For the third year in a row, I assess the year's most important journal publications. Here goes my year-end wrap-up of my favorite criminological journal articles published in 2010:
1. "Silence and Memory in Criminology - The American Society of Criminology 2009 Sutherland Address" by Nicole Rafter in Criminology (48, 1)
2. "Using Random Judge Assignment to Estimate the Effects of Incarceration and Probation on Recidivism among Drug Offenders" by Donald P. Green and Daniel Winik in Criminology (48, 2)
3. "Participation and Frequency During Criminal Careers Across the Life Span" by Hanno Petras, Paul Nieuwbeerta, and Alex Piquero in Criminology (48, 2)
4. "Legitimacy in Corrections: A Randomized Experiment Comparing a Boot Camp with a Prison" by Derrick Franke, David Bierie, and Doris Layton Mackenzie in Criminology & Public Policy (9, 1)
5. "Studying the Costs of Crime Across Offender Trajectories" by Mark Cohen, Alex Piquero, and Wesley Jennings in Criminology & Public Policy (9, 2)
6. "The Impact of Imprisonment on Marriage and Divorce: A Risk Set Matching Approach" by Robert Apel, Arjan Blokland, Paul Nieuwbeerta, and Marieke van Schellen in Journal of Quantitative Criminology (26, 2)
7. "Group-Based Trajectory Modeling (Nearly) Two Decades Later" by Daniel Nagin and Candice Odgers in Journal of Quantitative Criminology (26, 4)
8. "Gold Standard Myths: Observations on the Experimental Turn in Quantitative Criminology" by Robert Sampson in Journal of Quantitative Criminology (26, 4)
9. "What You Can and Can't Properly Do with Regression" by Richard Berk in Journal of Quantitative Criminology (26, 4)
10. "Linking the Crime and Arrest Processes to Measure Variations in Individual Arrest Risk per Crime (Q)" by Alfred Blumstein, Jacqueline Cohen, Alex Piquero, and Christy Visher in Journal of Quantitative Criminology (26, 4)
11. "How Damaging is Imprisonment in the Long-term? A Controlled Experiment Comparing Long-term Effects of Community Service and Short Custodial Sentences on Re-offending and Social Integration" by Martin Killias, Gwladys Gillieron, Francoise Villard, and Clara Poglia in Journal of Experimental Criminology (6, 2)
12. "Low-intensity Community Supervision for Low-risk Offenders: A Randomized, Controlled Trial" by Geoffrey Barnes, Lindsay Ahlman, Charlotte Gill, Lawrence Sherman, and Ellen Kurtz in Journal of Experimental Criminology (6, 2)
13. "When Second Best is Good Enough: A Comparison Between a True Experiment and a Regression Discontinuity Quasi-experiment" by Richard Berk, Geoffrey Barnes, Lindsay Ahlman, and Ellen Kurtz in Journal of Experimental Criminology (6, 2)
14. "Justifying the Use of Non-experimental Methods and Disqualifying the Use of Randomized Controlled Trials: Challenging Folklore in Evaluation Research in Crime and Justice" by David Weisburd in Journal of Experimental Criminology (6, 2)
15. "The Correspondence of Family Features with Problem, Aggressive, Criminal, and Violent Behavior: A Meta-analysis" by James Derzon in Journal of Experimental Criminology (6, 3)
16. "Comparing the Effects of Community Service and Short-term Imprisonment on Recidivism: a Matched Samples Approach" by Hilde Wermink, Arjan Blokland, Paul Nieuwbeerta, Daniel Nagin, and Nikolaj Tollenaar in Journal of Experimental Criminology (6, 3)
17. "Trajectories of Offending and Their Relation to Life Failure in Late Middle Age: Findings from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development" by Alex Piquero, David Farrington, Daniel Nagin, and Terrie Moffitt in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (47, 2)
18. "Is it Who You Know, or How Many That Counts? Criminal Networks and Cost Avoidance in a Sample of Young Offenders" by Martin Bouchard and Holly Nguyen in Justice Quarterly (27, 1)
19. "The Empirical Status of Social Learning Theory: A Meta-analysis" by Travis Pratt, Francis Cullen, Christine Sellers, L. Thomas Winfree Jr., Tamara Madensen, Leah Daigle, Noelle Fearn, and Jacinta Gau in Justice Quarterly (27, 6)
20. "Are There Any True Adult-Onset Offenders?" by Tara Renae McGee and David Farrington in British Journal of Criminology (50, 3)
