| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Recent Past and Near Future of Risk and/or Need Assessment | Crime and Delinquency | 2006 | 1,062 |
| 2 | Improving Policing: A Problem-Oriented Approach | Crime and Delinquency | 1979 | 552 |
| 3 | Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency | Crime and Delinquency | 1989 | 407 |
| 4 | Challenges Incarcerated Women Face as They Return to Their Communities: Findings from Life History Interviews | Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 397 |
| 5 | Youth Gangs and Definitional Issues: When is a Gang a Gang, and Why Does it Matter? | Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 388 |
| 6 | Criminal Victimization: Lifetime Prevalence, Reporting to Police, and Psychological Impact | Crime and Delinquency | 1987 | 363 |
| 7 | Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and “Supermax” Confinement | Crime and Delinquency | 2003 | 356 |
| 8 | The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration | Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 351 |
| 9 | The Risk Principle in Action: What Have We Learned From 13,676 Offenders and 97 Correctional Programs? | Crime and Delinquency | 2006 | 342 |
| 10 | Race, Class, and Perceptions of Discrimination by the Police | Crime and Delinquency | 1999 | 292 |
| 11 | What Works for Female Offenders: A Meta-Analytic Review | Crime and Delinquency | 1999 | 290 |
| 12 | Crime Prevention and the Displacement Phenomenon | Crime and Delinquency | 1976 | 256 |
| 13 | Effective Correctional Treatment: Bibliotherapy for Cynics | Crime and Delinquency | 1979 | 253 |
| 14 | The Impact of Victimization on Fear | Crime and Delinquency | 1987 | 246 |
| 15 | Zero Tolerance: A Case Study of Police Policies and Practices in New York City | Crime and Delinquency | 1999 | 240 |
| 16 | Trauma Exposure, Mental Health Functioning, and Program Needs of Women in Jail | Crime and Delinquency | 2005 | 232 |
| 17 | Public Opinion and Capital Punishment: A Close Examination of the Views of Abolitionists and Retentionists | Crime and Delinquency | 1983 | 221 |
| 18 | Undetected Recidivism among Rapists and Child Molesters | Crime and Delinquency | 1982 | 213 |
| 19 | Incarceration and the Community: The Problem of Removing and Returning Offenders | Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 211 |
| 20 | Evidence-Based Corrections: Identifying What Works | Crime and Delinquency | 2000 | 208 |
| 21 | The Current State of Differential Association Theory | Crime and Delinquency | 1988 | 203 |
| 22 | Health-Related Issues in Prisoner Reentry | Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 196 |
| 23 | The Roots of Prison Violence: A Test of the Deprivation, Management, and “Not-So-Total” Institution Models | Crime and Delinquency | 1995 | 195 |
| 24 | The Effects of Behavioral/Cognitive-Behavioral Programs on Recidivism | Crime and Delinquency | 2002 | 192 |
| 25 | The Transfer of Juveniles to Criminal Court: Does it Make a Difference? | Crime and Delinquency | 1996 | 189 |
| 26 | Demographic Patterns of Cumulative Arrest Prevalence by Ages 18 and 23 | Crime and Delinquency | 2014 | 186 |
| 27 | Trust in the Police | Crime and Delinquency | 2015 | 176 |
| 28 | Modeling Fear of Crime in Dallas Neighborhoods | Crime and Delinquency | 2007 | 173 |
| 29 | The Diagnosis and Treatment of Dangerousness | Crime and Delinquency | 1972 | 172 |
| 30 | Toward Community-Oriented Policing: Potential, Basic Requirements, and Threshold Questions | Crime and Delinquency | 1987 | 172 |
| 31 | Assessing the Impact of the Women's Movement on Sex-Based Differences in the Handling of Adult Criminal Defendants | Crime and Delinquency | 1980 | 171 |
| 32 | Statistical Risk Assessment: Old Problems and New Applications | Crime and Delinquency | 2006 | 164 |
| 33 | Matching Judicial Supervision to Clients’ Risk Status in Drug Court | Crime and Delinquency | 2006 | 156 |
| 34 | Understanding the Black Box of Gang Organization | Crime and Delinquency | 2008 | 156 |
| 35 | Race and Criminal Violence: A Demographically Disaggregated Analysis of Urban Homicide | Crime and Delinquency | 1985 | 154 |
| 36 | A Conceptual Model of Crime Prevention | Crime and Delinquency | 1976 | 151 |
| 37 | Gender Differences in Predictors of Prison Violence: Assessing the Predictive Validity of a Risk Classification System | Crime and Delinquency | 2001 | 151 |
| 38 | Intimate Partner Homicide in Chicago Over 29 Years | Crime and Delinquency | 1995 | 148 |
| 39 | Victimization of Persons by Fraud | Crime and Delinquency | 1995 | 144 |
| 40 | Crisis Intervention Teams and People With Mental Illness | Crime and Delinquency | 2012 | 144 |
| 41 | Rethinking the Sanctioning Function in Juvenile Court: Retributive or Restorative Responses to Youth Crime | Crime and Delinquency | 1995 | 143 |
| 42 | Judicial Paternalism and the Female Status Offender | Crime and Delinquency | 1977 | 142 |
| 43 | Well-Meaning Programs Can Have Harmful Effects! Lessons from Experiments of Programs Such as Scared Straight | Crime and Delinquency | 2000 | 142 |
| 44 | Racial Differences in Resolving Conflicts: A Comparison between Black and White Police Officers | Crime and Delinquency | 2004 | 142 |
| 45 | Reentry and Renegotiating Motherhood | Crime and Delinquency | 2009 | 141 |
| 46 | The Transfer of Juveniles to Criminal Court: Reexamining Recidivism Over the Long Term | Crime and Delinquency | 1997 | 140 |
| 47 | Serious Mental Illness and Arrest | Crime and Delinquency | 2007 | 140 |
| 48 | Winning the Hearts and Minds of Police Officers: An Assessment of Staff Perceptions of Community Policing in Chicago | Crime and Delinquency | 1994 | 138 |
| 49 | The Origins and Development of the Concept and Theory of State-Corporate Crime | Crime and Delinquency | 2002 | 137 |
| 50 | Paragons, Pariahs, and Pirates: A Spectrum-Based Theory of Enterprise | Crime and Delinquency | 1980 | 132 |
