OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Criminology is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism. By Taylor Seamus (Bristol University Press, 2022, 262 pp. £85.00 hbk)	27
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours	25
Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’	25
‘Where is the Justice?’ Unauthorized Migrants’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Dutch Immigration System	23
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–2019	20
Unraveling Gender Equality: Gender Equality Domain-Specific Analysis of Cross-National Female Homicide Victimization	20
The street crime paradox: An ethnographic study of the attractions and repulsions of street culture	19
‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales	18
Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas	17
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets	17
Dual Liminars: Teenagers and Young People with a Family Member in Prison	15
Gender-Based Violence Concerns, Trust in Police and Support for Defunding the Police	14
The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City	14
Iatrogenic Effects and the Myth of the Downfall of Delinquency Prevention: Joan McCord and the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, 1975–2004	13
Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines	13
Justice After Grenfell? Crime, Harm and Structural Inequality	13
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence	12
Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb – A Memoir. By Patrick Magee (Pluto Press, 2021, 272pp. £20.00 hbk)	12
Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right	12
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime	12
The Social Processes and Integrated Theory of the Credible Messenger	12
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries	12
The ‘action/inaction conundrum’ in early interventions to prevent extremism	12
Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence	12
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study	12

‘Allowed Deviations’: Co-Governance and Patron–Client Relationships in Chinese Prisons	12
Policing Sport Mega-Events: Security, Spectacle, and Camouflage in Rio De Janeiro. By Pauschinger Dennis (Oxford University Press, 2024, 289pp. £90.00 hbk)	12
Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach. By Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight (University of Toronto Press, 2016, 280 pp. £32.99 pbk)	12
The Presumption of Harm and Descriptions of Child Sexual Victimization: Sentencing the Victim-Offender	11
Offence-supportive cognitions of individuals with a history of using child sexual exploitation materials: The influence of early maladaptive schemas and compulsive sexual behaviours	11
Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: Exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility	11
Criminalizing Style: Aesthetic Injustice and Racial Profiling in Sweden	10
The Conducive Environment: Reconceptualizing the Exploitation of Human Beings	10
‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization	10
Law in the Margins: Economies of Illegality and Contested Sovereignties	10
Mimicry and Mobility: Exploring the Travels and Assemblages of Work-Related Crime Policy	10
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain	10
The Relational Carceral State and the Segregated Origins of Drug Policy: A Du Boisian Perspective	10
‘These Men Are Disgusting Losers’: Theorizing the Affective Economies of Digital Justice and Activism	9
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata	9
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan	9
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster	9
‘Should I Call the Police?’ Exploring Public Views on Whether to Invoke Police in Incidents Involving People with Vulnerabilities	9
‘Mate, you gone legit?’: Tension and loss in status and desistance	9
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London	9
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era	9
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology	8
The shifting worlds of welfare surveillance and the consolidation of criminalizing logics	8
Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales	8
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales	8
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–2019	8
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence By Iva Vukušić (Routledge, 2023, 230 pp. £120 hbk)	8
Intersectional Harm and M other hood in the UK Asylum System	8
Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status	8
Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations	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
Mano Dura v. Uneasy Peace in El Salvador: Effects of Tough-on-Crime and Gang Truce Policies in the Former Murder Capital of the World	8
Systemic Violence, Social Harms and Necropolitics: The Interaction of Prison and Life ‘on Road’ for Women Engaged in Sexual Commerce in East London	7
‘I Feel Persecuted. It’s So Distressing and Upsetting, It Is All Too Much’. A Disablist Hate Crime Typology: Intimidation, Exploitation and Brutalization	7
Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime	7
The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution	7
More of the Same, Only Worse: COVID-19 and the Administrative Burdens Facing Loved Ones of Incarcerated Men	7
Family Criminology: An Introduction By Amanda Holt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 283 pp. £34.99 pbk)	7
Criminal Court Sentencing: The Case for Specialist ‘Young Adult’ Courts	7
Epistemic Harm: On Zemiology and Epistemic Injustice	7
‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care	7
Skolnick Goes Undercover: A Sketch of the ‘Working Personality’ of a Police Surveillance Officer	7
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right	7
Dirty Work in Probation: The Breadth and Depth of Taint Amongst Specialist Roles	6
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)	6
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales	6
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens	6
Vulnerability and policing: The views of service providers and users	6
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research	6
Contested Boundaries and Perceptions of Inter-ethnic Disorder	6

Criminalizing ‘female genital mutilation’: Where is the harm?	6
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas	6
The Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus	6
Should we pay wages for victim participation? Victims’ labour at the International Criminal Court	6
No Country For ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features Of Global Neo-colonial Penality	6
Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction	6
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance	6
Blue walls and black boxes: Theorizing the politics of knowledge in police technology	5
Empowering Victims/Survivors or Restorative Washing? Institutional and Clerical Sexual Abuse of School Children and Restorative Justice	5
Non-intimate femicide in England and Wales: A ‘continua’ approach	5
Procedural Violence in Chinese Criminal Courtrooms	5
The Mischaracterization of Restorative Justice: Claims, Limits, and Potential	5
Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth	5
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers	5
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman	5
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment	5
‘Hug-a-hoods’, ‘Ra Men’ and ‘Touts’: Legitimizing Restorative Justice to the Community in Northern Ireland	5
Colonization and Its Legacy: The Correlates of Indigenous Arrest	5
Sentencing without Guidelines. By Rhys Hester (Temple University Press, 2024, 184 pp. £19.99 pbk)	5
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy	5
Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records	5
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil	5
Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?	5
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work	5
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing	5
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery	5
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)	4
Policing, punishment and comparative penality	4
Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation	4
Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić	4
Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)	4
Introduction to Convict Criminology. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £27.99 pbk)	4
Violence, Conflicts and Weapons in the World of Financial–Economic Cybercrime	4
War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’. By Teresa Degenhardt (Routledge, 2024, 192pp. £108 hbk.)	4
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–23	4
Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs	4
Unexceptional Patterns of Solitary Confinement: Cycling and Re-entry Shocks Within the Prison	4
Managing Trouble Along a Continuum of Accountability: On Police Practices for Dealing with Less-Than-Competent Subjects	4
Historical Co-offending Networks: A Social Network Analysis Approach	4
Intimate partner abuse and the possibility of restorative justice in England: A kaleidoscopic justice analysis	4
Factoring in Family: Considerations of Parenthood in the Assessment, Enforcement, and Collection of Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs)	4
Dissecting Cross-Border Bride Trafficking to China: A Crime Script Analysis Approach	4
Should ‘Moral Taint’ Be a Factor in Police Technology Procurement? The Case of Cellebrite	4
Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. By Tzanetakis Meropi and South Nigel (eds) (Emerald, 2023, 183pp., open access)	4
‘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 Work	4
Correction to: Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)	4
Striking the Balance? On the Relationship Between Public and Private Security in Western Countries	4
The Radzinowicz Memorial Prize	4
Crime And Punishment: Public Opinion And Political Law-And-Order Rhetoric In Europe 1996–2019	4
Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting	4
When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear	4
Discovering Chinese Criminal Procedure	4
Online and Offline Stalking Victimisation in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Its Predictors and Victim/Survivors’ Views on Criminalisation	4
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada	4
Witnessing (Dis)engagement: A Framework for Examining Legitimacy in the Criminal Courts	4
The Colour of Eco-Crime	4
The (In)Stability of Punishment Preferences: Implications for Empirical Desert	4