OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Prison Journal is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Using the Job Demands-Resources Model to Examine Possible Correlates of Fear of Being Victimized at Work Among Chinese Prison Officers	13
25-Year Evaluation of an In-Person Therapeutic Community Program in the Southwest United States between 1994 and 2019	11
Views From the Inside: Insights About Restrictive Housing From Prison System Officials, Officers, and Staff	10
Identifying the Impact of Incarceration on Parenting: An Examination of Incarcerated Parents' Perceptions in the “Reading for a Change” Program in Colorado	9
When Checking a Box is not Enough: The (Un)Readability of PREA Messaging	8
Crafting Convict Criminologists: An Invitation to Join Us in Prison	8
Exploring the Effects of Multiple Dimensions of Organizational Justice on Correctional Staff Job Stress	8
“It Ain’t Home Base No More:” Sentencing Reform and Dynamic County Jail Inmate Politics	8
Security Threat Management in Prison: Revalidation and Revision of the Inmate Risk Assessment for Segregation Placement	7
A Beastly Bargain: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Prison-Based Dog-Training Programs in Florida	7
Male Prisoners’ Perspectives of Access to Quality Health Care at a Prison Infirmary in Ghana	6
“The Course of Love Never Did Run Smooth”: Ex-Inmates’ Attitudes Toward Heterosexual Romantic Relationships	6
The Role of Major Depressive Disorder and its Moderating Effect on the Impact of Exposure to Violence for Predicting Recidivism among Juvenile Offenders: A Survival Analysis Approach	6
Jail Officers’ Adherence to Traditional Bases of Social Power: Understanding Inmate Control in a Unique Correctional Context	6
The Effects of Procedural Justice on Obligation to Obey, and Compliance among Incarcerated Offenders in South Africa	6
What Really Happens in Vegas?: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of Nevada's First Day Reporting Center	6
Ghana Prison Officers’ Understanding and Practices of International Human Rights Instruments and Guidelines that Protect the Rights of Prisoners	6
Suicide in Mexican Prisons: Mental Health Symptomology and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Suicidal Behavior	5
Exploring the Relationship of Organizational Justice with Chinese Prison Staff Life Satisfaction	4
Female Prisoners, Mental Health, and Contact with Family and Friends	4
Themes From Currently Incarcerated Individuals About How to Close the School-to-Prison Pipeline	4
Proposing a Universal Measure of Program Readiness for Adults in Custody: A Pilot Study	3
‘Would You Prefer Jail or Probation?’ Differences in Sanctioning Preferences among White, Black, and Latinx Adults	3
Can Rehabilitation Work in Military Prison? A Theoretical Framework Based on the Israeli Case	3
Exploring the Effects of Organizational Structure Variables on the Organizational Justice Perceptions of Correctional Staff	3

The Golden Anniversary of Mass Incarceration in America	3
Penal Arts Interventions and Hope: Outcomes of Arts-Based Projects in Prisons and Community Settings*	3
Incarcerated Fathers and Their Children in The Netherlands: Demographic and Detention Factors That Affect the Father–Child Relationship: A Secondary Analysis	3
Did COVID-19 Affect News Media Representations of Prisons, Inmates, and Correctional Officers? A Look Prior and Postpandemic	3
Reducing Trauma from Behind Bars: Enhancing Parent-Child Attachment Through a Digitally Distributed Reading Program	3
Drug Use Stigma and Reprisal: Barriers to Prison Needle Exchange in Canada	3
Norfolk’s “Model Prison Community”: Howard Belding Gill and the Social Process of Prison Reform	3
Predicting Prison Misconduct With the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles: A Meta-Analysis	3
Survival Analysis of Time to Opioid Use and the Role of PTSD-Linked Stress Sensitivity for Predicting Onset Risk for Juvenile Offenders Following Adjudication	3
Offence-Specific Interventions for Women Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse: Barriers for Program Implementation in Australia	2
A Brief Relationship Education Pilot Intervention for Men Post Release	2
Transportation Barriers to Successful Reentry among Returning Citizens: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-synthesis	2
Radio What's New? Someone Still Loves You: The Impact of Listening to Prison Radio	2
Walking an EmotionalTightrope: Examining the Carceral Emotion Culture(s) of Federal Prisons for Women in Canada	2
Health-Related Experiences, Needs, and Challenges of Transgender People in Prisons: A Systematic Review	2
Reducing Corrections Officer Stress by Improving Prison Climate: The Importance of Support and Safety	2
Applying the Risk–Need–Responsivity (RNR) Model to Transgender Women in the Criminal Justice System	2
Sexual Behaviors and Desires of Inmates in a Finnish Prison: A Survey Study With Population-Based Comparisons	2
The End of Public/Private Partnership Prisons in the Department of Correctional Services of South Africa	2
Understanding Filipino Jail Detainees’ Self-Harming Behavior: A Grounded Theory Explortion	2
No Family, No Friends: An Instrumental Variable Analysis to Revisit the Reintegration Model in Mexico	2
The “Pains of Employment”? Connecting Air and Sound Quality to Correctional Officer Experiences of Health and Wellness in Prison Space	2
Violent Institutional Misconduct in the Transition from Juvenile to Adult Correctional Facilities	2
Defending the Domestic Abuse Victim/Defendant: Why the Prison Reform Trust's Campaign to Introduce Defences for Offending Driven by Domestic Abuse Is Important	2
Risky Justice of the Law: The Impact of Risk-Assessment Tools on Aboriginal Offenders’ Overrepresentation in Canada's Federal Prisons	2
Views of Community Corrections Supervision and Their Predictors: An Officer and Offender Comparison	2
Prison Changed Me—and I Just Work There: Personality Changes Among Prison Officers	1
Approaches to Successfully Delivering Rehabilitative Services in Prison: Perspectives from Non-Uniform Correctional Staff in Eight States	1
Strain During Reentry: A Test of General Strain Theory Using a Sample of Adult Former Prisoners	1
“Free Spirits”: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Artistic Intervention Program Targeting Imprisoned People	1
“I Chose Motherhood First”: Salvaging the Maternal Identity in Resource-Starved Jails	1
Restorative Justice Programs in Czech Prisons: The Role of Perceived Usefulness and Familiarity with the Program	1
Public Acceptability of Prisoners’ Access and Use of Digital Technologies in the UK	1
Correctional Medical Care for Female Prisoners: Legal Issues Surrounding Inadequate Treatment of Chronic and/or Preexisting Health Conditions	1
A Comparison of Executions and Death to Life Commutations in Kentucky, 1901–2019	1
Understanding and Preventing Ideologically Justified Violence in Custodial Settings: The MICO Paradigm	1
Canadian Provincial and Territorial Correctional Worker Mental Health and Well-Being Study (CWMH): Navigating Practical and Unanticipated Methodological Challenges	1
How Correctional Officers Experience Inmates Suicidal Behavior? – Qualitative Research and Development of The Model of a House	1
Interventions to Prevent Prison Violence: A Scoping Review of the Available Research Evidence	1
Transformative Learning With Mexican Cartel Members: An Exploration of Organized Crime Through Participatory Action Research in Prison	1
An Exploratory Factor Analysis of a Prison Rape Elimination Act Survey in a Women's Prison	1
The ‘Olympic Hurdles’ of Obtaining Federal Benefits for Inmates with Disabilities: A Study of Two Massachusetts County Jails	1
Cycles of Debt and Punishment: A Symposium on Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers	1
The Pains of Imprisonment and Contemporary Prisoner Culture in Canada	1
A Prison to Higher Ed Pipeline: The Education Transition Coordination Program	1
Feminist Ethics and Research with Women in Prison	1
Critical Perspectives on UK Prisons	1
Reducing the Use of Segregation for People with Serious Mental Illness	1
The Correctional Services Canada Institutional Mother Child Program: A Look at the Numbers	1
The Sociology of Contraband: Examining the Correlates of Illicit Drugs, Cellphones, and Weapons in U.S. Prisons	1

The Ghosts Inside: The Historic Struggle to Reclassify Prison Labor, 1967–1979	1
Research Note: When Is a Day Reporting Center Evaluation Not a Day Reporting Center Evaluation? Lessons From a Systematic Review	1
Punishing for the Past (Sometimes): Judicial Perspectives on Criminal History Enhancements	1
Situational Risk Factors for Inmate-on-Staff Assaults	1
Evaluating the use of PTSD Assessment Tools Within the U.S. Prison Setting: An Exploratory Analysis	1