British Journal of Criminology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Criminology is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales65
‘Where is the Justice?’ Unauthorized Migrants’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Dutch Immigration System45
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–201936
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets34
Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism. By Taylor Seamus (Bristol University Press, 2022, 262 pp. £85.00 hbk)30
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours27
Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’25
Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas25
Talking Good: Analysing Narratives of Desistance in Norway20
The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City18
The War against Civilians: Victims of the “War on Terror” in Afghanistan and Pakistan. By Vasja Badalič (Palgrave, 2019, 257 pp., £49.99 pbk)18
Extending Procedural Justice Theory to the Chinese Context: The Role of Collective Efficacy18
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries17
Corrigendum to: Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse17
Neighborhoods, Criminal Incidents, Race, and Sentencing: Exploring the Racial and Social Context of Disparities in Incarceration Sentences17
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study15
Urban housing affordability, economic disadvantage and racial disparities in gun violence: A neighbourhood analysis in four US cities14
Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines13
The COVID-19 Outbreak as a Trigger Event for Sinophobic Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom13
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence12
Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons12
Dual Liminars: Teenagers and Young People with a Family Member in Prison12
Now with the possibility of parole: Enabling a juvenile lifer’s meaningful review12
Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and “Revolving-Door” Imprisonment in the UK. By D. Maguire (Palgrave, 2021, 243pp, £89.99 hb)12
‘Allowed Deviations’: Co-Governance and Patron–Client Relationships in Chinese Prisons12
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan11
Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial11
‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization11
Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb – A Memoir. By Patrick Magee (Pluto Press, 2021, 272pp. £20.00 hbk)11
Law in the Margins: Economies of Illegality and Contested Sovereignties10
Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach. By Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight (University of Toronto Press, 2016, 280 pp. £32.99 pbk)10
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain10
The Presumption of Harm and Descriptions of Child Sexual Victimization: Sentencing the Victim-Offender10
Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: Exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility9
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study9
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology9
Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations9
Between Remand and Verdict: Ethnic Minority Prisoners’ Legal and Penal Consciousness9
Policing Sport Mega-Events: Security, Spectacle, and Camouflage in Rio De Janeiro. By Pauschinger Dennis (Oxford University Press, 2024, 289pp. £90.00 hbk)9
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata9
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–20199
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London9
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2023, 242 pp., £30.00 pbk)9
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime9
Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right9
Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status9
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era9
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales9
Criminal Court Sentencing: The Case for Specialist ‘Young Adult’ Courts8
Countering Corporate Power Through Social Control: What Does a Social Licence Offer?8
Family Criminology: An Introduction By Amanda Holt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 283 pp. £34.99 pbk)8
The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution8
Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden8
Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime8
Police Union Political Communications in Canada8
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right8
‘I Feel Persecuted. It’s So Distressing and Upsetting, It Is All Too Much’. A Disablist Hate Crime Typology: Intimidation, Exploitation and Brutalization8
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence By Iva Vukušić (Routledge, 2023, 230 pp. £120 hbk)8
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales Vol. IV: The Politics of Law and Order. By David Downes and Tim Newburn (Routledge, 2023, 342pp., £96.00 hbk)8
Situating Crime Pattern Theory Into The Explanation Of Co-Offending: Considering Area-Level Convergence Spaces8
Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales8
More of the Same, Only Worse: COVID-19 and the Administrative Burdens Facing Loved Ones of Incarcerated Men7
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work7
I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care7
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales: Vol III: The Rise and Fall of Penal Hope. By David Downes (Routledge, 2021, 277pp. £96.00 hb)7
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research7
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales7
The Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus7
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance6
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens6
Sentencing without Guidelines. By Rhys Hester (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024, 184 pp. £19.99 pbk)6
Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction6
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents6
Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?6
No Country For ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features Of Global Neo-colonial Penality6
Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements6
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas6
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery5
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–235
Hope and the Life Sentence5
Introduction to Convict Criminology. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £27.99 pbk)5
Policing’s New Vulnerability Re-Envisioning Local Accountability in an Era of Global Outrage5
Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records5
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman5
Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. By Tzanetakis Meropi and South Nigel (eds) (Emerald, 2023, 183pp., open access)5
Still the Exception? Challenging Ideas of Gender in Norwegian Policing5
Does Third-Party Intervention Matter? A Video-Based Analysis of the Effect of Third-Party Intervention on the Continuation of Interpersonal Conflict Behaviour5
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector5
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil5
Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth5
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment5
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada5
The Colour of Eco-Crime5
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers5
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy5
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing5
The Immigration–Crime Relationship: Evidence Across and Within Vancouver Census Tracts 2003–164
Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society4
Witnessing (Dis)engagement: A Framework for Examining Legitimacy in the Criminal Courts4
Discovering Chinese Criminal Procedure4
The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion?4
Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić4
Factoring in Family: Considerations of Parenthood in the Assessment, Enforcement, and Collection of Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs)4
When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear4
Access to Justice in Clientelist Networks4
Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs4
Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting4
Correction to: Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)4
Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation4
‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London4
War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’. By Degenhardt Teresa(Oxon: Routledge, 2024, 192pp. £108 hardback, £31.99 eBook)4
Historical Co-offending Networks: A Social Network Analysis Approach4
Crime And Punishment: Public Opinion And Political Law-And-Order Rhetoric In Europe 1996–20194
Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism: A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology4
The antiepistemology of organized abuse: Ignorance, exploitation, inaction4
Gangs and the Gig Economy: Triads, Precarity and Illicit Work in Hong Kong3
Striking the Balance? On the Relationship Between Public and Private Security in Western Countries3
Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)3
A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent3
Policing, punishment and comparative penality3
Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The case of human trafficking in the United States3
Weather, Light and Darkness in Remote Island Policing: Expanding the Horizons of the Criminological Imagination3
Surveillance Cameras and Resistance: A Case Study of a Middle School in China3
Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime. By Larregue Julien(Stanford University Press, 2024, 252pp. £23.99 pbk)3
Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–233
Correction to: Relational Police Work: How Police Officers Work With, On and Through ‘Personal Relationships’ in a Danish Gang Exit Programme3
Probation, Technical Compliance and the ‘Drowning’ of Hope3
Top bunk, bottom bunk: cellsharing in prisons3
The (In)Stability of Punishment Preferences: Implications for Empirical Desert3
‘You’re Walking into Situations Where You Just Really Don’t Know How It’s Going to Go Down’: The Production of Carceral Space and Risk in Parole Work3
Police-Related Deaths in the United States. By David Baker (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021, 155pp, £73.00hbk)3
Queering Crime Reporting: Representing Anti-queer Violence in LGBTQ News Media3
The Political Economy of Crime: Did Universal Credit Increase Crime Rates?3
Envisioning Social Justice With Criminalized Young Adults3
The End of the Age-Crime Curve? A Historical Comparison of Male Arrest Rates in the United States, 1985–20193
Techniques To Exploit Vulnerabilities: Persuasion And Education In Chinese Police Interrogations3
‘God Is Protecting Me … And I Have Mace’: Defensive Labour In Precarious Workplaces3
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, Volumes 1 and 2. By Paul Rock (Routledge, 2018/2020, 616pp/564pp. £36.99 pbk/£36.99 pbk)3
Managing Trouble Along a Continuum of Accountability: On Police Practices for Dealing with Less-Than-Competent Subjects3
The Radzinowicz Memorial Prize3
Genocide and Victimology. By Yarin Eski (ed.) (Routledge, 2021, 234pp., £96.00 hbk)3
Taking Prison to Court: Exploring the Judicial Review of Prison Decision-Making Through Supreme Court Judges in Israel3
Social Democratic Criminology by Robert Reiner3
Testing Routine Activity Theory: Behavioural Pathways Linking Temperature to Crime3
A world alone: Masculinities, humiliation and aggrieved entitlement on an incel forum3
‘The Anxiety of a Lifetime’—Dealing with Debt in Desistance from Crime3
‘A Prison Is a Prison’: Perspectives From Incarcerated Men on the Therapeutic and Punitive Aspects of Halden Prison in Norway2
US Immigration Politics, Sanctions Threats and Private Prison Corporations’ Stock Market Values2
Pain in Vain: Penal Abolition and the Legacy of Louk Hulsman. Edited by Justin Piché (J. Piché and J. Hulsman Trans.). (Red Quill Books, Ottawa, 2023, 290pp. £26.99 pb)2
Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse2
Desistance Upon Release From Prison: Narratives of Tragedy, Irony, Romance and Comedy2
‘They Wouldn’t Believe Me’: Giving a Voice to British South Asian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse2
No Justice, No Police? The Politics of Protest and Social Change. Edited by Clement Matt (Zero Books, 2023, 356pp. £17.99 pbk)2
Policing and Sense of Place: ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ Security in an English Town2
Reassessing the Criminogenic Risk of the ‘Broken Home’: The Concept of ‘The Good Family’ From the Perspective of Young Offenders in Trinidad and Tobago2
A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and their Pursuit of Dignity. By Allyn Walker (University of California Press, 2021, 236pp. £52.85 hb)2
The Liminality of Fraud: Reimagining Fraud Theory to Inform Financial Crime Prevention2
Social Change, Gender Stratification and the Sex Gap of Homicide Victimization in 76 Countries, 1975–20172
Competing Through Service: Entrepreneurial Bricolage and the Servitization of Local Drug Markets2
Harmful, Expensive and Criminogenic: The Case for Abolishing Detention and Training Orders in England and Wales2
Race and Men’s Imprisonment in the United States: Religious Conservatism, Political Conservatism and Racial Threat2
Sensory Penalties: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control. Edited by Kate Herrity, Bethany E. Schmidt and Jason Warr (Emerald, 2021, 296pp., £70.00 Hbk)2
The Secret Nexus. A Case Study of Deviant Masons, Mafia and Corruption in Italy2
ACEs, Places and Inequality: Understanding the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poverty on Offending in Childhood2
Corrigendum to: Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements2
Desperation on the Battlefield, the Ethnic Security Dilemma, or Economic Competition? Mass Shootings in Chicago’s Gang Wars, 2010–202
Why and How Do Prison Litigation Strategies and Their Cultures Matter?2
The Construction of Capital Among Family Members of People in Prison2
Understanding the Attraction: Prison Tourism and the Public Gaze2
Pulling Back the Curtain on the California Gang Database: Evidence of Racial, Ethnic and Gender Disparities Among 222 Law Enforcement Agencies2
‘Who better to be training them?!’: Renewed Moments of Liberal Carceral Expansion and the Role of Higher Education2
Sentencing Multiple- Versus Single-Offence Cases: Does More Crime Mean Less Punishment?2
The Long Arm Of Welfare Retrenchment: How New Right Socio-Economic Policies In The 1980s Affected Contact With The Criminal Justice System In Adulthood2
Critical Narratives Or Crime Stories? The Ethics And Politics Of Narrative Research In Criminology2
Conceptualizing the Nepalese ‘Gang’2
COVID-19 and the New Pains of Imprisonment2
It’s not just About Poverty: Capital, Inequality, and Antisocial Behaviour in Schools2
Feeling (Un)safe in Prison: A Comparative Analysis of England & Wales and Norway2
Small Things in Everyday Places: Homelessness, Dissent and Affordances in Public Space2
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States2
Disciplinary Neo-Liberalisation and the New Politics of Inequality1
Racial Disparities in Civilian Response to Police Use of Force: Evidence From London1
Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation. By Julie Bindel (Constable Press, 2021, 248pp. £12.99 pb)1
Assessing the Victim–Offender Overlap in Prison Victimization and Misconduct Among Taiwanese Male Inmates1
Invisible Stripes? A Field Experiment on the Disclosure of a Criminal Record in the British Labour Market and the Potential Effects of Introducing Ban-The-Box Policies1
Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box. By David Gordon Scott and Joe Sim (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 561pp. €137.14 hbk)1
Purchasing Sex in Sweden—A Risky Business1
Work, Money and Duality. Trading Sex as a Side Hustle, By Raven Bowen (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, 194pp, £26.99pbk)1
Building Trust and Honouring Agreements in the Supply of Protected Wildlife Products1
Is the Sinaloa Cartel a Mafia?1
The Material of Policing: Budgets, Personnel and the United States’ Misdemeanour Arrest Decline1
A Criminology of Time1
The Transformative Power of Trust: Exploring Tertiary Desistance in Reinventive Prisons1
The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Australia and Indonesia: Asylum Out of Reach. By Antje Missbach (Routledge, 2022, 224 pp. £130 hbk)1
Secrecy as best policy? Stigma management and employment outcomes after release from prison1
Interactional Justice: The role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty. By lisa flower (Routledge, 2020, 220pp. £36.99 pb)1
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex1
Wrongful Conviction as Racialized Cumulative Disadvantage1
Understanding Perceptions of Victimization: A Critical Analysis of Gay and Bisexual Male Grindr Users Negotiations of Safety and Risk1
Discipline in New Clothes: The Controversial Use of Punishments in A Montreal Rehabilitation Centre for Young Offenders1
Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials: Is the Jury Out? By Herriott Charlotte (Routledge, 2023, 190 pp. £120.00 hbk)1
Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability: A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People1
Locked up While Locked Down: Prisoners’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Unintended Consequences? The Effects of Neighbourhood Walkability on Crime in Nine US Cities1
Overcoming Penal Boundaries: Exploring The Evolution of Retributive Time Through Parole Decision-Making1
Seizing the Populist Moment: Towards a New Penal Politics?1
Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement1
Between Democratic Modernization and Authoritarian Punitiveness in Brazil: Mass Incarceration, Political Rationalities and the Dynamics of Subnational Variation1
Gender and (Fictive) Family in a Women’s Post-Incarceration Mentoring Program1
Planetary Geopolitics, Space Weaponization and Environmental Harms1
Ghosts of the Gulag: Negotiating Spectres of the Penal Past in Northern Russia1
Incorporating a One Health Approach Into the Study of Environmental Crimes and Harms: Towards a ‘One Health Green Criminology’1
Coal Criminals: Crimes of the Powerful, Extractivism and Historical Harm in the Global South1
The Radzinowicz Memorial Prize1
Did the Prison Industrial Complex Deliver on Its Promise? Prison Proliferation and Employment in Rural America1
Beyond Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Domestic and Family Violence and Temporary Migration1
Correction to: Inviting, Affording and Translating Harm: Understanding the Role of Technological Mediation in Technology-Facilitated Violence1
Procedural Justice, Compliance and The ‘Upstanding Citizen’: A Study of Community Protection Notices1
Con Air: exploring the trade in counterfeit and unapproved aircraft parts1
Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the College de France 1971–19721
Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith In Crime Prevention Technology By Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson (University of California Press, 2022, 275 pp. £24.00 pbk)1
‘The Usual Suspects’: Knife Crime Prevention Orders and the ‘Difficult’ Regulatory Subject1
‘Robocops’ in the Making: Reframing Police–Citizen Interactions Through the Lens of Body-Worn Cameras1
The Prison as a Space of Non-life: How Does a Typical Prison Sentence Intervene in What Really Matters to People?1
Relational Police Work: How Police Officers Work With, On and Through ‘Personal Relationships’ in a Danish Gang Exit Programme1
Co-offending in context: The role of economic hardship1
Regimes of Extreme Permission in Southeast Asia: Theorizing State-Corporate Crime in the Global South1
The Ideal Client: Selecting Candidates for Drug Treatment in Prison1
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