Journal of Criminal Justice

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): Matthew DeLisi

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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

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