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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	29
Correction to: Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	23
The Color of Confinement: Racial Bias and Jail Populations Across America	22
Progressive Prosecution Policies in Philadelphia: An Assessment of Implementation Fidelity	20
Perceived Rehabilitation Across Types of Justice-Involved Individuals: An Experiment	18
The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: a Systematic Review	18
“A Panel of Good ol’ Boys”: Women Navigating the Police Promotions Process	17
Attitudes Towards Police and Weapon Carriage Among Adolescents	17
The Influence of Community Disadvantage and Opioid Pill Prescriptions on Overdose Deaths in American Counties	16
Religion and Rehabilitation as Moral Reform: Conceptualization and Preliminary Evidence	16
A Social Network Analysis of Chronic Violent Offenders	14
Translational Criminology and Law Enforcement	14
Item Values and Prior Offenses: An Examination of Key Elements in Shoplifting Charging Decisions in a Rural Jurisdiction	13
COVID-19’s Effect on Crisis Intervention Team Calls for Service in Houston	12
Associations between Severity and Attributions: Differences for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization	12
Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Reform	11
Owning Police Reform: The Path Forward for Practitioners and Researchers	11
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
How Interrogation Length, Age, and Crime Impact Perceptions of Evidence in Criminal Trials	11
Assessing the Fear of Package Theft	11
Recidivism Outcomes Under a Shifting Continuum of Control	10
Organizational and Coalition Strategies for Youth Violence Prevention: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study	10
Correction to: Associations between Severity and Attributions: Differences for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization	10
Assessing Individual Level Predictors of Intermediate Outcomes in a Misdemeanor Diversion Drug Court	9
Family Support, Family Incarceration, and Substance Use Among Adjudicated Youth Across Time	8

Research Training for Criminal Justice Reform	8
Neutralizing Cyber Attacks: Techniques of Neutralization and Willingness to Commit Cyber Attacks	8
Cybercrime: Victimization, Perpetration, and Techniques	8
Race and Rationality Revisited: an Empirical Examination of Differential Travel Patterns to Acquire Drugs Across Geographic Contexts	8
“How Do You Knit Together Two Parts of a Single Life Lived Decades Apart?”: Reentry Planning of Juvenile Lifers	7
Long-Term Health and Economic Consequences Associated with Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System for Males	7
Translational Criminology Through an Evaluation Framework: Improving Research and Policy	7
The Mental Health Consequences of Parental Incarceration: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Adolescents through Adulthood in the United States	6
Beating the House: Ethnographic Insights into a Web-Based Marijuana Grey Market	6
Residentially-Placed Youth and the Adverse Childhood Experiences-Recidivism Relationship: Considering Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences	6
Comparing Official Measures of Recidivism in Juvenile Justice	5
Attrition from Jail Reentry Program Increases Recidivism	5
A Qualitative Examination of Precautionary Measures in a Virtual Reality Fear Environment	5
Differentiating Insider and Outsider Cyberattacks on Businesses	5
Letter from the Editor	5
Juvenile Recidivism: An Examination of State Measurement Strategies	5
Policing the Cybercrime Script of Darknet Drug Markets: Methods of Effective Law Enforcement Intervention	4
Development and Evaluation of the Trauma Bonding Scale for Adults© in the Context of Sex Trafficking	4
Slowing Down Reinvolvement in the System: A Multi-Site Examination of the Effects of COVID on Time Until Readmission into Jail	4
Marijuana Enforcement since Drug Policy Reform: An Exploration of Officer Discretion in Six States	4
The Only Thing Constant is Change: Temporal Analyses of Racial/Ethnic Sentencing Disparities	4
Local Incarceration as Social Control: A National Analysis of Social, Economic, and Political Determinants of Jail Use in the United States	4
A Descriptive Analysis of the Characteristics of School Shootings Across Five Decades	4
SAVRY Predictive Validity of Mississippi Justice-Involved Youth Recidivism: A Latent Variable Approach	4
There’s No Place Like Home: Importance of Housing Stability for Reentry	4
Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty: Contextual and Situational Factors Relating to Body Armor	4
Does Measurement Matter? Examining the Impact of Outcome Measurement Variation On the Rates and Predictors of Juvenile Recidivism	3
Unwanted Pregnancies and Unwanted Laws: Public Support for the Criminalization of Abortion and the Consequences for Criminal Justice Officials	3
The Geography of Hate: Spatial Patterns of Bias-Motivated Crimes in Minnesota, 2015–18	3
Moving Beyond Narcan: A Police, Social Service, and Researcher Collaborative Response to the Opioid Crisis	3
Why Don’t the Police Make Me Feel Safe? Using Black’s Theory of Law to Potentially Extend Current Findings on Crime Victims’ Fear	3
Framework for Advancing Epidemiological Criminology Research on Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs	2
Do White and Black People Truly View the Police Differently? Findings from a Study of Crime Hot Spots in Baltimore, Maryland	2
Who Needs the Dark Web? Exploring the Trade in Critically Endangered Plants on eBay	2
Direct and Indirect Effects of Parental Influence on the Relation Between Violent Offending and Mental Health Problems	2
#MeToo at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Travelers’ Experiences of Gender-Based Misconduct	2
Democratic Policing, Building Trust, and Willingness to Call 911: Examining the Relationship between Law Enforcement Legitimacy and Calling the Police	2
Waiting for the Stop Sign to Turn Green: Contemporary Issues on Drug and Alcohol Impaired Driving Policy	2
Testing Gender Differences in Victimization and Negative Emotions from a Developmental General Strain Theory Perspective	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
Federal Cocaine Sentences Before and After Passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010	2
“We Are People Who Kill…Murder Machines” An Empirical Study of Lifetime Inmate Homicide among Capital Defendants	2
College Education, Politics, and Attitudes Towards Capital Punishment	2
Firearm Ownership, Defensive Gun Usage, and Support for Gun Control: Does Knowledge Matter?	2
Neighborhood Fixer Uppers: Do Home Improvement Loans Influence Crime Across Race and over Time?	2
Does Procedural Justice Moderate the Effect of Collective Efficacy on Police Legitimacy?	2
What About the kids? A Multimethod Approach to Understanding Law Enforcement Policies Pertaining to the Arrest of Children in Florida	2
An Integrative Assessment of Self-Control, Deviant Friendships, and Fraudulent Behavior	2
The Effect of Wrongful Conviction Rate on Death Penalty Support and How It Closes the Racial Gap	1
Absent Father Timing and its Impact on Adolescent and Adult Criminal Behavior	1

Sexual Assault, Female Immigrant Victims, and Judicial Focal Concerns in U.S. and Canadian Courts	1
Tailgates, Traffic, Police Militarization, and the Shadow of the Next School Shooting: Campus Police and the 1033 Program	1
Reported Crime Frequencies: A Statistical Comparison of State Crime Reports and the UCR	1
Managing Violence: In-Prison Behavior Associated with Placement in an Alternative Disciplinary Segregation Program	1
The Impacts of Body-Worn Cameras: An Examination of Police Specialty Unit Perceptions through Diffusion of Innovations	1
From Causal Mechanisms to Policy Mechanisms: Why Did Crime Decline and What Lessons Can Be Learned from It?	1
The Deleterious Health Consequences of COVID in United States Prisons	1
Guardians Against Cyber Abuse: Who are They and Why do They Intervene?	1
Leaders’ Understanding of Evidence-Based Practices: A Survey of Police Chiefs and Probation/Parole Chiefs	1
Time in Crime: An Added Dimension to the Study of Crime Guns	1
Resiliency from Violent Victimization for People with Mental Disorders: an Examination Using a Community Sample	1
Trajectories of Offending: Comparing US Born and Non-US Born Respondents in the Add Health	1
Revisiting Methaqualone: Changes Made and Future Lessons Ignored	1
Redlining, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Crime: The Effects of Discriminatory Government Policies on Urban Violent Crime	1
Reentry During A Pandemic: A Pilot Study of Access to Peer Support Through Technology to Reduce Social Isolation	1
Race and the Sanctioning of Misdemeanor Defendants	1
Sometimes they Come Back: Recidivism and the Adult Imprisonment of Formerly Incarcerated Serious And Violent Juvenile Offenders	1
Substance Use On Campus: Exploring the Implications of Paranormal Beliefs	1
Understanding Romance Scammers Through the Lens of Their Victims: Qualitative Modeling of Risk and Protective Factors in the Online Context	1
Disentangling the Impact of Covid-19: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Crime in New York City	1
Reflections on Criminal Justice Reform: Challenges and Opportunities	1
Cultural Stress Theory in the Context of Family Crisis Migration: Implications for Behavioral Health with Illustrations from the Adelante Boricua Study	1
Comparing the Risk Factors of Youth Detained for Running Away or Commercial Sexual Exploitation to more Serious Youth Offenders	1
Homicide and Criminal Maturity of Juvenile Offenders: A Critical Review	1
Translational Criminology, Politics, and Promising Practices	1
Benefits and Shortcomings of an Established Sexual Assault Response Team: A Qualitative Examination of Stakeholder Interviews	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
A Systematic Review of Cyberstalking Victimization and Offending Behaviors	1
“It was there when I came home”: young adults and jail reentry in the context of COVID-19	1
Empirical Examination of Factors that Influence Official Decisions in Criminal Cases Against Police Officers	1
An examination of sentencing outcomes in rural and urban locations	1
The Criminal Justice Activism of Naomi Osaka: A Case Study in the Criminology of Celebrity Culture	1
Safer or Endangered at Home?: An Examination of Neighborhood Effects on Family Violence Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Safer-at-Home Order	1
The Influence of Vacation Home Rentals on Neighborhood Crime and Disorder	1
Covid-19 and Its Link to Victimization Among College Students	1
Confronting Community Gun Violence Through Research Translation: A Case Study of Challenges and Facilitators	1
Editor’s Farewell	1
COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research	1