Journal of Criminal Justice

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Criminal Justice is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board70
Editorial Board64
From theory to conceptualization, through operationalization: Comparing indicators of desistance from crime62
The geographical aspect of offending across crime types: A study on the journey to crime and co-offender dispersion48
The Other perspectives on the development and life course of offending46
A longitudinal qualitative analysis of probation and parole officer stress and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic41
To tent and protect: Homeless encampments as “protective facilities”32
Delineating the paradox: Gauging foreign nationals' “Target Suitability” to robbery in the United States27
Evidence for intergenerational transmission of biological risk for antisocial behavior: Low resting heart rate in fathers predicts elevated criminality in sons25
Pathways to juvenile hacking: A stacking ensemble learning and decision tree analysis of cumulative risk factors24
Breaking point: Exploring side bets, support, and pension investment as predictors of turnover intention in urban policing24
A theory evaluation of U.S. firearm laws and their likely effectiveness in reducing gun-related crime23
What is theoretical support? Explanation as a central barometer in sentencing research22
Patrol officer activity by single- versus double-crewed status: The call-related output of one-officer and two-officer patrol units21
Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health20
Deconstructing journey-to-crime's questionable validity in theft-related crimes20
The hidden harms of bond reform: Examining the impact of bond reform on restrictive conditions of release19
Weeding out the Truth: A Survey Experiment on the Role of Scientific Evidence in Shaping Public Opinion on Marijuana Policy19
The links between sleep, self-control, and internalizing/externalizing problems: A meta-analysis19
Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct19
Corrigendum to “Do interactions with the police correlate with identity formation? Examining the relationship between police legitimacy, procedural justice, and self-identification over time” [JCJ 10219
Leveraging code enforcement units to reduce crime: A difference-in-difference analysis of a targeted crime prevention intervention18
Rational choices in cyberspace: Quantitative insights into targeting and attack behavior among cyber offenders17
Machine learning analysis of a national sample of U.S. case law involving mental health evidence15
The importance of social dynamics in a prison environment: Learning from the concerns of incarcerated people15
Is the Static-99R valid for all men with ‘identifiable’ victims? Examining cases of online sexual solicitation of children15
Property crime specialization in Detroit, Michigan15
Examining a third level of police organizational climate: Does organizational self-legitimacy shape officer attitudes on the job?15
Honesty as a “communicative tool” in sentencing: A study of judges in the U.S. and Australia15
The threat of gun violence and mass shootings: The extent of avoidance and protective behaviors among the American public14
Firearm acquisition patterns and characteristics of California mass and active shooters14
Examining the role of the social bond in the formation of violent crime intentions among incarcerated men14
Neighborhoods, violence, and guns: Unraveling the drivers of youth gun carrying in adjudicated populations13
Firearm Acquisition and Criminal Use: Legal and illegal possession of Crime Guns in California (2010−2021)13
Police de-escalation training and its effects on communication: Evidence from an experimental evaluation13
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 officers13
Emotion dysregulation – A bridge between ACE and aggressive antisocial behavior13
To intervene or not to intervene: Actual and intended bystander responses to sextortion13
Corrigendum to “disrupting the cycle of violence for justice-involved youth: The direct and moderating impact of prosocial ties” [Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 105C, 102702]13
Corrigendum to ‘A global comparison of long prison sentences’ [Journal of Criminal Justice (2025), Volume 96, 102341]12
Gender and the commission of violent street robbery in Liverpool, 1850–1870. A historic criminology approach12
A dynamic factor model to predict homicides with firearm in the United States12
Evaluating policy reforms over time: Multiple event time series regression analysis of justice reinvestment in Indiana and Oregon12
Revenge Effects and Electronic Control Weapons: A Cautionary Tale about the Unintended Consequences of Technology in the American Justice System12
In-hand handgun retention: A crossover RCE comparing two techniques12
Formalizing and expanding school resource officer presence: Examining the influence on student arrests12
Editorial Board12
Editorial Board12
The influence of spirituality and religious participation on binge drinking: An investigation into subjective and structural mechanisms of desistance11
Consequences of fearing police: Associations with youths' mental health and felt obligation to obey both the law and school rules11
Corrigendum to “Public Cooperation with Police in Ghana: Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Social Identity” [Journal of Criminal Justice 94 (2024) 1–10/102235]11
Pathways to sexual aggression according to modus operandi in male and female perpetrators: A systematic review11
Willingness to change and coming home from prison11
Beyond urban centers: Investigating general strain theory and opioid use among rural adolescents11
Public perceptions on police use of information technologies: Findings from a randomized vignette experiment11
The emergence and spread of the summons in lieu of arrest, 1907–198011
Domestic violence perpetrated against men in Kigamboni Municipality, Tanzania: Evidence from social ecological framework11
Examining the potential association between perceived life expectations and violent behaviors, criminal justice processing, and victimization: A longitudinal analysis11
The utility of social network analysis to examine conflict and collaboration across boundaries: A review and research agenda for Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs10
Does time heal all? Evaluating the effect of time since conviction on employability10
Getting in, but getting through? A 20-year national examination of the representation and success of women in the police academy10
Family incarceration and prison adaptation: Investigating the impact of family incarceration history on prison misconduct10
Relationship between resting heart rate and law enforcement involvement: The moderating role of socioeconomic status in a sample of urban youth10
Racial/ethnic disparities in police recovery of stolen property: A previously unexplored facet of police/victim interaction10
Growing old, breaking rules? Trajectories and correlates of misconduct among older adults in custody10
Still meteoric after all these years: Acknowledgements10
Neuropsychological deficits, adverse home environments, and cascading behaviors and consequences: An examination of relationships from childhood through adolescence10
Family structure, unstructured socializing, and delinquent behavior10
The shortsighted victim: Short-term mindsets mediate the link between victimization and later offending10
Risks considerations when resentencing juvenile homicide offenders: Unresolved science, policy and law issues post-Jones v. Mississippi9
A dyadic analysis of social network stability before and after incarceration9
The use of restrictive housing with incarcerated persons with mental illness: Variation in placement disparities by restrictive housing type9
Editorial Board9
Criminal justice transitions among adolescents in Australia: A multi-state model9
Voices from inside focused deterrence: Implications for implementation9
Adolescent sexual offending: A comparison of female and male adolescents on the ERASOR, and background and offense characteristics8
Juvenile fatalities in law enforcement encounters8
The generalizability of public judgments of procedural justice across police interaction and demographic variables8
Probation and parole agent communication patterns as antecedents to clients' reactance and acts to restore freedoms: Moderating effects of emerging adult status and gender8
Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course8
The impact of the Detroit crime gun intelligence center on fatal and nonfatal shooting clearance rates8
Exploring crime through physical and social neighborhood factors: Greenspace and social disconnection in Los Angeles8
Editorial Board8
A test of faith: Exploring the attitudes and experiences of Catholics in the aftermath of the Church's child sexual abuse scandal8
Conjunctive analysis of case configurations: A systematic quantitative literature review7
Moving beyond “Does it reduce crime”: The curvilinear and moderating effects of greenspace7
Estimating the prevalence and frequency of adolescent substance use using zero-inflated models and variables associated with social learning, social bond, and opportunity7
The accumulated impact of direct and indirect workplace violence exposure on mental health and physiological activity among correctional officers7
You've got (no) mail: Unpacking risk of non-delivery fraud victimization among an online sample7
Editorial Board7
Bail reform and public safety: Evidence from Philadelphia's prosecutor-led pretrial policies7
Perceptual saturation in deterrence: Examining the nonlinear relationships between arrest rate signal and perceptions of risk and reward7
Correlates of victim services for fraud and identity theft among victim service providers7
Disparities in extreme contexts: The impact of gender and mental health status on the criminal justice outcomes of extremists7
Fear of cybercrime victimisation: Examining the relationship between fear and victimisation7
“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
Editorial Board7
Beyond George Floyd: Assessing sentiments on police fund reallocation and its intersection with race and racial resentment7
The intricate nature of vulnerability to victimization: Low self-control, age, and economic status7
The de-escalating potential of body-worn cameras: Results from six German police departments7
The life and scholarship of Pauline Tarnowsky: Criminology's mother7
Turnover intention among Indian police: Do organizational and community stressors matter?7
What is a neighborhood? A concept consensus review of recent criminological literature7
Neighborhood level predictors of rape: A novel spatial regression approach6
Organizational culture and context in progressive prosecutorial reform: Lessons from Philadelphia6
The pursuit of gun safety in a new era: Exploring predictors of firearm storage practices among the public6
Revisiting the sexual recidivism drop in Canada and the United States: A meta-analysis of 468 empirical studies involving 388,994 individuals6
Veto players and gun violence in drug markets: Analysis based on field observations of eighty drug-selling spots on the Westside of Chicago6
Lethal violence in a Tourist City of the global south: Evidence from Recife, Brazil6
Stalking victims' decisions to access victim services: A social ecological approach6
Justice by privilege? Social inequality in waivers of prosecution among youth.6
From mobility to crime: Collective patterns of human mobility and gun violence in Baltimore City6
Examining antecedents of perceived procedural justice among people on community supervision6
Promoting disengagement: Effects of a gang intervention and exiting Program on negative police contacts6
Prediction of reoffending risk in men convicted of sexual offences: development and validation of novel and scalable risk assessment tools (OxRIS)6
A methodological template for the next generation: Redesigning the STRONG-R needs assessment6
No causal evidence that free markets and globalization reduce homicide: A quasi-experimental test of emerging consensus6
The association of gang embeddedness and sexual victimization with mental health outcomes6
Disrupting the cycle of violence for justice-involved youth: The direct and moderating impact of prosocial ties6
Community perspectives on gun violence and safety: The role of policing in Baltimore City6
Correlates of non-suicidal self-injury in South Korean juvenile detention facilities: A general strain theory perspective6
An intersectional analysis of foreign-born status, race, and youth peer victimization: Comparing school and cyber contexts across bullying operationalizations6
County jail incarceration rates and food hardship in the United States6
Help-seeking behaviors of stalking victims: Integrating machine learning and regression approaches to examine how victimization consequences shape victims' decisions6
The journey-to-crime buffer zone: Measurement issues and methodological challenges5
Criminal legal sanctions and the false dichotomy between deterrence and rehabilitation: Implications for sentencing research and policy5
Public preferences for opioid reform in a post-COVID era: Consensus and divides5
Head injury and aggressive behavior: Examining sex differences and the role of related risk factors5
Greener the safer? Effects of urban green space on community safety and perception of safety using satellite and street view imagery data5
The limits of digital liberation: The social locations of gang-affiliated girls and women in the digital streets5
The effects of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders on street and cybercrimes in a Brazilian city5
Automation and artificial intelligence in police body-worn cameras: Experimental evidence of impact on perceptions of fairness among officers5
Crime reductions after enhanced implementation of Washington state's domestic violence protection order firearm relinquishment law5
Healthcare utilization and type of criminal-legal system contact: The importance of employment and health insurance5
Gang injunction, What's your function? Investigating the relationship between civil gang injunctions and gang associates' patterns of association5
Gendered responses to fairness: Organizational justice and police training receptivity5
Finding an answer in time: Assessing change in needs scores on time to recidivism among justice-involved youth5
Inequality in sentencing: A systematic review of the effects of race and ethnicity on sentence outcomes5
Editorial Board5
Corrigendum to ‘What predicts testing a sexual assault kit? Findings from the Minnesota sexual assault kit initiative project’Journal of Criminal Justice, 105 (2026) Article 1026865
Editorial Board5
Bias in prosecutorial decision making: Bridging focal concerns & group threat5
An exploration of use of force among law enforcement officers with military service5
The perils of averaging crime data: Consequences of a common practice5
A global comparison of long prison sentences5
Immigration and serious gang violence: Assessing the immigrant revitalization thesis on urban gang shootings5
Examining impacts of street characteristics on residents' fear of crime: Evidence from a longitudinal study of crime hot spots5
Focal concerns theory and case advancement in sexual assault cases: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
The impact of building the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on crime in Atlanta, GA5
How can restrictive housing be prevented or reduced? Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues confronting research and policy5
Who is to blame? Youth crime and attribution of responsibility in urban Mexico5
Beyond the joystick: Exploring the relationship between game addiction trajectories and aggression dimensions5
Editorial Board5
Microcosms of violence among street gang members: Social contagion, propensity to violence, and gang embeddedness5
Hot spots policing as part of a city-wide violent crime reduction strategy: Initial evidence from Dallas5
Machine learning for violence prediction: A systematic review and critical appraisal5
Does classroom composition of immigrant versus non-immigrant adolescents explain violence perpetration? A cross-cultural study5
Under the shadow of the persistent offender: Rethinking recidivism and criminal records beyond rupture narratives5
Using a genetically informed direction-of-causation analysis to untangle the victim-offender overlap in adolescence5
Day and night: Evaluating the impact of CCTV and street lighting on urban crime prevention in Detroit5
Childhood abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and juvenile recidivism: The mediating role of social bonds5
Disability status, victimization, and substance use among justice-involved youth5
Willingness to report hate crimes: How attitudes, police perceptions, and sexual orientation shape bystander response5
Gang intervention during COVID-19: A qualitative study of multidisciplinary teams and street outreach in Denver4
Mental illness, race, gender and sentencing in state homicide cases4
Shootings and land use4
Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?: Examining how parental and youth perceptions of future system involvement predict early adulthood criminal involvement4
High resting heart rate reduces risk of white-collar criminality4
The influence of acute life stressors on mass shooter outcomes4
Wrongful convictions in Spain: Systematic analysis of judgments from 1996 to 20224
Measuring normative obligation to obey the police: An empirical assessment of a new police legitimacy scale4
Race and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) behind bars: Examining their combined effect on prison misconduct4
Police serve more than residents: Examining police enforcement compared to photo radar cameras and residential population estimates4
The enduring lessons of war: Connecting culture, masculinities & violence across the life course4
Beyond a binary: Introducing the role of timing in understanding the link between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization in the Global South4
Police bias units and hate crime reporting: Insights from the geocoded version of the National Crime Victimization Survey4
Searching for a big score: Analyzing drug yield from search warrant executions4
The role of community policing in communities with serious gang problems: Insights from Trinidad and Tobago4
Examining how structural characteristics and the physical environment simultaneously impact crime in neighborhoods: Using a semi-parametric strategy4
Who is fatigued? A repeated cross-sectional survey of officer attitudes towards people who use opioids, naloxone, and their role in responding to opioid overdoses4
Analysis of the factors influencing multiple uses of crime guns: An exploratory study4
Prediction of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England: External validation study of a risk assessment tool (OxRec)4
To report or not to report: Exploring the motivations and factors associated with reporting of ransomware victimisation among entrepreneurs4
Co-offender dynamics and relational distance: Predicting arrest in child physical and sexual abuse incidents4
Genetic and environmental architecture of violent victimisation across development and sex: A study of 4.5 million Nordic twins and siblings4
“I knew if I did that, they'd catch me again”: Changes in deterrability over the criminal career4
Criminal court responses to the modern opioid and methamphetamine twindemic4
Beware the truth effect: Why efforts to debunk rape myths may backfire4
Social network analysis as a tool for understanding mass shooting prevention: A case study of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting4
Household occupancy and burglary: A case study using COVID-19 restrictions4
What predicts testing a sexual assault kit? Findings from the Minnesota sexual assault kit initiative project4
“Get rich quick,” scheme or script? The effect of cryptoculture on the susceptibility of fraud victimization among cryptocurrency purchasers4
Predictors of perceived wrongfulness and harmfulness of crime among residents in Portugal4
A neighborhood analysis of U.S homicide clearances in 50 cities: Examining race and disadvantage across neighborhood types4
Assessing the feasibility and performance of risk assessment instruments for early intervention and prevention services in Juvenile Justice4
Understanding corrections fatigue and perceptions of natural landscaping at work: An exploratory study with staff at a corrections center for women4
Steal that car: A spatial analysis of motor vehicle theft in New South Wales, Australia4
Hunting in the digital jungle: Exploring cyberstalking with higher order moderation in situational action theory4
Adverse childhood experiences and delinquency: Does age of assessment matter?4
Ending the stigma of male domestic violence and abuse victims: A mixed-methods study3
Mobility-based neighborhood disadvantage and crime in Houston3
The impact of officer and supervisor training in police use of force incidents3
The role of poor sleep on the development of self-control and antisocial behavior from adolescence to adulthood3
Criminal justice system stakeholders' perspectives on rape myth acceptance interventions for jurors3
Parenting, self-control, and delinquent peers: A test of environmental effects on offspring development using a sample of adoptees3
A systematic review of therapeutic alternatives to segregation placement: Progress toward rehabilitative goals or a euphemistic rebranding?3
Consistently inconsistent: Examining variability in police decision-making in mental health calls using a novel noise audit approach3
Multinational COVID-19 research in criminal justice: A scoping review of translational and transnational implications3
Interpretable Machine Learning and Criminological Theories: Global Evidence on Bullying Perpetration and Victimization (2001–2014)3
Is rehabilitative approach to criminal justice better for young adults? Evidence from Santa Clara County, CA3
Solitary confinement, parole, and criminalization3
Is youth criminal legal system involvement a risk factor for adulthood homelessness?: A quasi-experimental examination and confounder factor model3
Exploring trajectories of offender harm: An alternative approach to understanding offending pathways over the life-course3
Exploring corporate violations through public data: A comparative analysis of financial offending in the UK and US3
Exploring mental health profiles of male youth detained in forensic settings: Implications for research and clinical practice3
The tangled history of social network analysis and gang research—A long way from Street Corner Society3
A life-course analysis of radicalization among extremists in the Philippines using the life history calendar3
Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training: A case study of the perceptions of officers, leadership, and CIT trainers in a suburban-rural police department3
Patterns of informal mentorship in policing: A case study3
Identifying signals of mental health crisis in calls for police service3
Reinvestigating the relationship between cities and the spatial distribution of robbery: A tale of eight cities3
Adverse childhood experiences, developmental differences in impulse control and sensation seeking, and delinquency: A prospective multi-cohort study3
Group-individual probability confusion: Implications for suspect prioritization in criminal investigations3
Pandemic, protests, and policing: Clearing crime in 20203
The Rodney King incident and verdict revisited: Examining opinion-mobilizing effects using data from Southern California in 1991 and 19923
Why did the use of force go up? Investigating the unexpected impact of a body-worn camera program on a use of force time series3
Fledgling psychopathy meets social determinants of health: Evidence of childhood homicidal ideation among pediatric emergency department patients3
Parental criminality as an extralegal biasing factor in being processed through the criminal justice system3
Public assessments of the criminal justice system in addressing mental health3
New editorship at Journal of Criminal Justice: Carrying the baton3
Editorial Board3
An early social support network analysis of men facing reentry3
Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department3
Parenting in prison: Parent-child contact and parental well-being3
Profiles of childhood ecological risk and protective factors in school and home predicting black adolescent delinquency3
Disagreeable and out of control: Applicability of the Big Five and low self-control in predicting offending3
Where are the guns?3
Gender differences in serious police misconduct: A machine-learning analysis of the New York Police Department (NYPD)3
Why we need juror education in rape and serious sexual offence cases3
When life domains become problematic: A criminological exploration of academic dishonesty in Iran using Agnew's general theory of crime and delinquency3
Proactive policing embedded in two models: A geospatial analysis of proactive activities by patrol officers and COP officers3
Space matters: An examination of the circumstances surrounding violence against correctional staff3
Rape by any other name… Comparing sexual assault cases labeled “suspicious circumstances” to those labeled sex crimes3
Revisiting the effects of adult roles on criminal offending: A genetically-informed study3
Does variation across judicial circuits matter? Examining the role of bail schedules and pretrial detention on drug case outcomes in Florida3
The developmental sequences of events underlying persistence in criminal convictions during adulthood3
Spatiotemporal population mix (SPM) as a criminogenic mechanism: Testing environmental-criminology hypotheses with mobility clusters derived from mobile-device geotracking3
Does pretrial detention influence time until re-involvement with the criminal legal system?3
Trajectories of control: Exposure to punitive social control over time and its associated consequences3
Do early environmental factors influence the relationship between psychopathy and crime: Longitudinal findings from the transitions in Amsterdam study2
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