OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Deviant Behavior 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
Toward a Universal Definition of Child Sexual Grooming	31
Testing Convenience Theory for White-collar Crime: Perceptions of Potential Offenders and Non-offenders	21
Breaking Lockdown during Lockdown: A Neutralization Theory Evaluation of Misbehavior during the Covid 19 Pandemic	17
Mass Shooting Outcomes: A Comparison of Completed, Attempted, Failed, and Foiled Incidents in America	17
Working for God: Religion and Occupational Crime and Deviance	13
Examining the Uncharted Dark Web: Trust Signalling on Single Vendor Shops	13
Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale– Revised (PPTS-R): Empirical Investigation of Construct Validity and Dimensionality in a Forensic and Non-Forensic Sample	13
Racial Sympathy and Support for Capital Punishment: A Case Study in Concept Transfer	13
Attorney Fraud in the Law Firm: A Case Study of Crime Convenience Theory and Crime Signal Detection Theory	12
(Dys)functional Cognitive-Behavioral Coping Strategies of Teachers to Cope with Stress, Anxiety, and Depression	12
Women’s Involvement in the Drug Trade: Revisiting the Emancipation Thesis in Global Perspective	12
The Denier in Chief: Faith in Trump and Techniques of Neutralization in a Pandemic	11
Explaining Victim Impact from Cyber Abuse: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Analysis	11
How Sexual Racism and Other Discriminatory Behaviors are Rationalized in Online Dating Apps	10
Ex Malo Bonum: Ambiguity in Stories of Organized Crime	10
From Chads to Blackpills, a Discursive Analysis of the Incel’s Gendered Spectrum of Political Agency	10
Troubling Claims of Normalization: Continuing Stigmas within Michigan’s Medical Cannabis Community	10
Exclusionary School Discipline during Childhood and Adolescent Police Encounters	9
Self-Control, Cyberbullying, and the Moderating Effect of Opportunity	9
Screening for dark personalities in Portugal: Intra- and interpersonal correlates, reliability and invariance of the Short Dark Tetrad Portuguese version	9
The Fewer Insider Poachers, the More Normative Compliance: Clues for Managing Poaching in the Shellfish Sector	9
Effects of Smartphone Addiction, Social Media Addiction and Fear of Missing Out on University Students’ Phubbing: A Structural Equation Model	9
Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime: The Role of Violent and Property Crime, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Prior Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime	8
Examining Membership of Dutch Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs and Its Association with Indqividual Criminal Careers	8
Evaluation of Random Forest in Crime Prediction: Comparing Three-Layered Random Forest and Logistic Regression	8

Crazy, Weak, and Incompetent: A Directed Content Analysis of Self-Injury Stigma Experiences	8
Social Concern as a Means of Understanding the Risk of Workplace Deviance	8
Victims and Perpetrators of Cyber Harassment: The Role of Power and Control and the Use of Techniques of Neutralization	8
Offending Concentration on the Internet: An Exploratory Analysis of Bitcoin-related Cybercrime	8
The Role of Perceived Injustice and Need for Esteem on Incel Membership Online	7
The Impact of Deviant Social Media Influencers and Consumer Characteristics on Purchasing Counterfeit Goods	7
A Community-level Test of General Strain Theory (GST) in Mexico	7
Paranormal Activity: Self-control Theory and Belief in the Paranormal	7
A Comparative Content Analysis of Pre-Internet and Contemporary Child Sexual Abuse Material	7
Following Heavenly Orders: Heroic Deviance and the Denial of Responsibility in Narratives of Rescue	7
The Symbolic Boundary Work of Incels: Subcultural Negotiation of Meaning and Identity Online	7
The Impact of Anti-COVID-19 Measures on Mexico City Criminal Reports	7
“Everybody Needs Their Story to Be Heard”: Motivations to Participate in Research on LGBTQ Criminal Offending	6
Mechanisms of Perceived Social Norms: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Morality and Outcome Expectations on Prescription Drug Misuse in the Working Population	6
Public Opinion about America’s Opioid Crisis: Severity, Sources, and Solutions in Context	6
“I Feel Like I’m Walking the Line; One Side It’s Manageable, the Other Side It’s F**king prison”: exploring the Dual Nature of User-Manufacturers of Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs	6
Recruiting money mules on instagram: a qualitative examination of the online involvement mechanisms of cybercrime	6
The Anxiety of the Pandemic: Binge-watching, Splurging, Sexting, Hooking Up, and Masturbating among College Students	6
A Comparative Study of Parenting Practices and Juvenile Delinquency between China and the United States	6
Principiis Obsta: Strategies of Narrative Resistance to Italian Organized Crime Governance	5
More than a Joke: White Supremacist Humor as a Daily Form of Resistance	5
The Makings of a Terrorist: Continuity and Change Across Left-, Right- and Jihadist Extremists and Terrorists in Europe and North-America, 1960s-Present	5
Poaching of Domestic Protected Species in China: Using Legal Cases to Understand the Poaching of Wild Boars	5
Child Abuse Myths are Pedophilic Myths: Cognitive Distortions are Stronger in Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offenses Diagnosed with Pedophilia Compared to Those Without Such Diagnosis	5
Market Demand, Routine Activity, and Illegal Fishing: An Empirical Test of Routine Activity Theory in Iran	5
The Irredeemable? How Men Convicted of Sexual Offenses Reflect and Reconcile Redemption and Condemnation Scripts on the Path to Desistance	5
“Creative Non-compliance”: Complying with the “Spirit of the Law” Not the “Letter of the Law” under the Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions	5
Youth Gangs and Victimization: An Investigation of the Impact of Gang Dynamics on Experiences of Victimization	5
A Scoping Review and Qualitative Investigations to Develop A Workplace Deviance Typology	4
I Did It, But…: Exploring DUI Offender Deviance Rationalization in the Digital Age	4
Money Mules and Cybercrime Involvement Mechanisms: Exploring the Experiences and Perceptions of Young People in the Netherlands	4
What Does the Personification of Love and Sex Dolls Explain about Doll Owners?	4
Childhood Adversities and Individual Responsibility as Explanations for Criminality in Incarcerated Young Men’s Narratives	4
Polarizing Moral Panics: A Theory and Its Application to the Refugee Crisis in Poland	4
Varieties of Violence in Street Culture	4
The Paradoxes of Normalization: Cannabis as Nuisance Crime, Medicine, and Consumer Good in British Columbia Before and After Legalization	4
Lifestyle-Exposure Theory as a Framework to Analyze Victimization of People Experiencing Homelessness	4
Primary and Secondary Variants of Psychopathy in Incarcerated Youth: An Investigation with a Focus on Social Anxiety	4
Tattooed Individuals in a Community: Motivations and Identities	4
Virtue Locales: An Exploratory Study of a New Criminological Concept	4
Geeks and Newbies: Investigating the Criminal Expertise of Online Sex Offenders	3
Modeling the Structural Effects of Residential Instability, Family Disruptions, and Social Support on Neighborhood Crime Perceptions: A Partial Test of Social Disorganization Theory	3
Sexual Harassment among Male and Female Public Accountants: An Exploratory Study	3
A Life History Approach on Risk-taking Behaviors Moderated by Gender in Young Adult Spaniards	3
The Role of Family Support in Gay and Lesbian Individuals’ Experiences of Sexual Identity-Based Discrimination, Harassment, and Violence: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory	3
The General Theory of Crime Revisited: Comparing the Relative Effects of Parental Responsiveness and Parental Behavioral Control on Aggressive and Nonaggressive Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence	3
The Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: Psychosocial Risk Factors and Hong Kongers’ Attitudes toward Violence	3
Measuring the Dark Core of Personality in Portugal: A Psychometric Examination of D	3
Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Delinquent Peer Association	3
Citizen Self-Presentation and Aggression in Ticket Fining Events: A Video Observational Study	3

How Mafia-Like Bureaucratic Cartels or Thieves in Suits Run Corruption Inside the Bureaucracy, or How Gover	3
Strain & Gain: From Deprivation to Innovation within Restricted Housing Units	3
A Comparison between Indoor and Outdoor Rape Suspects in Sweden	3
When and How Does Anti-Semitism Occur? the Different Trigger Mechanisms Associated with Different Types of Criminal and Non-Criminal Hate Incidents	3
Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Parents? An Explorative and Qualitative Study of Parents’ Disposition Towards Children’s Involvement in Cybercrimes	3
Neutralizations, Altercasting, and Online Romance Fraud Victimizations	3
What are They Talking About? Dislocations Between Institutional Narratives and On-Field Sports actors’ Perspectives on Match-Fixing	3
Parental Harsh Discipline and Cyberbullying Perpetration among Chinese College Students: Why and When are They Related?	3
What Money Can Do: Examining the Effects of Rewards on Online Romance Fraudsters’ Deceptive Strategies	3
Sugaring as a deviant career: Modes of entering sugar relationships and social stigmas	3
To Speed or Not to Speed: Applying Situational Action Theory to Speeding Behavior	3
“You Could Try This Compound, but it Might Send You nuts”: How Steroid Suppliers Perceive the Underground Market and Their ‘Hybrid’ Role within It	3
Engagement with Female-oriented Male–Male Incest Erotica: A Comparison of Sinophone and Anglophone Boys’ Love Fandom	3
Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale: Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance Among a Portuguese Sample	3
In Dubio Pro Reo: The Impact of Certainty and Uncertainty on the Identities and Beliefs of an Organized Crime Member	3
The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies	3
Exploring the Influence of Sociodemographic Backgrounds on Money Mule Recruitment Types in South Korea: An Analysis of Probabilities from Machine Learning Classifiers	2
“Wild in My Eyes”: An Analysis of Narratives and Narrative Identities among Diverse Drug Users	2
Good People Commit Bad Deeds Together: A Factorial Survey on the Moral Antecedents of Situational Deviance in Peer Groups	2
Not All Deviance is Criminal: Deviance in Everyday Life and the Development of a Non-Criminal Deviance Scale	2
Electric Empires: From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise	2
Parental Management on Juvenile Delinquency through Low Self-control And Misperception	2
“I Know a Guy and He’s Got Guns Galore”: Accessing Crime Guns in the Australian Illicit Firearms Market	2
Understanding Public Preferences for Policing Homeless Individuals in the United States: Results from a National Survey	2
Understanding and Mitigating Fraud Risk in Professional Football	2
Match-Fixing in European Sports: Attitudes and Experiences	2
What Took You so Long? An Examination of Reporting Time and Police Misconduct Complaint Dispositions	2
What Makes People Reoffend? Predictors of Reconviction – A 2-year Longitudinal Study	2
Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap	2
Adolescent Killers: Using Two Timeline Methods to Map Life Histories of Adolescents that Kill	2
Commercial Sex or Romance? Men’s Sexual Scripts in Compensated Dating	2
“It’s What I Do that Defines Me”: Real Life Superheroes, Identity, and Vigilantism	2
How do People Betray in Relationships? Understanding the Process of Infidelity in Dating Relationships	2
Morality in Moderation: Profiles of Moral Self and Behavioral Problems Among Children	2
Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Callous-Unemotional Traits: The Role of Guilt Across Samples of Incarcerated Male Adult Offenders	2
A Behavioral Sequence Analysis of Mass School Shooters Examining Stressors, Antisocial Behaviors, Mental Health Issues, and Planning and Preparation Activities	2
Pedophile Hunters and Performing Masculinities Online	2
The Group Nature of Academic Dishonesty & Diffusion of Responsibility in Online Student Chat Groups	2
Individual Stress, Contextual Stress, and Network Attributes on Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Young Adults During the COVID-19 Lockdown	2
Homelessness during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Exploratory Study in Switzerland	2
Tax Evasion and Benefit Fraud: A Study of the Use of Techniques of Neutralization	2
Prioritise Propensity: A multimethod analysis of peer influence and school-based aggression	2
Dating Applications: A Honeypot for Sextortion Victims	2
A COVID-19 Public Health Silver Lining? Reductions in Driving under the Influence Arrests and Crashes in Miami-Dade County	2
Folk Devils or Moral Entrepreneurs? Gap Bridging in the Social Studies of Pro-ana Communities	2
A Network Approach to Examine Neighborhood Interdependence Through the Target Selection of Repeat Buyers of Commercial Sex in the United States	2
“Is This Really Our Problem?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Black Americans’ Misconceptions about Suicide	2
“Successful” Offending: The Salience of Performance Criteria for Understanding and Addressing Crime	2
Deviance and Ethical Considerations in Online Biohacking Communities	2