OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminology & Public Policy is 2. 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
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De‐prosecution and death: A synthetic control analysis of the impact of de‐prosecution on homicides	54
Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program expansion evaluation—A qualitative study	44
Does police patrol in large areas prevent crime? Revisiting the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment	39
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Challenges in creating humane and equitable policing: A focus on the Global South	26
“Defund the police:” Perceptions among protesters in the 2020 March on Washington	23
Assessing the impact of de‐escalation training on police behavior: Reducing police use of force in the Louisville, KY Metro Police Department	23
The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula	21
Issue Information	20
Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy	19
A test of the bifurcation hypothesis in prosecutorial diversion	19
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The impact and policy relevance of street lighting for crime prevention: A systematic review based on a half‐century of evaluation research	17
“Like aspirin for arthritis”: A qualitative study of conditional cyber‐deterrence associated with police crackdowns on the dark web	16
Police reform in public housing contexts: Body‐worn cameras, surveillance, and harm reduction in New York City Housing Authority developments	15
Can “race‐neutral” program eligibility requirements in criminal justice have disparate effects? An examination of race, ethnicity, and prison industry employment	15
Scaling up effective juvenile delinquency programs by focusing on change levers: Evidence from a large meta‐analysis	14
Issue Information	14
State efforts to enforce firearm dispossession through relinquishment laws	13
Situational crime prevention as a harm mitigation policy for active shooter incidents	13
Disorder policing to reduce crime: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	13
The spatial (in)stability of mental health calls for police service	13

Beyond impunity: An evaluation of New York State's nonfatal shooting initiative	13
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Disparities in court orders to relinquish firearms in civil domestic violence protection orders	12
Fair Chance Act failures? Employers’ hiring of people with criminal records	12
The policy lessons learned from the criminal justice system response to COVID‐19	11
Issue Information	11
Estimating the effects of shrinking the criminal justice system on criminal recidivism	10
Firearm restrictions in domestic violence protection orders: Implementation, vetting, compliance, and enforcement	10
Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri: A microsynthetic control evaluation	10
Focus on prevention: The public is more supportive of “overdose prevention sites” than they are of “safe injection facilities”	9
Ambiguity and legal compliance	9
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
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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
Deregulation of public civilian gun carrying and violent crimes: A longitudinal analysis 1981–2019	8
Coerced motherhood behind bars: Public support for abortion access for incarcerated women	8
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Are progressive chief prosecutors effective in reducing prison use and cumulative racial/ethnic disadvantage? Evidence from Florida	8
Elevated police turnover following the summer of George Floyd protests: A synthetic control study	8
Issue Information	8
What motivates users to adopt cybersecurity practices? A survey experiment assessing protection motivation theory	7
Student absenteeism and the role of police encounters	7
Public mental health facility closures and criminal justice contact in Chicago	7
An examination of harm reduction strategies in Oxycodone and Adderall buyer feedback on AlphaBay	7
Comparing 911 and emergency hotline calls for domestic violence in seven cities: What happened when people started staying home due to COVID‐19?	7
Police body‐worn camera policies as democratic deficits? Comparing public support for policy alternatives	6
Building an understanding of the collision of crime, places, race, and ethnicity	6
Minor‐focused sextortion by adult strangers: A crime script analysis of newspaper and court cases	6
Locked up and awaiting trial: Testing the criminogenic and punitive effects of spending a week or more in pretrial detention	6
Failure	5
Immigration policy, immigrant detention, and the U.S. jail system	5
Understanding markers of trust within the online stolen data market: An examination of vendors’ signaling behaviors relative to product price point	5
Do foster youth face harsher juvenile justice outcomes? Reinvestigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing	5
Do body‐worn cameras reduce disparities in police behavior in minority communities? Evidence of nuanced influences across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods	5
Goldilocks and the three “Ts”: Targeting, testing, and tracking for “just right” democratic policing	5
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Identifying high‐risk firearms dealers: A machine learning study of rapidly diverted firearm sales in California	4
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Implementation science (IS)—A game changer for criminology and criminal justice	4
George Floyd protests and the criminal justice system	4
The effect of the Seattle Police‐Free CHOP zone on crime: A microsynthetic control evaluation	4
Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance	4
Pretrial risk assessment instruments in practice: The role of judicial discretion in pretrial reform	4
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De‐prosecution and death: A reply to an imprecise and ideological critique	4
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Prosecutor‐driven reform and racial disparities	3
Federal–local partnerships on immigration law enforcement: Are the policies effective in reducing violent victimization?	3

A wall of treatments: An integrative problem‐solving approach to the prevention of stone‐throwing in East Jerusalem	3
Crime under lockdown: The impact of COVID‐19 on citizen security in the city of Buenos Aires	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 what violent street crime, globalization, and ice cream have in common	3
Police diversity and crime clearance for Black and Hispanic victims	3
Diverting 911 calls: Lessons from early adopting urban jurisdictions	3
Neck‐restraint bans, law enforcement officer unions, and police killings	3
The sexual recidivism drop in Canada: A meta‐analysis of sex offender recidivism rates over an 80‐year period	3
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Focused deterrence, strategic management, and effective gun violence prevention	2
Banishing justice: Extradition limits in the United States	2
Lessons learned from Dread darknet communities: How and why are fraudsters targeting the elderly to be victims or accomplices?	2
Understanding (non)involvement in terrorist violence: What sets extremists who use terrorist violence apart from those who do not?	2
Risk and implications of COVID‐19 among the community supervised population	2
Does scientific research change minds? Linking criminology and public perceptions of policing	2
Disarming abusers: Domestic violence protective order (DVPO) firearm restriction processes and dispositions	2
Responding to nonemergency calls for service via video: A randomized controlled trial	2
The effect of online ad campaigns on DDoS‐attacks: A cross‐national difference‐in‐differences quasi‐experiment	2
Does humanizing the police improve the effectiveness of police recruiting efforts?	2
Assessing nation‐state‐sponsored cyberattacks using aspects of Situational Crime Prevention	2
Can place‐based crime prevention impacts be sustained over long durations? 11‐Year follow‐up of a quasi‐experimental evaluation of a CCTV project	2
Building “A Beautiful Safe Place for Youth” through problem‐oriented community organizing: A quasi‐experimental evaluation	2