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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism. By Taylor Seamus (Bristol University Press, 2022, 262 pp. £85.00 hbk)	26
Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’	25
‘Where is the Justice?’ Unauthorized Migrants’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Dutch Immigration System	24
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
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours	19
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	17
Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas	17
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets	15
Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines	15
The ‘action/inaction conundrum’ in early interventions to prevent extremism	14
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study	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	13
Iatrogenic Effects and the Myth of the Downfall of Delinquency Prevention: Joan McCord and the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, 1975–2004	13
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries	13
The Social Processes and Integrated Theory of the Credible Messenger	13
The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City	13
Dual Liminars: Teenagers and Young People with a Family Member in Prison	13
Gender-Based Violence Concerns, Trust in Police and Support for Defunding the Police	12
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime	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
‘Allowed Deviations’: Co-Governance and Patron–Client Relationships in Chinese Prisons	12
Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right	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
Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb – A Memoir. By Patrick Magee (Pluto Press, 2021, 272pp. £20.00 hbk)	12
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	11
Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence	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
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan	10
‘Mate, you gone legit?’: Tension and loss in status and desistance	10
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain	10
‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization	10
The Relational Carceral State and the Segregated Origins of Drug Policy: A Du Boisian Perspective	10
Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: Exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility	10
Criminalizing Style: Aesthetic Injustice and Racial Profiling in Sweden	10
The Conducive Environment: Reconceptualizing the Exploitation of Human Beings	9
Marked by Time: How Social Change has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans. By Robert J. Sampson	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
Law in the Margins: Economies of Illegality and Contested Sovereignties	9
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era	9
‘These Men Are Disgusting Losers’: Theorizing the Affective Economies of Digital Justice and Activism	9
Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and Its Legacy. By Paddy Hillyard	9
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata	9
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales	9
Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations	8
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–2019	8
Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales	8
The shifting worlds of welfare surveillance and the consolidation of criminalizing logics	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
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
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology	8
Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status	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
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London	8
‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care	7
More of the Same, Only Worse: COVID-19 and the Administrative Burdens Facing Loved Ones of Incarcerated Men	7
Intersectional Harm and M other hood in the UK Asylum System	7
Family Criminology: An Introduction By Amanda Holt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 283 pp. £34.99 pbk)	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
Dirty Work in Probation: The Breadth and Depth of Taint Amongst Specialist Roles	7
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research	7
The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution	7
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right	7
Skolnick Goes Undercover: A Sketch of the ‘Working Personality’ of a Police Surveillance Officer	7
Should we pay wages for victim participation? Victims’ labour at the International Criminal Court	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
Epistemic Harm: On Zemiology and Epistemic Injustice	7
Criminal Court Sentencing: The Case for Specialist ‘Young Adult’ Courts	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 Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus	7

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