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Papers

(The median citation count of Youth Justice-An International Journal is 0. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Temptations, Techniques and Typologies: Insights from a Western Australian Sample of Young People Who Burgle	16
Drill Rap Literacy: Reading Complexity, Counterstories and Critical Pedagogy in the Dutch Drill Scene	12
Age, Development and the Changing Norms of Youth Justice	11
Children’s Experiences of Police Custody and the Implications for Trauma-Informed Policing	9
Towards Child-Centred Justice as a System-Level Paradigm Shift: Conceptualising a New Framework Through the Scottish Whole System Approach	8
‘In It From the Beginning’: How Do Young Men and Boys Explain Their Entry Into Criminal Gangs?	8
Developing and Defining ‘Young Adult First’ Probation Practice	7
A Question of Age? Applying Desistance With Children	7
Youth Justice News (22.3)	6
The Right to Participation in Youth Justice Research	6
The Social Dynamics of Adolescent Co-offending	5
Managing Turkey’s Marginalized Youth: ‘Managerialism’ in Turkey’s Youth Justice and Penal Systems	5
The Government’s Policy and Practical Response to Contain the Spread of COVID-19 and Its Impact on Juveniles’ Rights in Detention Centres in Sindh-Pakistan	4
My Criminal Friend: Maneuvering Friendships and Abstaining from Crime in High-Risk Areas in Denmark	4
Policies Governing and Programs Available to Teen Parents in the Juvenile Justice System	4
Reintegration and Desistance among Former Young Offenders in Ghana: Key Factors for Success	4
I’m Trying to Save My Family: Parent Experiences of Child Criminal Exploitation	4
Listening to Children in Conflict With the Law in Zambia: The Need for a Context-Specific Approach to Rehabilitation	3
Moderating Role of Self-Control Between Anger-Youth Violence Relationship	3
The Youth Justice Commute (or the Institutional Construction of Youth Transport Poverty)	2
Towards a Contextualised Understanding of Youth Justice Policy-Making: What, Who and How?	2
The Child First Strategy Implementation Project – Translating Strategy Into Practice	2
Agency in an age of structure: the role of YOT managers in shaping Welsh youth justice	2
Transgender Youth, Challenges, Responses, and the Juvenile Justice System: A Systematic Literature Review of an Emerging Literature	2
Caught in the Cycle: The Impact of Childhood Adversity on Predicting Long-Term Placement and Misconduct in Youth Correctional Facilities	2

Decolonising Youth Justice, Rethinking Childhood: Caribbean Counterstories in Detention	2
Challenges in the Future of Restorative Youth Justice in Ireland: Minimising Intervention, Maximising Participation	2
Reviewer list	2
Problem-Solving Courts for Children, Do They Work? Perspectives of Youth Justice Practitioners in Queensland, Australia	2
The Immigration–Crime Nexus: Inner and Outer Containment Buffer or A Push Toward Delinquency	2
Isolated and Invisible: The Barriers to Implementing Constructive Resettlement Approaches in Two English Young Offenders Institutions	1
Family Belonging and Internalizing Symptoms among Youth Involved with the Juvenile Justice System	1
Rural Youth Participation in Youth Justice Research: Towards a Rights-Based Approach	1
Gendered Effect of Well-Being on Likelihood of Violence in Northern Irish Adolescents	1
Joyriding Among Young First Nations Australians: Assessing Police Trust and Confidence Through the Lens of Youth and Key Stakeholders	1
Difficult ‘By Design’: Viewpoints of Crown Attorneys and Defense Counsel Working With Youth With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the Youth Justice System	1
The Good, the Bad, and the Narrative: How Youth Experience the ‘Gangsta’ in Rap Music	1
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Emotional Management Programme for Male Adolescent Offenders in Custody	1
Boundary Parenting: A Framework for Reducing Deviance Among Young People	1
The Projected (Non)-Futures of Electronic Monitoring in the Child Justice System: Professionals’ Perspectives in Portugal	1
Rights of the Child in the Child Justice System	1
‘Making Queensland Safer’? A New Wave of Punitive Populism in Youth Justice	1
US Juvenile Justice Purpose Clauses: Themes and Evaluation Opportunities	1
Onset and persistence among young offenders during an exceptional event: Evidence from New South Wales, Australia	1
Youth Justice News	0
Conceptual Frameworks of Self-Determination Theory in Adjudicated Youths: Emotion Regulation and Perceived Parenting	0
The Centrality of ‘Guilt’ in Youth Justice – Conceptualising Child ‘Guilt’ for Child First Justice	0
Changing Responses to Juvenile Arrests: Analyzing 30 Years of Juvenile Court Records	0
A Comparative Study of the Vulnerability and Adjustment of Incarcerated Adolescent Boys and Girls	0
Young People and Violent Extremism	0
Deterring Children From Crime Through Sentencing: Can It Be Justified?	0
A Difficult Balance: Challenges and Possibilities for Local Protocols to Reduce Unnecessary Criminalisation of Children in Care and Care Leavers	0
Approving the Prosecution of Young Children in China: A Dangerous Choice?	0
The Digitalisation of Youth Justice	0
Compelled by an Emotional Economy of Care: Explorations of the Youth Justice Student ‘Career’	0
From Disciplinary Welfare Sanction to Punishment and Deterrence: Contemporary Changes in Hong Kong’s Youth Sentencing Philosophy	0
Children’s Rights to Access to Justice and Remedy: Recent Developments	0
COVID-19 and Family Visits: A Systematic Jurisdiction Analysis of Family Visitation and Safety Policies in Juvenile Correctional Facilities in the United States	0
Stripping and Searching Children	0
Inequality in Youth Justice: A Call for Global Action	0
Overcoming ‘Sheriff Syndrome’: Exploring Young Adults’ Experiences of Policing in Northern Ireland	0
Youth Justice: Looking Back & Forward	0
French Juvenile Justice Social Workers’ Perceptions of Youth Offenders	0
From Referral to Treatment: Implementation Processes in Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Programs	0
Navigating Reintegration Challenges: Coping Strategies of Juvenile Offenders in Ghana	0
Sentencing Children for Violent Extremism: Part 2	0
CORRECTION NOTICE “Deterring children from crime through sentencing: can it be justified?”	0
‘Won the Battle but Lost the War?’ ‘County Lines’ and the Quest for Victim Status: Reflections and Challenges	0
How Do Young People Who Have Offended in the United Kingdom Conceptualise the Term ‘Family’?	0
‘We Need to Tackle Their Well Being First’: Understanding and Supporting Care-Experienced Girls in the Youth Justice System	0
Selective Adaptation of the RNR Model in China’s Juvenile Criminal Justice System: Balancing Rehabilitation and Risk Management	0
Being Tried and Sentenced as an Adult: Amplifying Voices of Transferred Juveniles	0
Research With Young People Released From Youth Justice Detention in Australia: Ethical Tensions and Practical Limitations During a Pandemic	0
From Conflict to Connection: Examining the Use of Sport as a Mechanism for Cross-Community Engagement and Youth Crime Prevention in Northern Ireland	0
Electronic Monitoring of Juveniles in Flanders (Belgium): Lessons Drawn From Western European Countries	0

Youth Vulnerability and the Mobilisation of Morality and Risk: Youth Justice Practitioners’ Framings and Responses to Youth Sexting	0
Robert G Schwartz, 1949–2024	0
Children’s and Families’ Perspectives and Understanding of Children’s Court Criminal Processes and Consequences: A Scoping Review of Qualitative Grey Literature	0
Rurality and Crime: A Qualitative Study Exploring Young People’s Experiences in a Region of England	0
Victimization in Juvenile Sexual Assault Legislation: A Critical Content Analysis of State Laws in the United States of America	0
Editorial	0
Children as Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Spies First, Children Second	0
High Verbal Intelligence in Juvenile Delinquents: Protective or Risk Factor?	0
‘He Helped Me Hone Into My Humanity’: A Qualitative Study of Police-Youth Mentoring	0
“They Won’t Do Anything with That.” A Legal–Empirical Perspective on the Right to Complain for Juveniles Deprived of Their Liberty (Flanders, 2015–2024)	0
Rhetoric and Reality: The Relationship Between Absolute Deprivation and Criminality Among Almajirai in Northern Nigeria	0
Compliance With Human and Children’s Rights as Criteria in Justice Policy Evaluations: Adolescent Criminal Law as a Case Study	0
Freedom From Symbolic Violence? Facilitators and Barriers to Participatory Practices in Youth Justice	0
Crime Prevention, Support or Punishment? Introducing an Ambiguous System of Youth Justice in Denmark	0
(Abolitionist) Care, Not Cops: How Police Free School Organizers Redefine Safety as Care	0
Achieving Meaningful Youth Participation in Juvenile Court	0
‘They’re not seeing young people as victims’: Professional perspectives on policy and practice for criminally exploited children in Wales	0
Adolescents’ and Parents’ Knowledge of Laws Pertaining to Adolescent Sexual Behavior: The Role of Perceived Policy Fairness on Adolescents’ Willingness to Violate the Law	0
Examining the Literacy Abilities of Young People With Language Difficulties Who Are Serving Community Orders Within the Youth Justice Service	0
Principled Sentencing of Children and Young People for Homicide: Recent International Developments	0
Strategic Offending: Colombia’s Part-Time Child Drug Traffickers and Their Community, City and Country Lines	0
Sport, Physical Activity, and Young People Who Are Incarcerated: A Scoping Review	0
Youth Justice – An International Journal in 2025	0
Procedural Justice and Post-Pandemic Police-Youth Relations	0
News From the Editorial Team	0
‘Last Resort’? Definitely Maybe . . .	0