Journal of Criminal Justice

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): Matthew DeLisi

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Volume 71, issue C, 2020

Sexual murderers' choice of weapons: Examining sexual homicides committed by males in China

Chan, Heng Choon (Oliver) and Feng Li

Lethal outcome in elderly sexual violence: Escalation or different intent?

Eric Beauregard, Julien Chopin and Jan Winter

Factors influencing the use of forensic awareness strategies in sexual homicide

Julien Chopin, Eric Beauregard and Sonja Bitzer

The lesser of two evils? Sexual homicide as an “hybrid” offense

Eric Beauregard and Julien Chopin

Multiple perpetrator sexual homicide in Australia and New Zealand: An exploratory study of groups, victims, offenders and offences

Rose Clarkson, Michaela Eichinger and Rajan Darjee

Reactive and proactive aggression in sexual homicide offenders

Jonathan James, Tamsin Higgs and Stephanie Langevin

Untangling sexual homicide: A proposal for a new classification of sexually motivated killings

Ewa B. Stefanska, Nicholas Longpré, Sinead Bloomfield, Derek Perkins and Adam J. Carter

Exploring a machine learning approach: Predicting death in sexual assault

Joan A. Reid and Eric Beauregard

Is paraphilic coercion a different construct from sadism or the lower end of an agonistic continuum?

Nicholas Longpré, Judith E. Sims-Knight, Craig Neumann, Jean-Pierre Guay and Raymond A. Knight

Volume 70, issue C, 2020

The relevance of the dual systems model of self-control for age-related deceleration in offending variety among juvenile offenders

Thomas Wojciechowski

Working on local time: Testing the job-demand-control-support model of stress with jail officers

Jared M. Ellison and Jonathan W. Caudill

Gauging detention dosage: Assessing the impact of pretrial detention on sentencing outcomes using propensity score modeling

Christopher M. Campbell, Ryan M. Labrecque, Michael Weinerman and Ken Sanchagrin

Unpacking within- and between-person effects of unstructured socializing and differential association on solo- and co-offending

Jeffrey T. Ward and Megan Forney

A longitudinal examination of the overlap between victimization and delinquency trajectories from a South Korean perspective

Yeungjeom Lee, Jihoon Kim and Wesley G. Jennings

Assessing potential overlap between self-control and psychopathy: A consideration of the Grasmick self-control scale and the Levenson self-report psychopathy scale

Todd A. Armstrong, Danielle Boisvert, Jessica Wells, Richard H. Lewis, Eric Cooke and Matthias Woeckner

Simulating spatial crime patterns: What do we learn in standard ecological studies of crime?

John R. Hipp

Volume 69, issue C, 2020

Climate consensus: A multilevel study testing assumptions about prison climate

Esther F.J.C. van Ginneken and Paul Nieuwbeerta

The effects of parental school exclusion on offspring drug use: An intergenerational path analysis

Beidi Dong and Marvin D. Krohn

Misdemeanor arrests and community perceptions of fear of crime in Seattle

Jacqueline B. Helfgott, William S. Parkin, Christopher Fisher and Adrian Diaz

Mara forever? Factors associated with gang disengagement in El Salvador

José Miguel Cruz and Jonathan D. Rosen

Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint: Changes in the frequency of criminal incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tarah Hodgkinson and Martin A. Andresen

Offender and victim ‘journey-to-crime’: Motivational differences among stranger rapists

Ashley N. Hewitt, Julien Chopin and Eric Beauregard

Variants of psychopathy in Chinese male offenders: A latent profile analysis in a large prison sample

Meng-Cheng Wang, Jie Gong, Yu Gao, Xintong Zhang, Wengdeng Yang and Jie Luo

Volume 68, issue C, 2020

The effects of devaluation and solvability on crime clearance

Paige E. Vaughn

Crime and income trajectories preceding lethal and non-lethal violence

Karoliina Suonpää, Mikko Aaltonen and Victor van der Geest

A systematic review of the effectiveness of the electronic monitoring of offenders

Jyoti Belur, Amy Thornton, Lisa Tompson, Matthew Manning, Aiden Sidebottom and Kate Bowers

How does the welfare state reduce crime? The effect of program characteristics and decommodification across 18 OECD-countries

Maximilian Rudolph and Peter Starke

Parenting practices, self-control and anti-social behaviors: Meta-analytic structural equation modeling

Hossein Dabiriyan Tehrani and Sara Yamini

Criminal offending and health over the life-course: A dual-trajectory approach

Alexander Testa and Daniel Semenza

Impact of social distancing during COVID-19 pandemic on crime in Los Angeles and Indianapolis

George Mohler, Andrea L. Bertozzi, Jeremy Carter, Martin B. Short, Daniel Sledge, George E. Tita, Craig D. Uchida and P. Jeffrey Brantingham

Volume 67, issue C, 2020

Head injury in prison: Gang membership and the role of prison violence

Chantal Fahmy, Dylan B. Jackson, David C. Pyrooz and Scott H. Decker

Gender and the intergenerational transmission of antisocial behavior

Stacy Tzoumakis, Tyson Whitten, Patrycja Piotrowska, Kimberlie Dean, Kristin R. Laurens, Felicity Harris, Vaughan J. Carr and Melissa J. Green

Get mad: Chronic anger expression and psychopathic traits in three independent samples

David S. Kosson, Carlo Garofalo, Cami K. McBride and Patrizia Velotti

High rates of sexual assault kit submission and the important role of place

Jessica Shaw, Victoria Coates and Patrick Janulis

Police use of force and suspect behavior: An inmate perspective

Mark Alden Morgan, Matthew William Logan and Tayte Marie Olma

Shaping youths' perceptions and attitudes toward the police: Differences in direct and vicarious encounters with police

Jacob W. Harris and Melissa S. Jones

Volume 66, issue C, 2020

Exploring the potential association between gang membership and health outcomes in a longitudinal sample of youth and young adults

Dzhansarayeva Rima, Malikova Sholpan, Atakhanova Gulzagira, Bisenova Meruert and Kevin M. Beaver

Under siege?: Assessing public perceptions of the “War on Police”

Richard K. Moule

The early temperamental correlates of antisocial propensity

Jeffrey R. Mathesius, Patrick Lussier and Raymond R. Corrado

An opportunity model of safety risks among jail officers

Jared M. Ellison and Randy Gainey

Fifty years post Gault: A meta-analysis of the impact of attorney representation on delinquency outcomes

George W. Burruss, Jennifer H. Peck and Alesha L.J. Cameron

The role of gender in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and delinquency and substance use in adolescence

Lindsay Leban and Chris L. Gibson

Low self-control and the adolescent police stop: Intrusiveness, emotional response, and psychological well-being

Dylan B. Jackson, Alexander Testa and Michael G. Vaughn

Do developmental changes in impulsivity and sensation seeking uniquely predict violent victimization? A test of the dual systems model

Eric J. Connolly, Eric M. Cooke, Kevin M. Beaver and Wyatt Brown

Crime frames and gender differences in the activation of crime concern and crime responses

Ieke de Vries, Amy Farrell, Vanessa Bouché and Dana E. Wittmer-Wolfe

Beauty is in the eye of the offender: Physical attractiveness and adolescent victimization

Jukka Savolainen, Jonathan R. Brauer and Noora Ellonen

The impact of life domains on cyberbullying perpetration in Iran: A partial test of Agnew's general theory of crime

Saeed Kabiri, Seyyedeh Masoomeh Shamila Shadmanfaat, Jaeyong Choi and Ilhong Yun

Educational attainment and prescription drug misuse: The importance of push and pull factors for dropping out

Jason A. Ford, Corey R. Pomykacz, Kasim Ortiz, Sean Esteban McCabe and Ty S. Schepis

Ecologies of juvenile reoffending: A systematic review of risk factors

Leah A. Jacobs, Laura Ellen Ashcraft, Craig J.R. Sewall, Barbara L. Folb and Christina Mair

Retrofitting social learning theory with contemporary understandings of learning and memory derived from cognitive psychology and neuroscience

K. Ryan Proctor and Richard E. Niemeyer

Considering violence against police by citizen race/ethnicity to contextualize representation in officer-involved shootings

John A. Shjarback and Justin Nix

Is the recent increase in national homicide abnormal? Testing the application of fan charts in monitoring national homicide trends over time

Ha-Neul Yim, Jordan R. Riddell and Andrew P. Wheeler

Revisiting the generality of rational choice theory: Evidence for general patterns but differential effects across varying levels of psychopathy

James V. Ray, Thomas Baker and Michael S. Caudy