OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Experimental Criminology 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
Higher expectations: a systematic review of reporting the science of propensity score modeling in criminal justice studies	32
Exemplification of child abduction in US news media: Testing media effects on parental perceptions and assessment of risk	23
Correction to: Alerting consciences to reduce cybercrime: a quasi-experimental design using warning banners	18
Correction to: The effects of the Summer All Out Foot Patrol Initiative in New York City: a difference-in-differences approach	16
Report: visual deterrence in transportation security—a replication and extension	15
The age-graded effect of perceptions of reward and opportunity on offending and desistance	14
Recreational marijuana legalization and drug-related offenses in Washington State: an interrupted time series analysis with a combination of synthetic controls	14
When parents split: juvenile delinquency and its mechanisms	14
Faith in Trump and the willingness to punish white-collar crime: Chinese Americans as an out-group	13
Beyond police apologies: Concrete plans of action increase the public’s willingness to cooperate with police	12
The Damocles effect: judges may inflate the duration of suspended prison terms by over 50%	12
Experiment on camera perspective bias in videos of police-citizen encounters	11
Marijuana legalization and racial disparities in prison incarceration in Colorado and Washington State: a quasi-experimental study	11
Perceiving racial hate crimes: a power-relation perspective	10
The effect of direct interventions for antisocial cognition on recidivism in antisocial populations: a meta-analysis	10
False positives vs. false negatives: public opinion on the cost ratio in criminal justice risk assessment	10
Unpacking job satisfaction among law enforcement through self-determination theory: a meta-analytic approach	10
Do body-worn cameras improve community perceptions of the police? Results from a controlled experimental evaluation	10
Omega-3 and vitamin D supplementation to reduce recidivism: a pilot study	10
Safe consumption sites and crime: A staggered synthetic control evaluation of Toronto’s expanding safe consumption site network	9
Can we Break the School to Prison Pipeline through Partnerships? A Quasi-experimental Evaluation of the Effects of School Justice Partnerships	9
Enforcement and behavior: the effects of suspending enforcement through automatic speed cameras	9
Is misconduct worse when a cop does it? Public perceptions of police misconduct	9
Evaluating place-based policing in Amsterdam	8
Is compassion the flip side of punitiveness? Incorporating COVID-19 crisis in experimental vignettes to examine support for visitation and vaccination in prison	7

Who are the heavy hitters? A citation analysis of the most impactful research in the Journal of Experimental Criminology over the past two decades	7
The use of XR technology in criminological research: a scoping review	7
Experimental evidence that alcohol intoxication diminishes the inhibitory effect of self-control on reactive aggression	7
Correction to: Experimental evidence that alcohol intoxication diminishes the inhibitory effect of self-control on reactive aggression	7
The effect of checklists on evidence collection during initial investigations: a randomized controlled trial in virtual reality	7
Police compliance with the social contract as an antecedent of police legitimacy, of satisfaction with the police, and of willingness to obey: findings from a two-stage vignette experiment	7
The public’s overestimation of immorality of formerly incarcerated people	7
Intimate partner violence and third-party legal mobilization: considering the role of sexuality, gender, and violence severity	6
Punitiveness toward social distancing deviance in the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from two national experiments	6
Justice is in the eye of the beholder: a vignette study linking procedural justice and stigma to Muslims’ trust in police	6
Terms and conditions apply: the effect of probation length and obligation disclosure on true and false guilty pleas	6
Factors associated with successful reintegration for male offenders: a systematic narrative review with implicit causal model	6
Confession evidence results in more true and false guilty pleas than eyewitness evidence	6
Researchers’ interpretations of evidence about the association between violent attitudes and offending from different research designs	6
Do direct and courtesy prison stigma hinder support for a startup business? A vignette experiment	6
Texas attorneys recognize problematic eyewitness procedures, but plea away anyway	6
Criminal records versus rehabilitation and expungement: a randomised controlled trial	5
Is restorative justice appropriate for sexual assault and domestic violence? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the “empirical vacuum”	5
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between policing and collective efficacy	5
The effects of post-release community supervision reform	5
Assessing the impact of safety interventions on open drug markets in a small Swedish municipality using synthetic control methods	5
The impact of a youth-focused problem-oriented policing initiative on crime: findings from a randomized controlled trial in three cities	5
Does the public want the police to stop, stopping? An experimental look at the impact of outcome data on public perceptions of police discretionary traffic stops	5
Hot spots policing in Las Vegas: results from a blocked randomized controlled trial in chronic violent crime locations	5
Locks, lights, and lines of sight: an RCT evaluating the impact of a CPTED intervention on repeat burglary victimisation	5
Framing the harms of wrongful convictions: how different narratives shape public opinion	5
Behind the yellow sticker: paradoxical effects of a visual warning of body-worn cameras on the use of police force	4
The spatial dynamics of commercial burglary during the COVID-19 lockdown in San Francisco	4
Police recruitment through an intergroup communication lens: a randomized experiment	4
Study protocol and stakeholder perceptions of a randomized controlled trial of a co-response police-mental health team	4
To date a “victim”: testing the stigma of the victim label through an experimental audit of dating apps	4
Effect of conditional release on violent and general recidivism: A causal inference study	4
Reform we can agree on: public opinion on prosecutorial liability	4
Prison visits and inmates’ emotions: a pretest-posttest study	4
A comparison of younger and older burglars undertaking virtual burglaries: the development of skill and automaticity	4
Staggered deployment of gunshot detection technology in Chicago, IL: a matched quasi-experiment of gun violence outcomes	4
‘I can see that it’s bad for them’: third party judgements about the effect of procedural injustice on mental health and relationships with the police	4
Panacea or poison: Assessing how well basic propensity score modeling can replicate results from randomized controlled trials in criminal justice research	3
Structural resilience and recovery of a criminal network after disruption: a simulation study	3
Effect of rail transit on crime: Evidence from new São Paulo stations	3
Correction: A bird’s eye view of crime: assessing the effectiveness of mobile watchtowers on vehicle-related thefts	3
Assessing causal effects under treatment heterogeneity: an evaluation of a CCTV program in Detroit	3
Deterrent effects of sanction severity and the role of procedural justice in prison: a preregistered randomized vignette experiment	3
An experimental examination of the perceptual paradox surrounding police canine units	3
Examining the effects of a transitional employment program for formerly incarcerated people on employment and recidivism: a randomized controlled trial during COVID-19	3
“It’s illegal to buy drugs from street dealers”—a video-based pre-post study of a behavioral intervention to displace dealers from an Amsterdam open-air drug market	3
Reducing school crime events and status offense complaints: additional evidence for School Justice Partnerships	3
Examining the causal effect of pretrial detention on case outcomes: a judge fixed effect instrumental variable approach	3
Then a miracle occurs: cause, effect, and the heterogeneity of criminal justice research	3
Beyond conventional metrics: the elusive impact of the Pilares program on crime in Mexico City	3

Experimental evidence shows police leaders may make strategic decisions depending on visuals presented: results from a multi-armed survey experiment	3
Quality-checking the new normal: trial modality in online jury decision-making research	3
Most Americans do not like mass incarceration: penal sensibility in an era of declining punitiveness	3
Correction to: An audit experiment to investigate the “war on cops”: a research note	3
Racial reckoning protests, the Capitol insurrection, and asymmetric social facts: A mixed-methods study of public opinion	3
Open science practices in criminology and criminal justice journals	3
Unexpected events during survey design and trust in the police: a systematic review	3
A systematic review and meta-analysis of procedural justice and legitimacy in policing: the effect of social identity and social contexts	3
Can police de-escalation training reduce use of force and citizen injury without compromising officer safety?	2
Introducing the Max Lab Pennsylvania Virtual Burglary Project (MAXLAB_PVBP): an open-access virtual reality environment for criminology research	2
Correction to: A randomized controlled trial of the impact of body-worn camera activation on the outcomes of individual incidents	2
Is it Black and White? Testing racial framing effects of public reactions to newspaper vignettes of fatal officer-involved shootings	2
Juvenile delinquency and COVID-19: the effect of social distancing restrictions on juvenile crime rates in Israel	2
Finding the missing: an analysis of the monetization of social media exposure	2
Examining the use of interactive video-based simulators in law enforcement human performance research: A scoping review	2
Wait for backup or not? How police officers view their role when responding to an active shooter event	2
Comparing panic alarm systems for high-risk domestic abuse victims: a randomised controlled trial on prevention and criminal justice system outcomes	2
Motivating a standardised approach to financial intelligence: a typological scoping review of money laundering methods and trends	2
Restrictive housing for prison rule violators: Specific deterrence or defiance?	2
Police education and democratic policing in Taiwan: a longitudinal quasi-experimental study of the effects of selection and police socialisation on human rights, moral reasoning and prejudice	2
Police sexual assault investigation training, impulsivity, and officer intentions to arrest and use procedural justice: a randomized experiment	2
How exposure to natural landscapes can decrease the tendency toward delinquent behavior: the role of delay discounting	2
A commentary on Duan et al.: RNR’s luster remains	2
Analyzing the impacts of race, addiction, drug type, and criminal record on public support for criminalized and medicalized sentencing approaches toward illegal drug use	2
A procedurally just flyer reduces subsequent speeding offences: evidence from the Queensland Speeding Engagement Trial (QSET)	2
A systematic evidence map of intervention evaluations to reduce gang-related violence	2
The Urban Security Image Database (USID): development and validation of an image dataset for experimental studies on fear of crime	2
Who benefits from criminal legal reform? A natural experiment to assess racial disparities in a policy targeting monetary sanctions	2
How October 7, 2023, changed fear and exposure to hate among Jewish members of universities: a research note	2
The use of experimental vignettes in studying police procedural justice: a systematic review	2
No man’s hand: artificial intelligence does not improve police report writing speed	2
The impact of modes of administration on self-reports of offending: evidence from a methodological experiment with university students	2
Understanding cybercrime involvement: a quasi-experiment on engagement with money mule recruitment ads on Instagram	2
The mark of a felony conviction: How does the threat of a felony influence willingness to accept a plea?	2