OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Experimental Criminology is 1. 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
Report: visual deterrence in transportation security—a replication and extension	26
Faith in Trump and the willingness to punish white-collar crime: Chinese Americans as an out-group	21
Empathy for violent offenders: Knowing the truth facilitates victims’ empathy in victim-offender mediation	21
Correction: Expanding the focus of correctional evaluations beyond recidivism: the impact of halfway houses on public safety	18
Correction to: Alerting consciences to reduce cybercrime: a quasi-experimental design using warning banners	17
The age-graded effect of perceptions of reward and opportunity on offending and desistance	17
Correction: Terms and conditions apply: the effect of probation length and obligation disclosure on true and false guilty pleas	17
Recreational marijuana legalization and drug-related offenses in Washington State: an interrupted time series analysis with a combination of synthetic controls	14
Exemplification of child abduction in US news media: Testing media effects on parental perceptions and assessment of risk	14
How police communication influences citizen perceptions and cooperation: A field experiment on community policing in Mexico	12
Higher expectations: a systematic review of reporting the science of propensity score modeling in criminal justice studies	12
Experiment on camera perspective bias in videos of police-citizen encounters	11
When parents split: juvenile delinquency and its mechanisms	11
Marijuana legalization and racial disparities in prison incarceration in Colorado and Washington State: a quasi-experimental study	10
The Damocles effect: judges may inflate the duration of suspended prison terms by over 50%	10
Unpacking job satisfaction among law enforcement through self-determination theory: a meta-analytic approach	10
Beyond police apologies: Concrete plans of action increase the public’s willingness to cooperate with police	10
False positives vs. false negatives: public opinion on the cost ratio in criminal justice risk assessment	10
The public’s overestimation of immorality of formerly incarcerated people	9
The effect of direct interventions for antisocial cognition on recidivism in antisocial populations: a meta-analysis	9
Examining reporting and risk-avoidance intentions among residents of high-crime neighborhoods: results from a city-wide survey experiment	9
The effect of checklists on evidence collection during initial investigations: a randomized controlled trial in virtual reality	9
Safe consumption sites and crime: A staggered synthetic control evaluation of Toronto’s expanding safe consumption site network	9
Omega-3 and vitamin D supplementation to reduce recidivism: a pilot study	9
Effects of functional family therapy for adolescents in child welfare services on subsequent criminal charges and out-of-home placements: a randomized effectiveness trial	9

Evaluating place-based policing in Amsterdam	8
Is misconduct worse when a cop does it? Public perceptions of police misconduct	8
Can we Break the School to Prison Pipeline through Partnerships? A Quasi-experimental Evaluation of the Effects of School Justice Partnerships	8
The impact of body-worn camera footage on prosecution outcomes for tickets	8
Correction: Do license plate readers enhance the initial and residual deterrent effects of police patrol? A quasi-randomized test	8
The use of XR technology in criminological research: a scoping review	8
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
Terms and conditions apply: the effect of probation length and obligation disclosure on true and false guilty pleas	7
Correction: The effects of post-release community supervision reform	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
Is compassion the flip side of punitiveness? Incorporating COVID-19 crisis in experimental vignettes to examine support for visitation and vaccination in prison	7
Correction: Officer-involved shootings: testing the effect of question timing on memory accuracy for stressful events	7
Experimental evidence that alcohol intoxication diminishes the inhibitory effect of self-control on reactive aggression	7
Intimate partner violence and third-party legal mobilization: considering the role of sexuality, gender, and violence severity	7
Correction to: Experimental evidence that alcohol intoxication diminishes the inhibitory effect of self-control on reactive aggression	7
Texas attorneys recognize problematic eyewitness procedures, but plea away anyway	6
Confession evidence results in more true and false guilty pleas than eyewitness evidence	6
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	6
Correction: Policing protests: an experimental evaluation of the impact of protester race on support for Police reform	6
Do direct and courtesy prison stigma hinder support for a startup business? A vignette experiment	6
The impact of a youth-focused problem-oriented policing initiative on crime: findings from a randomized controlled trial in three cities	6
Police anti-corruption reforms and vigilantism: evidence from an experimental vignette study	6
Framing the harms of wrongful convictions: how different narratives shape public opinion	6
Factors associated with successful reintegration for male offenders: a systematic narrative review with implicit causal model	6
Punitiveness toward social distancing deviance in the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from two national experiments	6
Researchers’ interpretations of evidence about the association between violent attitudes and offending from different research designs	6
Criminal records versus rehabilitation and expungement: a randomised controlled trial	6
Concerning, but do we need policy reform? An experimental analysis of public reactions to accurate statistics on deaths caused by police officers and medical professionals	5
Prison visits and inmates’ emotions: a pretest-posttest study	5
Significantly off target: a commentary on Fazel et al.’s (2024) umbrella review of research on the risk–need–responsivity framework	5
Correction: Hot spots policing in Las Vegas: results from a blocked randomized controlled trial in chronic violent crime locations	5
Effect of conditional release on violent and general recidivism: A causal inference study	5
Does automated feedback impact the acceptability of AI-generated police body worn camera review? An implementation science natural experiment	5
Just say no? Alcohol affects threat perception and reactions to ostracism and sexual objectification	5
The effects of post-release community supervision reform	5
Behind the yellow sticker: paradoxical effects of a visual warning of body-worn cameras on the use of police force	5
Contextual determinants of police attitudes toward AI-assisted policing: a vignette experiment	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
Assessing the impact of safety interventions on open drug markets in a small Swedish municipality using synthetic control methods	5
Tablets behind bars: evidence from a staggered adoption difference-in-differences study of prison misconduct	5
A comparison of younger and older burglars undertaking virtual burglaries: the development of skill and automaticity	5
The spatial dynamics of commercial burglary during the COVID-19 lockdown in San Francisco	5
“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	4
Study protocol and stakeholder perceptions of a randomized controlled trial of a co-response police-mental health team	4
Correction to: What influences punitive responses? Examining the interaction between shared identity and crime severity	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
Police recruitment through an intergroup communication lens: a randomized experiment	4
A systematic review and meta-analysis of procedural justice and legitimacy in policing: the effect of social identity and social contexts	4

Reform we can agree on: public opinion on prosecutorial liability	4
Evaluating the effect of CCTV on case clearances in Fayetteville, NC: A case for entropy balancing	4
Reducing school crime events and status offense complaints: additional evidence for School Justice Partnerships	3
Panacea or poison: Assessing how well basic propensity score modeling can replicate results from randomized controlled trials in criminal justice research	3
Quality-checking the new normal: trial modality in online jury decision-making research	3
Structural resilience and recovery of a criminal network after disruption: a simulation study	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
Outcome trajectories for violent and sex offenders in recovery residences with a substance use disorder compared to non-offending residents	3
Effect of rail transit on crime: Evidence from new São Paulo stations	3
Most Americans do not like mass incarceration: penal sensibility in an era of declining punitiveness	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
Racial reckoning protests, the Capitol insurrection, and asymmetric social facts: A mixed-methods study of public opinion	3
Deterrent effects of sanction severity and the role of procedural justice in prison: a preregistered randomized vignette experiment	3
Examining the causal effect of pretrial detention on case outcomes: a judge fixed effect instrumental variable approach	3
Open science practices in criminology and criminal justice journals	3
Who benefits from criminal legal reform? A natural experiment to assess racial disparities in a policy targeting monetary sanctions	3
A study on the impact of open doors: investigating the influence of short leave and open prison on recidivism rates	3
An experimental examination of the perceptual paradox surrounding police canine units	3
Beyond conventional metrics: the elusive impact of the Pilares program on crime in Mexico City	3
Unexpected events during survey design and trust in the police: a systematic review	3
Then a miracle occurs: cause, effect, and the heterogeneity of criminal justice research	3
Introducing the Max Lab Pennsylvania Virtual Burglary Project (MAXLAB_PVBP): an open-access virtual reality environment for criminology research	3
Experimental evidence shows police leaders may make strategic decisions depending on visuals presented: results from a multi-armed survey experiment	3
Restrictive housing for prison rule violators: Specific deterrence or defiance?	2
Does the oath enhance truth-telling in eyewitness testimony? experimental evidence	2
Can police de-escalation training reduce use of force and citizen injury without compromising officer safety?	2
Protection motivation and cybersecurity intentions: a visual conjoint experiment	2
The use of experimental vignettes in studying police procedural justice: a systematic review	2
Police sexual assault investigation training, impulsivity, and officer intentions to arrest and use procedural justice: a randomized experiment	2
When trust turns digital: why relational cues matter in online crime-reporting portals	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
Wait for backup or not? How police officers view their role when responding to an active shooter event	2
Understanding cybercrime involvement: a quasi-experiment on engagement with money mule recruitment ads on Instagram	2
Evaluation of a social media campaign for the prevention of intimate partner violence	2
The mark of a felony conviction: How does the threat of a felony influence willingness to accept a plea?	2
Unpacking the dynamics of blame: exploring responsibility attributions to victims and perpetrators in prostitution and non-prostitution contexts	2
Motivating a standardised approach to financial intelligence: a typological scoping review of money laundering methods and trends	2
Spurring crime? The geospatial clustering of DWIs in San Antonio, Texas on NBA gamedays	2
A systematic evidence map of intervention evaluations to reduce gang-related violence	2
How October 7, 2023, changed fear and exposure to hate among Jewish members of universities: a research note	2
A procedurally just flyer reduces subsequent speeding offences: evidence from the Queensland Speeding Engagement Trial (QSET)	2
A multimodel meta-analysis assessing moderators of sexual recidivism as an indicator of treatment effectiveness in persons with sexual offense histories	1
Gender differences in intervention effects on delinquency for justice-involved youth: A preliminary meta-analysis	1
Eyes on phishing emails: an eye-tracking study	1
Does sentence length affect the risk for criminal recidivism? A quasi-experimental study of three policy reforms in Sweden	1
Conducting online randomized experiments: lessons from a policing survey using AI-Edited videos	1
Dynamic defence: dynamic guardianship for enhanced neighbourhood security	1
The effects of procedural injustice and emotionality during citizen-initiated police encounters	1
Finding the missing: an analysis of the monetization of social media exposure	1
Who helps, who intervenes?: Understanding bystander characteristics and intervention using audio-vignettes involving mental health scenarios	1
Analyzing the impacts of race, addiction, drug type, and criminal record on public support for criminalized and medicalized sentencing approaches toward illegal drug use	1
Who’s asking? Participatory research, interviewer effects, and the production of knowledge in a women’s prison	1
Attitudinal schemas and academy training receptivity: a quasi-experimental study of prison officers	1
A bird’s eye view of crime: assessing the effectiveness of mobile watchtowers on vehicle-related thefts	1
Assessing the impact of safe consumption sites on neighborhood crime in New York City: a synthetic control approach	1
The effect of gunshot detection technology on evidence collection and case clearance in Kansas City, Missouri	1
Correction: The Philadelphia predictive policing experiment	1
Making the call: how does perceived race affect desire to call the police?	1
Procedural fairness, socioeconomic status, and driver perceptions of the police during traffic stops: a test of the invariance thesis	1
Comparability of YouGov and Qualtrics samples in survey experiments: A short report	1
Does CALEA accreditation serve as a signal? A look at crime analysis	1
How exposure to natural landscapes can decrease the tendency toward delinquent behavior: the role of delay discounting	1
Is it Black and White? Testing racial framing effects of public reactions to newspaper vignettes of fatal officer-involved shootings	1
Long-term effects of medication-assisted treatment in opioid using offenders in German prisoners—treatment outcomes in prison and after release	1
Examining the use of interactive video-based simulators in law enforcement human performance research: A scoping review	1
The effects of imprisonment length on recidivism: a judge stringency instrumental variable approach	1
Examining the use of drug screening technologies in night-time entertainment districts	1
Correction: A partially randomized field experiment on the effect of an acoustic gunshot detection system on police incident reports	1
An experimental study on the effect of prosecutorial Brady violations on confidence in exonerating individuals wrongfully convicted of murder	1
No man’s hand: artificial intelligence does not improve police report writing speed	1
Evidence on the impact of the Prudential Center on crime in downtown Newark	1
The impact of modes of administration on self-reports of offending: evidence from a methodological experiment with university students	1
Pre-ejection period (PEP) in reward task and recurring victimization: A pilot study	1
Do the criminal histories of vacant properties matter? Evidence from demolition and rehab interventions in Cleveland, Ohio	1
A commentary on Duan et al.: RNR’s luster remains	1
Juvenile delinquency and COVID-19: the effect of social distancing restrictions on juvenile crime rates in Israel	1
Co-response and homelessness: the SEPTA transit police SAVE experiment	1