OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Immobilized: (In)congruent collateral consequences and racialized driver's license restrictions	28
Performing rehabilitation: Reentry, art, and identity	21
Leila Ullrich, Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court. The Blame Cascade UllrichLeila, Victims and the Labour of Justice at	20
Questioning the economic conditions-imprisonment link: A methodological review of the political economy of punishment's empirical literature	14
Surviving cell-sharing: Resistance, cooperation and collaboration	11
Elizabeth Cook, Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence CookElizabeth, Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence, Routledge: London and New York, 202	11
Pretrial jail experiences and the criminal justice legitimacy divide: Race differences in key sources of legitimacy during pretrial detention	10
Alice Ievins, The Stains of Imprisonment. Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offense	10
The next jailor: An empirical study of danger to the public immigration detentions in Canada (summer 2021)	10
Tahaney Alghrani, Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian England AlghraniTahaney, Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian Engla	9
‘Parole is worse than doing time’: Understanding the pains of post-release supervision following a forvaring sentence	8
Extraction without reserve: The case of Arizona's penal care regime	8
Qi Chen, Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China: Community Sanctions and Measures	8
Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection and Punishment: Armed international Intervention at the ‘End of History’ Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection and Pun	7
Solitary confinement as state harm: Reimagining sentencing in light of dynamic censure and state blame	7
Tommie Shelby, The Idea of Prison Abolition	7
There is no place to go in “America's Finest City”: Basic sanitation deprivation is punishment in San Diego, California, USA	7
Regulating criminal justice: The role of procedural justice and legitimacy in the inspection of probation in England and Wales	7
Bordered welfare in Australia: Income management as a bordering technology of neoliberal and colonial governance	7
Enemy parole	7
‘Entrapped in a penal time capsule’: Extralegal discourses in sentence review of life prisoners in India	7
Justifying leniency at a time of punitiveness: Federal clemency narratives in the United States	7
Ben Bethell, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 Ben Bethell, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 , Routledge: A	6
Talking punishment: How victim perceptions of punishment change when they communicate with offenders	6
David Churchill, Henry Yeomans and Iain Channing, Historical Criminology, Routledge Key Ideas in Criminology	6

Between risk and race: Does diagnostic ambiguity fuel racial disparities under sexually violent predator laws?	5
“Social workers by day and terrorists by night?” Wounded healers, restorative justice, and ex-prisoner reentry	5
Architecture, atmospheres, and the pains of unattainable affordances: Tracing prisoners’ lived experience in a ‘new-generation’ prison in Switzerland	5
The obsolescence of detention: Versatility, expendability and plasticity in the field of immigration confinement	5
Gauging the totality of criminal legal sanctions and punishment: Implications for research and policy on retribution and deterrence	5
Ruptured alliances: Prosecutorial lobbying, victims’ interests and punishment policy in Illinois	4
Privatisation and accountability in Australian immigration detention: A case of state-corporate symbiosis	4
States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland	4
Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns, Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis	4
Haven't they suffered enough? Time to exoneration following wrongful conviction of racially marginalized minority- vs. majority-group members	4
Arresting movement: The history of German immigration detention beyond the camp	4
Liam Martin, Halfway House: Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care	4
Who cares?: The burdens of care borne by the loved ones of incarcerated men	4
Penal-welfare systems in a (post)colonial world: The rise and disregard of alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers in South Africa	4
Punitive adjustments at the Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa	4
Franklin E Zimring, The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration	3
Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections	3
Life-sentenced prisoners, crime victims, and the multidialog of parole	3
The ideological work of penal reform: How reformers justify penal-welfare hybridization	3
Joshua Dubler and Vincent W Lloyd, Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons	3
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants	3
“The biggest thing you can rob is somebody's time”: Exploring how the carceral state bankrupts fathers through temporal debt	3
“A prison is no place for a pandemic”: Canadian prisoners’ collective action in the time of COVID-19	3
Book Review: On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence by Nicole Bedera BederaNicoleOn the Wrong Side: How Univers	3
Writing from the flesh: A response to my interlocutors	3
Distinguishing peer from non-peer across the criminal justice sector: A taxonomy differentiating peer roles grounded in the insight of those with living experience of the peer mentor role in prison	3
Theorizing a way out of reformist reforms: Gladue reports and penal abolition	3
The politics of rehabilitation within Chinese community corrections: The rise of an enabling and embedded state in a rapidly modernizing society	3
Punishing people through property: Strategic task force inspections at the nexus of criminal and civil legal systems	2
Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective	2
Something in the air: Toxic pollution in and around U.S. prisons	2
Depth in simultaneous familial imprisonment	2
Zoha Waseem, Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi	2
Prosecutors as punishers: A case study of Trump-era practices	2
Making sense of penal difference: Political cultures and comparative penology	2
The risk–gang nexus in Sweden: Penal layering and the uneven topography of penal change	2
Abolition compromised: How state-nonprofit funding dynamics undermine anti-carceral reform	2
A reality check on the digitalisation of prisons: Assessing the opportunities and risks of providing digital technologies for prisoners	2
Groomers, gays, and gender ideology: Why the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative backlash is a moral panic and why criminologists should care	2
Shifting the practice of coercive penal care over time in a problem-solving court	2
Nuances of fragmentation, (mis)recognition and closeness: Narratives of challenges and support during resettlement	2
Paul Friedland, Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France	2
Marisol LeBrón, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico	2
Book Review: Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice, 1st	2
Beyond punishment: Towards a framework of transformative accountability	2
How punitive is pretrial? Measuring the relative pains of pretrial detention	2
Shaping the road to reentry: Organizational variation and narrative labor in the penal voluntary sector	2
Neil Gong, Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles Alex V. Barnard, Conservatorsh	2