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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying the Impact of Incarceration on Parenting: An Examination of Incarcerated Parents' Perceptions in the “Reading for a Change” Program in Colorado	18
Predicting Prison Misconduct With the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles: A Meta-Analysis	15
Incarcerated Fathers and Their Children in The Netherlands: Demographic and Detention Factors That Affect the Father–Child Relationship: A Secondary Analysis	13
Commodity, Scarcity and Power in the Carceral Economy	11
Did COVID-19 Affect News Media Representations of Prisons, Inmates, and Correctional Officers? A Look Prior and Postpandemic	11
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
Quantifying Fair Chance Policy Implementation and Employer Engagement	9
Critical Perspectives on UK Prisons	8
Canadian Provincial and Territorial Correctional Worker Mental Health and Well-Being Study (CWMH): Navigating Practical and Unanticipated Methodological Challenges	7
Effects of Prison Security Level on the Violent Misconduct for New Federal Prison Entries	7
Through Hope and Struggle: The Impact of “Gaisce – The President's Award” on Young Adults in Irish Prisons	6
Perceived Environmental Quality Indicators as Health-Enabling Elements Within Prisons	6
An Exploratory Factor Analysis of a Prison Rape Elimination Act Survey in a Women's Prison	5
“Every Day I was Crying about Something”: Lingering Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People Working in Juvenile Prisons	5
“I Chose Motherhood First”: Salvaging the Maternal Identity in Resource-Starved Jails	5
Interventions to Prevent Prison Violence: A Scoping Review of the Available Research Evidence	5
Transformative Learning With Mexican Cartel Members: An Exploration of Organized Crime Through Participatory Action Research in Prison	5
“It Ain’t Home Base No More:” Sentencing Reform and Dynamic County Jail Inmate Politics	4
Long-Term Impacts of Incarceration Exposure and Social Network Stability in Later Life	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
Designing Research to Capture and Understand Variations in Higher Education in Prison	4
A Phenomenological Study on the Reintegrating Experiences of Prison Torture Survivors into the Community in Gondar, Ethiopia	4
Using Jail Population Analysis to Enhance Offender Treatment Planning	4

The Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Social Alienation of Probationers: Evidence from China	4
Correctional Officer Culture in Canada: Proving Oneself for In-Group Acceptance	4
Corrigendum to “Enhancing Offender Rehabilitation Through Co-Designed Controlled-Environment Agriculture in an Australian Maximum Security Prison”	3
Walking an EmotionalTightrope: Examining the Carceral Emotion Culture(s) of Federal Prisons for Women in Canada	3
Is Hope a Good Thing, and Maybe Even the Best of Things? Exploring the Construct of Hope Within the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model	3
Public Acceptability of Prisoners’ Access and Use of Digital Technologies in the UK	3
“Free Spirits”: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Artistic Intervention Program Targeting Imprisoned People	3
Female Prisoners, Mental Health, and Contact with Family and Friends	3
Ghana Prison Officers’ Understanding and Practices of International Human Rights Instruments and Guidelines that Protect the Rights of Prisoners	3
Penal Arts Interventions and Hope: Outcomes of Arts-Based Projects in Prisons and Community Settings*	3
‘Would You Prefer Jail or Probation?’ Differences in Sanctioning Preferences among White, Black, and Latinx Adults	3
25-Year Evaluation of an In-Person Therapeutic Community Program in the Southwest United States between 1994 and 2019	3
The Future of American Jails: A National Survey of Jail Leaders’ Ideals	2
Deconstructing the Power Dynamics of Prison Research	2
The Intercultural Sensitivity of Italian Correctional Officers Between Life Satisfaction and Burnout	2
Security and Discretion: The Struggles of Prison Visitors and the Politics of Control	2
Prison Family Engagement Policies: A Multistate Systematic Review and Content Analysis	2
A Narrative Synthesis of Qualitative Studies on Self-harming Behavior in the Correctional Setting	2
How Detainment Reshapes the Interpersonal Relationships of Indonesian Incarcerated Youth: A Qualitative Study	2
Right to “Life”: The Cruel Contradiction of Exceptions to the Death Penalty for Pregnant People	2
Negotiating Toilet Access: A Qualitative Exploration of Women's Incarceration	2
Informing Correctional Officer Discretion: A Co-Response Model and the Legal Vulnerabilities Inherent in Prison Work	2
What Do Correctional Leaders Think About Faith-Based Programs? Results From a National Survey	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
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
The Experience of Transgender Women Prisoners Serving a Sentence in a Male Prison: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis	2