OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Experimental Criminology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Exemplification of child abduction in US news media: Testing media effects on parental perceptions and assessment of risk	29
Higher expectations: a systematic review of reporting the science of propensity score modeling in criminal justice studies	29
Correction to: Alerting consciences to reduce cybercrime: a quasi-experimental design using warning banners	26
Correction to: The effects of the Summer All Out Foot Patrol Initiative in New York City: a difference-in-differences approach	23
Faith in Trump and the willingness to punish white-collar crime: Chinese Americans as an out-group	22
The age-graded effect of perceptions of reward and opportunity on offending and desistance	18
Recreational marijuana legalization and drug-related offenses in Washington State: an interrupted time series analysis with a combination of synthetic controls	15
When parents split: juvenile delinquency and its mechanisms	15
False positives vs. false negatives: public opinion on the cost ratio in criminal justice risk assessment	14
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%	11
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
The effect of direct interventions for antisocial cognition on recidivism in antisocial populations: a meta-analysis	10
Perceiving racial hate crimes: a power-relation perspective	10
Do body-worn cameras improve community perceptions of the police? Results from a controlled experimental evaluation	10
Enforcement and behavior: the effects of suspending enforcement through automatic speed cameras	9
Omega-3 and vitamin D supplementation to reduce recidivism: a pilot study	9
Safe consumption sites and crime: A staggered synthetic control evaluation of Toronto’s expanding safe consumption site network	9
The effect of checklists on evidence collection during initial investigations: a randomized controlled trial in virtual reality	9
Unpacking job satisfaction among law enforcement through self-determination theory: a meta-analytic approach	9
The use of XR technology in criminological research: a scoping review	8
Correction to: Experimental evidence that alcohol intoxication diminishes the inhibitory effect of self-control on reactive aggression	8
Can we Break the School to Prison Pipeline through Partnerships? A Quasi-experimental Evaluation of the Effects of School Justice Partnerships	8
The public’s overestimation of immorality of formerly incarcerated people	8

Experimental evidence that alcohol intoxication diminishes the inhibitory effect of self-control on reactive aggression	7
Terms and conditions apply: the effect of probation length and obligation disclosure on true and false guilty pleas	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
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
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
Framing the harms of wrongful convictions: how different narratives shape public opinion	6
Justice is in the eye of the beholder: a vignette study linking procedural justice and stigma to Muslims’ trust in police	6
Intimate partner violence and third-party legal mobilization: considering the role of sexuality, gender, and violence severity	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
Confession evidence results in more true and false guilty pleas than eyewitness evidence	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
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between policing and collective efficacy	6
The impact of mobile technology devices on street checks and crime incidents reported: results of a randomised controlled trial	6
Researchers’ interpretations of evidence about the association between violent attitudes and offending from different research designs	6
Texas attorneys recognize problematic eyewitness procedures, but plea away anyway	6
Criminal records versus rehabilitation and expungement: a randomised controlled trial	5
Locks, lights, and lines of sight: an RCT evaluating the impact of a CPTED intervention on repeat burglary victimisation	5
The effects of post-release community supervision reform	5
Is restorative justice appropriate for sexual assault and domestic violence? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the “empirical vacuum”	5
Hot spots policing in Las Vegas: results from a blocked randomized controlled trial in chronic violent crime locations	5
Behind the yellow sticker: paradoxical effects of a visual warning of body-worn cameras on the use of police force	5
To date a “victim”: testing the stigma of the victim label through an experimental audit of dating apps	4
Assessing the impact of safety interventions on open drug markets in a small Swedish municipality using synthetic control methods	4
Police recruitment through an intergroup communication lens: a randomized experiment	4
Prison visits and inmates’ emotions: a pretest-posttest study	4
Study protocol and stakeholder perceptions of a randomized controlled trial of a co-response police-mental health team	4
Staggered deployment of gunshot detection technology in Chicago, IL: a matched quasi-experiment of gun violence outcomes	4
Effect of conditional release on violent and general recidivism: A causal inference study	4
The spatial dynamics of commercial burglary during the COVID-19 lockdown in San Francisco	4
“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
A comparison of younger and older burglars undertaking virtual burglaries: the development of skill and automaticity	4