OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Criminology is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism. By Taylor Seamus (Bristol University Press, 2022, 262 pp. £85.00 hbk)	30
‘Where is the Justice?’ Unauthorized Migrants’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Dutch Immigration System	28
The street crime paradox: An ethnographic study of the attractions and repulsions of street culture	28
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets	22
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours	22
Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’	21
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–2019	21
Unraveling Gender Equality: Gender Equality Domain-Specific Analysis of Cross-National Female Homicide Victimization	20
‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales	19
Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines	17
Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas	17
The ‘action/inaction conundrum’ in early interventions to prevent extremism	17
The Social Processes and Integrated Theory of the Credible Messenger	16
Gender-Based Violence Concerns, Trust in Police and Support for Defunding the Police	15
Iatrogenic Effects and the Myth of the Downfall of Delinquency Prevention: Joan McCord and the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, 1975–2004	15
The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City	15
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study	14
Justice After Grenfell? Crime, Harm and Structural Inequality	14
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence	14
Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb – A Memoir. By Patrick Magee (Pluto Press, 2021, 272pp. £20.00 hbk)	14
‘Allowed Deviations’: Co-Governance and Patron–Client Relationships in Chinese Prisons	14
Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach. By Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight (University of Toronto Press, 2016, 280 pp. £32.99 pbk)	13
Policing Sport Mega-Events: Security, Spectacle, and Camouflage in Rio De Janeiro. By Pauschinger Dennis (Oxford University Press, 2024, 289pp. £90.00 hbk)	13
Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence	13
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime	13

Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right	13
Mimicry and Mobility: Exploring the Travels and Assemblages of Work-Related Crime Policy	12
The Presumption of Harm and Descriptions of Child Sexual Victimization: Sentencing the Victim-Offender	12
Offence-supportive cognitions of individuals with a history of using child sexual exploitation materials: The influence of early maladaptive schemas and compulsive sexual behaviours	12
Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: Exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility	12
‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization	12
Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and Its Legacy. By Paddy Hillyard	11
The Relational Carceral State and the Segregated Origins of Drug Policy: A Du Boisian Perspective	11
Marked by Time: How Social Change has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans. By Robert J. Sampson	11
‘Mate, you gone legit?’: Tension and loss in status and desistance	11
Criminalizing Style: Aesthetic Injustice and Racial Profiling in Sweden	10
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales	10
The Conducive Environment: Reconceptualizing the Exploitation of Human Beings	10
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain	10
The shifting worlds of welfare surveillance and the consolidation of criminalizing logics	10
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan	10
Law in the Margins: Economies of Illegality and Contested Sovereignties	10
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster	10
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–2019	9
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	9
‘Should I Call the Police?’ Exploring Public Views on Whether to Invoke Police in Incidents Involving People with Vulnerabilities	9
Money justice and wrongful conviction: A new framework for compensation after Andrew Malkinson and the Post Office Scandal	9
Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations	9
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology	9
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London	9
Skolnick Goes Undercover: A Sketch of the ‘Working Personality’ of a Police Surveillance Officer	8
Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status	8
Exceptional measures, ordinary practice: Harm, power and resilience in pre-trial decision-making	8
Should we pay wages for victim participation? Victims’ labour at the International Criminal Court	8
Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales	8
Criminal Court Sentencing: The Case for Specialist ‘Young Adult’ Courts	8
The emergence of criminology in Britain: A systematic review of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London , 1838–57	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
Intersectional Harm and M other hood in the UK Asylum System	8
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right	8
Family Criminology: An Introduction By Amanda Holt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 283 pp. £34.99 pbk)	8
‘These Men Are Disgusting Losers’: Theorizing the Affective Economies of Digital Justice and Activism	8
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence By Iva Vukušić (Routledge, 2023, 230 pp. £120 hbk)	8
Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime	8
The Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus	8
The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution	8
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens	7
Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction	7
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance	7
‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care	7
Systemic Violence, Social Harms and Necropolitics: The Interaction of Prison and Life ‘on Road’ for Women Engaged in Sexual Commerce in East London	7
‘Hug-a-hoods’, ‘Ra Men’ and ‘Touts’: Legitimizing Restorative Justice to the Community in Northern Ireland	7
Procedural Violence in Chinese Criminal Courtrooms	7
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work	7
Contested Boundaries and Perceptions of Inter-ethnic Disorder	7

Epistemic Harm: On Zemiology and Epistemic Injustice	7
Dirty Work in Probation: The Breadth and Depth of Taint Amongst Specialist Roles	7
Non-intimate femicide in England and Wales: A ‘continua’ approach	7
Vulnerability and policing: The views of service providers and users	7
Criminalizing ‘female genital mutilation’: Where is the harm?	7
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research	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
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
Colonization and Its Legacy: The Correlates of Indigenous Arrest	6
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales	6
The Mischaracterization of Restorative Justice: Claims, Limits, and Potential	6
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing	6
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas	6
No Country For ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features Of Global Neo-colonial Penality	6
Violence, Conflicts and Weapons in the World of Financial–Economic Cybercrime	6
Carrying the risk: The production of vulnerability among drug couriers in China	6
Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?	6
Sentencing without Guidelines. By Rhys Hester (Temple University Press, 2024, 184 pp. £19.99 pbk)	6
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman	6
Empowering Victims/Survivors or Restorative Washing? Institutional and Clerical Sexual Abuse of School Children and Restorative Justice	6
War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’. By Teresa Degenhardt (Routledge, 2024, 192pp. £108 hbk.)	5
Introduction to Convict Criminology. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £27.99 pbk)	5
Online and Offline Stalking Victimisation in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Its Predictors and Victim/Survivors’ Views on Criminalisation	5
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy	5
Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records	5
Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth	5
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada	5
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–23	5
Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. By Tzanetakis Meropi and South Nigel (eds) (Emerald, 2023, 183pp., open access)	5
Dissecting Cross-Border Bride Trafficking to China: A Crime Script Analysis Approach	5
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil	5
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers	5
Discipline-switching through a Bourdieusian lens: Examining the experiences of academics moving into criminology	5
Should ‘Moral Taint’ Be a Factor in Police Technology Procurement? The Case of Cellebrite	5
Making up people involved in drug markets: Punishment and protection in the policing of UK county lines	5
Blue walls and black boxes: Theorizing the politics of knowledge in police technology	5
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery	5