Journal of Criminal Justice

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): Matthew DeLisi

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Volume 100, issue C, 2025

Interpretable Machine Learning and Criminological Theories: Global Evidence on Bullying Perpetration and Victimization (2001–2014)

Heejin Lee, Pamela Wilcox and Won Chang

Voices from inside focused deterrence: Implications for implementation

Tammy Rinehart Kochel and Edmund F. McGarrell

Justice without bias: A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions aimed at reducing jury bias in Rape and sexual assault trials

Jared Walters, Lan Nguyen, Yixuan Liu, Shay Monreal Ijurco, Skhye Evans, Noah Chacos, Mathew Duran and Christine Smith

Incarcerated as a child, reentering as an adult: The unique reentry experiences and needs of juvenile lifers

Tierney K. Huppert, Natalia Covan-Rodriguez, Tristin Faust and Tarika Daftary-Kapur

Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and violent offending among Belizean male offenders: The mediating role of gang affiliation

Karina M. Garbutt, Song-Lih Huang and Wen-Hsu Lin

Volume 99, issue C, 2025

Corrigendum to “Public Cooperation with Police in Ghana: Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Social Identity” [Journal of Criminal Justice 94 (2024) 1–10/102235]

Dennis Sarpong

Exploring corporate violations through public data: A comparative analysis of financial offending in the UK and US

Frederike Oberheim, Jon Davies, Celine Giese, Marieke Kluin and Nicholas Lord

Self-reported offending and drug use after prison release: The pernicious role of stress during reentry

Chantal Fahmy

How can restrictive housing be prevented or reduced? Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues confronting research and policy

Daniel P. Mears and Ryan M. Labrecque

When life domains become problematic: A criminological exploration of academic dishonesty in Iran using Agnew's general theory of crime and delinquency

Saeed Kabiri and Fawn T. Ngo

“There is a common thread”: Shifting court culture through collaborative processes as a core component of pretrial reform

Megan Comfort, Elizabeth Tibaduiza, Venita Embry and Matthew DeMichele

Is rehabilitative approach to criminal justice better for young adults? Evidence from Santa Clara County, CA

Eduardo Aceves, Saroj Dhital and Kimberly D'zatko

Measuring coercive control from police reports of intimate partner violence

Meghan Weissflog, Elke Ham, Sandy Jung, Soyeon Kim, Angela Wyatt Eke, Mary Ann Campbell and N. Zoe Hilton

Out of sight: Contextualizing risk avoidant routine activity

M.S. Andrea Hazelwood and Pamela Wilcox

Breaking the cycle: The role of the criminal justice system in understanding homicide rates

G. Croci and J. Gomez

Reading the mind in the dark: Theory of mind and dark personality as predictors of criminal behavior and recidivism

Laura Opriș, Liliana Hurezan and Laura Visu-Petra

Group-individual probability confusion: Implications for suspect prioritization in criminal investigations

D. Kim Rossmo and Angela M. Jones

Expanded parenting typology and youth outcomes among a sample of Chinese adolescents

Sam Vickovic, Weidi Liu and Xia Wang

A methodological template for the next generation: Redesigning the STRONG-R needs assessment

Zachary Hamilton, Xiaohan Mei, Jennifer J. Tostlebe, Baylee Allen-Flores, John Ursino and Alex Kigerl

Youth gun carriage: The interplay of community violence, family adversity, interpersonal violence, and substance use

Yingwei Yang, Julia Fleckman, Xifan Yang and Taylor Zingg

Delinquency among children of incarcerated parents: The role of pre-incarceration parental attachment

Noy Assaraf and Roni Factor

Firearm Acquisition and Criminal Use: Legal and illegal possession of Crime Guns in California (2010−2021)

Hannah S. Laqueur and Sonia L. Robinson

Financial pretrial release and innovations in outcome measurement

Victoria A. Terranova and Jessie Slepicka

Measuring people in prison's perceptions of correctional officer procedural justice

Thomas Baker, James V. Ray and Matt R. Nobles

Children's victimization and substance use after parental imprisonment: A path analysis

Bomi Jin, Yongmin Kim and Lin Liu

Rape myths, jury deliberations, and conversation analysis: Examining conversational practices used to undermine rape complaints within (mock) jury deliberations

Emma Richardson, Laura Jenkins and Dominic Willmott

A quasi-experimental evaluation of a specialized treatment service for youth adjudicated for sexual offences in Queensland, Australia

Jesse Cale, Tyson Whitten, Francisco Perales, Dustin O'Shannessy and Benoit Leclerc

Scapegoating halt: Contested legitimacy through formal conforming & informal rebuking

Danielle S. Rudes, Bryce Kushmerick-McCune, Chelsey Narvey, Elisa L. Toman, Sydney Ingel and Jaylyn Magana

Does variation across judicial circuits matter? Examining the role of bail schedules and pretrial detention on drug case outcomes in Florida

Daniela Oramas Mora, Ojmarrh Mitchell and Cassia Spohn

School contextual effects and adolescent deviance: A test of the “other causes” part of self-control theory

Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Dan Liu and Pierre-André Michaud

Experimental effects of a restrictive housing step-down program on violent and non-violent misconduct

Jennifer J. Tostlebe, David C. Pyrooz, Ryan M. Labrecque and Bert Useem

Adolescent sexual offending: A comparison of female and male adolescents on the ERASOR, and background and offense characteristics

Robert J.W. Clift

A systematic review of therapeutic alternatives to segregation placement: Progress toward rehabilitative goals or a euphemistic rebranding?

Ashley B. Batastini, Jonathan Singer, Michael D. Trood, Keegan J. Diehl, Suzanne Gray and Robert D. Morgan

Three theories, one behavior: A comparative assessment of youth gun carrying through rational choice, strain, and social disorganization frameworks

Autumn Rydarowicz, Samantha Kopf, Adam M. Watkins and Mitchell Gresham

Against optimization: Solitary confinement and the research-policy nexus

Keramet Reiter, Dallas Augustine, Melissa Barragan, Gabriela Gonzalez, Natalie Pifer, Justin Strong and Rebecca Tublitz

Examining facility-level differences in the early decisions of the disciplinary process and use of disciplinary segregation

Michael Palmieri and Susan McNeeley

Leveraging code enforcement units to reduce crime: A difference-in-difference analysis of a targeted crime prevention intervention

Hunter M. Boehme, Brandon Tregle, Marc Olson and Cannon Fulmer

Spatiotemporal population mix (SPM) as a criminogenic mechanism: Testing environmental-criminology hypotheses with mobility clusters derived from mobile-device geotracking

Olga B. Semukhina, Junghwan Bae, Stan Korotchenko and Christopher Copeland

The hidden harms of bond reform: Examining the impact of bond reform on restrictive conditions of release

Erin Eife, Traci Schlesinger, Hayley Jean Carlisle, Chardonae Pendleton and Ian de Wet

Rethinking the age-crime curve: Neurobiological claims, international evidence, and sociocultural alternatives

Darrell Steffensmeier and Jennifer Schwartz

A life-course analysis of radicalization among extremists in the Philippines using the life history calendar

Sheila Royo Maxwell

Development levels or divergent cultural age-graded norms? A comparative analysis of age-homicide distributions in China and the United States

Hua Zhong, Gloria Yuxuan Gu and Darrell Steffensmeier

The health burdens of segregation for older incarcerated adults

Meghan A. Novisky and Stephanie Grace Prost

Short timers and idle populations in overcrowded prisons

John Ursino, Abigail Hayes, Baylee Allen-Flores and Zachary Hamilton

Probation and parole agent communication patterns as antecedents to clients' reactance and acts to restore freedoms: Moderating effects of emerging adult status and gender

Merry Morash, Yan Zhang, Sandi W. Smith and Amanda J. Holmstrom

Examining how structural characteristics and the physical environment simultaneously impact crime in neighborhoods: Using a semi-parametric strategy

Young-An Kim and John R. Hipp

Volume 98, issue C, 2025

Promoting disengagement: Effects of a gang intervention and exiting Program on negative police contacts

Jennifer S. Wong and Chelsey Lee

The temporal ordering of offending and victimisation in early adulthood among people who use substances in Chile: A multichannel sequence analysis

Mariel Mateo Pinones, Tara Renae McGee, Christine Bond and Jason Payne

Sexual misconduct victimization and reporting decisions among gender and sexual minorities college students

Brittany E. Hayes, Tara N. Richards and Lane Kirkland Gillespie

Back to school days: Crime seasonality in a campus-dominated community

Tarah Hodgkinson and Christina Vamvakaris

Risks considerations when resentencing juvenile homicide offenders: Unresolved science, policy and law issues post-Jones v. Mississippi

José B. Ashford and Luigi Maria Solivetti

Day and night: Evaluating the impact of CCTV and street lighting on urban crime prevention in Detroit

Ruidun Chen, Cong Fu, Silas Nogueira de Melo and Yanqing Xu

Social determinants of health among U.S. women with incarcerated partners: A longitudinal analysis

Katherine A. Durante, Ariel L. Roddy and Eman Tadros

Do early environmental factors influence the relationship between psychopathy and crime: Longitudinal findings from the transitions in Amsterdam study

Emma Veltman, Carlo Garofalo, Jessica M. Hill, Arjan Blokland and Martin Sellbom

Hunting in the digital jungle: Exploring cyberstalking with higher order moderation in situational action theory

Saeed Kabiri

An item response theory approach to punitive attitudes

Nicolas Trajtenberg and Pablo Ezquerra

A neighborhood analysis of U.S homicide clearances in 50 cities: Examining race and disadvantage across neighborhood types

Richard Stansfield and Karen F. Parker

The intersection of formal labeling and child maltreatment in young adult offending

Anne C. Wingert, Peter S. Lehmann and Andia M. Azimi

Microcosms of violence among street gang members: Social contagion, propensity to violence, and gang embeddedness

Yanick Charette and Ilvy Goossens

Drunk and dangerous? Exploring the tenuous links among drunk driving, alcohol arrests, and firearm violence in an urban context

Chris Melde, Giovanni Circo, April Zeoli, Scott Wolfe, Richard C. Sadler, Stephen Oliphant, Matthew Almanza and Mallory O'Brien

Solitary confinement, parole, and criminalization

Claudia N. Anderson, Jonathan Ben-Menachem, Samuel Donahue, Jessica T. Simes and Bruce Western

In-person and remote video visitation and reentry outcomes among those released during the COVID-19 pandemic

Susan McNeeley

Beware the truth effect: Why efforts to debunk rape myths may backfire

Barbara Krahé

Exploring crime through physical and social neighborhood factors: Greenspace and social disconnection in Los Angeles

James C. Wo, Young-An Kim and Mark T. Berg

Case dismissal and noncarceral sentences: High volume, low visibility decision-making in a large urban court

Richard D. Hartley, Marie Skubak Tillyer, Brandon Tregle and Michael R. Smith

Domestic violence perpetrated against men in Kigamboni Municipality, Tanzania: Evidence from social ecological framework

Jacqueline Moses Rugalabam, John Nshimba Jeckoniah and Angela Mcharo Jesse

“I knew if I did that, they'd catch me again”: Changes in deterrability over the criminal career

Lynne M. Vieraitis and Rashaan A. DeShay

Delineating the paradox: Gauging foreign nationals' “Target Suitability” to robbery in the United States

Krystlelynn Caraballo

Differential compliance with the reporting of hate crime statistics as a function of state laws

Matthew Vanden Bosch and Brendan Lantz

The links between sleep, self-control, and internalizing/externalizing problems: A meta-analysis

Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Hossein Dabiriyan Tehrani and Sara Yamini

Neighborhoods, violence, and guns: Unraveling the drivers of youth gun carrying in adjudicated populations

Samantha Kopf and Mitchell Gresham

Does New York State bail reform moderate the impact of pretrial detention on conviction rates?

Jingyi Hauck and Eunbyeor Sophie Yang

Neighborhood level predictors of rape: A novel spatial regression approach

Rachel E. Lovell, Noah Lorincz-Comi, Jacqueline Curtis, Andrew Curtis, Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar and Lacey Caparole

Support for burglary victims: An analysis of victim service provider practices

Ko-Hsin Hsu

Exploring child welfare pathways and dual system involvement

Denise C. Herz, Andrea Lane Eastman, Himal Suthar and Jacquelyn McCroskey

Skepticism in science and punitive attitudes

Jason Rydberg and Luke DeZago

Was it a washout? Analyzing the influence of a high intensity, countywide gang crackdown on the formation of new co-offending relationships

Thomas Bryan Smith

Understanding violence in juvenile correctional facilities: A National study of victim-offender overlap in the United States

Tzu-Ying Lo, Yu-Hsuan Liu and Amy Adamczyk

Beyond the joystick: Exploring the relationship between game addiction trajectories and aggression dimensions

Yeungjeom Lee, Kerrie Ann Hull and Jihoon Kim

The effects of youth incarceration in adult institutions on future incarceration

Ian A. Silver, Prarthana Vaidya and John Wooldredge

Outside in: The role of visitation on within-prison and post-release behavior

Alexandra V. Nur and Amber E. Krushas

From theory to conceptualization, through operationalization: Comparing indicators of desistance from crime

Marie-Ève Dubois, Frédéric Ouellet and Marc LeBlanc

Life courses, crime and global south migrants: Intercolonial transportation in the Australian historical context

Victoria M. Nagy, Alana Piper and Kristyn Harman

The enduring lessons of war: Connecting culture, masculinities & violence across the life course

Stephanie M. DiPietro

“Left-behind children” and their pathways into criminality: A mixed-method study of delinquent adolescents in China

Kai Lin and Jia Qu

Dynamic developmental risk factors and juvenile risk-need assessments in Japan

Akihiro Nasu, Eiji Saito, Kyoko Harada, Ayako Sasaki, Masato Hattori and Takemi Mori

Sex differences in temperament and career Juvenile offending among justice-involved youth

Kevin T. Wolff, Joshua A. Lang, Lindsay Lerner and Michael T. Baglivio

The sentencing of emerging adult offenders: The impact of youthfulness on sentence departures

Yu Du and Megan Kurlychek

Criminal network resilience: The evolution of a camorra clan in response to police intervention

Deborah Manzi