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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying the Impact of Incarceration on Parenting: An Examination of Incarcerated Parents' Perceptions in the “Reading for a Change” Program in Colorado	16
Suicide in Mexican Prisons: Mental Health Symptomology and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Suicidal Behavior	13
Predicting Prison Misconduct With the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles: A Meta-Analysis	13
Did COVID-19 Affect News Media Representations of Prisons, Inmates, and Correctional Officers? A Look Prior and Postpandemic	12
Incarcerated Fathers and Their Children in The Netherlands: Demographic and Detention Factors That Affect the Father–Child Relationship: A Secondary Analysis	12
Commodity, Scarcity and Power in the Carceral Economy	11
Canadian Provincial and Territorial Correctional Worker Mental Health and Well-Being Study (CWMH): Navigating Practical and Unanticipated Methodological Challenges	10
Building Connection Behind Bars: A Process Evaluation of a Relationship-Based Reentry Workshop for Incarcerated Men in Pennsylvania	10
Offence-Specific Interventions for Women Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse: Barriers for Program Implementation in Australia	9
Effects of Prison Security Level on the Violent Misconduct for New Federal Prison Entries	9
Quantifying Fair Chance Policy Implementation and Employer Engagement	9
Critical Perspectives on UK Prisons	8
Through Hope and Struggle: The Impact of “Gaisce – The President's Award” on Young Adults in Irish Prisons	8
An Exploratory Factor Analysis of a Prison Rape Elimination Act Survey in a Women's Prison	6
Perceived Environmental Quality Indicators as Health-Enabling Elements Within Prisons	6
Transformative Learning With Mexican Cartel Members: An Exploration of Organized Crime Through Participatory Action Research in Prison	5
Interventions to Prevent Prison Violence: A Scoping Review of the Available Research Evidence	5
“I Chose Motherhood First”: Salvaging the Maternal Identity in Resource-Starved Jails	5
“Every Day I was Crying about Something”: Lingering Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People Working in Juvenile Prisons	5
25-Year Evaluation of an In-Person Therapeutic Community Program in the Southwest United States between 1994 and 2019	4
Long-Term Impacts of Incarceration Exposure and Social Network Stability in Later Life	4
Correctional Officer Culture in Canada: Proving Oneself for In-Group Acceptance	4
Ghana Prison Officers’ Understanding and Practices of International Human Rights Instruments and Guidelines that Protect the Rights of Prisoners	4
Designing Research to Capture and Understand Variations in Higher Education in Prison	4
“Suffering in Deafening Silence”: Suicide Ideation and Attempted Suicide in the Lives of Incarcerated Rural West Virginia Girls	4

Using the Job Demands-Resources Model to Examine Possible Correlates of Fear of Being Victimized at Work Among Chinese Prison Officers	4
“It Ain’t Home Base No More:” Sentencing Reform and Dynamic County Jail Inmate Politics	4
The Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Social Alienation of Probationers: Evidence from China	4
A Phenomenological Study on the Reintegrating Experiences of Prison Torture Survivors into the Community in Gondar, Ethiopia	4
Security Threat Management in Prison: Revalidation and Revision of the Inmate Risk Assessment for Segregation Placement	4
‘Would You Prefer Jail or Probation?’ Differences in Sanctioning Preferences among White, Black, and Latinx Adults	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
Walking an EmotionalTightrope: Examining the Carceral Emotion Culture(s) of Federal Prisons for Women in Canada	3
Public Acceptability of Prisoners’ Access and Use of Digital Technologies in the UK	3
Female Prisoners, Mental Health, and Contact with Family and Friends	3
Reducing Trauma from Behind Bars: Enhancing Parent-Child Attachment Through a Digitally Distributed Reading Program	3
How Detainment Reshapes the Interpersonal Relationships of Indonesian Incarcerated Youth: A Qualitative Study	3
“Free Spirits”: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Artistic Intervention Program Targeting Imprisoned People	3
Corrigendum to “Enhancing Offender Rehabilitation Through Co-Designed Controlled-Environment Agriculture in an Australian Maximum Security Prison”	3
Penal Arts Interventions and Hope: Outcomes of Arts-Based Projects in Prisons and Community Settings*	3
Examining the Mediating Effects of Organizational Trust on the Relationship between Organizational Justice and Job Attitudes among Correctional Staff	3
Deconstructing the Power Dynamics of Prison Research	2
The Intercultural Sensitivity of Italian Correctional Officers Between Life Satisfaction and Burnout	2
Negotiating Toilet Access: A Qualitative Exploration of Women's Incarceration	2
“The Soul Recognizes Itself in Somebody Else”: The Healing Value of Forgiveness among Formerly Incarcerated People in the Profession Practice of Peer-Support	2
The Experience of Transgender Women Prisoners Serving a Sentence in a Male Prison: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis	2
Right to “Life”: The Cruel Contradiction of Exceptions to the Death Penalty for Pregnant People	2
The Effect of Reading Prisoner Poetry on Stigma and Public Attitudes: Results from a Multigroup Survey Experiment	2
A Narrative Synthesis of Qualitative Studies on Self-harming Behavior in the Correctional Setting	2
What Do Correctional Leaders Think About Faith-Based Programs? Results From a National Survey	2
Views From the Inside: Insights About Restrictive Housing From Prison System Officials, Officers, and Staff	2
The Future of American Jails: A National Survey of Jail Leaders’ Ideals	2
Has Anything Changed? An Analysis of Federal Custodial Litigation Cases Post Kingsley v. Hendrickson	2
Informing Correctional Officer Discretion: A Co-Response Model and the Legal Vulnerabilities Inherent in Prison Work	2
Prison Family Engagement Policies: A Multistate Systematic Review and Content Analysis	2
Examining the Effects of Key Workplace Variables on Job Burnout of Southern Prison Staff	2
Skills and Competencies Incompatible With Crime: A Theory of Criminal Lifestyle Change	2
Digital Justice: Accessibility Factors of Smartphone Apps for Criminal Legal System-Involved People	1
Reducing the Use of Segregation for People with Serious Mental Illness	1
Sexual Behaviors and Desires of Inmates in a Finnish Prison: A Survey Study With Population-Based Comparisons	1
A Brief Relationship Education Pilot Intervention for Men Post Release	1
The End of Public/Private Partnership Prisons in the Department of Correctional Services of South Africa	1
An Ethical Perspective for Telemedicine in Prison	1
Jail Officers’ Adherence to Traditional Bases of Social Power: Understanding Inmate Control in a Unique Correctional Context	1
Understanding the Nature and Prevalence of Sexual Misconduct in the UK Prison and Probation Service	1
A Typology of Family Relationships among Older Adults in Prison	1
The Association Between Anxiety and Time to Community Release in a Sample of Incarcerated Women	1
Facility Improvement in a Thai Prison through Decentralized Management and Alternative Funding	1
Feminist Ethics and Research with Women in Prison	1
Research Note: When Is a Day Reporting Center Evaluation Not a Day Reporting Center Evaluation? Lessons From a Systematic Review	1
Mothering Behind Bars: Exploring the Experiences of Incarcerated Mothers in the Jails of Ilocos Norte, Philippines	1
Applying the Risk–Need–Responsivity (RNR) Model to Transgender Women in the Criminal Justice System	1
The Pains of Imprisonment and Contemporary Prisoner Culture in Canada	1
“The Dogs Saved My Life”: The Role of Prison Dog Programs in the Turning Point Process Among Formerly Incarcerated Men	1
Male Prisoners’ Perspectives of Access to Quality Health Care at a Prison Infirmary in Ghana	1

“Making a Difference”: Unpacking the Positives in Correctional Work and Prison Life From the Perspective of Correctional Workers	1
The ‘Olympic Hurdles’ of Obtaining Federal Benefits for Inmates with Disabilities: A Study of Two Massachusetts County Jails	1
Parole Decision-Making and Empirical Practice: A Survey of Paroling Authorities	1
When Women Talk: Exploring the Voices of Women in Prison Through an Arts-Based Radio Project	1
Correctional Medical Care for Female Prisoners: Legal Issues Surrounding Inadequate Treatment of Chronic and/or Preexisting Health Conditions	1
Defending the Domestic Abuse Victim/Defendant: Why the Prison Reform Trust's Campaign to Introduce Defences for Offending Driven by Domestic Abuse Is Important	1
Radio What's New? Someone Still Loves You: The Impact of Listening to Prison Radio	1
The “Pains of Employment”? Connecting Air and Sound Quality to Correctional Officer Experiences of Health and Wellness in Prison Space	1
Participatory Theater as Fieldwork in Chinese Prisons: A Research Note	1
Statewide Prison Language Mandates: Where Intention and Implementation Diverge	1
Increasing Equity in Pathways to Postsecondary Education for Individuals With Disabilities in Prison	1
Reinterpreting Basic Ideas in Delivering Correctional Services: Making the Most of What We Have	1