Criminology & Public Policy

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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De‐prosecution and death: A synthetic control analysis of the impact of de‐prosecution on homicides48
Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program expansion evaluation—A qualitative study42
Does police patrol in large areas prevent crime? Revisiting the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment36
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The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula23
“Defund the police:” Perceptions among protesters in the 2020 March on Washington21
Challenges in creating humane and equitable policing: A focus on the Global South20
Assessing the impact of de‐escalation training on police behavior: Reducing police use of force in the Louisville, KY Metro Police Department19
Perceptions and experiences with police among people who use drugs in the initial year of British Columbia's decriminalization of illegal drugs policy18
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A test of the bifurcation hypothesis in prosecutorial diversion17
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Police reform in public housing contexts: Body‐worn cameras, surveillance, and harm reduction in New York City Housing Authority developments15
“Like aspirin for arthritis”: A qualitative study of conditional cyber‐deterrence associated with police crackdowns on the dark web14
Scaling up effective juvenile delinquency programs by focusing on change levers: Evidence from a large meta‐analysis14
The impact and policy relevance of street lighting for crime prevention: A systematic review based on a half‐century of evaluation research13
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Can “race‐neutral” program eligibility requirements in criminal justice have disparate effects? An examination of race, ethnicity, and prison industry employment13
The spatial (in)stability of mental health calls for police service12
Situational crime prevention as a harm mitigation policy for active shooter incidents12
Disparities in court orders to relinquish firearms in civil domestic violence protection orders12
Beyond impunity: An evaluation of New York State's nonfatal shooting initiative12
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State efforts to enforce firearm dispossession through relinquishment laws12
Disorder policing to reduce crime: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis12
Firearm restrictions in domestic violence protection orders: Implementation, vetting, compliance, and enforcement11
Fair Chance Act failures? Employers’ hiring of people with criminal records11
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Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri: A microsynthetic control evaluation10
The policy lessons learned from the criminal justice system response to COVID‐1910
Estimating the effects of shrinking the criminal justice system on criminal recidivism9
Public support for second look sentencing: Is there a Shawshank redemption effect?9
Ambiguity and legal compliance9
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Focus on prevention: The public is more supportive of “overdose prevention sites” than they are of “safe injection facilities”8
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
Coerced motherhood behind bars: Public support for abortion access for incarcerated women7
Elevated police turnover following the summer of George Floyd protests: A synthetic control study7
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Deregulation of public civilian gun carrying and violent crimes: A longitudinal analysis 1981–20197
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What motivates users to adopt cybersecurity practices? A survey experiment assessing protection motivation theory6
Student absenteeism and the role of police encounters6
Comparing 911 and emergency hotline calls for domestic violence in seven cities: What happened when people started staying home due to COVID‐19?6
Are progressive chief prosecutors effective in reducing prison use and cumulative racial/ethnic disadvantage? Evidence from Florida6
Locked up and awaiting trial: Testing the criminogenic and punitive effects of spending a week or more in pretrial detention6
An examination of harm reduction strategies in Oxycodone and Adderall buyer feedback on AlphaBay6
Police body‐worn camera policies as democratic deficits? Comparing public support for policy alternatives5
Building an understanding of the collision of crime, places, race, and ethnicity5
Public mental health facility closures and criminal justice contact in Chicago5
Minor‐focused sextortion by adult strangers: A crime script analysis of newspaper and court cases5
Do body‐worn cameras reduce disparities in police behavior in minority communities? Evidence of nuanced influences across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods4
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Pretrial risk assessment instruments in practice: The role of judicial discretion in pretrial reform4
Goldilocks and the three “Ts”: Targeting, testing, and tracking for “just right” democratic policing4
Understanding markers of trust within the online stolen data market: An examination of vendors’ signaling behaviors relative to product price point4
Implementation science (IS)—A game changer for criminology and criminal justice4
Immigration policy, immigrant detention, and the U.S. jail system4
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Do foster youth face harsher juvenile justice outcomes? Reinvestigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing4
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The sexual recidivism drop in Canada: A meta‐analysis of sex offender recidivism rates over an 80‐year period3
De‐prosecution and death: A reply to an imprecise and ideological critique3
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Crime under lockdown: The impact of COVID‐19 on citizen security in the city of Buenos Aires3
Police diversity and crime clearance for Black and Hispanic victims3
George Floyd protests and the criminal justice system3
The effect of the Seattle Police‐Free CHOP zone on crime: A microsynthetic control evaluation3
Understanding what violent street crime, globalization, and ice cream have in common3
A wall of treatments: An integrative problem‐solving approach to the prevention of stone‐throwing in East Jerusalem3
Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance3
Identifying high‐risk firearms dealers: A machine learning study of rapidly diverted firearm sales in California3
Prosecutor‐driven reform and racial disparities2
“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 training2
Does humanizing the police improve the effectiveness of police recruiting efforts?2
Understanding (non)involvement in terrorist violence: What sets extremists who use terrorist violence apart from those who do not?2
The effect of online ad campaigns on DDoS‐attacks: A cross‐national difference‐in‐differences quasi‐experiment2
Neck‐restraint bans, law enforcement officer unions, and police killings2
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Risk and implications of COVID‐19 among the community supervised population2
Diverting 911 calls: Lessons from early adopting urban jurisdictions2
Regulatory intermediaries and the challenge of democratic policing2
Federal–local partnerships on immigration law enforcement: Are the policies effective in reducing violent victimization?2
Focused deterrence, strategic management, and effective gun violence prevention2
Does scientific research change minds? Linking criminology and public perceptions of policing2
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