OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Prison Journal is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying the Impact of Incarceration on Parenting: An Examination of Incarcerated Parents' Perceptions in the “Reading for a Change” Program in Colorado	20
Staff and Incarcerated Individuals’ Attitudes Toward Men Who Sexually Offend: Implications for Prison Social Climate	16
Barriers to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Implementation in Jails and Postincarceration Community Settings	16
Predicting Prison Misconduct With the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles: A Meta-Analysis	12
Incarcerated Fathers and Their Children in The Netherlands: Demographic and Detention Factors That Affect the Father–Child Relationship: A Secondary Analysis	10
Building Connection Behind Bars: A Process Evaluation of a Relationship-Based Reentry Workshop for Incarcerated Men in Pennsylvania	8
Commodity, Scarcity and Power in the Carceral Economy	8
Did COVID-19 Affect News Media Representations of Prisons, Inmates, and Correctional Officers? A Look Prior and Postpandemic	8
Effects of Prison Security Level on the Violent Misconduct for New Federal Prison Entries	7
Quantifying Fair Chance Policy Implementation and Employer Engagement	7
Canadian Provincial and Territorial Correctional Worker Mental Health and Well-Being Study (CWMH): Navigating Practical and Unanticipated Methodological Challenges	6
Through Hope and Struggle: The Impact of “Gaisce – The President's Award” on Young Adults in Irish Prisons	6
Offence-Specific Interventions for Women Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse: Barriers for Program Implementation in Australia	6
Interventions to Prevent Prison Violence: A Scoping Review of the Available Research Evidence	5
Perceived Environmental Quality Indicators as Health-Enabling Elements Within Prisons	5
An Exploratory Factor Analysis of a Prison Rape Elimination Act Survey in a Women's Prison	5
Transformative Learning With Mexican Cartel Members: An Exploration of Organized Crime Through Participatory Action Research in Prison	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
A Phenomenological Study on the Reintegrating Experiences of Prison Torture Survivors into the Community in Gondar, Ethiopia	4
The Effect of Perceived Discrimination on Social Alienation of Probationers: Evidence from China	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
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

25-Year Evaluation of an In-Person Therapeutic Community Program in the Southwest United States between 1994 and 2019	3
“It Ain’t Home Base No More:” Sentencing Reform and Dynamic County Jail Inmate Politics	3
Walking an EmotionalTightrope: Examining the Carceral Emotion Culture(s) of Federal Prisons for Women in Canada	3
Examining the Mediating Effects of Organizational Trust on the Relationship between Organizational Justice and Job Attitudes among Correctional Staff	3
Using the Job Demands-Resources Model to Examine Possible Correlates of Fear of Being Victimized at Work Among Chinese Prison Officers	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
Corrigendum to “Enhancing Offender Rehabilitation Through Co-Designed Controlled-Environment Agriculture in an Australian Maximum Security Prison”	3
Suicidal ideation in Chilean Prisons: Findings From a National Study	3
Right to “Life”: The Cruel Contradiction of Exceptions to the Death Penalty for Pregnant People	3
Ghana Prison Officers’ Understanding and Practices of International Human Rights Instruments and Guidelines that Protect the Rights of Prisoners	3
Using Jail Population Analysis to Enhance Offender Treatment Planning	3
“Free Spirits”: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Artistic Intervention Program Targeting Imprisoned People	3
How Detainment Reshapes the Interpersonal Relationships of Indonesian Incarcerated Youth: A Qualitative Study	3
‘Would You Prefer Jail or Probation?’ Differences in Sanctioning Preferences among White, Black, and Latinx Adults	3