Ellen G Cohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1493071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen G Cohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen G |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohn |
| SIGNATURE | COHN E G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4636-1368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Scholarly Influence across Major Award Addresses: Citations among the Most Decorated Scholars
Although previous citation analyses have examined trends in criminology and criminal justice publications across various journals, an examination of key addresses given at scholarly societies such as the ACJS, the ASC, or the Sutherland Award address have escaped the scrutiny of scholars. This paper examines the citation patterns evidenced in three influential award addresses in CCJ: 1) ACJS presidential addresses, 2) ASC presidential addresses, …
Human Trafficking Victims in Europe: Trends and Policy Implications
Human trafficking rates in Europe continue to rise despite the presence of comprehensive legal frameworks and policy initiatives. Using 2012–2022 Eurostat data, this study examines key trends and patterns in trafficking victimization across Europe. The analyses reveal notable shifts in the nature and scope of trafficking: the number of victims per 100,000 inhabitants increased by 12.44%, while the ratio of convicted-to-suspected offenders in huma…
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe
The Educational Background of the Most-Cited Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice
The Waxing and Waning of Criminological Citation Careers of Scholars and Works, 1986-2020
Most Influential Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 1986-2020
Citation Data and Analysis: Limitations and Shortcomings
As a means for measuring scholarly influence, citation analysis has several limitations and shortcomings. We first review the main sources of citation data (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and information collected directly from reference lists) and discuss the shortcomings of each source. Next, we review five significant limitations of citation analysis as a methodology (academic over popular interest, various motivations for citing, man…
Improving Citation Analysis: Taking Account of Order of Authors and Number of Different Articles in Which a Scholar Is Cited
Research using citation counts as a metric for measuring scholarly influence and prestige generally gives equal weighting to all authors of a scholarly work. However, as the order of authors frequently reflects the relative importance and involvement of authors, it may be more valid to consider this issue when examining citations. This article focuses on citations in Criminology and gives authors a score based on their order in the author list. O…
Evaluating Citation Analysis: Introduction to the Special Issue
Achieving a Representative Sample of Asian Americans in Biomedical Research Through Community-Based Approaches: Comparing Demographic Data in the All of Us Research Program With the American Community…
Background: Underrepresented persons are often not included in biomedical research. It is unknown if the general Asian American population is being represented in All of Us . The purpose of this study was to compare the Asian demographic data in the All of Us cohort with the Asian nationally representative data from the American Community Survey. Method: Demographic characteristics and health literacy of Asians in All of Us were examined. Finding…
An Examination of Article Productivity and Influence among Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Faculty, 2015–2021
Faculty productivity and influence constitute an important aspect of doctoral program quality. Literature on faculty productivity of Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ) Ph.D. programs has not yet properly weighted the impact of journal publications in a standardized and objective manner, limiting their analyses to select CCJ journals or the CCJ discipline. This is problematic because CCJ is an interdisciplinary field, and many criminologists p…
Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries
While the relationship between immigration and crime has been the focus of international research, particularly in Europe and North America, less attention has been paid to different rates of incarceration of foreign citizens between countries. Using data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on persons held in prison between 2015 and 2019, this study examines the impact of nationality on incarceration rates. The principal findings su…
Changes in Scholarly Influence in Major American Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals between 1986 and 2015
To investigate changes in scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice over a 30-year time period, the most-cited scholars in six major American journals were determined for 2011–2015, with results compared to those obtained for 2006–2010, 2001–2005, 1996–2000, 1991–1995, and 1986–1990. The most-cited scholars in 2011–2015 were Robert J. Sampson in American criminology journals and Alex R. Piquero in American criminal justice journals.…
Predictive Extrinsic Factors in Multiple Victim Shootings
Although researchers have found support for a relationship between temperature and violence and evidence of temporal patterns in violent crime, research on homicide shows less consistent results and no research on mass murder has been conducted. We address this by examining predictive factors in multi-victim shootings (those with four or more victims, including injured), a more general crime category than mass murder, but one with likely similar …
The reporting and help‐seeking behaviors of domestic violence victims with criminal backgrounds
The decision to report domestic violence is often conditional on whether victims were satisfied with their prior treatment by the criminal justice system. One issue in reporting victimization is that victims of domestic violence may also be involved with the system as offenders. The current paper systematically reviews research on this overlap, finding that most research supports that victims who also have criminal backgrounds are significantly l…
Most-Cited Articles and Authors in Crime and Justice , 1979–2015
Crime and Justice has been published by the University of Chicago Press since 1979, originally as a hardcover annual journal and more recently both in print and electronically. In 2016–17, it was possible to investigate the scholarly influence of 374 articles published in 44 volumes between 1979 and 2015, according to Google Scholar and the Web of Science. The most-cited articles and authors are identified, adjusting the number of citations for t…
Changes in the Most-Cited Scholars and Works Over 25 Years: The Evolution of the Field of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Cohn and Farrington's work in citation analysis has examined scholarly influence within criminological research for over 25 years. The current analysis tracks the ten most-cited scholars and each scholar's most-cited works in four international criminology journals and six American criminology and criminal justice journals over twenty-five years and five time periods—1986–1990, 1991–1995, 1996–2000, 2001–2005, and 2006–2010. This approach extends…
The Most Cited Scholars in Five International Criminology Journals, 2006–10
The current article examines three elements of scholarly influence comparing five major international criminology journals (BJC – British Journal of Criminology , CRIM – Criminology , ANZ – Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology , CJC – Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice , EJC – European Journal of Criminology ) from 2006 to 2010. David Garland (BJC), Robert J. Sampson (CRIM and ANZ), Julian V. Roberts (CJC) and David…
Most-Cited Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 1986-2010
Publication Productivity of Criminologists
This article investigates the number of publications of thousands of members of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) in hundreds of journals listed in the Criminal Justice Periodical Index (CJPI). Publications in 2004–2005 of ASC members in 2005, and publications in 2010–2011 of ASC members in 2011, were investigated. Only ASC members who were considered to be “at risk” of publishing in Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ) journals were in…
Is it safer behind the gates? Crime and gated communities in South Africa
Calorie Postings in Chain Restaurants in a Low-Income Urban Neighborhood: Measuring Practical Utility and Policy Compliance
Changes in Scholarly Influence in Major American Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals Between 1986 and 2005
To investigate changes in scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice over 20 years, the most‐cited scholars in six major American journals were determined for 2001–05, and the results were compared with those obtained for 1996–2000, 1991–95, and 1986–90. The most‐cited scholars in 2001–05 were Robert J. Sampson in American criminology journals and Francis T. Cullen in American criminal justice journals. Highly cited scholars in Ameri…
Scholarly Influence and Prestige in Criminology and Criminal Justice
(2011). Scholarly Influence and Prestige in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Journal of Criminal Justice Education: Vol. 22, New Directions in Research Examining Publication Productivity and Rankings in Criminology and Criminal Justice, pp. 5-11
Scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice journals in 1990–2000
The Impact of Research on Legal Policy: The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment
Experimental research has recently shown a powerful impact on legal policy. An experiment demonstrating a deterrent effect of arrest on domestic violence has shaped public policy. Stimulated by efforts to publicize the results of the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (Sherman and Berk, 1984a), police departments were persuaded to adopt an arrest policy for misdemeanor domestic violence. Over one-third of respondents from U.S. police depart…
From Initial Deterrence to Longterm Escalation: Short‐custody Arrest for Poverty Ghetto Domestic Violence
Persons arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence are held in custody for widely varying lengths of time. To test the effects of this variance, we randomly assigned short (X̄= 2.8 hours), full (X̄= 11.1 hours), and no arrests (warning only) to a sample of 1,200 cases with predominantly unemployed suspects concentrated in black ghetto poverty neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Victim interviews and one official measure showed that short arrest had a sub…
Who Are the Most Influential Criminologists in the English-Speaking World
We aim to investigate the most influential criminologisls in the English-speaking world during the period 1986 to 1990. While cautioning the reader that citations and influence are not perfectly correlated, we focus on citations in four major journals. The most-cited criminologists in the British Journal of Criminology, Criminology, the Canadian Journal of Criminology, and the Australian and Mew Zealand Journal of Criminology were determined. A c…
Who are the most-cited scholars in major American criminology and criminal justice journals
Changes in the most-cited scholars in major american criminology and criminal justice journals between 1986–1990 and 1991–1995
Assault as a function of time and temperature: A moderator-variable time-series analysis
The authors hypothesized that relations between temperature and assaults are stronger during evening hours than during other hours of the day and tested this hypothesis by obtaining 3-hr measures of assaults, temperature, and other weather variables for a 2-year interval. The hypothesis was confirmed by autoregressio n analyses that controlled for secular trends, seasonal differences, other weather variables, holidays, and other calendar events. …
Weather and Crime
Journal Article WEATHER AND CRIME ELLEN G. COHN ELLEN G. COHN *Graduate of the Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Maryland, College Park and currently a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 1990, Pages 51–64, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a0…
Differences Between British and American Criminology
This paper uses citation analysis as a way of investigating differences between British and American criminological research. Citation analysis is a valid technique for assessing the prestige of journals and scholars, although it has never before been used in studying British criminology. We found that British Journal of Criminology (BJC) articles were rarely cited in the leading American journal Criminology. The citation rate of BJC articles in …
Changes in the most-cited scholars in twenty criminology and criminal justice journals between 1990 and 1995
Is it safer behind the gates? Crime and gated communities in South Africa
Even criminals take a holiday: Instrumental and expressive crimes on major and minor holidays
Violence is a curvilinear function of temperature in Dallas: A replication
Data on weather and aggravated assaults were obtained to determine whether the curvilinear relationship between temperature and violence previously observed in Minneapolis, Minnesota (E. G. Cohn & J. Rotton, 1997), could be replicated. The data consisted of calls for services received by police in Dallas between January 1, 1994, and December 31, 1995. Controlling for holidays, school closings, time of day, day of the week, season of the year, and…
The most-cited scholars in criminal justice textbooks, 1989–1993
Changes in the Most-Cited Scholars in Major International Journals Between 1986-90 and 1991-95
We determined the most-cited scholars in 1991–95 in the major criminology journals of the major countries of the English-speaking world: British Journal of Criminology (BJC), Criminology (CRIM), Canadian Journal of Criminology (CJC) and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (ANZ). We also compared the results with those obtained in a similar analysis for 1986–90. The scholars with the most citations in 1991–95 were Patricia M. Mayhew …
The Validity of Citations as a Measure of Influence in Criminology
Ellen G. Cohn, David P. Farrington; The Validity of Citations as a Measure of Influence in Criminology, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 35, Issu
Scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice journals in 1990–2000
Crime and Justice and the Criminal Justice and Criminology Literature
The most-cited scholars in state-of-the-art literature reviews in general volumes of Crime and Justice: A Review of Research between 1986 and 1993 were significantly correlated with the most-cited scholars in three major American criminology journals, three major American criminal justice journals, and three international criminology journals between 1986 and 1990. There was also substantial overlap between the most-cited works in Crime and Justi…
Calorie Postings in Chain Restaurants in a Low-Income Urban Neighborhood: Measuring Practical Utility and Policy Compliance
The reporting and help‐seeking behaviors of domestic violence victims with criminal backgrounds
The decision to report domestic violence is often conditional on whether victims were satisfied with their prior treatment by the criminal justice system. One issue in reporting victimization is that victims of domestic violence may also be involved with the system as offenders. The current paper systematically reviews research on this overlap, finding that most research supports that victims who also have criminal backgrounds are significantly l…
The Most Cited Scholars in Five International Criminology Journals, 2006–10
The current article examines three elements of scholarly influence comparing five major international criminology journals (BJC – British Journal of Criminology , CRIM – Criminology , ANZ – Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology , CJC – Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice , EJC – European Journal of Criminology ) from 2006 to 2010. David Garland (BJC), Robert J. Sampson (CRIM and ANZ), Julian V. Roberts (CJC) and David…
The Citizen Police Academy: A recipe for improving police-community relations
The Impact of Research on Legal Policy: The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment
Experimental research has recently shown a powerful impact on legal policy. An experiment demonstrating a deterrent effect of arrest on domestic violence has shaped public policy. Stimulated by efforts to publicize the results of the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (Sherman and Berk, 1984a), police departments were persuaded to adopt an arrest policy for misdemeanor domestic violence. Over one-third of respondents from U.S. police depart…
Weather and Crime
Journal Article WEATHER AND CRIME ELLEN G. COHN ELLEN G. COHN *Graduate of the Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Maryland, College Park and currently a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 1990, Pages 51–64, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a0…
Differences Between British and American Criminology
This paper uses citation analysis as a way of investigating differences between British and American criminological research. Citation analysis is a valid technique for assessing the prestige of journals and scholars, although it has never before been used in studying British criminology. We found that British Journal of Criminology (BJC) articles were rarely cited in the leading American journal Criminology. The citation rate of BJC articles in …
From Initial Deterrence to Longterm Escalation: Short‐custody Arrest for Poverty Ghetto Domestic Violence
Persons arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence are held in custody for widely varying lengths of time. To test the effects of this variance, we randomly assigned short (X̄= 2.8 hours), full (X̄= 11.1 hours), and no arrests (warning only) to a sample of 1,200 cases with predominantly unemployed suspects concentrated in black ghetto poverty neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Victim interviews and one official measure showed that short arrest had a sub…
Who are the most-cited scholars in major American criminology and criminal justice journals
Who Are the Most Influential Criminologists in the English-Speaking World
We aim to investigate the most influential criminologisls in the English-speaking world during the period 1986 to 1990. While cautioning the reader that citations and influence are not perfectly correlated, we focus on citations in four major journals. The most-cited criminologists in the British Journal of Criminology, Criminology, the Canadian Journal of Criminology, and the Australian and Mew Zealand Journal of Criminology were determined. A c…
The Validity of Citations as a Measure of Influence in Criminology
Ellen G. Cohn, David P. Farrington; The Validity of Citations as a Measure of Influence in Criminology, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 35, Issu
Crime and Justice and the Criminal Justice and Criminology Literature
The most-cited scholars in state-of-the-art literature reviews in general volumes of Crime and Justice: A Review of Research between 1986 and 1993 were significantly correlated with the most-cited scholars in three major American criminology journals, three major American criminal justice journals, and three international criminology journals between 1986 and 1990. There was also substantial overlap between the most-cited works in Crime and Justi…
The Citizen Police Academy: A recipe for improving police-community relations
The most-cited scholars in criminal justice textbooks, 1989–1993
Assault as a function of time and temperature: A moderator-variable time-series analysis
The authors hypothesized that relations between temperature and assaults are stronger during evening hours than during other hours of the day and tested this hypothesis by obtaining 3-hr measures of assaults, temperature, and other weather variables for a 2-year interval. The hypothesis was confirmed by autoregressio n analyses that controlled for secular trends, seasonal differences, other weather variables, holidays, and other calendar events. …
Evaluating Criminology and Criminal Justice
Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. In the tradition of Marvin E. Wolfgang'sEvaluating Criminology, the authors apply this quantitative method to evaluate the impact of individuals and their research efforts on two fields and to identify interconnections among scholars and their publications. This examination of…
Assessing the quality of American doctoral program faculty in criminology and criminal justice, 1991–1995
This article assesses the quality of 299 faculty in 20 American doctoral programs in criminology and criminal justice by counting the number of citations of their work in six major American criminology and criminal justice journals published between 1991 and 1995. The University of Maryland, the University of Cincinnati, Rutgers University, and SUNY-Albany were the institutions with most citations. The individual faculty members most often cited …
Changes in the most-cited scholars in major american criminology and criminal justice journals between 1986–1990 and 1991–1995
Changes in the Most-Cited Scholars in Major International Journals Between 1986-90 and 1991-95
We determined the most-cited scholars in 1991–95 in the major criminology journals of the major countries of the English-speaking world: British Journal of Criminology (BJC), Criminology (CRIM), Canadian Journal of Criminology (CJC) and Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (ANZ). We also compared the results with those obtained in a similar analysis for 1986–90. The scholars with the most citations in 1991–95 were Patricia M. Mayhew …
Errors of Commission and Omission: Comment on Anderson and Anderson's (1998) “Temperature and Aggression”
This note identifies errors in a review of research on heat and aggression by Anderson and Anderson (1998), and it reaffirms a previously stated conclusion: Violence in a midwestern city, in 1987 and 1988, can be explained more parsimoniously and completely in terms of routine activity theory than by Anderson and Anderson's general affective model of aggression
Changes in the most-cited scholars in twenty criminology and criminal justice journals between 1990 and 1995
Journal publications of Ph.D. graduates from American criminology and criminal justice programs
This article assesses the quality of 12 American doctoral programs by counting the number of publications of their Ph.D. graduates in a large number of criminology and criminal justice journals, and in 20 more “academic” journals. While half of the Ph.D. graduates had no publications, the 4 percent who were the most productive (the “stars”) accounted for one third of all journal articles. Publication rates up to graduation predicted publication r…
Violence is a curvilinear function of temperature in Dallas: A replication
Data on weather and aggravated assaults were obtained to determine whether the curvilinear relationship between temperature and violence previously observed in Minneapolis, Minnesota (E. G. Cohn & J. Rotton, 1997), could be replicated. The data consisted of calls for services received by police in Dallas between January 1, 1994, and December 31, 1995. Controlling for holidays, school closings, time of day, day of the week, season of the year, and…
Even criminals take a holiday: Instrumental and expressive crimes on major and minor holidays
Where are they now? Trajectories of publication “stars” from American criminology and criminal justice programs
The present study examines research trajectories of 20 academic "stars" relative to scholarship in 20 prominent and 7 elite criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) journals. We employ a modest subset of career concepts (frequency, specialization, seriousness, and co‐offending) to identify divergent pathways open to CCJ professionals as they begin work in academe or subsequently shape more mature careers. Findings suggest that research productivity…
The curve is still out there: "A reply to Bushman, Wang, and Anderson's (2005) "Is the curve relating temperature to aggression linear or curvilinear
This article replies to research conducted by B. J. Bushman, M. C. Wang, and C. A. Anderson and demonstrates that the results of prior research by E. G. Cohn and J. Rotton do support the existence of a curvilinear relationship between temperature and aggression when time of day is taken into consideration. The shape of the relationship between temperature and aggression also depends on a number of other factors, including season, amount of social…
Changes in Scholarly Influence in Major American Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals between 1986 and 2000
In order to investigate changes in scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice over a 15‐year time period, the most‐cited scholars in six major American journals were determined for the period 1996–2000, and results were compared with those obtained for 1991–1995 and 1986–1990. The number of cited authors in these journals increased by 50% over this time period. Some highly cited authors were specialists, because they had one or two m…
Scholarly Influence in Criminal Justice: Foreword to the Special Issue
Welcome to this special thematic issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education. This issue focuses on “Scholarly Influence in Criminal Justice” and is presented in honor of the late Dr. Richar
Scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice journals in 1990–2000
Crime Patterns and Interventions (36 works) · Criminology (36 works) · Sociology (36 works) · Political science (35 works) · Criminal justice (29 works) · Law (28 works) · Law (24 works) · Economic Justice (20 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (14 works)