Journal of Criminal Justice

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): Matthew DeLisi

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Volume 102, issue C, 2026

Influence of social motives of clients and staff on the social climate of secure settings

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

What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander? Near-repeat victimization across different urban morphologies: Evidence from Almaty, Kazakhstan

Dmitrii Serebrennikov and Sanzhar Kalkanbay

“Not all convenience stores are equal”. An analysis of the criminogenic role of corner Stores in Newark, NJ

Marco Dugato, Alejandro Giménez-Santana, Adriana Santos, Joel M. Caplan and Leslie W. Kennedy

Exploring the mobility-crime dynamics across various stages of a Global Health crisis: Temporal evidence from 25 cities in the United States

Xinge Jia and Hua Zhong

Help-seeking behaviors of stalking victims: Integrating machine learning and regression approaches to examine how victimization consequences shape victims' decisions

Auzeen Shariati, Fariba Allahyoorti Dehaghi and Ali Amini

Trajectories of control: Exposure to punitive social control over time and its associated consequences

Abigail Novak

Cyberstalking perpetration by college students: The effects of low self-control and prior victimization

Ryan Randa, Ashley K. Fansher and Bradford W. Reyns

Testing the law of crime concentration in China: Do transportation networks matter?

Yiwei Xia and Zijun Liu

The pursuit of gun safety in a new era: Exploring predictors of firearm storage practices among the public

Christina Mancini, Sarah Koon-Magnin and Patrick Wells

Pathways to sexual aggression according to modus operandi in male and female perpetrators: A systematic review

Jean Proulx, Alexandre Gauthier, Etienne Garant, Stéphanie Langevin, Tamsin Higgs, Jonathan James and Frédéric Ouellet

Business environment ecology and crime: A robust test across 182 cities

John R. Hipp and Cheyenne Hodgen

The effects of police vehicle presence on calls for service and police visibility: A multi-site field study at shopping malls in Canada

Rylan Simpson, Madison Charman, Rich Johnston, Michelle Brander, Nick Bell, Katherine Hancock and Patrick Ruzage

Pandemic, protests, and policing: Clearing crime in 2020

Aki Roberts and John M. Roberts

Force and fallout: Experimental evidence from a national test of the Community Expectations Standard

Christopher J. Marier and Conor Goodwin

The relationship between crime information centers and crime: A micro-synthetic evaluation of a district-level policing strategy

Daniel S. Lawrence, Bryce E. Peterson and Madison March

Correlates of non-suicidal self-injury in South Korean juvenile detention facilities: A general strain theory perspective

Hyeseon Noh and Youngoh Jo

High resting heart rate reduces risk of white-collar criminality

Shichun Ling, Sofi Oskarsson, Anneli Andersson, Henrik Larsson and Catherine Tuvblad

Honesty as a “communicative tool” in sentencing: A study of judges in the U.S. and Australia

Colleen M. Berryessa, Melissa de Vel-Palumbo, Carolina R. Caliman and Madison Baczuk

Scars that shape us: The role of gender in the ACE-delinquency pathway

Ashleigh C. Anderson and Melissa S. Jones

The Other perspectives on the development and life course of offending

Laura Bui and Kofi Boakye

Public opinion and the immediate entry dilemma: A factorial survey experiment on active shooter response

M. Hunter Martaindale and Peter T. Tanksley

Lethal violence in a Tourist City of the global south: Evidence from Recife, Brazil

Duan Vilela Ferreira, Vania Aparecida Ceccato and Caroline Maria de Miranda Mota

Does carnival contribute to crime? Examining the spatiotemporal effects of Mardi Gras on New Orleans Crime Trends (2012–2024)

Nick Petersen, Patrick Rafail and Xiaojin Chen

Police bias units and hate crime reporting: Insights from the geocoded version of the National Crime Victimization Survey

Sylwia J. Piatkowska, Brendan Lantz and Jack M. Mills

Are sentencing disparities unavoidable? Lessons from centralized judicial training

Andrzej Uhl and Kamil Mamak

Through the survivor’s lens: How focal concerns theory shapes decisions to report sexual violence

B.L. Acquaviva, C.L. Gullion, K.A. Meeker and A.D. Garza

Generalists or specialists? Unpacking crime trajectories of intimate partner violence offenders

Jorge Rodríguez-Menés, Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Martí Rovira and Maike van Damme

Safe in segregation? Prison officers' perceptions of safety in solitary confinement

Samantha S. Plummer

Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?: Examining how parental and youth perceptions of future system involvement predict early adulthood criminal involvement

Tova A. Cohen and Ian A. Silver

Corrigendum to “The effects of youth incarceration in adult institutions on future incarceration” [Journal of Criminal Justice, 98 (2025), 102426.]

Ian A. Silver, Prarthana Vaidya and John Wooldredge

From cartridge cases to spatial patterns: Leveraging NIBIN to identify near-repeat shootings in Detroit

Alaina De Biasi, Jeff Rojek and Edmund McGarrell

Do interactions with the police correlate with identity formation? Examining the relationship between police legitimacy, procedural justice, and self-identification over time

Qassim Bolaji and Christi Metcalfe

Criminal legal sanctions and the false dichotomy between deterrence and rehabilitation: Implications for sentencing research and policy

Daniel P. Mears and Mark C. Stafford

Crime reductions after enhanced implementation of Washington state's domestic violence protection order firearm relinquishment law

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

Corrigendum to “Do interactions with the police correlate with identity formation? Examining the relationship between police legitimacy, procedural justice, and self-identification over time” [JCJ 102 (2026) 1–11/102589]

Qassim Bolaji and Christi Metcalfe

Assessing judicial responses of judges to stalking in South Korea: A focal concerns perspective

Hyeseon Noh, Soojung Lee and John Burrow

On the role of parole candidates' language in parole board hearings

Joachim Büschken, Grant E. Donnelly, Greg M. Allenby, Jeff P. Dotson and Nino Hardt

Minority threat and social context: Global value chains and the carceral effect of ethnic polarization in rich democracies

Manjing Gao, Sharon S. Oselin and Matthew C. Mahutga

Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training: A case study of the perceptions of officers, leadership, and CIT trainers in a suburban-rural police department

Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, Sue-Ming Yang, Kristen Fite, Clayton Drummond, Yi-Fang Lu and Justin Ramsdell

Police de-escalation training and its effects on communication: Evidence from an experimental evaluation

Kyle McLean, Trey Bussey, Justin Nix, Jeffrey Rojek and Geoffrey P. Alpert

Volume 101, issue C, 2025

Does time heal all? Evaluating the effect of time since conviction on employability

Chae M. Jaynes, Mateus Rennó Santos, Danielle M. Thomas and Katelyn N. Smith

Justice by privilege? Social inequality in waivers of prosecution among youth

Anna Kahlmeter and Olof Bäckman

Program outcomes in a light-touch prosecutor-led misdemeanor diversion program

Alexa Cinque, Matthew Epperson, Rachel Garthe, Hannah Lee and Leon Sawh

Child sexual abuse in the catholic church: A scoping review of characteristics, prevalence, and explanatory factors

Edoardo Cocco, Yuji Z. Hashimoto and Julien Chopin

Male single-victim sexual homicide arrestees in the U.S.: An exploratory latent class analysis

Chan, Heng Choon (Oliver) and Wade C. Myers

Mobility-based neighborhood disadvantage and crime in Houston

Ling Wu, Claire Seungeun Lee and Chunwu Zhu

When insignificance is significant: Rethinking race, immigration, and the myth of victim reluctance to report to police and use victim services

Hyunjung Shim and Sarayu Cheemalapati

Guns do kill people: Novel global evidence on the cross-national relationship between gun ownership and (gun) homicide

Tibor Rutar

Evidence of cumulative disadvantage and the liberation hypothesis in court cases involving resisting arrest

R.R. Dunlea and Pauline K. Brennan

The tangled history of social network analysis and gang research—A long way from Street Corner Society

Jason Gravel and Martin Bouchard

Does first arrest change perceptions of arrest risk? Evidence from a matched analysis of youth in the U.S

Sunmin Hong, Wenyi Wang and Sungil Han

The association of gang embeddedness and sexual victimization with mental health outcomes

Rebekkah L. Gross, John Leverso and Brittany E. Hayes

Validation of the ORAC-PCQ, an actuarial risk assessment tool for general recidivism: A psychometric analysis based on Messick's validity framework

Guy Giguère, Patrick Lussier and Christian Bourassa

Variation in location and type of property calls for service in New Orleans on NFL and NBA Gamedays

Ryan Bagwell, Wanda E. Leal, Allison Kondrat and Alex R. Piquero

Understanding victimization of people held in U.S. prisons and jails: The generalizability of an opportunity framework

Brandon K. Applegate and Nicola Pasquire

Temporal analyses of American Indian disadvantage

Erica N. Redner-Vera

Does classroom composition of immigrant versus non-immigrant adolescents explain violence perpetration? A cross-cultural study

Sara Yamini, Hossein Dabiriyan Tehrani and Alexander T. Vazsonyi

Exploring the factors that differentiate individual and group offenders in cyber-dependent crime

L.M.J. Bekkers, T.J. Holt and E.R. Leukfeldt

Sellin and Wolfgang revisited: A partial replication and expansion considering cybercrime

Timothy A. Engle, Cooper A. Maher and Joseph L. Nedelec

Generalized Gini coefficient, its statistical significance, and the local areas driving the global result

Yichao Gao and Martin A. Andresen

Why we need juror education in rape and serious sexual offence cases

Fiona Leverick, James Chalmers, Eamon P.H. Keane and Jacqueline Kinghan

The empirical clustering of crimes

Alora McCarthy, Haomin Chen, Bryanna Fox and Edelyn Verona

Wrongful convictions in Spain: Systematic analysis of judgments from 1996 to 2022

Nuria Sánchez, Guadalupe Blanco-Velasco, Linda M. Geven, Jaume Masip and Antonio L. Manzanero

Patterns of informal mentorship in policing: A case study

Robert E. Worden, Sarah J. McLean and Sara G. Fiegl

The geographical aspect of offending across crime types: A study on the journey to crime and co-offender dispersion

Ida Adamse, Arjan Blokland and Veroni Eichelsheim

Measuring the uniquely painful incarceration experiences of LGB+ and trans people and the implications for mental health

Skyler Morgan, Kayla Freemon, Andrea N. Montes and Joshua C. Cochran

Fear of cybercrime victimisation: Examining the relationship between fear and victimisation

P.A.H. Sarkki, M.S. van 't Hoff-de Goede, M.A.G. van Leuken, S.G.A. van de Weijer and E.R. Leukfeldt

The impact of officer and supervisor training in police use of force incidents

Hyeyoung Lim and Brian Lawton

Corrigendum to “Is the Static-99R valid for all men with ‘identifiable’ victims? Examining cases of online sexual solicitation of children” [Journal of Criminal Justice 97 (2025) 102358]

Sarah Paquette, Angela W. Eke, Shelby Scott, Jean-Pierre Guay, Manon Duval, Francis Fortin, Michael C. Seto and Yves Paradis

The intricate nature of vulnerability to victimization: Low self-control, age, and economic status

Myunghee You and Brian J. Stults

Fraud in the buckeye state: A geospatial and temporal analysis of fraud victimization reports in Ohio, 2024

Cooper A. Maher, Timothy A. Engle, Matthew McGrath and Joseph L. Nedelec

Is it all relative? Proposing the use of marginal effects for meta-analysis of binary outcomes in criminology and criminal justice

Kevin Petersen

The importance of social dynamics in a prison environment: Learning from the concerns of incarcerated people

Emily Greberman, Synøve N. Andersen, Colleen M. Berryessa and Jordan M. Hyatt

Income and gender as predictors of violent offending in childhood: Testing for interactive effects

Thomas Wojciechowski

Social network analysis as a tool for understanding mass shooting prevention: A case study of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Emily A. Greene-Colozzi, Jaclyn Schildkraut, Lucia Arrigo, Lauryn Krebs and Brent R. Klein

Police capacity for cybercrime response: Assessing the impact of officers’ perceptions and agency-level factors on England and Wales constables’ capability responding to computer hacking offenses

Jin R. Lee, Yongjae Nam, Wei-Gin Lee, Thomas J. Holt and Adam M. Bossler

“Police can't help you”: Exploring influences on perceptions of policing cybercrime

Rachel L. McNealey, Camille I. Figueroa and Cooper A. Maher

Using automated vehicle locator data to classify discretionary police patrol across space

Eric L. Piza, Nathan T. Connealy, Savannah A. Reid and Christianna M. Palermo

Sexual frustration, murder, and violent crime: A direct assessment of incarcerated offenders

Adam Lankford and Hannah Rae Evans

Effects of female representation in law enforcement on victim-centered practices and victim cooperation

Rachael M. Rief and Alessa S. Juárez

Parole outcomes in a developmental context: The interplay of age at offense and rehabilitation

Meghan Koza and Stuti S. Kokkalera

A longitudinal qualitative analysis of probation and parole officer stress and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic

Makayla Butler, Lucas M. Alward, Ashley Lockwood and Jill Viglione

More than just visitors? Distinguishing the criminogenic effects of casinos from general tourism

Wenyi Wang, John L. Worrall and Yiyi Chen

Conditional revitalization: Immigration, disadvantage, and crime in divergent social worlds

Calvin Proffit

Defund vs. refund: The role of funding in police reform in the U.S

Ahmet Guler, Sedat Kula and Kaan Boke