OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminology & Public Policy is 3. 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
Issue Information	61
Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program expansion evaluation—A qualitative study	49
Does police patrol in large areas prevent crime? Revisiting the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment	39
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De‐prosecution and death: A synthetic control analysis of the impact of de‐prosecution on homicides	33
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Challenges in creating humane and equitable policing: A focus on the Global South	25
The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula	23
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“Defund the police:” Perceptions among protesters in the 2020 March on Washington	21
Assessing the impact of de‐escalation training on police behavior: Reducing police use of force in the Louisville, KY Metro Police Department	21
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Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy	17
Can enhanced street lighting improve public safety at scale?	17
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A test of the bifurcation hypothesis in prosecutorial diversion	16
Can “race‐neutral” program eligibility requirements in criminal justice have disparate effects? An examination of race, ethnicity, and prison industry employment	16
Scaling up effective juvenile delinquency programs by focusing on change levers: Evidence from a large meta‐analysis	15
Police reform in public housing contexts: Body‐worn cameras, surveillance, and harm reduction in New York City Housing Authority developments	13
State efforts to enforce firearm dispossession through relinquishment laws	13
“Like aspirin for arthritis”: A qualitative study of conditional cyber‐deterrence associated with police crackdowns on the dark web	13
The impact and policy relevance of street lighting for crime prevention: A systematic review based on a half‐century of evaluation research	13
Beyond impunity: An evaluation of New York State's nonfatal shooting initiative	12
The spatial (in)stability of mental health calls for police service	12
Situational crime prevention as a harm mitigation policy for active shooter incidents	11

Issue Information	11
Disorder policing to reduce crime: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	11
Disparities in court orders to relinquish firearms in civil domestic violence protection orders	11
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Fair Chance Act failures? Employers’ hiring of people with criminal records	10
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Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri: A microsynthetic control evaluation	10
Firearm restrictions in domestic violence protection orders: Implementation, vetting, compliance, and enforcement	10
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Estimating the effects of shrinking the criminal justice system on criminal recidivism	9
A cluster randomized experiment of a life coaching intervention designed to improve correctional officer mental health	9
Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?	9
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Examining the prevalence of experiencing sexual misconduct and reporting to Title IX and counseling services across student race/ethnicity: Findings from the 2019 Association of American Universities	8
What motivates users to adopt cybersecurity practices? A survey experiment assessing protection motivation theory	8
Deregulation of public civilian gun carrying and violent crimes: A longitudinal analysis 1981–2019	8
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Are progressive chief prosecutors effective in reducing prison use and cumulative racial/ethnic disadvantage? Evidence from Florida	8
An examination of harm reduction strategies in Oxycodone and Adderall buyer feedback on AlphaBay	8
Student absenteeism and the role of police encounters	8
Locked up and awaiting trial: Testing the criminogenic and punitive effects of spending a week or more in pretrial detention	7
Public mental health facility closures and criminal justice contact in Chicago	7
Building an understanding of the collision of crime, places, race, and ethnicity	7
Coerced motherhood behind bars: Public support for abortion access for incarcerated women	7
Implementation science (IS)—A game changer for criminology and criminal justice	6
Do foster youth face harsher juvenile justice outcomes? Reinvestigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing	6
Pretrial risk assessment instruments in practice: The role of judicial discretion in pretrial reform	6
Police body‐worn camera policies as democratic deficits? Comparing public support for policy alternatives	6
Do body‐worn cameras reduce disparities in police behavior in minority communities? Evidence of nuanced influences across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods	6
Goldilocks and the three “Ts”: Targeting, testing, and tracking for “just right” democratic policing	6
Understanding markers of trust within the online stolen data market: An examination of vendors’ signaling behaviors relative to product price point	6
Minor‐focused sextortion by adult strangers: A crime script analysis of newspaper and court cases	6
Failure	6
Immigration policy, immigrant detention, and the U.S. jail system	6
Identifying high‐risk firearms dealers: A machine learning study of rapidly diverted firearm sales in California	5
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George Floyd protests and the criminal justice system	5
Rethinking rules for 911: Dispatching alternative responders in Denver and San Francisco	5
Police diversity and crime clearance for Black and Hispanic victims	4
Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance	4
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A wall of treatments: An integrative problem‐solving approach to the prevention of stone‐throwing in East Jerusalem	4
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De‐prosecution and death: A reply to an imprecise and ideological critique	4
Understanding what violent street crime, globalization, and ice cream have in common	4
The sexual recidivism drop in Canada: A meta‐analysis of sex offender recidivism rates over an 80‐year period	4
The effect of the Seattle Police‐Free CHOP zone on crime: A microsynthetic control evaluation	4
Issue Information	4

Neck‐restraint bans, law enforcement officer unions, and police killings	3
Prosecutor‐driven reform and racial disparities	3
Does scientific research change minds? Linking criminology and public perceptions of policing	3
Diverting 911 calls: Lessons from early adopting urban jurisdictions	3
Focused deterrence, strategic management, and effective gun violence prevention	3
“This is everyone's issue”: Policy entrepreneurs, issue framing, and coalition building in the passage of automatic criminal record expungement	3
Federal–local partnerships on immigration law enforcement: Are the policies effective in reducing violent victimization?	3
Does humanizing the police improve the effectiveness of police recruiting efforts?	3
The effect of online ad campaigns on DDoS‐attacks: A cross‐national difference‐in‐differences quasi‐experiment	3
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Can place‐based crime prevention impacts be sustained over long durations? 11‐Year follow‐up of a quasi‐experimental evaluation of a CCTV project	3
Regulatory intermediaries and the challenge of democratic policing	3
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: An in‐depth examination of police officer perceptions of body‐worn camera implementation and their relationship to policy, supervision, and training	3
Understanding (non)involvement in terrorist violence: What sets extremists who use terrorist violence apart from those who do not?	3
Issue Information	3
Assessing nation‐state‐sponsored cyberattacks using aspects of Situational Crime Prevention	3