2026 James Bonta: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	40	8022	7489	540	507	103	33944

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Psychology

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Overview

James Bonta is affiliated with Public Safety Canada in Canada and engages in research primarily within the social sciences and psychology fields. Their work spans several subfields including sociology and political science, clinical psychology, general health professions, education, and information systems and management.

The scientist's research topics include:

Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
Criminal justice and corrections analysis
Crime patterns and interventions
Health policy implementation science
Service-learning and community engagement
Interdisciplinary research and collaboration
Deception detection and forensic psychology

James Bonta has authored multiple journal articles published across several venues. Recent papers include:

Training community supervision officers in the risk-need-responsivity model of offender rehabilitation: a review and implications (2023), Journal of Offender Rehabilitation
A system-wide implementation and evaluation of the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS) (2021), Journal of Criminal Justice
The Risk-Need-Responsivity Model and Justice-Involved Persons with Serious Mental Illness (2025), Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale

Coauthorship is an element of their scholarly activity, with frequent collaborators including:

Seung C. Lee
Guy Bourgon
Tanya Rugge
Chloe I. Pedneault
María Cecilia Alvarez Ricalde

The research has appeared in the following publication outlets:

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation
Journal of Criminal Justice
BioScience
RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale

The scientist has contributed studies that engage with the implementation of models in offender rehabilitation, system-wide evaluations in community supervision, and intersections of justice-involved populations and mental health.

Best Publications

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct

D. A. Andrews;James Bonta

9451
Citations
DOES CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT WORK? A CLINICALLY RELEVANT AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY INFORMED META-ANALYSIS *

D.A. Andrews;Ivan Zinger;Robert D. Hoge;James Bonta

3883
Citations
Classification for effective rehabilitation: Rediscovering psychology.

D. A. Andrews;James Bonta;Robert D. Hoge

3270
Citations
The Recent Past and Near Future of Risk and/or Need Assessment

D. A. Andrews;James Bonta;J. Stephen Wormith

2358
Citations
The level of service inventory – revised

DA Andrews;J Bonta;D Andrews

2051
Citations
The prediction of criminal and violent recidivism among mentally disordered offenders : A meta-analysis

James Bonta;Moira Law;Karl Hanson

1934
Citations
The psychology of criminal conduct, 5th ed.

D. A. Andrews;James Bonta

1858
Citations
Rehabilitating criminal justice policy and practice.

D. A. Andrews;James Bonta

1757
Citations
The risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model: Does adding the good lives model contribute to effective crime prevention?

D.A. Andrews;James Bonta;J. Stephen Wormith

1171
Citations
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct

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706
Citations
Exploring the Black Box of Community Supervision

James Bonta;Tanya Rugge;Terri-Lynne Scott;Guy Bourgon

465
Citations
Risk-needs assessment and treatment.

James Bonta

430
Citations
Offender risk assessment: Guidelines for selection and use.

James Bonta

380
Citations
A theoretically informed meta-analysis of the risk for general and violent recidivism for mentally disordered offenders

James Bonta;Julie Blais;Julie Blais;Holly A. Wilson;Holly A. Wilson

367
Citations
A quasi-experimental evaluation of an intensive rehabilitation supervision program

James Bonta;Suzanne Wallace-Capretta;Jennifer Rooney

310
Citations
Reexamining the cruel and unusual punishment of prison life

James Bonta;James Bonta;James Bonta;Paul Gendreau

290
Citations
An Experimental Demonstration of Training Probation Officers in Evidence-Based Community Supervision:

James Bonta;Guy Bourgon;Tanya Rugge;Terri-Lynne Scott

234
Citations
Predictors of Recidivism among Incarcerated Female Offenders

James Bonta;Bessie Pang;Suzanne Wallace-Capretta

212
Citations
The prediction of recidivism among federally sentenced offenders: A re-validation of the SIR scale.

James Bonta;William G. Harman;Robert G. Hann;Robert B. Cormier

182
Citations
Reductions in risk based on time offense-free in the community: Once a sexual offender, not always a sexual offender.

R. Karl Hanson;Andrew J. R. Harris;Elizabeth Letourneau;L. Maaike Helmus

164
Citations
Intensive rehabilitation supervision: The next generation in community corrections?

Paul Gendreau;Francis T. Cullen;James Bonta

138
Citations

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