| Testing control theory and differential association: A reanalysis of the Richmond Youth Project data BJ Costello, PR Vowell Criminology 37 (4), 815-842, 1999 | 219 | 1999 |
| Social Control Theory: The Legacy of Travis Hirschi's Causes of Delinquency BJ Costello, JH Laub Annual Review of Criminology 3, 21-41, 2020 | 117 | 2020 |
| Techniques of neutralization and self-esteem: A critical test of social control and neutralization theory BJ Costello Deviant Behavior 21 (4), 307-329, 2000 | 112 | 2000 |
| On the logical adequacy of cultural deviance theories B Costello Theoretical Criminology 1 (4), 403-428, 1997 | 93 | 1997 |
| Peer pressure, peer prevention: The role of friends in crime and conformity BJ Costello, TL Hope Routledge, 2016 | 86 | 2016 |
| Egotism and delinquent behavior BJ Costello, RG Dunaway Journal of Interpersonal Violence 18 (5), 572-590, 2003 | 53 | 2003 |
| Heavy episodic drinking among adolescents: A test of hypotheses derived from control theory BJ Costello, BJ Anderson, MD Stein Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 35-55, 2006 | 37 | 2006 |
| Peer influence: Mechanisms and motivations BJ Costello, C Zozula Deviant Behavior 39 (1), 94-110, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| Self-control and adverse “drinking” consequences BJ Costello, BJ Anderson, MD Stein Deviant Behavior 35 (12), 973-992, 2014 | 24 | 2014 |
| Hirschi, Travis: Social control theory B Costello Encyclopedia of criminological theory 1, 451-458, 2010 | 23 | 2010 |
| Peer influence toward conformity BJ Costello Journal of Crime and Justice 33 (1), 97-116, 2010 | 23 | 2010 |
| A control theory of gender difference in crime and delinquency BJ Costello, HJ Mederer Control theories of crime and delinquency, 77-108, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
| The remarkable persistence of a flawed theory: A rejoinder to Matsueda BJ Costello Theoretical Criminology 2 (1), 85-92, 1998 | 19 | 1998 |
| Cultural relativism and the study of deviance BJ Costello Sociological Spectrum 26 (6), 581-594, 2006 | 18 | 2006 |
| Social control theory BJ Costello Preventing crime and violence, 31-41, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Self-control, opportunity, and college students’ bystander intervention in sexually coercive situations C Zozula, BJ Costello, BJ Anderson Journal of interpersonal violence 36 (11-12), NP6144-NP6165, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Strength of control theory CL Britt, BJ Costello Challenging Criminological Theory, 167-192, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| Hirschi’s criminology BJ Costello The Oxford handbook of criminological theory, 131, 2013 | 9 | 2013 |
| Hope. 2016 BJ Costello, L Trina Peer Pressure, Peer Prevention: The Role of Friends in Crime and Conformity, 0 | 9 | |
| Fifty Years of Causes of Delinquency, Volume 25: The Criminology of Travis Hirschi JC Oleson, BJ Costello Routledge, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
