| Love thy neighbor? Moral communities, civic engagement, and juvenile homicide in rural areas MR Lee, JP Bartkowski Social Forces 82 (3), 1001-1035, 2004 | 238 | 2004 |
| Concentrated poverty, race, and homicide MR Lee The Sociological Quarterly 41 (2), 189-206, 2000 | 198 | 2000 |
| Social institutions and violence: A sub‐national test of institutional anomie theory MO Maume, MR Lee Criminology 41 (4), 1137-1172, 2003 | 197 | 2003 |
| Social isolation and lethal violence across the metro/nonmetro divide: The effects of socioeconomic disadvantage and poverty concentration on homicide MR Lee, MO Maume, GC Ousey Rural sociology 68 (1), 107-131, 2003 | 183 | 2003 |
| Examining the conditional nature of the illicit drug market‐homicide relationship: A partial test of the theory of contingent causation GC Ousey, MR Lee Criminology 40 (1), 73-102, 2002 | 173 | 2002 |
| Civic community in the hinterland: Toward a theory of rural social structure and violence MR Lee Criminology 46 (2), 447-478, 2008 | 157 | 2008 |
| The religious institutional base and violent crime in rural areas MR Lee Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45 (3), 309-324, 2006 | 144 | 2006 |
| Community cohesion and violent predatory victimization: A theoretical extension and cross-national test of opportunity theory MR Lee Social Forces 79 (2), 683-706, 2000 | 137 | 2000 |
| Community Attachment and Negative Affective States in the Context of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster MR Lee, TC Blanchard American Behavioral Scientist 56 (1), 24-47, 2012 | 130 | 2012 |
| Racial disparity in formal social control: An investigation of alternative explanations of arrest rate inequality GC Ousey, MR Lee Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 45 (3), 322-355, 2008 | 130 | 2008 |
| Does time heal all wounds? Community attachment, natural resource employment, and health impacts in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster MR Cope, T Slack, TC Blanchard, MR Lee Social Science Research 42 (3), 872-881, 2013 | 116 | 2013 |
| To know the unknown: the decline in homicide clearance rates, 1980—2000 GC Ousey, MR Lee Criminal Justice Review 35 (2), 141-158, 2010 | 112 | 2010 |
| Revisiting the southern culture of violence MR Lee, WB Bankston, TC Hayes, SA Thomas The Sociological Quarterly 48 (2), 253-275, 2007 | 111 | 2007 |
| The burdens of social capital: How socially-involved people dealt with stress after Hurricane Katrina F Weil, MR Lee, ES Shihadeh Social science research 41 (1), 110-119, 2012 | 109 | 2012 |
| Civic community, population change, and violent crime in rural communities MR Lee, SA Thomas Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 47 (1), 118-147, 2010 | 106 | 2010 |
| The southern culture of honor and violent attitudes TC Hayes, MR Lee Sociological Spectrum 25 (5), 593-617, 2005 | 105 | 2005 |
| Size matters: Examining the link between small manufacturing, socioeconomic deprivation, and crime rates in nonmetropolitan communities MR Lee, GC Ousey Sociological Quarterly 42 (4), 581-602, 2001 | 98 | 2001 |
| Investigating the connections between race, illicit drug markets, and lethal violence, 1984-1997 GC Ousey, MR Lee Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 41 (4), 352-383, 2004 | 97 | 2004 |
| Political structure, economic inequality, and homicide: A cross-national analysis MR Lee, WB Bankston Deviant Behavior 20 (1), 27-55, 1999 | 95 | 1999 |
| Civic participation, regional subcultures, and violence: The differential effects of secular and religious participation on adult and juvenile homicide MR Lee, JP Bartkowski Homicide Studies 8 (1), 5-39, 2004 | 92 | 2004 |
