Journal of Criminal Justice

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): Matthew DeLisi

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Volume 105, issue C, 2026

Criminal justice system stakeholders' perspectives on rape myth acceptance interventions for jurors

Lara Flynn Hudspith, Nadia Wager, Dominic Willmott and Bernard Gallagher

What predicts testing a sexual assault kit? Findings from the Minnesota sexual assault kit initiative project

Tara N. Richards, Michaela Benson-Goldsmith, Caralin Branscum, Bradley Campbell, Justin Nix and Emily Wright

Getting in, but getting through? A 20-year national examination of the representation and success of women in the police academy

Eugene A. Paoline, Matt R. Nobles and John J. Sloan

Police serve more than residents: Examining police enforcement compared to photo radar cameras and residential population estimates

Daniel Reinhard and Scott W. Bowman

An intersectional analysis of foreign-born status, race, and youth peer victimization: Comparing school and cyber contexts across bullying operationalizations

Faraneh Shamserad, Timothy McCuddy, Doyun Koo and Ellen Agyei

Corrigendum to ‘What predicts testing a sexual assault kit? Findings from the Minnesota sexual assault kit initiative project’Journal of Criminal Justice, 105 (2026) Article 102686

Tara N. Richards, Michaela Benson-Goldsmith, Caralin Branscum, Bradley Campbell, Justin Nix and Emily Wright

Examining the impact of vertical land use mix on urban crime at the block level

Young-An Kim and James C. Wo

Detecting cyber employment fraud in platform-based space: A multi-agent large language model approach

Quan Sun, Ling Wu, Xinyue Ye, Claire Lee, Wei Li and Cuiling Liu

Gendered responses to fairness: Organizational justice and police training receptivity

Yongjae Nam, Scott E. Wolfe and Yeon Soo Kim

Murder asymmetry

Matt DeLisi and Matthew W. Logan

Corrigendum to “Crime reductions after enhanced implementation of Washington state's Domestic Violence Protection Order firearm relinquishment law” [Journal of Criminal Justice 102 (2026)]

Alice M. Ellyson, Julie Kafka, Avanti Adhia, Sandra Shanahan, Deirdre Bowen and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar

Disability status, victimization, and substance use among justice-involved youth

Thomas J. Mowen and Lin Liu

Machine learning for violence prediction: A systematic review and critical appraisal

Stefaniya Kozhevnikova, Denis Yukhnenko, Giulio Scola and Seena Fazel

Statistical clusters of psychopathology in women who have sexually offended: Predictors of profile membership and recidivism

Holly A. Miller, Ethan A. Marshall and Nhi N.H. Le

School drug policies and the link between friends and adolescent substance use: A multilevel analysis

Bomi Jin

Known to the system? Criminal history, pre-attack behaviors, and firearms acquisition among mass public shooters with documented warning behaviors

M. Hunter Martaindale, Emily A. Greene-Colozzi and Jaclyn Schildkraut

Parenting in prison: Parent-child contact and parental well-being

Nathaniel Galen

Disrupting the cycle of violence for justice-involved youth: The direct and moderating impact of prosocial ties

Jorge Luis Hernández and Lin Liu

The perils of averaging crime data: Consequences of a common practice

Martin A. Andresen

Growing old, breaking rules? Trajectories and correlates of misconduct among older adults in custody

Zachary Buckner, Wesley Jennings and Kimberly Kaiser

Strategic motions and judicial discretion: Change of venue motions in North Carolina capital punishment cases

Beth Bjerregaard, Sondra J. Fogel and M. Dwayne Smith

Inequality in sentencing: A systematic review of the effects of race and ethnicity on sentence outcomes

Cassia Spohn, Ojmarrh Mitchell, Daniela Oramas Mora, Thais Moreira de Andrade, Adam Fine, Andrea Montes and Michael White

Radiating Risk: A Block-Level Analysis of Subway Network Centrality and Spatial Crime Patterns

Keungoui Kim and Young-An Kim

Genetic and environmental architecture of violent victimisation across development and sex: A study of 4.5 million Nordic twins and siblings

Amir Sariaslan, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Jonas Forsman, Joonas Pitkänen, Ebba du Rietz, Zheng Chang, Brian M. D'Onofrio, Mikko Aaltonen, Henrik Larsson, Pekka Martikainen, Paul Lichtenstein and Seena Fazel

Beneath the surface of symmetry: Gender patterns and victim-offender overlap in technology-facilitated gender-based violence

Hyeseon Noh

Corrigendum to “disrupting the cycle of violence for justice-involved youth: The direct and moderating impact of prosocial ties” [Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 105C, 102702]

Jorge Luis Hernández and Lin Liu

Volume 104, issue C, 2026

The effect of mock jury deliberation on the influence of stereotypes about sexual assault

Blake M. McKimmie, Faye T. Nitschke, Gianni Ribeiro and Barbara M. Masser

When myths shape verdicts: A theory and intervention for jury biases against victim-survivors in rape trials

Sarah Mairéad Kelleher, Caoilte Ó Ciardha and Gaye Ildeniz

Parenting, self-control, and delinquent peers: A test of environmental effects on offspring development using a sample of adoptees

Surayeva Karina, Rakhmetova Aigerim, Dzhansarayeva Rima, Rakhmetov Yessil, Bissengali Liliya and Kevin M. Beaver

A simulation approach to assess law enforcement intervention impact: How the efficiency/security trade-off affects drug trafficking networks' resilience to arrests

Deborah Manzi and Francesco Calderoni

Reassessing the 1990's crime drop: An individual level approach

Kelsey Cundiff

BWC evidence or video evidence? The effects of camera evidence on complaint types, complaint dispositions, and case disposition time

Mustafa Demir

Police body-worn cameras and fatal police shootings: A national quasi-experimental study of aggregate effects and treatment effect heterogeneity

Keller G. Sheppard

Is youth criminal legal system involvement a risk factor for adulthood homelessness?: A quasi-experimental examination and confounder factor model

Ian A. Silver, Jenna L. Dole and Kristin Bechtel

When trial interventions are likely to reduce the impact of rape myths on juror decisions: A mechanism-informed evidence synthesis

Rebecca K. Helm, Trisha Greenhalgh, Jon Williamson and Alexandra Trofimov

Neighborhood safety in a university town: Linking studentification to crime and disorder

Renan Cai and Su-Yin Tan

Understanding what drives cybercrime clearance: A nationwide study of incident, agency, and community factors

Yan Zhang, Chia-Hung Lin and Jihong Zhao

Steal that car: A spatial analysis of motor vehicle theft in New South Wales, Australia

Tarah Hodgkinson, Alistair Harkness, Kyle J.D. Mulrooney and Rob White

Examining the role of the social bond in the formation of violent crime intentions among incarcerated men

Jeff A. Bouffard and Nicole Niebuhr

On the record: Exploring the role of body-worn camera footage in investigating discourtesy and offensive language allegations in the New York City police department

Ahmet Guler and Kaan Boke

Can the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory predict recidivism for youth adjudicated of domestic assault and battery?

Natasha Chlebuch and Caitlin Cavanagh

Disaggregating enforcement: Evidence on certainty, severity, and firearm homicide under the ATF zero tolerance policy

Gurmessa B. Jiru and John L. Worrall

You've got (no) mail: Unpacking risk of non-delivery fraud victimization among an online sample

Cooper A. Maher, Rachel L. McNealey, Taylor Fisher and Thomas J. Holt

Family management and adolescent gun carrying: Mediating roles of unstructured socializing and peer substance use

Chad N. Loes

Anti-Muslim sentiment and punitive sentiment

Dana T. Fachner, Robert D. Lytle, Kiley West, Eliyah Campbell, Anna Goyette, Emily Hess, Samantha R. Strickland and I. Tusty ten Bensel

Corrigendum to “Influence of social motives of clients and staff on the social climate of secure settings” [Journal of Criminal Justice (2026), Volume 102, 102538]

Andrea Canel, Marc Graf, Christian Huber, Jérôme Endrass and Nathalie Brackmann

Revisiting the effects of adult roles on criminal offending: A genetically-informed study

Steve G.A. van de Weijer and Camiel M. van der Laan

Low self-control and cybervictimization: A three-level meta-analysis

Han Wang and Jiwen Zhang

Corrigendum to ‘Crime reductions after enhanced implementation of Washington state's domestic violence protection order firearm relinquishment law’ [Journal of Criminal Justice 102 (2026)]

Alice M. Ellyson, Julie Kafka, Avanti Adhia, Sandra Shanahan, Deirdre Bowen and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar

Using a genetically informed direction-of-causation analysis to untangle the victim-offender overlap in adolescence

Eric M. Cooke, Samantha Kopf, Eric J. Connolly and Danielle Boisvert

From jury to judge: Effects of changing the default sentencing agent on sentence length in Virginia

Anna S. Knes, Hayley Carlisle, Mindy L. Thai, Vahid Jadidi and Evan M. Lowder

Contested victimization: Discourses on staff sexual misconduct in women's prisons

Esther F.J.C. van Ginneken and Yara A.Y. Abbing

Adverse childhood experiences and delinquency: The moderating role of school connectedness

Melissa S. Jones, Grace E. Huber, Sage McGhie Besaw, Adrienne Waite, Claire Duncan and John P. Hoffmann

No causal evidence that free markets and globalization reduce homicide: A quasi-experimental test of emerging consensus

Tibor Rutar

Multinational COVID-19 research in criminal justice: A scoping review of translational and transnational implications

Bitna Kim and Sunhye Kang

The fear is real (and personal): Concerns about opioid use and addiction experiences among the public*

Christina Mancini and Nathan Kruis

Emerging adulthood and sentencing in Minnesota, 2016–2019: Focal concerns, developmental science, and judicial decision-making

Yu Du and Andrew Kuo

Under the shadow of the persistent offender: Rethinking recidivism and criminal records beyond rupture narratives

Marcelo F. Aebi and Leandro Gaston

Profiles of childhood ecological risk and protective factors in school and home predicting black adolescent delinquency

Naomi M. Ruffin, Morgan Grant, Jamilia J. Blake, Tamika Gilreath, Chendong Li, Wen Luo and Veronika Croan

To intervene or not to intervene: Actual and intended bystander responses to sextortion

Valérie Pijlman

Conjunctive analysis of case configurations: A systematic quantitative literature review

Timothy C. Hart

Judicial “remorse bias” and the effects of social cognition on the sentencing of stereotyped defendants

Colleen M. Berryessa and Emily Greberman

Empirically derived effect sizes benchmarks in criminology and criminal justice: Distributional evidence and publication bias

Nan Li

Evaluating policy reforms over time: Multiple event time series regression analysis of justice reinvestment in Indiana and Oregon

Christopher W. Dollar

Bail reform and public safety: Evidence from Philadelphia's prosecutor-led pretrial policies

Madhuri Sharma, Lisa Stolzenberg and Stewart J. D'Alessio

Chronic misconduct predicts violent victimization in prison

Matthew Logan, Susan McNeeley and Chandler G. Robinson

Pathways to juvenile hacking: A stacking ensemble learning and decision tree analysis of cumulative risk factors

Yuchen Wang and Siying Guo

A theory evaluation of U.S. firearm laws and their likely effectiveness in reducing gun-related crime

Daniel P. Mears and Jessica C. Arthur

What is theoretical support? Explanation as a central barometer in sentencing research

Bryan Holmes and Shayna R. Arrigo

Examining antecedents of perceived procedural justice among people on community supervision

Matthias van Hall

Breaking point: Exploring side bets, support, and pension investment as predictors of turnover intention in urban policing

Kenneth M. Quick and Kevin T. Wolff

Co-offender dynamics and relational distance: Predicting arrest in child physical and sexual abuse incidents

Sarah R. Wouters

Public cooperation with AI-enabled policing: Testing a socio-technical legitimacy model

Siying Guo and Yuning Wu

Does violent delinquency predict premature death? Testing behavioral and socioeconomic mechanisms across the life course

NaKyung Nam, Kyungeun Song and Jinho Kim

Corrigendum to ‘A global comparison of long prison sentences’ [Journal of Criminal Justice (2025), Volume 96, 102341]

Lila Kazemian and Sebastián Galleguillos