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

Article	Citations
Norfolk’s “Model Prison Community”: Howard Belding Gill and the Social Process of Prison Reform	13
The Experience of Transgender Women Prisoners Serving a Sentence in a Male Prison: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis	10
The Effect of Time Spent in Prison and Coping Styles on Psychological Distress in Inmates	10
Exploring the Effects of Organizational Structure Variables on the Organizational Justice Perceptions of Correctional Staff	9
Transportation Barriers to Successful Reentry among Returning Citizens: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-synthesis	8
Does the Experience of Imprisonment Affect Optimism About Reentry?	7
Prison Changed Me—and I Just Work There: Personality Changes Among Prison Officers	7
Serious, Violent, and Chronic Prison Misconduct: Are the Predictors the Same for Women and Men?	6
The Pains of Imprisonment and Contemporary Prisoner Culture in Canada	6
A Beastly Bargain: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Prison-Based Dog-Training Programs in Florida	6
Interventions to Prevent Prison Violence: A Scoping Review of the Available Research Evidence	6
Situational Risk Factors for Inmate-on-Staff Assaults	6
Views From the Inside: Insights About Restrictive Housing From Prison System Officials, Officers, and Staff	6
Strain During Reentry: A Test of General Strain Theory Using a Sample of Adult Former Prisoners	6
Penal Arts Interventions and Hope: Outcomes of Arts-Based Projects in Prisons and Community Settings*	6
The Long-Term Effects of Solitary Confinement From the Perspective of Inmates	5
Feminist Ethics and Research with Women in Prison	5
Informing Correctional Officer Discretion: A Co-Response Model and the Legal Vulnerabilities Inherent in Prison Work	4
Are the Criminogenic Effects of Incarceration Mediated by a Change in Criminal Thinking or a Change in Perceived Certainty?	4
Views of Community Corrections Supervision and Their Predictors: An Officer and Offender Comparison	4
The “Pains of Employment”? Connecting Air and Sound Quality to Correctional Officer Experiences of Health and Wellness in Prison Space	4
Chinese Culture and Its Influence on Prison Society: Women’s Experience	3
Punishing for the Past (Sometimes): Judicial Perspectives on Criminal History Enhancements	3
Exploring the Relationship of Organizational Justice with Chinese Prison Staff Life Satisfaction	3
Canadian Prison Environments: A Mixed Methods Analysis	3

Assessing Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory Implementation Outcomes: Lessons from Five Diverse Pennsylvania Counties	3
A Brief Relationship Education Pilot Intervention for Men Post Release	3
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	3
Prison Education: Beyond Review and Evaluation	3
The Correctional Services Canada Institutional Mother Child Program: A Look at the Numbers	3
The Effects of Procedural Justice on Obligation to Obey, and Compliance among Incarcerated Offenders in South Africa	3
Suicide in Mexican Prisons: Mental Health Symptomology and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation and Suicidal Behavior	3
A Comparison of Executions and Death to Life Commutations in Kentucky, 1901–2019	2
Drug Use Stigma and Reprisal: Barriers to Prison Needle Exchange in Canada	2
Male Prisoners’ Perspectives of Access to Quality Health Care at a Prison Infirmary in Ghana	2
Women's Imprisonment in Britain and Ireland	2
Small-scale, Community-Embedded Youth Justice Facilities: Lessons from Dutch Reforms and Recommendations for Cross-Jurisdictional Implementation	2
A Narrative Synthesis of Qualitative Studies on Self-harming Behavior in the Correctional Setting	2
Mental Health Outcomes for Female Inmates without a Mental Disorder: Imprisonment and Post-release Effects of Confinement with Women with a Mental Illness	2
Evaluating the use of PTSD Assessment Tools Within the U.S. Prison Setting: An Exploratory Analysis	2
Jail Officers’ Adherence to Traditional Bases of Social Power: Understanding Inmate Control in a Unique Correctional Context	2
Gender Differences in Abusive Parenting among Incarcerated Parents in Japan	2
“It’s Not Gonna Leave Any Scars”: Trauma and Coping Among Execution Team Members	2
The Effect of Reading Prisoner Poetry on Stigma and Public Attitudes: Results from a Multigroup Survey Experiment	2
The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons	2
Public Acceptability of Prisoners’ Access and Use of Digital Technologies in the UK	2
When Checking a Box is not Enough: The (Un)Readability of PREA Messaging	2
The Effects of Emotional Literacy Programs on Inmates’ Empathy, Mindfulness, and Self-Regulation: A Random-Effect Meta-Analysis	2
Experiences of Vulnerability in Adult Male Prisoners: An Integrative Review	2
Isomorphic Pressures on Jail Diversion: From Serious Mental Illness to Opioid Use Disorder	2
Evaluation of the Predictive Validity of a Risk-Need-Responsivity Assessment Tool (RNR-A) in the Swedish Prison and Probation Service	2