| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Testing the Core Empirical Implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1993 | 1,729 |
| 2 | Classification for Effective Rehabilitation | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 1990 | 1,435 |
| 3 | Intimate Partner Violence as a Risk Factor for Mental Disorders: A Meta-Analysis | Journal of Family Violence | 1999 | 1,400 |
| 4 | Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard | Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice | 2006 | 1,172 |
| 5 | THE LIMITS OF THE SOVEREIGN STATE: Strategies of Crime Control in Contemporary Society | British Journal of Criminology | 1996 | 1,164 |
| 6 | Building on the Foundation of General Strain Theory: Specifying the Types of Strain Most Likely to Lead to Crime and Delinquency | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 1,087 |
| 7 | Fear of Crime: A Review of the Literature | International Review of Victimology | 1996 | 1,068 |
| 8 | The Recent Past and Near Future of Risk and/or Need Assessment | Crime and Delinquency | 2006 | 1,062 |
| 9 | Deadly Symbiosis | Punishment and Society | 2001 | 899 |
| 10 | Psychopathy | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 1996 | 867 |
| 11 | The Use of ‘Shame’ with Sexual Offenders | British Journal of Criminology | 2005 | 861 |
| 12 | Defiance, Deterrence, and Irrelevance: A Theory of the Criminal Sanction | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1993 | 852 |
| 13 | CONFLICTS AS PROPERTY* | British Journal of Criminology | 1977 | 822 |
| 14 | Violent Recidivism of Mentally Disordered Offenders | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 1993 | 803 |
| 15 | Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions | Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management | 2010 | 792 |
| 16 | Criminality of place | European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research | 1995 | 769 |
| 17 | Causes of Delinquency | The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science | 1970 | 766 |
| 18 | Government and Control | British Journal of Criminology | 2000 | 765 |
| 19 | Age and Crime | Crime and Justice | 1986 | 759 |
| 20 | General deterrent effects of police patrol in crime “hot spots”: A randomized, controlled trial | Justice Quarterly | 1995 | 758 |
| 21 | Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and the Effective Rule of Law | Crime and Justice | 2003 | 750 |
| 22 | Understanding Desistance from Crime | Crime and Justice | 2001 | 719 |
| 23 | The Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Adolescent Development | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1996 | 687 |
| 24 | Gender and Crime: A General Strain Theory Perspective | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1997 | 684 |
| 25 | Where Should We Intervene? | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 2000 | 659 |
| 26 | Historical Trauma in American Indian/Native Alaska Communities | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 2008 | 650 |
| 27 | Family Factors as Correlates and Predictors of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency | Crime and Justice | 1986 | 647 |
| 28 | The Principles of Effective Correctional Treatment Also Apply To Sexual Offenders | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 2009 | 641 |
| 29 | Hate Crimes and Stigma-Related Experiences Among Sexual Minority Adults in the United States | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 2009 | 637 |
| 30 | Criminal Deterrence Research at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century | Crime and Justice | 1998 | 628 |
| 31 | A Social Vulnerability Index for Disaster Management | Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management | 2011 | 625 |
| 32 | Feminism and criminology | Justice Quarterly | 1988 | 617 |
| 33 | Children's Witnessing of Adult Domestic Violence | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 1999 | 617 |
| 34 | Why do People Comply with the Law?: Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions | British Journal of Criminology | 2012 | 611 |
| 35 | Perceived Risk and Fear of Crime: Role of Social and Physical Incivilities | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1992 | 603 |
| 36 | Assessing Macro-Level Predictors and Theories of Crime: A Meta-Analysis | Crime and Justice | 2005 | 579 |
| 37 | The Criminal Career Paradigm | Crime and Justice | 2003 | 574 |
| 38 | The Prediction of Criminal Recidivism in Juveniles | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 2001 | 571 |
| 39 | Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy | Crime and Justice | 1985 | 567 |
| 40 | Improving Policing: A Problem-Oriented Approach | Crime and Delinquency | 1979 | 552 |
| 41 | Stop Blaming the Victim: A Meta-Analysis on Rape Myths | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 2010 | 551 |
| 42 | The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 2011 | 548 |
| 43 | Social support as an organizing concept for criminology: Presidential address to the academy of criminal justice sciences | Justice Quarterly | 1994 | 542 |
| 44 | Criminal Justice and Behavior | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 1980 | 540 |
| 45 | School Climate Predictors of School Disorder: Results from a National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 2005 | 537 |
| 46 | Police (canteen) sub-culture. An appreciation | British Journal of Criminology | 1999 | 524 |
| 47 | Self-Reported Sex Crimes of Nonincarcerated Paraphiliacs | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 1987 | 523 |
| 48 | Are There Multiple Paths to Delinquency? | Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology | 1991 | 522 |
| 49 | Perceptions of the police | Policing | 2002 | 520 |
| 50 | Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 | Federal Sentencing Reporter | 2002 | 517 |
| 51 | The deterrent effect of the perceived certainty and severity of punishment: A review of the evidence and issues | Justice Quarterly | 1987 | 516 |
| 52 | Development of the severity of violence against women scales | Journal of Family Violence | 1992 | 516 |
| 53 | The Role of Juvenile Gangs in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1993 | 508 |
| 54 | Experience, quality of life, and neighborhood context: A hierarchical analysis of satisfaction with police | Justice Quarterly | 2000 | 502 |
| 55 | What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research? | Crime and Justice | 2005 | 490 |
| 56 | Neighborhood Context and Police Use of Force | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 2003 | 489 |
| 57 | The Empirical Status of Social Learning Theory: A Meta‐Analysis | Justice Quarterly | 2010 | 489 |
| 58 | Youth Violence, Guns, and the Illicit-Drug Industry | Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology | 1995 | 486 |
| 59 | Preventing the “Second Rape” | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 2001 | 480 |
| 60 | “SITUATIONAL” CRIME PREVENTION: THEORY AND PRACTICE | British Journal of Criminology | 1980 | 474 |
| 61 | The Danger Assessment | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 2009 | 473 |
| 62 | The Effects of Hot Spots Policing on Crime: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Justice Quarterly | 2014 | 472 |
| 63 | The Trauma Symptom Checklist (TSC-33) | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 1989 | 471 |
| 64 | Policing drug hot spots: The Jersey City drug market analysis experiment | Justice Quarterly | 1995 | 465 |
| 65 | Childhood Gender Atypicality, Victimization, and PTSD Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 2006 | 458 |
| 66 | Poverty, Income Inequality, and Violent Crime: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Aggregate Data Studies | Criminal Justice Review | 1993 | 457 |
| 67 | A Reconceptualization of General and Specific Deterrence | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1993 | 457 |
| 68 | Criminal victimization and low self-control: An extension and test of a general theory of crime | Justice Quarterly | 1999 | 456 |
| 69 | “If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments”: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Religion on Crime | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 455 |
| 70 | The Construct Validity and Refinement of Process-Based Policing Measures | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 2007 | 448 |
| 71 | Anti-Asian Hate Crime During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Reproduction of Inequality | American Journal of Criminal Justice | 2020 | 448 |
| 72 | Deviant Lifestyles, Proximity to Crime, and the Offender-Victim Link in Personal Violence | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1990 | 445 |
| 73 | Procedural Justice and Order Maintenance Policing: A Study of Inner‐City Young Men’s Perceptions of Police Legitimacy | Justice Quarterly | 2010 | 442 |
| 74 | Problem-Oriented Policing, Deterrence, and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Boston's Operation Ceasefire | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 437 |
| 75 | The role of emotional abuse in physically abusive relationships | Journal of Family Violence | 1990 | 432 |
| 76 | Actuarial Prediction of Sexual Recidivism | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 1995 | 432 |
| 77 | Gendered Pathways | Criminal Justice and Behavior | 2009 | 431 |
| 78 | Depth, weight, tightness: Revisiting the pains of imprisonment | Punishment and Society | 2011 | 431 |
| 79 | Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century | Crime and Justice | 2013 | 429 |
| 80 | Taking stock: Toward a richer understanding of police culture | Journal of Criminal Justice | 2003 | 422 |
| 81 | Post Sexual Abuse Trauma | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 1987 | 418 |
| 82 | A desistance paradigm for offender management | Criminology and Criminal Justice | 2006 | 418 |
| 83 | Specifying the direct and indirect effects of low self-control and situational factors in offenders' decision making: Toward a more complete model of rational offending | Justice Quarterly | 1996 | 414 |
| 84 | Adolescent Dating Violence | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 2004 | 413 |
| 85 | Situational Crime Prevention | Crime and Justice | 1995 | 409 |
| 86 | Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency | Crime and Delinquency | 1989 | 407 |
| 87 | Explaining the Gender Gap in Delinquency: Peer Influence and Moral Evaluations of Behavior | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1998 | 407 |
| 88 | The Measurement and Appraisal of Adult Intelligence | The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science | 1958 | 403 |
| 89 | Intimate Partner Violence and Physical Health Consequences | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 2004 | 400 |
| 90 | Public Opinion about Punishment and Corrections | Crime and Justice | 2000 | 399 |
| 91 | Situational and officer-based determinants of police coercion | Justice Quarterly | 2002 | 398 |
| 92 | Personality, antisocial behavior, and aggression: A meta-analytic review | Journal of Criminal Justice | 2011 | 398 |
| 93 | Challenges Incarcerated Women Face as They Return to Their Communities: Findings from Life History Interviews | Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 397 |
| 94 | Block Crime and Fear: Defensible Space, Local Social Ties, and Territorial Functioning | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1984 | 396 |
| 95 | The Effects of Child Abuse and Exposure to Domestic Violence on Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems | Journal of Family Violence | 2010 | 394 |
| 96 | Domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic - Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis | Journal of Criminal Justice | 2021 | 393 |
| 97 | The social dimensions of correctional officer stress | Justice Quarterly | 1985 | 389 |
| 98 | Explaining Delinquency and Drug Use | Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology | 1988 | 389 |
| 99 | Understanding and Preventing Bullying | Crime and Justice | 1993 | 389 |
| 100 | Predictors of Dating Violence Among High School Students | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 1997 | 389 |
