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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial50
Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography42
Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud40
Prison as temporary refuge: amplifying the voices of women detained in prison37
Locked up While Locked Down: Prisoners’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic37
Incarceration as a Fundamental Social Cause of Health Inequalities: Jails, Prisons and Vulnerability to COVID-1934
‘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 Estate32
Building Immigrants’ Solidarity with Police: Procedural Justice, Identity and Immigrants’ Willingness to Cooperate with Police27
The Transformative Power of Trust: Exploring Tertiary Desistance in Reinventive Prisons26
The Limits of the City: Atmospheres of Lockdown25
Rethinking how Technologies Harm25
‘Playing the Game’: Power, Authority and Procedural Justice in Interactions Between Police and Homeless People in London25
Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism: A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology23
Countering Corporate Power Through Social Control: What Does a Social Licence Offer?22
Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture20
Temporal Clustering of Hate Crimes in the Aftermath of the Brexit Vote and Terrorist Attacks: A Comparison of Scotland and England and Wales20
Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse20
The Hybridization of Street Offending in the Netherlands18
Hope and the Life Sentence18
Gender, risk assessment and coercive control: Contradictions in terms?18
Nordic Penal Exceptionalism: A Comparative, Empirical Analysis17
This is Denmark: Prison Islands and the Detention of Immigrants16
Talking Good: Analysing Narratives of Desistance in Norway16
Nested complex crime: Assessing the convergence of wildlife trafficking, organized crime and loose criminal networks15
Wildlife Trade and COVID-19: Towards a Criminology of Anthropogenic Pathogen Spillover13
Constituting Child-to-Parent Violence: Lessons from England and Wales13
‘That Doesn’t Leave You’: Psychological Dirt and Taint in Prison Officers’ Occupational Cultures and Identities13
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States13
Coercive Control: Patterns in Crimes, Arrests and Outcomes for a New Domestic Abuse Offence12
‘Our biographies are the same’: Juvenile Work in Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations from the Perspective of a Collective Trajectory12
Duty Free: Turning the Criminological Spotlight on Special Economic Zones12
The Crisis in the Courts: Before and Beyond Covid12
The Inconvenient Truth About Mobile Phone Distraction: Understanding the Means, Motive and Opportunity for Driver Resistance to Legal and Safety Messages11
Fear of Economic Cybercrime Across Europe: A Multilevel Application of Routine Activity Theory11
Transcending the boundaries of punishment: On the nature of citizenship deprivation11
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector11
Abnormal bordering: control, punishment and deterrence in Mexico’s migrant detention centres10
Genocide and ecocide in four Colombian Indigenous Communities: the Erosion of a way of life and memory10
Street Culture Meets Extremism: How Muslims Involved in Street Life and Crime Oppose Jihadism10
Street Skateboarding and the Aesthetic Order of Public Spaces10
The Network of Online Stolen Data Markets: How Vendor Flows Connect Digital Marketplaces10
The Legitimacy of Change: Adopting/Adapting, Implementing and Sustaining Reforms within Community Corrections Agencies9
When Politicization Stops Algorithms in Criminal Justice9
Domestic Violence Policing of First Nations Women in Australia: ‘Settler’ Frameworks, Consequential Harms and the Promise of Meaningful Self-Determination9
Testing the fair process heuristic in a traffic stop context: Evidence from a factorial study with video vignettes9
Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The case of human trafficking in the United States9
Hidden victims: the gendered data gap of violent crime9
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study9
Criminal Careers and Early Death: Relationships In the Cambridge Study In Delinquent Development9
‘We’re both here to do a job and that’s all that matters’: Cisgender correctional officer recruit reflections within an unsettled correctional prison culture9
Top bunk, bottom bunk: cellsharing in prisons9
Segregation Seekers: an Alternative Perspective on the Solitary Confinement Debate9
Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons9
A New Approach for Researching Victims: The ‘Strength-Growth-Resilience’ Framework8
Inequality in Exposure to Crime, Social Disorganization and Collective Efficacy: Evidence from Greater Manchester, United Kingdom8
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 Festivals8
‘God Is Protecting Me … And I Have Mace’: Defensive Labour In Precarious Workplaces8
Professional Legitimacy, Identity, and Practice: Towards a Sociology of Professionalism in Probation7
The Floating Signifier of ‘Safety’: Correctional Officer Perspectives on COVID-19 Restrictions, Legitimacy and Prison Order7
Ecocide, Climate Criminals and the Politics of Bushfires7
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era7
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
Assessing the Victim–Offender Overlap in Prison Victimization and Misconduct Among Taiwanese Male Inmates7
‘Suppression on top of oppression’: A symbolic interactionist perspective on the affective experience of incarceration7
Dirty Work? Policing Online Indecency in Digital Forensics7
‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London7
Extending Procedural Justice Theory to the Chinese Context: The Role of Collective Efficacy7
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents7
Regimes of Extreme Permission in Southeast Asia: Theorizing State-Corporate Crime in the Global South7
Look Who’s Talking: The Snitching Paradox in a Representative Sample of Prisoners7
ACEs, Places and Inequality: Understanding the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poverty on Offending in Childhood7
Violent Conflict in Contemporary Europe: Specifying the Relationship Between War Exposure and Interpersonal Violence in a War-Weary Country7
Rehabilitation and dynamic security in the Italian prison: challenges in transforming prison officers’ roles7
The antiepistemology of organized abuse: Ignorance, exploitation, inaction6
‘They Wouldn’t Believe Me’: Giving a Voice to British South Asian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse6
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study6
A world alone: Masculinities, humiliation and aggrieved entitlement on an incel forum6
The Hidden Harms of Prison Life for People with Learning Disabilities6
Unravelling the Mystery of Parole in China6
Taking the Temperature: An Intersectional Examination of Diversity Acceptance in Canadian Police Services6
Small Things in Everyday Places: Homelessness, Dissent and Affordances in Public Space6
Making Desistance Recognizable: How Ex-Offenders Can Signal Their Desistance From Crime to Employers by Strategic Design6
The Carceral City: Confinement and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave6
The ‘Screw Boys’ and the ‘Businessmen’: Re-Negotiating Penal Power, Governance and Legitimate Authority Through a Prison Violence Reduction Scheme6
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens6
‘Social Care Told me I Had to’: Empowerment And Responsibilization in The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme6
Factors Associated With Rape Case Attrition in the South African Criminal Justice System: A National Cross-Sectional Study6
Predicting the probability of violence in actor–target relational dyads: Self-control and interpersonal provocations as mutual properties6
Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model6
‘Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units6
Gendered prisons, relationships and resettlement policies; three reasons for caution for imprisoned mothers6
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets6
Police Union Political Communications in Canada6
Policing’s New Vulnerability Re-Envisioning Local Accountability in an Era of Global Outrage5
Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements5
Biased Enforcement Expansion? Sociodemographic Differences in Police Drug Testing for Suspected Narcotics Use 1993–20155
Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society5
Using public priorities to disentangle the dimensions of procedural justice and trustworthiness in police–citizen interactions5
Investing in crime prevention after the crisis: Social impact bonds, the value of (re) offending and the new ‘culture of crime control’5
Air Pollution and Violent Criminal Behaviour5
Politics, Research Design, and the ‘Architecture’ of Criminal Careers Studies5
Illegal Market Governance and Organized Crime Groups’ Resilience: A Study of The Sinaloa Cartel5
An Institutional Perspective to Understand Latin America’s High Levels of Homicide5
‘Get to know me, not the inmate’: Women’s Management of the Stigma of Criminal Records5
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment5
Co-Desistance From Crime: Engaging the Pro-Social Dimensions of Co-Offending5
Unintended Consequences? The Effects of Neighbourhood Walkability on Crime in Nine US Cities5
‘You’re not Serving Time, You’re Serving Christ’: Protestant Religion and Discourses of Responsibilization in a Women’s Prison5
Cheats, Threats and Reflexivity: Organizational Narratives on Policing Organized and Economic Crime5
Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation5
Inviting, Affording and Translating Harm: Understanding the Role of Technological Mediation in Technology-Facilitated Violence5
Does Third-Party Intervention Matter? A Video-Based Analysis of the Effect of Third-Party Intervention on the Continuation of Interpersonal Conflict Behaviour5
Cultural Processes Shaping Stop-and-Check Practices and Interaction Dynamics in a Large Dutch City: Police Vulnerabilities, Thought Styles and Rituals4
Age, Period and Cohort Differences Between the Homicide Trends of Canada and the United States4
Rethinking Prosecutorial Discretion: Towards A Moral Cartography of Prosecutors4
Exception, Symbolism and Compromise: The Resilience of Treason as a Capital offence4
Peyote as Earth Medicine: Examining How Symbolic Meanings Shape Experiences With Psychedelics4
Shadow and Light: Online Narratives of Relationship Dissolution among Former Partners of Incarcerated Men4
Desistance in Context: Understanding the Effects of Subculture on the Desistance Process During Reintegration4
The End of the Age-Crime Curve? A Historical Comparison of Male Arrest Rates in the United States, 1985–20194
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research4
Determinants of extortion compliance: Empirical evidence from a victimization survey4
Exploring and Explaining Non-Compliance with Community Supervision4
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology4
‘They Might Not Kill You Today but They’re Going to Get You in the End’: The Correctional Subculture and the Schematization of Danger4
Urban housing affordability, economic disadvantage and racial disparities in gun violence: A neighbourhood analysis in four US cities4
How Priority Ordering of Offence Codes Undercounts Gendered Violence: An Analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales4
Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation4
Con Air: exploring the trade in counterfeit and unapproved aircraft parts4
Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden4
Assessing the Distinct Factors Driving Violent, Drug and Disorder-Related Prison Misconduct from Longitudinal Data in Northern Ireland4
Testing Routine Activity Theory in Mexico4
Religious Identity and Delinquency: Comparing Muslim, Christian and Non-Religious Adolescents in the United Kingdom4
The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing: An ethnographic study of an amplification spiral4
Pathways from Relative Deprivation to Individual Violence: The Effect of Subjective Perception and Emotional Resentment in South Korea4
The Effect of the Brexit Vote on the Variation in Race and Religious Hate Crimes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland4
Wrongful Conviction as Racialized Cumulative Disadvantage4
Is the Sinaloa Cartel a Mafia?3
Between Ordinary Harm and Deviance: Evaluating the UK’s Regulatory Regime For Controlling Air Pollution From Wood Burning Stoves3
Working with Incarcerated Youth: Emotional Labour and Moral Wages3
No one blames men in our society’: Indian police officers’ perceptions of female complainants3
‘A Prison Is a Prison’: Perspectives From Incarcerated Men on the Therapeutic and Punitive Aspects of Halden Prison in Norway3
Seasonality and Crime in Orlando Neighbourhoods3
Now with the possibility of parole: Enabling a juvenile lifer’s meaningful review3
Techniques To Exploit Vulnerabilities: Persuasion And Education In Chinese Police Interrogations3
‘Killing Is Just The Best Solution’: Lynching As Informal Incapacitation3
Pathways to Drug Dealing in the Middle and Upper Classes: Early Marginalization, Relative Disadvantage and Countercultural Opposition3
Porous Penality and the Myth of Liberal Punishment: Lessons from South Africa3
Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Online Communities and the Broader Misogynistic Landscape3
Working for the Clampdown: State Repression and Confidence in Legal Authorities in Comparative Context3
Ghost Criminology: A Framework for the Discipline’s Spectral Turn3
When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear3
Social Capital, Mutual Aid and Desistance: A Theoretically Integrated Process Model3
Purchasing Sex in Sweden—A Risky Business3
Governance and Informal Economies: Informality, Uncertainty and Street Vending in China3
Border policing at sea: Tactics, routines, and the law in a Frontex patrol boat3
‘There’s A Certain Group of Cops that have their Own Vendetta’: Resident Perceptions of Notorious Police Officers and ‘Cop Clockin’ in the Inner-City3
Coal Criminals: Crimes of the Powerful, Extractivism and Historical Harm in the Global South3
A Longitudinal Examination of Building Demolitions on Neighbourhood Crime Rates3
Policing Global Hubs: Balancing the Imperatives of Security and Trade3
Still the Exception? Challenging Ideas of Gender in Norwegian Policing3
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain3
Procedural Justice, Compliance and The ‘Upstanding Citizen’: A Study of Community Protection Notices3
Critical Narratives Or Crime Stories? The Ethics And Politics Of Narrative Research In Criminology3
The Material of Policing: Budgets, Personnel and the United States’ Misdemeanour Arrest Decline3
Access to Justice in Clientelist Networks2
Law in the Margins: Economies of Illegality and Contested Sovereignties2
Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability: A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People2
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 Policies2
Sentencing Multiple- Versus Single-Offence Cases: Does More Crime Mean Less Punishment?2
Weather, Light and Darkness in Remote Island Policing: Expanding the Horizons of the Criminological Imagination2
Policing, punishment and comparative penality2
Hope, trust and segregation in schools: An analysis of contextual effects on violent and general offending2
Interrogating Crime, Politics and Insecurity: Introducing the Special Issue2
Gun acquisition in Mexico 2012–18: findings from Mexico?s National Crime Victimization Survey2
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata2
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue – Shifts In Modern Policing2
Understanding Perceptions of Victimization: A Critical Analysis of Gay and Bisexual Male Grindr Users Negotiations of Safety and Risk2
An Intersectional Analysis of Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Prevalence, Experiences and Impacts of Victimization2
The Prison as a Space of Non-life: How Does a Typical Prison Sentence Intervene in What Really Matters to People?2
Between Democratic Modernization and Authoritarian Punitiveness in Brazil: Mass Incarceration, Political Rationalities and the Dynamics of Subnational Variation2
Situating Crime Pattern Theory Into The Explanation Of Co-Offending: Considering Area-Level Convergence Spaces2
Planetary Geopolitics, Space Weaponization and Environmental Harms2
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales2
Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party2
Unemployment and crime: Experimental evidence of the causal effects of intensified ALMPs on crime rates among unemployed individuals2
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales2
Does Policing Help or Hurt? Examining the Longitudinal Relationship Between Police Involvement and Delinquency in Norway2
Police legitimacy and procedural justice among young Brazilian adolescents: A cross-sectional and time-ordered analysis2
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–20192
Race and Men’s Imprisonment in the United States: Religious Conservatism, Political Conservatism and Racial Threat2
Disciplinary Neo-Liberalisation and the New Politics of Inequality2
The Reality of Rural Crime: The unintended consequences of rural policy in the co-production of badger persecution and the illegal taking of deer2
Consequences of judging in transitional justice courts2
The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion?2
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime1
Policing County Lines: Responses to Evolving Provincial Drug Markets. By Jack Spicer (Springer, 2021, 253pp, £74.99 hbk)1
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan1
White Nationalism, Politically Motivated Reasoning and Americans’ Attitudes About Criminally Charging Donald Trump1
Re-faced and Pornified— A Visual, Narrative Analysis of Sexual Scripts in Police Cases of Image-based Abuse1
Psycho-Criminological Approaches to Stalking Behaviour: An International Perspective. By Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan and Lorraine L. Sheridan (Wiley, 2020, 432pp., $180.00 hbk)1
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
US Immigration Politics, Sanctions Threats and Private Prison Corporations’ Stock Market Values1
Discipline in New Clothes: The Controversial Use of Punishments in A Montreal Rehabilitation Centre for Young Offenders1
Gender and (Fictive) Family in a Women’s Post-Incarceration Mentoring Program1
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance1
Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs1
‘The Usual Suspects’: Knife Crime Prevention Orders and the ‘Difficult’ Regulatory Subject1
Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa1
Recognizing the Paradigm of the Unknowing Victim and the Implications of Liminality1
The Immigration–Crime Relationship: Evidence Across and Within Vancouver Census Tracts 2003–161
Did the Prison Industrial Complex Deliver on Its Promise? Prison Proliferation and Employment in Rural America1
Plural Governmentalities: Governing Welfare Fraud in Sweden1
The Victimization of Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh: Breaking the Silence - Postcolonial Criminology, Ethnography and Genocide1
The Colour of Eco-Crime1
Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement1
Doing Crime Prevention, Doing Gender: Canadian Women’s Responses to Police-Produced Gendered Crime-Prevention Messaging1
Becoming an Ex-Extremist: Stopping the Hate and Embracing a New Identity1
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers1
The Secret Nexus. A Case Study of Deviant Masons, Mafia and Corruption in Italy1
‘She Was Just Like A Lassie’: Analysing The Views of Cis-Women In Custody About Their Experiences of Living With Transgender Women In The Scottish Prison Estate1
Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth1
Racially Determined Case Characteristics: Exploring Disparities in the Use of Sentencing Factors in England and Wales1
No Country For ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features Of Global Neo-colonial Penality1
Factoring in Family: Considerations of Parenthood in the Assessment, Enforcement, and Collection of Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs)1
The Long Arm Of Welfare Retrenchment: How New Right Socio-Economic Policies In The 1980s Affected Contact With The Criminal Justice System In Adulthood1
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London1
A Decade of Change in the Gendered Organizational Structure of Methamphetamine Markets in the American Midwest1
Ignored but not Forgotten: The Broken Windows Tipping Point and the Question of Functional Form1
From Acculturation to Transculturation?: Police Culture Change in the Pluralized Crime Investigation Department1
Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Cybercrime and Criminal Liability. By Dennis J. Baker and Paul H. Robinson (Routledge, 2021, 280pp. £120 hb)1
Relational Police Work: How Police Officers Work With, On and Through ‘Personal Relationships’ in a Danish Gang Exit Programme1
Erratum to: Rethinking how Technologies Harm1
Righting the Police: How do Officers Make Sense of Human Rights?1
A Disproportionate Risk of Being Executed: Why Pakistani Migrants Are Vulnerable to Capital Punishment in Saudi Arabia1
For Better or Worse? Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation1
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries1
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
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery1
Legacies of Change: Probation Staff Experiences of the Unification of Services in England and Wales1
Criminology and Propaganda Studies: Charting New Horizons in Criminological Thought1
Historical Co-offending Networks: A Social Network Analysis Approach1
Biographical work and the production of credibility in sex work interviews1
A legal shot? Police Gun Violence and Individual Accountability in Miami1
Incorporating a One Health Approach Into the Study of Environmental Crimes and Harms: Towards a ‘One Health Green Criminology’1
Crime And Punishment: Public Opinion And Political Law-And-Order Rhetoric In Europe 1996–20191
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