OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminology & Public Policy is 4. 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
Does police patrol in large areas prevent crime? Revisiting the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment	43
De‐prosecution and death: A synthetic control analysis of the impact of de‐prosecution on homicides	32
Issue Information	29
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Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program expansion evaluation—A qualitative study	26
RETRACTION: A Cluster Randomized Experiment of a Life Coaching Intervention Designed to Improve Correctional Officer Mental Health	25
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Challenges in creating humane and equitable policing: A focus on the Global South	22
Issue Information	22
Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy	18
Issue Information	18
The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula	18
Can enhanced street lighting improve public safety at scale?	17
Scaling up effective juvenile delinquency programs by focusing on change levers: Evidence from a large meta‐analysis	15
Issue Information	15
Police reform in public housing contexts: Body‐worn cameras, surveillance, and harm reduction in New York City Housing Authority developments	14
“Like aspirin for arthritis”: A qualitative study of conditional cyber‐deterrence associated with police crackdowns on the dark web	13
Issue Information	13
The spatial (in)stability of mental health calls for police service	12
Situational crime prevention as a harm mitigation policy for active shooter incidents	12
Disparities in court orders to relinquish firearms in civil domestic violence protection orders	12
Disorder policing to reduce crime: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	12
Fair Chance Act failures? Employers’ hiring of people with criminal records	12
State efforts to enforce firearm dispossession through relinquishment laws	12
Firearm restrictions in domestic violence protection orders: Implementation, vetting, compliance, and enforcement	11

Issue Information	11
Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri: A microsynthetic control evaluation	10
Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?	10
Estimating the effects of shrinking the criminal justice system on criminal recidivism	10
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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	9
RETRACTED: A cluster randomized experiment of a life coaching intervention designed to improve correctional officer mental health	9
Issue Information	8
Coerced motherhood behind bars: Public support for abortion access for incarcerated women	8
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An examination of harm reduction strategies in Oxycodone and Adderall buyer feedback on AlphaBay	8
What motivates users to adopt cybersecurity practices? A survey experiment assessing protection motivation theory	8
Law enforcement policies for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A mixed‐methods analysis	8
Deregulation of public civilian gun carrying and violent crimes: A longitudinal analysis 1981–2019	8
“It's a start”: Formerly incarcerated adults’ perceptions of second‐chance employers and policies	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
Student absenteeism and the role of police encounters	7
Focused deterrence can reduce crime: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials and quasi‐experiments	7
Building an understanding of the collision of crime, places, race, and ethnicity	7
Minor‐focused sextortion by adult strangers: A crime script analysis of newspaper and court cases	7
Police body‐worn camera policies as democratic deficits? Comparing public support for policy alternatives	7
Are progressive chief prosecutors effective in reducing prison use and cumulative racial/ethnic disadvantage? Evidence from Florida	7
Do foster youth face harsher juvenile justice outcomes? Reinvestigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing	6
Do body‐worn cameras reduce disparities in police behavior in minority communities? Evidence of nuanced influences across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods	6
Issue Information	6
A pretrial release policy based on risk assessment would reduce unnecessary incarceration, increase racial fairness, and save money	6
Implementation science (IS)—A game changer for criminology and criminal justice	6
Identifying high‐risk firearms dealers: A machine learning study of rapidly diverted firearm sales in California	6
Failure	6
Understanding markers of trust within the online stolen data market: An examination of vendors’ signaling behaviors relative to product price point	6
Issue Information	5
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Issue Information	5
A wall of treatments: An integrative problem‐solving approach to the prevention of stone‐throwing in East Jerusalem	5
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Rethinking rules for 911: Dispatching alternative responders in Denver and San Francisco	5
Issue Information	5
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
Issue Information	4
“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	4
“This is everyone's issue”: Policy entrepreneurs, issue framing, and coalition building in the passage of automatic criminal record expungement	4
Police diversity and crime clearance for Black and Hispanic victims	4
Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance	4
Neck‐restraint bans, law enforcement officer unions, and police killings	4
The effect of online ad campaigns on DDoS‐attacks: A cross‐national difference‐in‐differences quasi‐experiment	4
De‐prosecution and death: A reply to an imprecise and ideological critique	4
The impact of prosecutors’ office caseloads on case processing outcomes	4
Diverting 911 calls: Lessons from early adopting urban jurisdictions	4

Federal–local partnerships on immigration law enforcement: Are the policies effective in reducing violent victimization?