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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales	65
‘Where is the Justice?’ Unauthorized Migrants’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Dutch Immigration System	45
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–2019	36
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets	34
Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism. By Taylor Seamus (Bristol University Press, 2022, 262 pp. £85.00 hbk)	30
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours	27
Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’	25
Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas	25
Talking Good: Analysing Narratives of Desistance in Norway	20
The War against Civilians: Victims of the “War on Terror” in Afghanistan and Pakistan. By Vasja Badalič (Palgrave, 2019, 257 pp., £49.99 pbk)	18
Extending Procedural Justice Theory to the Chinese Context: The Role of Collective Efficacy	18
The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City	18
Corrigendum to: Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse	17
Neighborhoods, Criminal Incidents, Race, and Sentencing: Exploring the Racial and Social Context of Disparities in Incarceration Sentences	17
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries	17
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study	15
Urban housing affordability, economic disadvantage and racial disparities in gun violence: A neighbourhood analysis in four US cities	14
The COVID-19 Outbreak as a Trigger Event for Sinophobic Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom	13
Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines	13
Dual Liminars: Teenagers and Young People with a Family Member in Prison	12
Now with the possibility of parole: Enabling a juvenile lifer’s meaningful review	12
Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and “Revolving-Door” Imprisonment in the UK. By D. Maguire (Palgrave, 2021, 243pp, £89.99 hb)	12
‘Allowed Deviations’: Co-Governance and Patron–Client Relationships in Chinese Prisons	12
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence	12
Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons	12

Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb – A Memoir. By Patrick Magee (Pluto Press, 2021, 272pp. £20.00 hbk)	11
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan	11
Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial	11
‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization	11
The Presumption of Harm and Descriptions of Child Sexual Victimization: Sentencing the Victim-Offender	10
Law in the Margins: Economies of Illegality and Contested Sovereignties	10
Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach. By Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight (University of Toronto Press, 2016, 280 pp. £32.99 pbk)	10
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain	10
Policing Sport Mega-Events: Security, Spectacle, and Camouflage in Rio De Janeiro. By Pauschinger Dennis (Oxford University Press, 2024, 289pp. £90.00 hbk)	9
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata	9
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–2019	9
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London	9
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2023, 242 pp., £30.00 pbk)	9
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime	9
Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right	9
Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status	9
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era	9
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales	9
Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: Exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility	9
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study	9
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology	9
Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations	9
Between Remand and Verdict: Ethnic Minority Prisoners’ Legal and Penal Consciousness	9
Police Union Political Communications in Canada	8
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right	8
‘I Feel Persecuted. It’s So Distressing and Upsetting, It Is All Too Much’. A Disablist Hate Crime Typology: Intimidation, Exploitation and Brutalization	8
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence By Iva Vukušić (Routledge, 2023, 230 pp. £120 hbk)	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
Situating Crime Pattern Theory Into The Explanation Of Co-Offending: Considering Area-Level Convergence Spaces	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
Countering Corporate Power Through Social Control: What Does a Social Licence Offer?	8
Family Criminology: An Introduction By Amanda Holt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 283 pp. £34.99 pbk)	8
The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution	8
Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden	8
Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime	8
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research	7
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales	7
The Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus	7
More of the Same, Only Worse: COVID-19 and the Administrative Burdens Facing Loved Ones of Incarcerated Men	7
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work	7
‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care	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
Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction	6
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents	6
Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?	6
No Country For ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features Of Global Neo-colonial Penality	6
Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements	6
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas	6
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance	6

The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens	6
Sentencing without Guidelines. By Rhys Hester (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024, 184 pp. £19.99 pbk)	6
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman	5
Policing’s New Vulnerability Re-Envisioning Local Accountability in an Era of Global Outrage	5
Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. By Tzanetakis Meropi and South Nigel (eds) (Emerald, 2023, 183pp., open access)	5
Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records	5
Still the Exception? Challenging Ideas of Gender in Norwegian Policing	5
Does Third-Party Intervention Matter? A Video-Based Analysis of the Effect of Third-Party Intervention on the Continuation of Interpersonal Conflict Behaviour	5
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector	5
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment	5
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil	5
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada	5
Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth	5
The Colour of Eco-Crime	5
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery	5
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers	5
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–23	5
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy	5
Hope and the Life Sentence	5
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing	5
Introduction to Convict Criminology. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £27.99 pbk)	5
Factoring in Family: Considerations of Parenthood in the Assessment, Enforcement, and Collection of Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs)	4
When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear	4
Access to Justice in Clientelist Networks	4
Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs	4
Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting	4
Correction to: Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)	4
Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation	4
‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London	4
War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’. By Degenhardt Teresa(Oxon: Routledge, 2024, 192pp. £108 hardback, £31.99 eBook)	4
Historical Co-offending Networks: A Social Network Analysis Approach	4
Crime And Punishment: Public Opinion And Political Law-And-Order Rhetoric In Europe 1996–2019	4
Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism: A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology	4
The antiepistemology of organized abuse: Ignorance, exploitation, inaction	4
The Immigration–Crime Relationship: Evidence Across and Within Vancouver Census Tracts 2003–16	4
Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society	4
Witnessing (Dis)engagement: A Framework for Examining Legitimacy in the Criminal Courts	4
Discovering Chinese Criminal Procedure	4
The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion?	4
Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić	4