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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial39
Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography37
Prison as temporary refuge: amplifying the voices of women detained in prison33
Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud31
Locked up While Locked Down: Prisoners’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic29
Measuring the dark figure of crime in geographic areas: Small area estimation from the Crime Survey for England and Wales26
‘Covid-19 has caused a dramatic change to prison life’. Analysing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the pains of imprisonment in the Scottish Prison Estate26
Incarceration as a Fundamental Social Cause of Health Inequalities: Jails, Prisons and Vulnerability to COVID-1925
The Transformative Power of Trust: Exploring Tertiary Desistance in Reinventive Prisons22
Rethinking how Technologies Harm21
Building Immigrants’ Solidarity with Police: Procedural Justice, Identity and Immigrants’ Willingness to Cooperate with Police21
Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism: A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology21
The Limits of the City: Atmospheres of Lockdown20
‘Playing the Game’: Power, Authority and Procedural Justice in Interactions Between Police and Homeless People in London19
Hope and the Life Sentence18
‘Assisted’ facial recognition and the reinvention of suspicion and discretion in digital policing18
Temporal Clustering of Hate Crimes in the Aftermath of the Brexit Vote and Terrorist Attacks: A Comparison of Scotland and England and Wales16
To trust or distrust?: Unpacking ethnic minority immigrants’ trust in police15
Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse15
Nordic Penal Exceptionalism: A Comparative, Empirical Analysis15
Gender, risk assessment and coercive control: Contradictions in terms?15
The Hybridization of Street Offending in the Netherlands14
Politics and Indigenous Victimization: The Case of Brazil14
Organized crime in cyberspace: How traditional organized criminal groups exploit the online peer-to-peer lending market in China13
Where Two ‘Exceptional’ Prison Cultures Meet: Negotiating Order in a Transnational Prison13
Nested complex crime: Assessing the convergence of wildlife trafficking, organized crime and loose criminal networks13
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States13
Countering Corporate Power Through Social Control: What Does a Social Licence Offer?12
Constituting Child-to-Parent Violence: Lessons from England and Wales12
Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture12
Spatially varying relationships between immigration measures and property crime Types in Vancouver Census Tracts, 201612
‘Our biographies are the same’: Juvenile Work in Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations from the Perspective of a Collective Trajectory12
Talking Good: Analysing Narratives of Desistance in Norway12
Wildlife Trade and COVID-19: Towards a Criminology of Anthropogenic Pathogen Spillover11
This is Denmark: Prison Islands and the Detention of Immigrants11
Through Scandinavia, Darkly: A Criminological Critique of Nordic Noir10
Street Culture Meets Extremism: How Muslims Involved in Street Life and Crime Oppose Jihadism9
Testing the fair process heuristic in a traffic stop context: Evidence from a factorial study with video vignettes9
Transcending the boundaries of punishment: On the nature of citizenship deprivation9
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study9
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector9
Criminal Careers and Early Death: Relationships In the Cambridge Study In Delinquent Development9
Duty Free: Turning the Criminological Spotlight on Special Economic Zones9
When Politicization Stops Algorithms in Criminal Justice9
The Inconvenient Truth About Mobile Phone Distraction: Understanding the Means, Motive and Opportunity for Driver Resistance to Legal and Safety Messages9
Genocide and ecocide in four Colombian Indigenous Communities: the Erosion of a way of life and memory9
The Legitimacy of Change: Adopting/Adapting, Implementing and Sustaining Reforms within Community Corrections Agencies8
‘That Doesn’t Leave You’: Psychological Dirt and Taint in Prison Officers’ Occupational Cultures and Identities8
The Network of Online Stolen Data Markets: How Vendor Flows Connect Digital Marketplaces8
Coercive Control: Patterns in Crimes, Arrests and Outcomes for a New Domestic Abuse Offence8
The Crisis in the Courts: Before and Beyond Covid8
Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The case of human trafficking in the United States8
Abnormal bordering: control, punishment and deterrence in Mexico’s migrant detention centres8
A New Approach for Researching Victims: The ‘Strength-Growth-Resilience’ Framework8
Segregation Seekers: an Alternative Perspective on the Solitary Confinement Debate8
Top bunk, bottom bunk: cellsharing in prisons8
‘God Is Protecting Me … And I Have Mace’: Defensive Labour In Precarious Workplaces8
Crime Control in Japan: Exceptional, Convergent or What Else?8
Neighborhoods, Criminal Incidents, Race, and Sentencing: Exploring the Racial and Social Context of Disparities in Incarceration Sentences8
Carnival, Sexual Violence and Harm at Australian Music Festivals7
The COVID-19 Outbreak as a Trigger Event for Sinophobic Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom7
Overcoming Penal Boundaries: Exploring The Evolution of Retributive Time Through Parole Decision-Making7
Gendered prisons, relationships and resettlement policies; three reasons for caution for imprisoned mothers6
Fear of Economic Cybercrime Across Europe: A Multilevel Application of Routine Activity Theory6
The effects of terrorist incidents on public worry of future attacks, views of the police and social cohesion6
‘Social Care Told me I Had to’: Empowerment And Responsibilization in The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme6
Live Facial Recognition: Trust and Legitimacy as Predictors of Public Support for Police Use of New Technology6
Street Skateboarding and the Aesthetic Order of Public Spaces6
Professional Legitimacy, Identity, and Practice: Towards a Sociology of Professionalism in Probation6
Look Who’s Talking: The Snitching Paradox in a Representative Sample of Prisoners6
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era6
The Carceral City: Confinement and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave6
‘We’re both here to do a job and that’s all that matters’: Cisgender correctional officer recruit reflections within an unsettled correctional prison culture6
Drug Control Policy, Normalization, and Symbolic Boundaries in Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops6
Police Union Political Communications in Canada6
The Resilience of the Russian mafia: An Empirical Study6
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents6
Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model5
Conflict Management in High-Stakes Illegal Drug Transactions5
Are Minorities Subjected to, or Insulated from, Racialized Policing in Majority–Minority Community Contexts?5
‘Suppression on top of oppression’: A symbolic interactionist perspective on the affective experience of incarceration5
Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons5
The Hidden Harms of Prison Life for People with Learning Disabilities5
Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society5
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens5
Domestic Violence Policing of First Nations Women in Australia: ‘Settler’ Frameworks, Consequential Harms and the Promise of Meaningful Self-Determination5
Unravelling the Mystery of Parole in China5
‘Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units5
Inequality in Exposure to Crime, Social Disorganization and Collective Efficacy: Evidence from Greater Manchester, United Kingdom5
Re-assessing the Consistency of Sentencing Decisions in Cases of Assault: Allowing for Within-Court Inconsistencies5
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets5
Predicting the probability of violence in actor–target relational dyads: Self-control and interpersonal provocations as mutual properties5
‘You’re not Serving Time, You’re Serving Christ’: Protestant Religion and Discourses of Responsibilization in a Women’s Prison5
Air Pollution and Violent Criminal Behaviour5
Cheats, Threats and Reflexivity: Organizational Narratives on Policing Organized and Economic Crime5
Policing’s New Vulnerability Re-Envisioning Local Accountability in an Era of Global Outrage5
Extending Procedural Justice Theory to the Chinese Context: The Role of Collective Efficacy5
Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation5
Rehabilitation and dynamic security in the Italian prison: challenges in transforming prison officers’ roles5
Dirty Work? Policing Online Indecency in Digital Forensics5
The Floating Signifier of ‘Safety’: Correctional Officer Perspectives on COVID-19 Restrictions, Legitimacy and Prison Order4
Testing Routine Activity Theory in Mexico4
The antiepistemology of organized abuse: Ignorance, exploitation, inaction4
The Evolution of Protest Policing in a Hybrid Regime4
Does Third-Party Intervention Matter? A Video-Based Analysis of the Effect of Third-Party Intervention on the Continuation of Interpersonal Conflict Behaviour4
Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements4
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research4
Connecting Work To Workers’ Social Past: A Dispositional Analysis of Police Work4
Small Things in Everyday Places: Homelessness, Dissent and Affordances in Public Space4
‘Get to know me, not the inmate’: Women’s Management of the Stigma of Criminal Records4
‘ISIS is not Islam’: Epistemic Injustice, Everyday Religion, and Young Muslims’ Narrative Resistance4
Making Desistance Recognizable: How Ex-Offenders Can Signal Their Desistance From Crime to Employers by Strategic Design4
Politics, Research Design, and the ‘Architecture’ of Criminal Careers Studies4
Safe Haven or Dangerous Place? Stereotype Amplification and Americans’ Perceived Risk of Terrorism, Violent Street Crime, and Mass Shootings4
Regimes of Extreme Permission in Southeast Asia: Theorizing State-Corporate Crime in the Global South4
Exception, Symbolism and Compromise: The Resilience of Treason as a Capital offence4
Hidden victims: the gendered data gap of violent crime4
Investing in crime prevention after the crisis: Social impact bonds, the value of (re) offending and the new ‘culture of crime control’4
Co-Desistance From Crime: Engaging the Pro-Social Dimensions of Co-Offending4
Pathways from Relative Deprivation to Individual Violence: The Effect of Subjective Perception and Emotional Resentment in South Korea4
A world alone: Masculinities, humiliation and aggrieved entitlement on an incel forum3
The Material of Policing: Budgets, Personnel and the United States’ Misdemeanour Arrest Decline3
Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden3
Crime prevention, swarm intelligence and stigmergy: Understanding the mechanisms of social media-facilitated community crime prevention3
Rethinking Prosecutorial Discretion: Towards A Moral Cartography of Prosecutors3
The Meaning of Murder: Family Members in the Lives of Juvenile Homicide Offenders3
Resistance and reproduction: an arts-based investigation into young people’s emotional responses to crime3
Using public priorities to disentangle the dimensions of procedural justice and trustworthiness in police–citizen interactions3
Shadow and Light: Online Narratives of Relationship Dissolution among Former Partners of Incarcerated Men3
Critical Narratives Or Crime Stories? The Ethics And Politics Of Narrative Research In Criminology3
Only One Way To Swim? The Offence And The Life Course In Accounts Of Adaptation To Life Imprisonment3
Procedural Justice, Compliance and The ‘Upstanding Citizen’: A Study of Community Protection Notices3
Cultural Processes Shaping Stop-and-Check Practices and Interaction Dynamics in a Large Dutch City: Police Vulnerabilities, Thought Styles and Rituals3
Governance and Informal Economies: Informality, Uncertainty and Street Vending in China3
Wrongful Conviction as Racialized Cumulative Disadvantage3
Age, Period and Cohort Differences Between the Homicide Trends of Canada and the United States3
Factors Associated With Rape Case Attrition in the South African Criminal Justice System: A National Cross-Sectional Study3
Assessing the Distinct Factors Driving Violent, Drug and Disorder-Related Prison Misconduct from Longitudinal Data in Northern Ireland3
No one blames men in our society’: Indian police officers’ perceptions of female complainants3
Inviting, Affording and Translating Harm: Understanding the Role of Technological Mediation in Technology-Facilitated Violence3
Seasonality and Crime in Orlando Neighbourhoods3
Unintended Consequences? The Effects of Neighbourhood Walkability on Crime in Nine US Cities3
Now with the possibility of parole: Enabling a juvenile lifer’s meaningful review3
Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation3
The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing: An ethnographic study of an amplification spiral3
Assessing the Victim–Offender Overlap in Prison Victimization and Misconduct Among Taiwanese Male Inmates3
Commanding The ‘Art of Killing’: how Virtuosic Performances of Street Culture Disrupt Gang Rules3
Taking the Temperature: An Intersectional Examination of Diversity Acceptance in Canadian Police Services3
Biased Enforcement Expansion? Sociodemographic Differences in Police Drug Testing for Suspected Narcotics Use 1993–20153
An Institutional Perspective to Understand Latin America’s High Levels of Homicide3
A Longitudinal Examination of Building Demolitions on Neighbourhood Crime Rates3
‘They Wouldn’t Believe Me’: Giving a Voice to British South Asian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse3
Violent Conflict in Contemporary Europe: Specifying the Relationship Between War Exposure and Interpersonal Violence in a War-Weary Country3
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment3
Urban housing affordability, economic disadvantage and racial disparities in gun violence: A neighbourhood analysis in four US cities3
Pathways to Drug Dealing in the Middle and Upper Classes: Early Marginalization, Relative Disadvantage and Countercultural Opposition3
Purchasing Sex in Sweden—A Risky Business3
Con Air: exploring the trade in counterfeit and unapproved aircraft parts3
Experimental Criminology and the Free-Rider Dilemma3
Enhancing Punishment or Repairing Harms? Perceptions of Sentencing Hate Crimes Amongst Members of a Commonly Targeted Victim Group2
Exploring and Explaining Non-Compliance with Community Supervision2
Coal Criminals: Crimes of the Powerful, Extractivism and Historical Harm in the Global South2
‘They Might Not Kill You Today but They’re Going to Get You in the End’: The Correctional Subculture and the Schematization of Danger2
Determinants of extortion compliance: Empirical evidence from a victimization survey2
Religious Identity and Delinquency: Comparing Muslim, Christian and Non-Religious Adolescents in the United Kingdom2
The Reality of Rural Crime: The unintended consequences of rural policy in the co-production of badger persecution and the illegal taking of deer2
Planetary Geopolitics, Space Weaponization and Environmental Harms2
Ghost Criminology: A Framework for the Discipline’s Spectral Turn2
Hope, trust and segregation in schools: An analysis of contextual effects on violent and general offending2
Working for the Clampdown: State Repression and Confidence in Legal Authorities in Comparative Context2
Consequences of judging in transitional justice courts2
Is the Sinaloa Cartel a Mafia?2
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain2
More Mind Games: How ‘The Action’ and ‘The Odds’ have Changed in Prison2
‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London2
Nearby Neighbourhood Influences on Adolescent Offending2
Police legitimacy and procedural justice among young Brazilian adolescents: A cross-sectional and time-ordered analysis2
Gun acquisition in Mexico 2012–18: findings from Mexico?s National Crime Victimization Survey2
‘Killing Is Just The Best Solution’: Lynching As Informal Incapacitation2
Unemployment and crime: Experimental evidence of the causal effects of intensified ALMPs on crime rates among unemployed individuals2
Desistance in Context: Understanding the Effects of Subculture on the Desistance Process During Reintegration2
Beyond Carrot and Stick: The Effect of Conflict Resolution on Crime Control in China2
Race and Men’s Imprisonment in the United States: Religious Conservatism, Political Conservatism and Racial Threat2
The End of the Age-Crime Curve? A Historical Comparison of Male Arrest Rates in the United States, 1985–20192
The ‘Screw Boys’ and the ‘Businessmen’: Re-Negotiating Penal Power, Governance and Legitimate Authority Through a Prison Violence Reduction Scheme2
‘A Prison Is a Prison’: Perspectives From Incarcerated Men on the Therapeutic and Punitive Aspects of Halden Prison in Norway2
Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party2
Still the Exception? Challenging Ideas of Gender in Norwegian Policing2
“Treat them as a human being”: dignity in police detention and its implications for ‘good’ police custody2
Leaving ‘home?’ Belonging, break-up and becoming in the police family2
Policing, punishment and comparative penality2
Interrogating Crime, Politics and Insecurity: Introducing the Special Issue2
Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Online Communities and the Broader Misogynistic Landscape2
Disciplinary Neo-Liberalisation and the New Politics of Inequality2
The Political Economy of Crime: Did Universal Credit Increase Crime Rates?1
A legal shot? Police Gun Violence and Individual Accountability in Miami1
The Long Arm Of Welfare Retrenchment: How New Right Socio-Economic Policies In The 1980s Affected Contact With The Criminal Justice System In Adulthood1
ACEs, Places and Inequality: Understanding the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poverty on Offending in Childhood1
The Immigration–Crime Relationship: Evidence Across and Within Vancouver Census Tracts 2003–161
Re-faced and Pornified— A Visual, Narrative Analysis of Sexual Scripts in Police Cases of Image-based Abuse1
Erratum to: Rethinking how Technologies Harm1
Rethinking Perceptions of Crime and Safety in Rural and Remote Communities1
A Disproportionate Risk of Being Executed: Why Pakistani Migrants Are Vulnerable to Capital Punishment in Saudi Arabia1
Situating Crime Pattern Theory Into The Explanation Of Co-Offending: Considering Area-Level Convergence Spaces1
Discipline in New Clothes: The Controversial Use of Punishments in A Montreal Rehabilitation Centre for Young Offenders1
Legacies of Change: Probation Staff Experiences of the Unification of Services in England and Wales1
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study1
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London1
Techniques To Exploit Vulnerabilities: Persuasion And Education In Chinese Police Interrogations1
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance1
Ecocide, Climate Criminals and the Politics of Bushfires1
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–20191
Between Ordinary Harm and Deviance: Evaluating the UK’s Regulatory Regime For Controlling Air Pollution From Wood Burning Stoves1
‘The Usual Suspects’: Knife Crime Prevention Orders and the ‘Difficult’ Regulatory Subject1
Ignored but not Forgotten: The Broken Windows Tipping Point and the Question of Functional Form1
IMMORAL IN PRINCIPLE, UNWORKABLE IN PRACTICE: CANNABIS LAW REFORM, THE BEATLES AND THE WOOTTON REPORT1
Access to Justice in Clientelist Networks1
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan1
Doing Crime Prevention, Doing Gender: Canadian Women’s Responses to Police-Produced Gendered Crime-Prevention Messaging1
Policing County Lines: Responses to Evolving Provincial Drug Markets. By Jack Spicer (Springer, 2021, 253pp, £74.99 hbk)1
When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear1
‘The Anxiety of a Lifetime’—Dealing with Debt in Desistance from Crime1
The Secret Nexus. A Case Study of Deviant Masons, Mafia and Corruption in Italy1
For Better or Worse? Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation1
Seizing the Populist Moment: Towards a New Penal Politics?1
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)1
Perpetration of Violence by Female Sex Workers in Papua New Guinea: ‘We will Crush their Bones’1
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology1
Biographical work and the production of credibility in sex work interviews1
How Priority Ordering of Offence Codes Undercounts Gendered Violence: An Analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales1
Policing Global Hubs: Balancing the Imperatives of Security and Trade1
Criminology and Propaganda Studies: Charting New Horizons in Criminological Thought1
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata1
Sentencing Multiple- Versus Single-Offence Cases: Does More Crime Mean Less Punishment?1
Working with Incarcerated Youth: Emotional Labour and Moral Wages1
Recognizing the Paradigm of the Unknowing Victim and the Implications of Liminality1
Did the Prison Industrial Complex Deliver on Its Promise? Prison Proliferation and Employment in Rural America1
The Colour of Eco-Crime1
The Effect of the Brexit Vote on the Variation in Race and Religious Hate Crimes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland1
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery1
‘There’s A Certain Group of Cops that have their Own Vendetta’: Resident Perceptions of Notorious Police Officers and ‘Cop Clockin’ in the Inner-City1
Beyond Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Domestic and Family Violence and Temporary Migration1
Offending and the Long-Term Risk of Death: An Examination of Mid-Life Mortality Among an Urban Black American Cohort1
An Intersectional Analysis of Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Prevalence, Experiences and Impacts of Victimization1
Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape, and Narrative Politics. By Tanya Serisier (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 259pp. £69.99 hb).1
Social Capital, Mutual Aid and Desistance: A Theoretically Integrated Process Model1
Weather, Light and Darkness in Remote Island Policing: Expanding the Horizons of the Criminological Imagination1
The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion?1
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales1
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue – Shifts In Modern Policing1
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