Journal of Criminal Justice

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): Matthew DeLisi

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Volume 96, issue C, 2025

The influence of acute life stressors on mass shooter outcomes

Alex O. Widdowson, Katelyn M. McMahon and Holly M. Kratzwald

Law enforcement assisted diversion (LEAD) in North Carolina: A longitudinal analysis of criminal-legal outcomes

Allison R. Gilbert, Josie Caves Sivaraman, Reginald Lerebours, Michele M. Easter and Reah Siegel

Rape by any other name… Comparing sexual assault cases labeled “suspicious circumstances” to those labeled sex crimes

Jessica Duncan, Emma C. Lathan, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling and James Tres Stefurak

The impact of Hurricane Harvey on crime in Houston, Texas: A partial test of routine activity theory at the neighborhood level

Jihong Solomon Zhao and Yan Zhang

Vulnerable identities? Examining the association between disability with risk and consequences of identity theft

Cooper A. Maher, Brittany E. Hayes and Ráchael A. Powers

Examining the sources of police use of force in South Korea

Ha-neul Yim, Jordan R. Riddell and Yung Hyeock Lee

The impact of incarceration on reoffending: A period-to-period analysis of Canadian youth followed into adulthood

Evan C. McCuish, Shawn Bushway, Patrick Lussier and Kelsey Gushue

Public perceptions on police use of information technologies: Findings from a randomized vignette experiment

Kimberly Przeszlowski and Rob T. Guerette

Artificial intelligence as a tool for detecting deception in 911 homicide calls

Patrick M. Markey, Samantha Goldman, Jennie Dapice, Sofia Saj, Saadet Ceynek, Tia Nicolas and Lila Trollip

Beyond the collective: Personal networks in the study of street gang processes

Caterina G. Roman and Thuy-Trinh Nguyen

Gang injunction, What's your function? Investigating the relationship between civil gang injunctions and gang associates' patterns of association

Matthew Valasik

Co-offending among outlaw motorcycle gang members: The role of social and geographical proximity

Sjoukje van Deuren, Tomáš Diviák and Arjan Blokland

A global comparison of long prison sentences

Lila Kazemian and Sebastián Galleguillos

Exploring the effects on capital punishment sentencing of aggravating and mitigating factors that are not accepted

M. Dwayne Smith, Beth Bjerregaard, Julie M. Krupa, John K. Cochran and Sondra J. Fogel

Population growth and its paradox: An investigation into the correlates of four forms of violence in a rapidly expanding suburb

Michael S. Barton, Briana Anderson, Caitlin Charles and Matthew A. Valasik

The limits of digital liberation: The social locations of gang-affiliated girls and women in the digital streets

John Leverso, Kate K. O'Neill, Alex Knorre and George Mohler

Will regular COVID-19 control measures impact the spatial distribution of two-wheeled vehicle theft?: A case study of NH city, China

Ziwan Zheng, Shuqi Huang, Yueqiao Ning, Yuanyuan Mao and Can Wang

Invite only: The prevalence of subgroups within a police department

Sadaf Hashimi and Marie Ouellet

The structure of cooperation among organized crime groups: A network study of Merseyside, UK

Paolo Campana and Andrea Giovannetti

Understanding corrections fatigue and perceptions of natural landscaping at work: An exploratory study with staff at a corrections center for women

Barb Toews and Lindsay McCunn

Exploring the association between income inequality, racial composition, and fatal police shootings in U.S. counties (2015–2022)

Hossein Zare, Danielle Gilmore, Shervin Assari, Michelle Spencer, Roland Thorpe and Darrell Gaskin

The developmental sequences of events underlying persistence in criminal convictions during adulthood

Miguel Basto-Pereira, Darrick Jolliffe and David P. Farrington

How much does criminal history contribute to racial differences in arraignment outcomes?

Catherine A. Grodensky, Ian A. Silver and Matthew DeMichele

A multiplex network approach to understanding extremist organizations: A case study of the Proud Boys

Jack G.R. Wippell and Dana L. Haynie

Policymaking and pretrial fairness: Evaluating Illinois' ban on cash bail beyond Chicago

Kaitlyn M. Sims

Psychiatric and neurological morbidity predicts sexual offending: A nationwide, population-based, case-control study

Kelly M. Babchishin, Michael C. Seto and Niklas Långström

Volume 95, issue C, 2024

The journey-to-crime buffer zone: Measurement issues and methodological challenges

D. Kim Rossmo and Andrew P. Wheeler

Discretion as weakness: Exploring the relationship between correctional officers' attitudes toward discretion and attempted boundary violations

Leanne Stevens, William J. Schultz and Andrew C. Patterson

Parental incarceration and offspring criminality: A Finnish total population study with sibling comparison

Ilona Nissinen, Antti Latvala, Karoliina Suonpää, Mikko Aaltonen and Pekka Martikainen

When and where we are: Comparing early criminal careers of organized crime offenders in Italy and the Netherlands across decades

Francesco Calderoni, Tommaso Comunale, Victor van der Geest and Edward R. Kleemans

Willingness to change and coming home from prison

Kyle Jordan Bares, Thomas J. Mowen, Richard Stansfield, Nathan W. Link and John H. Boman

Who is culpable in fentanyl-induced deaths? A survey vignette investigating public perceptions of drug supplier culpability

Sohee Jung, Hunter M. Boehme, Peter Leasure, Lekendra Kidd and Melissa Nolan

Corrigendum to “Quantifying the impact: From prevalence to harm in evaluating police misconduct” [Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 93 (2024) 1–13]

Lisa M. Dario, Gabriel T. Cesar, Kristina Jalbert and Frank de la Torre

What makes risky facilities “risky?” A remote systematic social observation of environmental crime predictors at bars in Denver using Google street view imagery

Nathan T. Connealy and Mary Corts

Where are the guns?

David Johnson, Joshua Robinson, Daniel C. Semenza and Alexi Thompson

Reassessing the process-based model: Do procedural justice and police legitimacy lead to reporting neighborhood problems to the police over time?

Kiseong Kuen

Size isn't everything: Understanding the relationship between police workforce and crime problems

Eon Kim, Kate Bowers, Dan Birks and Shane D. Johnson

Juvenile fatalities in law enforcement encounters

Scott E. Culhane and Jessie L. Wiser

Business disruptions due to social vulnerability and criminal activities in urban areas

Nick Drydakis

The efficacy of ‘modular dosage’ in prison-based psychological interventions to reduce recidivism: A state-wide naturalistic study of convicted people in Australian prisons

Marlee Bower, Mark V.A. Howard, Lexine A. Stapinski, Michael F. Doyle, Nicola C. Newton and Emma L. Barrett

Veto players and gun violence in drug markets: Analysis based on field observations of eighty drug-selling spots on the Westside of Chicago

Patrick J. Burke

Offense specialization among outlaw motorcycle gang members: Comparing specialization metrics

Heather Wolbers, Timothy Cubitt and Anthony Morgan

When failure is the option: Unravelling sexual assault outcomes

Julien Chopin, Eric Beauregard and Amelie Pedneault

Classifying perpetrators of stalking-related behavior with latent class analysis

Takuro Suzuki

To tent and protect: Homeless encampments as “protective facilities”

Tarah Hodgkinson, Samantha Henderson, Martin A. Andresen, Carrie B. Sanders, Camie Condon and Tye Anthony

Resting heart rate as a risk and protective factor for intrapersonal violence: A population-based study

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

1200 paths and counting: A script analysis of firearms trafficking in the Province of Quebec, Canada

Etienne Blais, David Décary-Hétu and Benoit Leclerc

A new college campus and crime: Focusing on crime opportunity and gentrification in downtown Orlando, Florida

Sungil Han and Jordan R. Riddell

Comparing the Static-99R and the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT) in two Canadian samples adjudicated of child sexual exploitation material offenses

Angela W. Eke, Kelly M. Babchishin, Sarah Paquette, Shelby B. Scott, Mirna Batinic, Francis Fortin and Michael C. Seto

Effects of substance use treatment on recidivism for youth in need of treatment

Jennifer Pankow, George W. Joe, Angela A. Robertson, Sheena K. Gardner, Larkin Street McReynolds, Megan F. Dickson, John P. Bartkowski, Nancy Arrigona, Pernilla Johansson, Elizabeth D. Joseph, Kate E. Krupka, Thomas B. Sease and Danica Kalling Knight

A theoretical critique of deterrence-based policy

Daniel P. Mears and Mark C. Stafford

Economic correlates of crime: An empirical test in Houston

Howard Henderson, Jennifer Wyatt Bourgeois, Sven Smith and Christopher J. Ferguson

Beyond urban centers: Investigating general strain theory and opioid use among rural adolescents

Jennifer L. Steele and Keith F. Durkin

Who is fatigued? A repeated cross-sectional survey of officer attitudes towards people who use opioids, naloxone, and their role in responding to opioid overdoses

Seth Watts, Michael D. White, Dina Perrone and Aili Malm

Identifying subpopulations in forensic addiction care: A latent class analysis

Ilse Luteijn, Joanne E.L. VanDerNagel, Inti A. Brazil and Arnt Schellekens

Head injury, sleep disturbance, and delinquent offending: Evidence from a longitudinal sample of juvenile detainees

Kristina Block and Eric J. Connolly

The use of restrictive housing with incarcerated persons with mental illness: Variation in placement disparities by restrictive housing type

Sonja E. Siennick, Daniel P. Mears and Alyssa Spies

Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course

Riku Laine, Mikko Aaltonen, Mikko Myrskylä and Pekka Martikainen

Prosecutorial discretion not to invoke the criminal process and its impact on firearm cases

Francesca A. Amaral, Charles E. Loeffler and Greg Ridgeway

The effects of Covid-19 stay-at-home orders on street and cybercrimes in a Brazilian city

Vitor S. Goncalves and Mark C. Stafford

Examining the connection between mental illness and recidivism for persons on parole

D. Michael Applegarth

Similarities between copycat mass shooters and their role models: An empirical analysis with implications for threat assessment and violence prevention

Adam Lankford and Jason R. Silva

Head injury and aggressive behavior: Examining sex differences and the role of related risk factors

Lisa A. Kort-Butler, Trenton M. Haltom and Jessica Phelps

Correlates of victim services for fraud and identity theft among victim service providers

Cooper A. Maher, Rachel M. Corsello, Timothy A. Engle, James D. Kuhlman and Joseph L. Nedelec

Vote choice in the context of lethal police violence: A research note

Jonathan C. Reid

Beyond George Floyd: Assessing sentiments on police fund reallocation and its intersection with race and racial resentment

Marshae Capers, Jillian Chamberlain, Jordan Cline, Christi Metcalfe and Akili Murphy

Evaluating the impact of sexual assault training on police officers: A systematic review and meta-analysis

David S. Lapsey, Bradley A. Campbell, Amanda Goodson, Gennaro F. Vito, Alondra D. Garza and Cortney A. Franklin