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D-Index
40
Citations
33944
World Ranking
8019
National Ranking
539

James Bonta publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James Bonta sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 103 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

James Bonta D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James Bonta sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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

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

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

  • Classification for effective rehabilitation: Rediscovering psychology.

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

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

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

  • The level of service inventory – revised

    DA Andrews;J Bonta;D Andrews

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

    James Bonta;Moira Law;Karl Hanson

  • The psychology of criminal conduct, 5th ed.

    D. A. Andrews;James Bonta

  • Rehabilitating criminal justice policy and practice.

    D. A. Andrews;James Bonta

  • 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

  • The Psychology of Criminal Conduct

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  • Exploring the Black Box of Community Supervision

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

  • Risk-needs assessment and treatment.

    James Bonta

  • Offender risk assessment: Guidelines for selection and use.

    James Bonta

  • 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

  • A quasi-experimental evaluation of an intensive rehabilitation supervision program

    James Bonta;Suzanne Wallace-Capretta;Jennifer Rooney

  • Reexamining the cruel and unusual punishment of prison life

    James Bonta;James Bonta;James Bonta;Paul Gendreau

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

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

  • Predictors of Recidivism among Incarcerated Female Offenders

    James Bonta;Bessie Pang;Suzanne Wallace-Capretta

  • 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

  • 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

  • Intensive rehabilitation supervision: The next generation in community corrections?

    Paul Gendreau;Francis T. Cullen;James Bonta

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Gendreau
Paul Gendreau University of New Brunswick
Francis T. Cullen
Francis T. Cullen University of Cincinnati

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