OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Prison Journal is 2. 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
Identifying the Impact of Incarceration on Parenting: An Examination of Incarcerated Parents' Perceptions in the “Reading for a Change” Program in Colorado	12
Suicide in Mexican Prisons: Mental Health Symptomology and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Suicidal Behavior	10
Did COVID-19 Affect News Media Representations of Prisons, Inmates, and Correctional Officers? A Look Prior and Postpandemic	9
Transportation Barriers to Successful Reentry among Returning Citizens: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-synthesis	9
Predicting Prison Misconduct With the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles: A Meta-Analysis	9
Incarcerated Fathers and Their Children in The Netherlands: Demographic and Detention Factors That Affect the Father–Child Relationship: A Secondary Analysis	9
Effects of Prison Security Level on the Violent Misconduct for New Federal Prison Entries	8
Offence-Specific Interventions for Women Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse: Barriers for Program Implementation in Australia	8
Critical Perspectives on UK Prisons	7
“I Chose Motherhood First”: Salvaging the Maternal Identity in Resource-Starved Jails	7
Canadian Provincial and Territorial Correctional Worker Mental Health and Well-Being Study (CWMH): Navigating Practical and Unanticipated Methodological Challenges	7
Perceived Environmental Quality Indicators as Health-Enabling Elements Within Prisons	7
A Comparison of Executions and Death to Life Commutations in Kentucky, 1901–2019	7
Interventions to Prevent Prison Violence: A Scoping Review of the Available Research Evidence	7
An Exploratory Factor Analysis of a Prison Rape Elimination Act Survey in a Women's Prison	6
Transformative Learning With Mexican Cartel Members: An Exploration of Organized Crime Through Participatory Action Research in Prison	6
Through Hope and Struggle: The Impact of “Gaisce – The President's Award” on Young Adults in Irish Prisons	5
“It Ain’t Home Base No More:” Sentencing Reform and Dynamic County Jail Inmate Politics	4
A Phenomenological Study on the Reintegrating Experiences of Prison Torture Survivors into the Community in Gondar, Ethiopia	4
“Suffering in Deafening Silence”: Suicide Ideation and Attempted Suicide in the Lives of Incarcerated Rural West Virginia Girls	4
Correctional Officer Culture in Canada: Proving Oneself for In-Group Acceptance	4
The Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Social Alienation of Probationers: Evidence from China	4
“Every Day I was Crying about Something”: Lingering Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People Working in Juvenile Prisons	4
Security Threat Management in Prison: Revalidation and Revision of the Inmate Risk Assessment for Segregation Placement	3
Ghana Prison Officers’ Understanding and Practices of International Human Rights Instruments and Guidelines that Protect the Rights of Prisoners	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
25-Year Evaluation of an In-Person Therapeutic Community Program in the Southwest United States between 1994 and 2019	3
Reducing Trauma from Behind Bars: Enhancing Parent-Child Attachment Through a Digitally Distributed Reading Program	3
Penal Arts Interventions and Hope: Outcomes of Arts-Based Projects in Prisons and Community Settings*	3
Using the Job Demands-Resources Model to Examine Possible Correlates of Fear of Being Victimized at Work Among Chinese Prison Officers	3
Female Prisoners, Mental Health, and Contact with Family and Friends	3
‘Would You Prefer Jail or Probation?’ Differences in Sanctioning Preferences among White, Black, and Latinx Adults	3
The Future of American Jails: A National Survey of Jail Leaders’ Ideals	2
“Free Spirits”: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Artistic Intervention Program Targeting Imprisoned People	2
The Intercultural Sensitivity of Italian Correctional Officers Between Life Satisfaction and Burnout	2
A Narrative Synthesis of Qualitative Studies on Self-harming Behavior in the Correctional Setting	2
Negotiating Toilet Access: A Qualitative Exploration of Women's Incarceration	2
Public Acceptability of Prisoners’ Access and Use of Digital Technologies in the UK	2
“We’re Silent Heroes”: Inmate Firefighters’ Experiences with Dignity and Shame in a Prison Labor Program	2
The Effect of Reading Prisoner Poetry on Stigma and Public Attitudes: Results from a Multigroup Survey Experiment	2
Right to “Life”: The Cruel Contradiction of Exceptions to the Death Penalty for Pregnant People	2
What Do Correctional Leaders Think About Faith-Based Programs? Results From a National Survey	2
Walking an EmotionalTightrope: Examining the Carceral Emotion Culture(s) of Federal Prisons for Women in Canada	2
Examining the Mediating Effects of Organizational Trust on the Relationship between Organizational Justice and Job Attitudes among Correctional Staff	2
Has Anything Changed? An Analysis of Federal Custodial Litigation Cases Post Kingsley v. Hendrickson	2
Deconstructing the Power Dynamics of Prison Research	2
Informing Correctional Officer Discretion: A Co-Response Model and the Legal Vulnerabilities Inherent in Prison Work	2