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Crime Patterns and Interventions

Crime Patterns and Interventions is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of social structure on crime and delinquency, including the influence of neighborhood effects, general strain theory, youth violence, fear of crime, and developmental trajectories. It investigates the relationship between social disorganization, criminal behavior, and the role of various theories in understanding the dynamics of crime within different social contexts.

  • Social Structure
  • Crime
  • Delinquency
  • Neighborhood Effects
  • General Strain Theory
  • Youth Violence
  • Fear of Crime
  • Criminal Behavior
  • Social Disorganization Theory
  • Developmental Trajectories
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Crime Patterns and Interventions

Which countries lead Crime Patterns and Interventions research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2.4k and 552 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.4k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 552 works
  3. 3 China 340 works
  4. 4 India 280 works
  5. 5 Canada 237 works
  6. 6 Australia 227 works
  7. 7 Germany 161 works
  8. 8 Brazil 158 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 145 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 124 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 51.6%United Kingdom: 12.0%China: 7.4%India: 6.1%6 others listed: 22.9%52%largest
United States2,375 · 51.6%United Kingdom552 · 12.0%China340 · 7.4%India280 · 6.1%6 others listed1,052 · 22.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Crime Patterns and Interventions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Arizona State University publishes the most Crime Patterns and Interventions research, followed by City University of New York and University of Cincinnati.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 51 works
  2. 2 City University of New YorkUnited States 45 works
  3. 3 University of CincinnatiUnited States 41 works
  4. 4 Michigan State UniversityUnited States 40 works
  5. 5 Institute of CriminologySlovenia 37 works
  6. 6 Florida State UniversityUnited States 35 works
  7. 7 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 34 works
  8. 8 George Mason UniversityUnited States 33 works
  9. 9 University of ChicagoUnited States 31 works
  10. 10 Sam Houston State UniversityUnited States 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Crime Patterns and Interventions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Crime Patterns and Interventions include Ali H. Mokdad, Albert Bandura and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  4. 4 Ted R. Miller United States 279k citations
  5. 5 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  6. 6 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  7. 7 Ai Koyanagi Spain 231k citations
  8. 8 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  9. 9 David C. Schwebel United States 210k citations
  10. 10 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Crime Patterns and Interventions?

The most cited paper in Crime Patterns and Interventions is "Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy" (Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Felton J. Earls, 1997), with 12,017 citations. Next come "FOUNDATION FOR A GENERAL STRAIN THEORY OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY*" (5,029) and "Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory" (4,402).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Felton J. Earls · Science Open access 15 Aug 1997 12,017
2 FOUNDATION FOR A GENERAL STRAIN THEORY OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY* Robert S. Agnew · Criminology Feb 1992 5,029
3 Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory Robert J. Sampson, W. Byron Groves · American Journal of Sociology Open access 1989 4,402
4 Assessing “Neighborhood Effects”: Social Processes and New Directions in Research Robert J. Sampson, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Thomas Gannon-Rowley · Annual Review of Sociology Review 28 Jul 2002 3,994
5 EU 7 FP project Governing urban divercity: Creating social cohesion, social mobility and economic performance in today’s hyper-diversified cities (DIVERCITIES) – The case of Warsaw Korcelli-Olejniczak, Ewa · RCIN (Digital Repository of the Scientifics Institutes) (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Open access 2017 3,214
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Where is Crime Patterns and Interventions research done?

The largest centres of Crime Patterns and Interventions research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and Chicago (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Huntsville, Burnaby and Fairfax.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 108 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 103 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 63 works
  4. 4 ChicagoUnited States 62 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 60 works
  6. 6 TempeUnited States 51 works
  7. 7 BrisbaneAustralia 49 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 46 works
  9. 9 CincinnatiUnited States 44 works
  10. 10 PhiladelphiaUnited States 44 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HuntsvilleUS · 31.4 works74×
  2. BurnabyCA · 27.6 works15×
  3. FairfaxUS · 33.8 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Crime Patterns and Interventions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Crime Patterns and Interventions?

Among universities, judged by research, Sapienza University of Rome, Arizona State University and Leiden University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.4%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sapienza University …KTH Royal Institute …Leiden UniversityArizona State Univer…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Sapienza University of RomeItaly 72.044.4%2.9×19 +592.9%
2Arizona State UniversityUnited States 64.514.7%14.1×51 -0.7%
3Leiden UniversityNetherlands 59.722.5%6.6×20 +21.4%
4KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySweden 59.130.3%5.7×12 +39.3%
5George Mason UniversityUnited States 58.721.1%18.8×33 -7.2%
6University of ChicagoUnited States 57.09.1%6.7×31 +53.5%
7University of CincinnatiUnited States 56.717.4%12.7×41 -17.2%
8Georgia State UniversityUnited States 56.021.4%15.1×24 +16.2%
9Michigan State UniversityUnited States 55.314.4%10.0×40 -14.0%
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 54.028.7%1.9×15 +8.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Crime Patterns and Interventions, country by country

Is Crime Patterns and Interventions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Crime Patterns and Interventions.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Crime Patterns and Interventions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Crime Patterns and Interventions0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Crime Patterns and Interventions over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Crime Patterns and Interventions10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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