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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial	50
Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography	42
Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud	40
Prison as temporary refuge: amplifying the voices of women detained in prison	37
Locked up While Locked Down: Prisoners’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic	37
Incarceration as a Fundamental Social Cause of Health Inequalities: Jails, Prisons and Vulnerability to COVID-19	34
‘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 Estate	32
Building Immigrants’ Solidarity with Police: Procedural Justice, Identity and Immigrants’ Willingness to Cooperate with Police	27
The Transformative Power of Trust: Exploring Tertiary Desistance in Reinventive Prisons	26
The Limits of the City: Atmospheres of Lockdown	25
Rethinking how Technologies Harm	25
‘Playing the Game’: Power, Authority and Procedural Justice in Interactions Between Police and Homeless People in London	25
Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism: A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology	23
Countering Corporate Power Through Social Control: What Does a Social Licence Offer?	22
Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture	20
Temporal Clustering of Hate Crimes in the Aftermath of the Brexit Vote and Terrorist Attacks: A Comparison of Scotland and England and Wales	20
Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse	20
The Hybridization of Street Offending in the Netherlands	18
Hope and the Life Sentence	18
Gender, risk assessment and coercive control: Contradictions in terms?	18
Nordic Penal Exceptionalism: A Comparative, Empirical Analysis	17
This is Denmark: Prison Islands and the Detention of Immigrants	16
Talking Good: Analysing Narratives of Desistance in Norway	16
Nested complex crime: Assessing the convergence of wildlife trafficking, organized crime and loose criminal networks	15
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States	13

Wildlife Trade and COVID-19: Towards a Criminology of Anthropogenic Pathogen Spillover	13
Constituting Child-to-Parent Violence: Lessons from England and Wales	13
‘That Doesn’t Leave You’: Psychological Dirt and Taint in Prison Officers’ Occupational Cultures and Identities	13
The Crisis in the Courts: Before and Beyond Covid	12
Coercive Control: Patterns in Crimes, Arrests and Outcomes for a New Domestic Abuse Offence	12
‘Our biographies are the same’: Juvenile Work in Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations from the Perspective of a Collective Trajectory	12
Duty Free: Turning the Criminological Spotlight on Special Economic Zones	12
The Inconvenient Truth About Mobile Phone Distraction: Understanding the Means, Motive and Opportunity for Driver Resistance to Legal and Safety Messages	11
Fear of Economic Cybercrime Across Europe: A Multilevel Application of Routine Activity Theory	11
Transcending the boundaries of punishment: On the nature of citizenship deprivation	11
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector	11
Abnormal bordering: control, punishment and deterrence in Mexico’s migrant detention centres	10
Genocide and ecocide in four Colombian Indigenous Communities: the Erosion of a way of life and memory	10
Street Culture Meets Extremism: How Muslims Involved in Street Life and Crime Oppose Jihadism	10
Street Skateboarding and the Aesthetic Order of Public Spaces	10
The Network of Online Stolen Data Markets: How Vendor Flows Connect Digital Marketplaces	10
The Legitimacy of Change: Adopting/Adapting, Implementing and Sustaining Reforms within Community Corrections Agencies	9
When Politicization Stops Algorithms in Criminal Justice	9
Domestic Violence Policing of First Nations Women in Australia: ‘Settler’ Frameworks, Consequential Harms and the Promise of Meaningful Self-Determination	9
Testing the fair process heuristic in a traffic stop context: Evidence from a factorial study with video vignettes	9
Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The case of human trafficking in the United States	9
Hidden victims: the gendered data gap of violent crime	9
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study	9
Criminal Careers and Early Death: Relationships In the Cambridge Study In Delinquent Development	9
‘We’re both here to do a job and that’s all that matters’: Cisgender correctional officer recruit reflections within an unsettled correctional prison culture	9
Top bunk, bottom bunk: cellsharing in prisons	9
Segregation Seekers: an Alternative Perspective on the Solitary Confinement Debate	9
Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons	9
‘God Is Protecting Me … And I Have Mace’: Defensive Labour In Precarious Workplaces	8
A New Approach for Researching Victims: The ‘Strength-Growth-Resilience’ Framework	8
Inequality in Exposure to Crime, Social Disorganization and Collective Efficacy: Evidence from Greater Manchester, United Kingdom	8
Neighborhoods, Criminal Incidents, Race, and Sentencing: Exploring the Racial and Social Context of Disparities in Incarceration Sentences	8
Carnival, Sexual Violence and Harm at Australian Music Festivals	8
Rehabilitation and dynamic security in the Italian prison: challenges in transforming prison officers’ roles	7
Professional Legitimacy, Identity, and Practice: Towards a Sociology of Professionalism in Probation	7
The Floating Signifier of ‘Safety’: Correctional Officer Perspectives on COVID-19 Restrictions, Legitimacy and Prison Order	7
Ecocide, Climate Criminals and the Politics of Bushfires	7
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era	7
The COVID-19 Outbreak as a Trigger Event for Sinophobic Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom	7
Overcoming Penal Boundaries: Exploring The Evolution of Retributive Time Through Parole Decision-Making	7
Assessing the Victim–Offender Overlap in Prison Victimization and Misconduct Among Taiwanese Male Inmates	7
‘Suppression on top of oppression’: A symbolic interactionist perspective on the affective experience of incarceration	7
Dirty Work? Policing Online Indecency in Digital Forensics	7
‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London	7
Extending Procedural Justice Theory to the Chinese Context: The Role of Collective Efficacy	7
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents	7
Regimes of Extreme Permission in Southeast Asia: Theorizing State-Corporate Crime in the Global South	7
Look Who’s Talking: The Snitching Paradox in a Representative Sample of Prisoners	7
ACEs, Places and Inequality: Understanding the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poverty on Offending in Childhood	7
Violent Conflict in Contemporary Europe: Specifying the Relationship Between War Exposure and Interpersonal Violence in a War-Weary Country	7

The antiepistemology of organized abuse: Ignorance, exploitation, inaction	6
‘They Wouldn’t Believe Me’: Giving a Voice to British South Asian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse	6
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study	6
The Hidden Harms of Prison Life for People with Learning Disabilities	6
A world alone: Masculinities, humiliation and aggrieved entitlement on an incel forum	6
Unravelling the Mystery of Parole in China	6
Taking the Temperature: An Intersectional Examination of Diversity Acceptance in Canadian Police Services	6
Small Things in Everyday Places: Homelessness, Dissent and Affordances in Public Space	6
Making Desistance Recognizable: How Ex-Offenders Can Signal Their Desistance From Crime to Employers by Strategic Design	6
The Carceral City: Confinement and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave	6
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens	6
The ‘Screw Boys’ and the ‘Businessmen’: Re-Negotiating Penal Power, Governance and Legitimate Authority Through a Prison Violence Reduction Scheme	6
‘Social Care Told me I Had to’: Empowerment And Responsibilization in The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme	6
Factors Associated With Rape Case Attrition in the South African Criminal Justice System: A National Cross-Sectional Study	6
Predicting the probability of violence in actor–target relational dyads: Self-control and interpersonal provocations as mutual properties	6
Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model	6
‘Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units	6
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets	6
Gendered prisons, relationships and resettlement policies; three reasons for caution for imprisoned mothers	6
Police Union Political Communications in Canada	6
Cheats, Threats and Reflexivity: Organizational Narratives on Policing Organized and Economic Crime	5
Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation	5
Inviting, Affording and Translating Harm: Understanding the Role of Technological Mediation in Technology-Facilitated Violence	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
Policing’s New Vulnerability Re-Envisioning Local Accountability in an Era of Global Outrage	5
Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements	5
Biased Enforcement Expansion? Sociodemographic Differences in Police Drug Testing for Suspected Narcotics Use 1993–2015	5
Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society	5
Using public priorities to disentangle the dimensions of procedural justice and trustworthiness in police–citizen interactions	5
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 Behaviour	5
Politics, Research Design, and the ‘Architecture’ of Criminal Careers Studies	5
Illegal Market Governance and Organized Crime Groups’ Resilience: A Study of The Sinaloa Cartel	5
An Institutional Perspective to Understand Latin America’s High Levels of Homicide	5
‘Get to know me, not the inmate’: Women’s Management of the Stigma of Criminal Records	5
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment	5
Co-Desistance From Crime: Engaging the Pro-Social Dimensions of Co-Offending	5
Unintended Consequences? The Effects of Neighbourhood Walkability on Crime in Nine US Cities	5
‘You’re not Serving Time, You’re Serving Christ’: Protestant Religion and Discourses of Responsibilization in a Women’s Prison	5