OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Color of Confinement: Racial Bias and Jail Populations Across America	29
Correction to: Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	29
Parental and Sibling Confinement: Exploring Their Role in Youth Mental Health	23
Correlates of Racially Profiled Consumers’ Attitudes on Perpetrator Accountability: An Exploratory Study of Canadian Shoppers	22
Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	21
“You Can’t Get There from Here”: Use of Crime Scripts in Validity Testing	17
Progressive Prosecution Policies in Philadelphia: An Assessment of Implementation Fidelity	16
The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: a Systematic Review	15
To What Are We Inferring? The Widespread Misuse of Inferential Testing in the Most Cited Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals	14
Perceived Rehabilitation Across Types of Justice-Involved Individuals: An Experiment	14
The Influence of Community Disadvantage and Opioid Pill Prescriptions on Overdose Deaths in American Counties	13
“A Panel of Good ol’ Boys”: Women Navigating the Police Promotions Process	13
“Grounds for a Ride Out”: Understanding the Role Housing Challenges Play in Prison Rule Violations	13
Translational Criminology and Law Enforcement	12
Religion and Rehabilitation as Moral Reform: Conceptualization and Preliminary Evidence	12
Birds of a Feather Get High Together: A Reconceptualization of the Social Bond with Latent Class Analysis and a Test with Different Forms of Drug Use	11
COVID-19’s Effect on Crisis Intervention Team Calls for Service in Houston	10
Item Values and Prior Offenses: An Examination of Key Elements in Shoplifting Charging Decisions in a Rural Jurisdiction	9
Examining the Relationship Between Interpersonal Racial Discrimination and Reentry Optimism Among an Incarcerated Sample	9
Effects of the Communities that Care (CTC) Prevention System on Youth Violence Outcomes in Two Violence-Impacted Denver Communities	8
Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Reform	7
Owning Police Reform: The Path Forward for Practitioners and Researchers	7
Correction to: Associations between Severity and Attributions: Differences for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization	6
A Social Network Analysis of Chronic Violent Offenders	6
Organizational and Coalition Strategies for Youth Violence Prevention: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study	6

Assessing the Fear of Package Theft	6
Translational Criminology Through an Evaluation Framework: Improving Research and Policy	5
Unequal Policing of Black Motorists in Black Communities by Age and Gender: A Short Report on Intraracial Applications of the Veil-of-Darkness Test	5
Research Training for Criminal Justice Reform	5
Assessing Individual Level Predictors of Intermediate Outcomes in a Misdemeanor Diversion Drug Court	5
The Power of Story: Assessing Crime Attribution before and After Watching Videos of Incarcerated People Serving Life Without Parole Sentences	5
Recidivism Outcomes Under a Shifting Continuum of Control	5
Family Support, Family Incarceration, and Substance Use Among Adjudicated Youth Across Time	4
Race and Rationality Revisited: an Empirical Examination of Differential Travel Patterns to Acquire Drugs Across Geographic Contexts	4
Justice and Mental Health: Bridging Divides and Fostering Reform	4
Differentiating Insider and Outsider Cyberattacks on Businesses	4
Belief in Redeemability: American Public Opinion about Second Chances	4
Attrition from Jail Reentry Program Increases Recidivism	4
Stalking and its Impact on Victim Fear and Emotional Distress: An Advanced Latent Class analysis of National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Data	4
An Examination of Probation Officers’ Views on the Mental Health of People on Misdemeanor Probation in Florida	4
Police Radio Communications as a Measure	4
Long-Term Health and Economic Consequences Associated with Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System for Males	4
“How Do You Knit Together Two Parts of a Single Life Lived Decades Apart?”: Reentry Planning of Juvenile Lifers	4
Comparing Official Measures of Recidivism in Juvenile Justice	3
The Mental Health Consequences of Parental Incarceration: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Adolescents through Adulthood in the United States	3
Letter from the Editor	3
Crimmigration in the wake of Title 42’s Summary Expulsions	3
Juvenile Recidivism: An Examination of State Measurement Strategies	3
A Community-Based Examination of the Association between Perceived and Actual Homicide Clearance Rates and Cooperation with Homicide Investigations	3
Marijuana Enforcement since Drug Policy Reform: An Exploration of Officer Discretion in Six States	3
A Qualitative Examination of Precautionary Measures in a Virtual Reality Fear Environment	3
Residentially-Placed Youth and the Adverse Childhood Experiences-Recidivism Relationship: Considering Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences	3
Representing Victims in Juvenile Lifer Parole Hearings: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Victim Impact	3
The Only Thing Constant is Change: Temporal Analyses of Racial/Ethnic Sentencing Disparities	3
Development and Evaluation of the Trauma Bonding Scale for Adults© in the Context of Sex Trafficking	3
The Role of Officer Characteristics in the Post-Floyd Era: A New Approach to De-Policing Research	2
There’s No Place Like Home: Importance of Housing Stability for Reentry	2
SAVRY Predictive Validity of Mississippi Justice-Involved Youth Recidivism: A Latent Variable Approach	2
Reframing a Socioecological Model of Carceral and Post-Carceral Suicide Prevention	2
Do White and Black People Truly View the Police Differently? Findings from a Study of Crime Hot Spots in Baltimore, Maryland	2
Neighborhood Fixer Uppers: Do Home Improvement Loans Influence Crime Across Race and over Time?	2
Do Community Views of Local Police Agencies Change During “Crises of Legitimacy”? Results of a Multi-wave Random Sample Community Survey in a Large Suburban Jurisdiction	2
Local Incarceration as Social Control: A National Analysis of Social, Economic, and Political Determinants of Jail Use in the United States	2
Slowing Down Reinvolvement in the System: A Multi-Site Examination of the Effects of COVID on Time Until Readmission into Jail	2
Why Don’t the Police Make Me Feel Safe? Using Black’s Theory of Law to Potentially Extend Current Findings on Crime Victims’ Fear	2
Fault Lines and Atmospheric Shifts: Understanding Temporal Spikes in Racially Motivated Hate Crimes in Los Angeles County	2
Gang Homicide and the Unequal Distribution of Disadvantage: Revisiting Krivo and Peterson’s Threshold Effects 25 Years Later	2
Fatal Police Shootings and Community Health in the United States: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study	2
Unwanted Pregnancies and Unwanted Laws: Public Support for the Criminalization of Abortion and the Consequences for Criminal Justice Officials	2
Does Measurement Matter? Examining the Impact of Outcome Measurement Variation On the Rates and Predictors of Juvenile Recidivism	2
Understanding the Status of Juvenile Institutional Misconduct Research: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Research on Delinquency Behind Bars	2
Pathways of Punishment: Racial Differences in the Relationships Between ACEs and Behavioral and Punitive Consequences	2
Discrepancies in Measures of Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	2
Waiting for the Stop Sign to Turn Green: Contemporary Issues on Drug and Alcohol Impaired Driving Policy	2
Crisis, Continuity, and Change: A Case Study of a Local Prosecutor’s Office Under COVID-19 and its Implications for Reform	2

Does Procedural Justice Moderate the Effect of Collective Efficacy on Police Legitimacy?	2
Direct and Indirect Effects of Parental Influence on the Relation Between Violent Offending and Mental Health Problems	1
Translational Criminology, Politics, and Promising Practices	1
A Scoping Review of the Relationships Between Cash Bail, Failure to Appear, Re-Arrest, Health and Well-Being, Race, and Gender	1
Officer Acceptance and Use of AI-Driven Body-Worn Camera Footage Review	1
Children are Different? Comparing Officers’ Views About Supervising Juvenile and Adult Probation Clients	1
Race and the Sanctioning of Misdemeanor Defendants	1
Substance Use On Campus: Exploring the Implications of Paranormal Beliefs	1
ACEs, Steeling Effects, and the Recidivism of Serious and Violent Incarcerated Delinquents	1
Child Sexual Abuse as a Predictor of Impulsivity Dimensions: Examining Depression/Anxiety and Deviant Peer Association as Mediating Mechanisms	1
Low self-control, the Dark Triad, and Dark Web use: An exploratory study	1
Creating Punitiveness: Examining the Impact of Election Proximity on Public Punitiveness	1
Examining Deviant Peer Association as a Predictor of Dual Systems Model Development: Testing for Moderation Effects of Age	1
College Education, Politics, and Attitudes Towards Capital Punishment	1
Police Organizations, Fiscal Distress, and Police Employment Among Sworn and Non-Sworn Employees	1
An examination of sentencing outcomes in rural and urban locations	1
Confronting Community Gun Violence Through Research Translation: A Case Study of Challenges and Facilitators	1
Time in Crime: An Added Dimension to the Study of Crime Guns	1
“It was there when I came home”: young adults and jail reentry in the context of COVID-19	1
The Deleterious Health Consequences of COVID in United States Prisons	1
Comparing the Risk Factors of Youth Detained for Running Away or Commercial Sexual Exploitation to more Serious Youth Offenders	1
“We Are People Who Kill…Murder Machines” An Empirical Study of Lifetime Inmate Homicide among Capital Defendants	1
Disentangling the Impact of Covid-19: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Crime in New York City	1
What About the kids? A Multimethod Approach to Understanding Law Enforcement Policies Pertaining to the Arrest of Children in Florida	1
Expecting Less and Hurting More: The Cascading Effects of Low Expectations on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Justice-Involved Adolescents	1
Federal Cocaine Sentences Before and After Passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010	1
Trajectories of Offending: Comparing US Born and Non-US Born Respondents in the Add Health	1
Tailgates, Traffic, Police Militarization, and the Shadow of the Next School Shooting: Campus Police and the 1033 Program	1
How White is Low-Level White-Collar Crime? A Multi-Level Comparison of Fraud and Street Crime	1
Changes in Online Illegal Drug Buying during COVID-19: Assessing Effects due to a Changing Market or Changes in Strain using a Longitudinal Sample Design	1
Social Media Discourse Around School Shootings: Application of Natural Language Processing to Understand the Case of Uvalde	1
Crime Concentration at Buildings: Nordic Evidence on the Impact of Housing Ownership on Crime	1
Treatment Works, Behaviors Change: Investigating the Impact of Trauma Focused Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Disciplinary Infractions Among Women in Prison	1
Gendered Mental Health Consequences of Violent Victimization: An Asymmetric Fixed Effects Analysis	1
From Causal Mechanisms to Policy Mechanisms: Why Did Crime Decline and What Lessons Can Be Learned from It?	1
Assessing the Efficacy of a Justice-Mental Health Collaborative Program to Reduce Violence	1
Democratic Policing, Building Trust, and Willingness to Call 911: Examining the Relationship between Law Enforcement Legitimacy and Calling the Police	1