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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	32
The Color of Confinement: Racial Bias and Jail Populations Across America	24
Progressive Prosecution Policies in Philadelphia: An Assessment of Implementation Fidelity	20
The Impact of COVID-19 on Crime: a Systematic Review	19
Marijuana Legalization and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Seizures: An Exploration of Black Market Activity	19
Attitudes Towards Police and Weapon Carriage Among Adolescents	18
Perceived Rehabilitation Across Types of Justice-Involved Individuals: An Experiment	18
“A Panel of Good ol’ Boys”: Women Navigating the Police Promotions Process	16
To What Are We Inferring? The Widespread Misuse of Inferential Testing in the Most Cited Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals	14
Translational Criminology and Law Enforcement	13
Religion and Rehabilitation as Moral Reform: Conceptualization and Preliminary Evidence	13
The Influence of Community Disadvantage and Opioid Pill Prescriptions on Overdose Deaths in American Counties	13
COVID-19’s Effect on Crisis Intervention Team Calls for Service in Houston	12
Item Values and Prior Offenses: An Examination of Key Elements in Shoplifting Charging Decisions in a Rural Jurisdiction	12
Associations between Severity and Attributions: Differences for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization	12
Assessing the Fear of Package Theft	12
How Interrogation Length, Age, and Crime Impact Perceptions of Evidence in Criminal Trials	11
Effects of the Communities that Care (CTC) Prevention System on Youth Violence Outcomes in Two Violence-Impacted Denver Communities	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
Examining the Relationship Between Interpersonal Racial Discrimination and Reentry Optimism Among an Incarcerated Sample	11
Owning Police Reform: The Path Forward for Practitioners and Researchers	10
A Social Network Analysis of Chronic Violent Offenders	9
Organizational and Coalition Strategies for Youth Violence Prevention: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study	9
Public Opinion and Criminal Justice Reform	9
Correction to: Associations between Severity and Attributions: Differences for Public and Private Face-to-face and Cyber Victimization	8

Recidivism Outcomes Under a Shifting Continuum of Control	8
Translational Criminology Through an Evaluation Framework: Improving Research and Policy	7
Assessing Individual Level Predictors of Intermediate Outcomes in a Misdemeanor Diversion Drug Court	7
Race and Rationality Revisited: an Empirical Examination of Differential Travel Patterns to Acquire Drugs Across Geographic Contexts	7
Cybercrime: Victimization, Perpetration, and Techniques	7
Research Training for Criminal Justice Reform	7
Family Support, Family Incarceration, and Substance Use Among Adjudicated Youth Across Time	6
The Power of Story: Assessing Crime Attribution before and After Watching Videos of Incarcerated People Serving Life Without Parole Sentences	6
Neutralizing Cyber Attacks: Techniques of Neutralization and Willingness to Commit Cyber Attacks	6
Beating the House: Ethnographic Insights into a Web-Based Marijuana Grey Market	5
Long-Term Health and Economic Consequences Associated with Being Processed Through the Criminal Justice System for Males	5
The Mental Health Consequences of Parental Incarceration: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Adolescents through Adulthood in the United States	5
Belief in Redeemability: American Public Opinion about Second Chances	5
Residentially-Placed Youth and the Adverse Childhood Experiences-Recidivism Relationship: Considering Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences	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	4
Policing the Cybercrime Script of Darknet Drug Markets: Methods of Effective Law Enforcement Intervention	4
Juvenile Recidivism: An Examination of State Measurement Strategies	4
Attrition from Jail Reentry Program Increases Recidivism	4
Letter from the Editor	4
An Examination of Probation Officers’ Views on the Mental Health of People on Misdemeanor Probation in Florida	4
Differentiating Insider and Outsider Cyberattacks on Businesses	4
Justice and Mental Health: Bridging Divides and Fostering Reform	4
A Qualitative Examination of Precautionary Measures in a Virtual Reality Fear Environment	4
A Community-Based Examination of the Association between Perceived and Actual Homicide Clearance Rates and Cooperation with Homicide Investigations	3
Crimmigration in the wake of Title 42’s Summary Expulsions	3
Marijuana Enforcement since Drug Policy Reform: An Exploration of Officer Discretion in Six States	3
The Only Thing Constant is Change: Temporal Analyses of Racial/Ethnic Sentencing Disparities	3
SAVRY Predictive Validity of Mississippi Justice-Involved Youth Recidivism: A Latent Variable Approach	3
Development and Evaluation of the Trauma Bonding Scale for Adults© in the Context of Sex Trafficking	3
Local Incarceration as Social Control: A National Analysis of Social, Economic, and Political Determinants of Jail Use in the United States	2
There’s No Place Like Home: Importance of Housing Stability for Reentry	2
The Geography of Hate: Spatial Patterns of Bias-Motivated Crimes in Minnesota, 2015–18	2
Do White and Black People Truly View the Police Differently? Findings from a Study of Crime Hot Spots in Baltimore, Maryland	2
Testing Gender Differences in Victimization and Negative Emotions from a Developmental General Strain Theory Perspective	2
Who Needs the Dark Web? Exploring the Trade in Critically Endangered Plants on eBay	2
Federal Cocaine Sentences Before and After Passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010	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
Does Measurement Matter? Examining the Impact of Outcome Measurement Variation On the Rates and Predictors of Juvenile Recidivism	2
Discrepancies in Measures of Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice	2
Slowing Down Reinvolvement in the System: A Multi-Site Examination of the Effects of COVID on Time Until Readmission into Jail	2
Reframing a Socioecological Model of Carceral and Post-Carceral Suicide Prevention	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
Waiting for the Stop Sign to Turn Green: Contemporary Issues on Drug and Alcohol Impaired Driving Policy	2
Unwanted Pregnancies and Unwanted Laws: Public Support for the Criminalization of Abortion and the Consequences for Criminal Justice Officials	2
Pathways of Punishment: Racial Differences in the Relationships Between ACEs and Behavioral and Punitive Consequences	2
Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty: Contextual and Situational Factors Relating to Body Armor	2
Firearm Ownership, Defensive Gun Usage, and Support for Gun Control: Does Knowledge Matter?	2
Gang Homicide and the Unequal Distribution of Disadvantage: Revisiting Krivo and Peterson’s Threshold Effects 25 Years Later	2

Crisis, Continuity, and Change: A Case Study of a Local Prosecutor’s Office Under COVID-19 and its Implications for Reform	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
Comparing the Risk Factors of Youth Detained for Running Away or Commercial Sexual Exploitation to more Serious Youth Offenders	1
Low self-control, the Dark Triad, and Dark Web use: An exploratory study	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
Tailgates, Traffic, Police Militarization, and the Shadow of the Next School Shooting: Campus Police and the 1033 Program	1
What About the kids? A Multimethod Approach to Understanding Law Enforcement Policies Pertaining to the Arrest of Children in Florida	1
Social Media Discourse Around School Shootings: Application of Natural Language Processing to Understand the Case of Uvalde	1
Examining Deviant Peer Association as a Predictor of Dual Systems Model Development: Testing for Moderation Effects of Age	1
How White is Low-Level White-Collar Crime? A Multi-Level Comparison of Fraud and Street Crime	1
College Education, Politics, and Attitudes Towards Capital Punishment	1
“We Are People Who Kill…Murder Machines” An Empirical Study of Lifetime Inmate Homicide among Capital Defendants	1
Race and the Sanctioning of Misdemeanor Defendants	1
Redlining, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Crime: The Effects of Discriminatory Government Policies on Urban Violent Crime	1
Absent Father Timing and its Impact on Adolescent and Adult Criminal Behavior	1
Children are Different? Comparing Officers’ Views About Supervising Juvenile and Adult Probation Clients	1
Disentangling the Impact of Covid-19: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Crime in New York City	1
“It was there when I came home”: young adults and jail reentry in the context of COVID-19	1
Assessing the Efficacy of a Justice-Mental Health Collaborative Program to Reduce Violence	1
Trajectories of Offending: Comparing US Born and Non-US Born Respondents in the Add Health	1
An Integrative Assessment of Self-Control, Deviant Friendships, and Fraudulent Behavior	1
Direct and Indirect Effects of Parental Influence on the Relation Between Violent Offending and Mental Health Problems	1
Managing Violence: In-Prison Behavior Associated with Placement in an Alternative Disciplinary Segregation Program	1
Understanding Romance Scammers Through the Lens of Their Victims: Qualitative Modeling of Risk and Protective Factors in the Online Context	1
COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research	1
Time in Crime: An Added Dimension to the Study of Crime Guns	1
Police Organizations, Fiscal Distress, and Police Employment Among Sworn and Non-Sworn Employees	1
Reflections on Criminal Justice Reform: Challenges and Opportunities	1
An examination of sentencing outcomes in rural and urban locations	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
Democratic Policing, Building Trust, and Willingness to Call 911: Examining the Relationship between Law Enforcement Legitimacy and Calling the Police	1
Translational Criminology, Politics, and Promising Practices	1
Creating Punitiveness: Examining the Impact of Election Proximity on Public Punitiveness	1
Substance Use On Campus: Exploring the Implications of Paranormal Beliefs	1
Confronting Community Gun Violence Through Research Translation: A Case Study of Challenges and Facilitators	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