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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Understanding corrections fatigue and perceptions of natural landscaping at work: An exploratory study with staff at a corrections center for women516
How much does criminal history contribute to racial differences in arraignment outcomes?35
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform: Lessons from Philadelphia33
Targeted violence in correctional facilities: The complex motivations of prisoners who kill child sex abusers27
Gender, adverse childhood experiences, and the development of self-control24
Deconstructing journey-to-crime's questionable validity in theft-related crimes23
Public perceptions of, and preferences toward, police vehicle designs: A mixed-method test of a theoretical question23
Weird winter weather in the Anthropocene: How volatile temperatures shape violent crime21
Psychopathic traits predict patterns of gun-carrying among a sample of justice-involved youth19
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Adverse childhood experiences and delinquency: Does age of assessment matter?19
Associations of neighborhood disadvantage and offender concentration with criminal behavior: Between-within analysis in Finnish registry data18
The great methods bake-off: Comparing performance of machine learning algorithms18
Beyond the collective: Personal networks in the study of street gang processes16
A multiplex network approach to understanding extremist organizations: A case study of the Proud Boys15
The impact of childhood trauma, personality, and sexuality on the development of paraphilias14
Territory, residency, and routine activities: A typology of gang member mobility patterns with implications for place-based interventions14
Incremental validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised above and beyond the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder regarding recidivism in sexual offenders14
Criminology's future is in its past13
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The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras: Results from six German police departments13
Examining psychopathy as a predictor of recidivism in a sample of women who have sexually offended13
Measuring the dark core: A Brazilian adaptation and comparison between the general population and incarcerated men13
Testing the Cinderella effect: Measuring victim injury in child abuse cases12
Virus containment measures and homicide in Mexico: An assessment of community strain theory11
Prediction of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England: External validation study of a risk assessment tool (OxRec)11
The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother11
Justifiability and culpability in lethal self-defense: Police officers vs. civilians10
The resilience of drug trafficking organizations: Simulating the impact of police arresting key roles10
Correlates of victim services for fraud and identity theft among victim service providers10
Predictors of perceived wrongfulness and harmfulness of crime among residents in Portugal10
Comparing the Static-99R and the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT) in two Canadian samples adjudicated of child sexual exploitation material offenses10
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Resting heart rate as a risk and protective factor for intrapersonal violence: A population-based study10
Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct9
When and where we are: Comparing early criminal careers of organized crime offenders in Italy and the Netherlands across decades9
Who is fatigued? A repeated cross-sectional survey of officer attitudes towards people who use opioids, naloxone, and their role in responding to opioid overdoses9
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Improving victim engagement and officer response in rape investigations: A longitudinal assessment of a brief training8
Adolescent sports, violent delinquency, and being processed through the criminal justice system: A longitudinal analysis of males8
Crime down in the Paris of the prairies: Spatial effects of COVID-19 and crime during lockdown in Saskatoon, Canada8
Exploring variation in factors associated with increased likelihood of pretrial detention8
Psychiatric diagnoses and criminal convictions in youth: A population-based study of comorbidities of diagnoses8
Proactive monitoring and operator discretion: A systematic social observation of CCTV control room operations8
Parental incarceration and offspring criminality: A Finnish total population study with sibling comparison8
Moving beyond “Does it reduce crime”: The curvilinear and moderating effects of greenspace8
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-up8
Gold, silver, and bronze: Measuring the impact of the Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics on crime8
Can body-worn cameras reduce injuries during response-to-resistance events in a jail setting? Results from a randomized controlled trial8
To tent and protect: Homeless encampments as “protective facilities”8
Beyond George Floyd: Assessing sentiments on police fund reallocation and its intersection with race and racial resentment8
Do real-time crime centers improve case clearance? An examination of Chicago's strategic decision support centers8
Disparities in extreme contexts: The impact of gender and mental health status on the criminal justice outcomes of extremists8
Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health8
Estimating the prevalence and frequency of adolescent substance use using zero-inflated models and variables associated with social learning, social bond, and opportunity7
Homicidality risk prediction based on ecological systems theory in an early adolescent cohort using machine learning7
The effect of police reform on overall police misconduct and misconduct that involves the use of force7
A comparison of first-time offenders, repeat offenders, and frequent utilizers of the criminal justice system7
Disciplining risk: Governing through conditions on bail in the community pre-trial7
Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior: Low resting heart rate in fathers predicts elevated criminality in sons7
The dynamic emotional experience of online fraud victims during the process of being defrauded: A text-based analysis7
From mobility to crime: Collective patterns of human mobility and gun violence in Baltimore City7
The accumulated impact of direct and indirect workplace violence exposure on mental health and physiological activity among correctional officers7
Is corrections officers' use of illegal force networked? Network structure, brokerage, and key players in the New York City Department of Correction7
The impact of incarceration on reoffending: A period-to-period analysis of Canadian youth followed into adulthood7
Patrol officer activity by single- versus double-crewed status: The call-related output of one-officer and two-officer patrol units7
Revisiting the sexual recidivism drop in Canada and the United States: A meta-analysis of 468 empirical studies involving 388,994 individuals7
Where are the guns?6
Assessing the feasibility and performance of risk assessment instruments for early intervention and prevention services in Juvenile Justice6
Examining recidivism during reentry: Proposing a holistic model of health and wellbeing6
A sexual frustration theory of aggression, violence, and crime6
Reassessing the process-based model: Do procedural justice and police legitimacy lead to reporting neighborhood problems to the police over time?6
Perceptual saturation in deterrence: Examining the nonlinear relationships between arrest rate signal and perceptions of risk and reward6
Elucidating the relevance of dissociation and emotion dysregulation for aggression in forensic and community samples6
Community perspectives on gun violence and safety: The role of policing in Baltimore City6
Testing racial and ethnic differences in the correlates of court legitimacy6
Taking the long view: A temporal assessment of minority threat theory in 21st century sentencing6
Police use of force at street segments: Do street-level characteristics matter?6
Social correlates of specialized versus versatile offending patterns in intimate partner violence: A register-based study in Finland5
Exploring trajectories of offender harm: An alternative approach to understanding offending pathways over the life-course5
Are gun ownership rates and regulations associated with firearm incidents in American schools? A forty-year analysis (1980–2019)5
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Is the Static-99R valid for all men with ‘identifiable’ victims? Examining cases of online sexual solicitation of children5
Weeding out the Truth: A Survey Experiment on the Role of Scientific Evidence in Shaping Public Opinion on Marijuana Policy5
Prosecutors and crime deterrence: Evidence from a difference-in-differences analysis with staggered treatment5
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Individualization and the decline of homicide: England 1250–17505
Historical criminology, a moving target: Understanding and challenging trends in British and American periodization5
Parents, peers, and low self-control: Exploring the impact of time varying factors associated with deviance in early- and middle-adolescence5
Violence in the Big Apple throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: A borough-specific analysis5
Using machine learning to assess rape reports: “Signaling” words about victims' credibility that predict investigative and prosecutorial outcomes5
Examining the immediate effects of COVID-19 on residential and commercial burglaries in Michigan: An interrupted time-series analysis5
Public assessments of the criminal justice system in addressing mental health5
Criminal lifestyle, psychopathy, and prison adjustment among female inmates5
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The developmental sequences of events underlying persistence in criminal convictions during adulthood5
Exploring mental health profiles of male youth detained in forensic settings: Implications for research and clinical practice5
Forecasting the potential effects of programming combinations for justice-involved youths5
The role of employment as a mediator in correctional education's impact on recidivism: A quasi-experimental study of multiple programs4
Ending the stigma of male domestic violence and abuse victims: A mixed-methods study4
Expanding the ACEs index beyond the household: A gendered assessment of the adversity-delinquency nexus4
Beyond a binary: Introducing the role of timing in understanding the link between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization in the Global South4
Judicial diversity and sentencing disparity across U.S. District Courts4
Dark web pedophile site users' cybersecurity concerns: A lifespan and survival analysis4
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of judicial supervision on recidivism and well-being factors of criminal offenders4
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), psychotropic medication prescription, and continued offending among youth with serious offending histories in juvenile justice residential placement4
More similar than different? Examining prison infractions and recidivism among female and male white-collar offenders4
Sensitivity for thee, but not for me: The role of social status as a conduit for white-collar prison adjustment4
Just another day's work: The nexus between workplace experiences and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in jail settings4
Timing, frequency, and duration of incarceration and their impact on mental illness: Evidence from an Australian birth cohort4
Problems of cross-cultural criminology no more! Testing two central tenets of Self-Control Theory across 28 nations4
The threat of gun violence and mass shootings: The extent of avoidance and protective behaviors among the American public4
Emotion dysregulation – A bridge between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior4
Mental illness, focal concerns, and intersectionality: The relationship between types of mental illness, types of crime, and race and gender in sentencing in state courts4
Psychopathy and the prospective prediction of adult offending through age 29: Revisiting unfulfilled promises of developmental criminology4
Public support for safe-storage laws: White nationalism and politics as barriers to evidence-based gun policy4
Population growth and its paradox: An investigation into the correlates of four forms of violence in a rapidly expanding suburb4
Shame coping and psychopathy: A replication and extension in a sample of male incarcerated offenders4
Geography of poly-substance drug mortality4
Community reentry and the revolving door problem: Are individuals convicted of sexual offenses adequately prepared?3
Convicted women's trajectories of community and financial adversity and race3
Machine learning analysis of a national sample of U.S. case law involving mental health evidence3
Unveiling the heart of young offenders: Testing the tripartite model of affect regulation in community and forensic male adolescents3
Examining procedural justice spill-over effects on in-prison misconduct3
A retrospective study of the role of probation revocation in future criminal justice involvement3
Holding anti-feminist gender role beliefs mediate the relationship between family-related adverse childhood experiences and different forms of intimate partner violence perpetration in adulthood3
Drug offence detection during the pandemic: A spatiotemporal study of drug markets3
Examining a third level of police organizational climate: Does organizational self-legitimacy shape officer attitudes on the job?3
In the wake of Miller and Montgomery: A national view of people sentenced to juvenile life without parole3
Parental criminality as an extralegal biasing factor in being processed through the criminal justice system3
Firearm acquisition patterns and characteristics of California mass and active shooters3
Do everyday proactive policing activities reduce vehicle crashes? Examining a commonly held law enforcement belief using a novel method3
Cannabis and criminology: A history of race, addiction, and inconvenient research3
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 US3
Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan3
Twenty years in the making: Revisiting Laub and Sampson's version of life-course criminology3
An examination of recidivism outcomes for a novel prosecutor-led gun diversion program3
The Indianapolis harmspot policing experiment3
A population-based study of unintentional injury and premature death among non-imprisoned and imprisoned youth offenders3
In-hand handgun retention: A crossover RCE comparing two techniques3
The predictive performance of criminal risk assessment tools used at sentencing: Systematic review of validation studies3
Use of force during stop and frisks: Examining the role of suspect demeanor and race3
Reinvestigating the relationship between cities and the spatial distribution of robbery: A tale of eight cities3
Formalizing and expanding school resource officer presence: Examining the influence on student arrests2
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Who is to blame? Youth crime and attribution of responsibility in urban Mexico2
Disagreeable and out of control: Applicability of the Big Five and low self-control in predicting offending2
County jail incarceration rates and food hardship in the United States2
Measuring fear of crime during the past 25 years: A systematic quantitative literature review2
Stuck in the cycle? Assessing a reciprocal model of incarceration, health, and relative risk over twenty-five years2
Advancing pretrial assessments: Development of the Personal Recognizance Interview & Needs Screen (PRINS)2
The role of poor sleep on the development of self-control and antisocial behavior from adolescence to adulthood2
Individual and neighborhood factors in residence-to-crime distances for property, drug, and violent offenses2
Randomized trial of a diversion program for property offenders with drug use2
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Revenge Effects and Electronic Control Weapons: A Cautionary Tale about the Unintended Consequences of Technology in the American Justice System2
Drug overdose death rates and criminal sentencing of federal drug offenders in the United States2
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Privatized jails: Comparing individuals' safety in private and public jails2
The influence of spirituality and religious participation on binge drinking: An investigation into subjective and structural mechanisms of desistance2
Law enforcement assisted diversion (LEAD) in North Carolina: A longitudinal analysis of criminal-legal outcomes2
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Police use of firearms: Exploring citizen, officer, and incident characteristics in a statewide sample2
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Gender and the commission of violent street robbery in Liverpool, 1850–1870. A historic criminology approach2
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An early social support network analysis of men facing reentry2
Stalking victims' decisions to access victim services: A social ecological approach2
Ambiguous calls: Public preferences for law enforcement responses to people in crisis2
Business disruptions due to social vulnerability and criminal activities in urban areas1
Adverse childhood experiences, developmental differences in impulse control and sensation seeking, and delinquency: A prospective multi-cohort study1
An exploration of use of force among law enforcement officers with military service1
Willingness to change and coming home from prison1
Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department1
Is school discipline decapitalizing America's youth?: Examining the effect of school discipline on family, peer, teacher, and school social capital1
The Rodney King incident and verdict revisited: Examining opinion-mobilizing effects using data from Southern California in 1991 and 19921
Does pretrial detention influence time until re-involvement with the criminal legal system?1
A global comparison of long prison sentences1
Offense specialization among outlaw motorcycle gang members: Comparing specialization metrics1
The limits of digital liberation: The social locations of gang-affiliated girls and women in the digital streets1
Consistently inconsistent: Examining variability in police decision-making in mental health calls using a novel noise audit approach1
Neuropsychological functioning and its association with juvenile arrest and adulthood incarceration: Findings from a longitudinal sample of youth1
Is the recent surge in violence in American cities due to contagion?1
A new college campus and crime: Focusing on crime opportunity and gentrification in downtown Orlando, Florida1
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 officers1
Antecedents of legal cynicism unpacked: The impact of parental incarceration, race, and ACEs on its development1
Do psychopathic personality traits in childhood predict subsequent criminality and psychiatric outcomes over and above childhood behavioral problems?1
Revisiting the correlates of youth attitudes toward the police: The role of conservative and liberal crime ideology1
Anticipation of racially motivated police brutality and youth mental health1
Density, diversity, and design: Three measures of the built environment and the spatial patterns of crime in street segments1
Identifying signals of mental health crisis in calls for police service1
Tracing changes in behavior across the extended solitary confinement process1
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Testing the predictive and incremental validity of callous-unemotional traits versus the multidimensional psychopathy construct in preschool children1
Veto players and gun violence in drug markets: Analysis based on field observations of eighty drug-selling spots on the Westside of Chicago1
Body-worn cameras and arrest: Zooming in on disaggregated metrics and possible unintended consequences1
Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers1
The impact of violent behavior on co-offender selection: Evidence of behavioral homophily1
Public perception of bidirectional intimate partner violence1
A dynamic factor model to predict homicides with firearm in the United States1
The effects of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders on street and cybercrimes in a Brazilian city1
What makes risky facilities “risky?” A remote systematic social observation of environmental crime predictors at bars in Denver using Google street view imagery1
Psychopathy and crimes against humanity: A conceptual and empirical examination of human rights violators1
Hot spots policing as part of a city-wide violent crime reduction strategy: Initial evidence from Dallas1
Prediction of reoffending risk in men convicted of sexual offences: development and validation of novel and scalable risk assessment tools (OxRIS)1
Proactive policing embedded in two models: A geospatial analysis of proactive activities by patrol officers and COP officers1
Testing the utility of the psychopathy construct for predicting criminal recidivism among detained girls1
Greener the safer? Effects of urban green space on community safety and perception of safety using satellite and street view imagery data1
Explaining the relationship between neighborhood disorder and crime fear: The perceptual role of neighbors and the police1
Gender differences in serious police misconduct: A machine-learning analysis of the New York Police Department (NYPD)1
What happens when sexual assault kits go untested? A focal concerns analysis of suspect identification and police pre-arrest decisions1
Similarities between copycat mass shooters and their role models: An empirical analysis with implications for threat assessment and violence prevention1
Space matters: An examination of the circumstances surrounding violence against correctional staff1
Drug treatment courts and community-level crime1
Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth1
Vote choice in the context of lethal police violence: A research note1
Revisiting the influence of police response time: Examining the effects of response time on arrest and how it varies by call type1
Domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic - Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis1
Understanding police decisions to arrest: The impact of situational, officer, and neighborhood characteristics on police discretion1
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