Journal of Criminal Justice

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): Matthew DeLisi

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Volume 103, issue C, 2026

Cops and crypto: Law enforcement knowledge, experience, and capacity in cryptocurrency crime

Chandler G. Robinson, Matthew W. Logan, Brandon C. Dulisse and Nathan T. Connealy

Police staffing shortages, public awareness, and policy preferences

Hunter M. Boehme, Joshua McCrain, Scott M. Mourtgos and Brandon Tregle

Recalibrating the risk of false confession wrongful convictions: Interrogation tactics and inverse probability

Scott M. Mourtgos and Ian T. Adams

Striking or grappling? Comparing public and officers' perceptions of police use of force

Joe Eleuterio-da-Rocha, Peter T. Tanksley, M. Hunter Martaindale, Jack Johncox and J. Pete Blair

Immigration and serious gang violence: Assessing the immigrant revitalization thesis on urban gang shootings

Calvin Proffit, John Leverso and Ben Feldmeyer

Race and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) behind bars: Examining their combined effect on prison misconduct

Minhae Cho, Doyun Koo and Bernadette Ombayo

How valid are self-reports of delinquent and criminal behavior? A meta-analysis comparing self-report and official record measures

Nan Li

Racial attitudes and public perceptions of police reform: An empirical analysis informed by racial threat theory

P. Trey Bussey, Brenna Dunlap and Leah C. Butler

Can the interaction of offending propensity and criminogenic exposure explain reoffending among justice-involved adolescents?

Molly McCarthy, Mariel Mateo Pinones, Stephane Shepherd, Troy Allard, Michael Bryden and Mohammed Ali

Childhood dietary factors are associated with maternal characteristics and sex-specific changes in neuropsychological deficits: A criminological assessment

William J. Gibbs and Kevin M. Beaver

Youth risk/needs profiles and initial juvenile court outcomes across arrest location: Does being arrested at school matter?

Kristina K. Childs, Jennifer H. Peck and Melanie F.P. Soderstrom

Disabilities and fear of violent crime: Correlates and consequences

Cooper A. Maher, Rachel L. McNealey and Kexin Cui

Pretrial decisions in a large urban jurisdiction: Correlates and public safety consequences

Richard D. Hartley, Marie Skubak Tillyer and Brandon Tregle

Participation and dose-response effects of institutional vocational training on recidivism and employment

Robert H. Geibler and Kathryn Wagner

Rational choices in cyberspace: Quantitative insights into targeting and attack behavior among cyber offenders

Priscilla F. Aybar and Rob T. Guerette

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