| Geographic variation in opioid prescribing in the US DC McDonald, K Carlson, D Izrael The journal of Pain 13 (10), 988-996, 2012 | 327 | 2012 |
| Estimating the prevalence of opioid diversion by “doctor shoppers” in the United States DC McDonald, KE Carlson PloS one 8 (7), e69241, 2013 | 159 | 2013 |
| Punishment without walls: Community service sentences in New York City D McDonald Rutgers University Press, 1986 | 143 | 1986 |
| Sentencing in the Federal Courts: Does Race Matter?: The Transition to Sentencing Guidelines, 1986-90 D McDonald, KE Carlson US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice …, 1993 | 133 | 1993 |
| Public Imprisonment by Private Means-The Re-Emergence of Private Prisons and Jails in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia DC McDonald Brit. J. Criminology 34, 29, 1994 | 124 | 1994 |
| Medical care in prisons DC McDonald Crime and Justice 26, 427-478, 1999 | 96 | 1999 |
| Private prisons in the United States: An assessment of current practice D McDonald, E Fournier, M Russell-Einhorn, S Crawford Abt Associates, 1998 | 88 | 1998 |
| Private prisons and the public interest D McDonald (No Title), 1990 | 82 | 1990 |
| The ecology of prescription opioid abuse in the USA: geographic variation in patients' use of multiple prescribers (“doctor shopping”) DC McDonald, KE Carlson Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety 23 (12), 1258-1267, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| Private penal institutions DC McDonald Crime and justice 16, 361-419, 1992 | 50 | 1992 |
| Day fines in American courts: the Staten Island and Milwaukee experiments D McDonald, J Greene, C Worzella US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of …, 1992 | 48 | 1992 |
| Managing prison health care and costs D McDonald US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of …, 1995 | 47 | 1995 |
| The cost of corrections: In search of the bottom line D McDonald National Institute of Corrections, 1989 | 45 | 1989 |
| Geographic variation and disparity in stimulant treatment of adults and children in the United States in 2008 DC McDonald, SK Jalbert Psychiatric Services 64 (11), 1079-1086, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| Key legislative issues in criminal justice: Intermediate sanctions D Parent, T Dunworth, D McDonald, W Rhodes Abt Associates, 1997 | 41 | 1997 |
| Governments' Management of Private Prisons D McDonald, C Patten Abt Associates, 2003 | 27 | 2003 |
| Why did racial/ethnic sentencing differences in federal district courts grow larger under the guidelines? DC McDonald, KE Carlson Federal Sentencing Reporter 6 (4), 223-226, 1994 | 27 | 1994 |
| The price of punishment: Public spending for corrections in New York D McDonald Routledge, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| The costs of operating public and private correctional facilities DC McDonald Private prisons and the public interest, 86-106, 1990 | 23 | 1990 |
| Managing mentally ill offenders in the community: Milwaukee's community support program D McDonald, M Teitelbaum US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of …, 1994 | 22 | 1994 |
