with the reporting of hate crime statistics as a function of state laws1
Territory, residency, and routine activities: A typology of gang member mobility patterns with implications for place-based interventions1
Does New York State bail reform moderate the impact of pretrial detention on conviction rates?1
Drug treatment courts and community-level crime1
Revisiting the influence of police response time: Examining the effects of response time on arrest and how it varies by call type1
Neuropsychological functioning and its association with juvenile arrest and adulthood incarceration: Findings from a longitudinal sample of youth1
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Stuck in the cycle? Assessing a reciprocal model of incarceration, health, and relative risk over twenty-five years1
Against optimization: Solitary confinement and the research-policy nexus1
Expanding the ACEs index beyond the household: A gendered assessment of the adversity-delinquency nexus1
Dynamic risk trajectories, community context, and juvenile recidivism1
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‘Till death do us part’: An integrated multi-theoretical approach to identify predictors of intimate partner homicide1
The effects of youth incarceration in adult institutions on future incarceration1
Scapegoating halt: Contested legitimacy through formal conforming & informal rebuking1
Violence in the Big Apple throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: A borough-specific analysis1
Is school discipline decapitalizing America's youth?: Examining the effect of school discipline on family, peer, teacher, and school social capital1
Holding anti-feminist gender role beliefs mediate the relationship between family-related adverse childhood experiences and different forms of intimate partner violence perpetration in adulthood1
Short timers and idle populations in overcrowded prisons1
Criminal nomadism: A neglected dimension of spatial mobility in sex offending1
What makes risky facilities “risky?” A remote systematic social observation of environmental crime predictors at bars in Denver using Google street view imagery1
Public support for safe-storage laws: White nationalism and politics as barriers to evidence-based gun policy1
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd on victim and third-party reporting of domestic violence to the police in the US1
The sentencing of emerging adult offenders: The impact of youthfulness on sentence departures1
Convicted women's trajectories of community and financial adversity and race1
Reaffirming the relationship between routine activities and violent victimization in prison1
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), psychotropic medication prescription, and continued offending among youth with serious offending histories in juvenile justice residential placement1
Financial pretrial release and innovations in outcome measurement1
Understanding violence in juvenile correctional facilities: A National study of victim-offender overlap in the United States1
Revisiting the correlates of youth attitudes toward the police: The role of conservative and liberal crime ideology1
Criminal lifestyle, psychopathy, and prison adjustment among female inmates1
Ambiguous calls: Public preferences for law enforcement responses to people in crisis1
Self-reported offending and drug use after prison release: The pernicious role of stress during reentry1
Measuring coercive control from police reports of intimate partner violence1
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Historical criminology, a moving target: Understanding and challenging trends in British and American periodization1
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