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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Symbolic Meanings Attributed to Drugs by Drug Dealers	47
I Did It, But…: Exploring DUI Offender Deviance Rationalization in the Digital Age	19
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Medicinal Alcohol, Opioid Prescriptions, and the Accessibility of Folk Devils	19
Let Moderation Be Your Guide: Neighborhood Characteristics Moderate the Relationship between Victimization and Fear of Crime	18
Notice of Duplicate Publication – A Descriptive Examination of Prisonization through the Lens of Post-Exoneration Offending	18
National and International Mass Shootings: Examining How Social Media Impacts College Students’ Perceptions	18
Mechanisms of Perceived Social Norms: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Morality and Outcome Expectations on Prescription Drug Misuse in the Working Population	18
When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm	17
Code of Conduct: Using Propensity Scores to Evaluate Prison Misconduct Among Veterans in Prison	17
COVID-19 Parental Job Disruptions and Adolescent Suicide	17
Large Predator Poaching as Situational Action Fueled by Legal Hunts	17
The Impact of Deviant Social Media Influencers and Consumer Characteristics on Purchasing Counterfeit Goods	16
Peeking into the Black Box of Offender Decision-Making: A Novel Approach to Testing Situational Action Theory’s Perception Choice Process	16
What Makes Imprisonment More Painful? A Study from the Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Recruiting money mules on instagram: a qualitative examination of the online involvement mechanisms of cybercrime	14
“Dude, you’re a Bitch!” Gang Members’ Internet Banging Masculinity via Bitch Discourse	13
Slow Panic? The Regulation of Salvia Divinorum in Canada, 1991-2019	13
Exploring How Interactions between Race and Social Bonds Influence Substance Use: Findings from a Predominately Black Juvenile Sample	13
Constructing an Investment Scam Detection Model Based on Emotional Fluctuations Throughout the Investment Scam Life Cycle	12
The Impact of Neighborhood Characteristics on Routine and Gang-Involved Gun Violence: Are Structural Covariates Salient?	11
Polling Pedophilic Preferences: Analyzing Responses to User-Generated Member Polls on a Darknet Child Sexual Abuse Forum	11
College Students are Helping Each Other Cheat in the Group Chat and Here’s Why	11
Market Demand, Routine Activity, and Illegal Fishing: An Empirical Test of Routine Activity Theory in Iran	11
Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime: The Role of Violent and Property Crime, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Prior Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime	11
Theft by Any Other Name is Still Theft: Examining “Looting” During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11

Assessment of a Second-Order Multi-Problem Factor Model Involving Sexual Partners, Marijuana Use, and Post-Arrest Placement Among Persistent Male Adolescent Delinquents	10
In Dubio Pro Reo: The Impact of Certainty and Uncertainty on the Identities and Beliefs of an Organized Crime Member	10
Bottlenecks and Opportunities for Improvement in Cybercrime Handling: Insights from Dutch Police Practice	10
An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives	10
“She’s a Flagger, and I’m a Panner”: Exploring the Intricacies of Flagging, Panhandling, and Street Economies	9
Age-faking and match-fixing: how table tennis trainers and players face gold-medal pressure in China	9
Beyond Dichotomy: Understanding Violent Offending and Victimization Among Immigrant Youths	9
Notice of Duplicate Publication – Midwives on the Margins: Stigma Management Among Out-of-Hospital Midwives	8
When and How Does Anti-Semitism Occur? the Different Trigger Mechanisms Associated with Different Types of Criminal and Non-Criminal Hate Incidents	8
Communities of Inquiry for Offenders: Learning Malware Development on Asynchronous Platforms	8
Perceptions of Potential White-Collar Criminals in Romania: A Convenience Theory Approach	8
Seeding the Grassroots of Research on Furries: Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Creative Knowledge Mobilization, Valuing Community Partnerships, and Correcting the Record on Stigmatized Communities wi	8
Prevalence of Counterfeit Fashion Goods in a West African Country: Crime in Perspective	8
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	8
College Students and the Neutralization of Unsafe Sex: Applying a New Model and Establishing a New Research Agenda	7
A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Race and Crime in New Orleans	7
Assessing Human Trafficking and Cybercrime Intersections Through Survivor Narratives	7
The Anxiety of the Pandemic: Binge-watching, Splurging, Sexting, Hooking Up, and Masturbating among College Students	7
A Comparison of Traditional Delinquency and Cyber-Delinquency: General Strain Theory and Community Protective Factors	7
Theorizing the Use of Performance Enhancing Substances and Methods in Sport as Four Different Types of Deviant Behavior	7
Liminal Athletes: Abusive Hazing and Masculinities in Homosocial Team sports ¹	7
Electric Empires: From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise	7
The Moderating Effects of Dispositions for Crime and Legitimate Coping on Negative Emotions and Aggressive Behavioral Intentions: A Test of General Strain Theory	7
What Counts as “Violence?” Semantic Divergence in Cultural Conflicts	6
The Denier in Chief: Faith in Trump and Techniques of Neutralization in a Pandemic	6
Silent Struggles: Family Dynamics and Drug Abuse Reporting Under Harsh Laws and Stigmatizing Perceptions	6
Exposure to Violence at Home and Bullying in School: A Test of an Additional Layer of General Strain Theory	6
How Do College Students with Exposure to Bullying Define Bullying: A Qualitative Analysis	6
Flying as Self-Expression: Autonomy and Pole Dancing in Strip Clubs	5
Deviant Labels, Negative Emotions, and Secondary Deviance: Integrating Labeling and Strain Perspectives	5
Parental Attachment and Digital Self-Harm	5
Toward a Universal Definition of Child Sexual Grooming	5
The Transgressive Individual in Foucault’s Rights-Punishment Theory - A Record of Self-Resistant Subjectivity in China	5
“A Deviation from the Norm”: Qualitative Scholars’ Perceptions of Self and Belonging in Criminology and Criminal Justice	5
Unpacking the Construction of Online Identities of Hybristophilia Communities on TikTok	5
Associations Between Problematic Internet Use and Externalizing Problem Behaviors Among Chinese Rural Adolescent	5
Kissing, Grabbing and Grinding: Young Australians’ Personal and Social Norms regarding Nightlife Sexual Behavior	5
The Evolution of a Social Problem: The Case of the Switchblade Knife	5
Examining the Moderating Effects of Neuroticism and Gender in the Mediation of Deviant Peer Affiliation to Cyberbullying Through Moral Disengagement	5
Broadcasting Self-Injury for Change: Exploring the Presentation of Advocacy Strategies on YouTube	5
“They Come in the Night and in Large Numbers”: Explaining the Common Features of School Attack and Mass Abduction of Students in Katsina State, Nigeria	4
Protection and Obedience. Deviant Masonry, Corruption, and Mafia in Italy	4
Reciprocating Desire in China: A Comparative Approach between High-end and Low-end Sex Workers and Their Clients	4
Sakawa in Ghana: The Influence of Weak Ties on Economic Cybercrime Offender Networks	4
Emotional Processing and Psychopathy Among Women: A Systematic Review	4
Explaining the Unexplainable: Theorizing the Starving of the Disabled Other	4
Accounting For Deviant Behaviors Among Marathon Runners	4
To Be Deviant or Not to Be: Exploring Bar Dancers’ Narratives in Indian Documentaries	4
‘Life is More Important Than money’: Ransom Mobilization and Delivery to Kidnappers in Northeast Nigeria	4
Modeling the Structural Effects of Residential Instability, Family Disruptions, and Social Support on Neighborhood Crime Perceptions: A Partial Test of Social Disorganization Theory	4

Conservative Anger and Police Misconduct: Exploring Conservative Discussion of Police on Social Media	4
Cheating with ChatGPT and Techniques of Neutralization	4
The Deterrent Role of Social Norms on Tax Evasion in Indonesia	4
We are All Green: Do Military Experiences and Involvement in the Criminal Justice System Vary Across Race and Ethnicity Among Incarcerated Veterans?	3
A Social Network Analysis of Large-Scale Wildlife Seizures Made at US Ports of Entry	3
“Successful” Offending: The Salience of Performance Criteria for Understanding and Addressing Crime	3
Pinpointing Persistent Polluters: Environmental Offending and Recidivist Companies in England	3
Understanding and Mitigating Fraud Risk in Professional Football	3
Attitudes Toward Violence and Cyberstalking: Gender’s Moderating Role	3
Determinants of Tax Evasion in the Perspective of Enforcement, Psychology, Trust, and Services	3
Weaponized Autism: Making Sense of Violent Internalized Ableism in Online Incel Communities	3
Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Parents? An Explorative and Qualitative Study of Parents’ Disposition Towards Children’s Involvement in Cybercrimes	3
Offender Journeys in Restorative Youth Justice Conferencing: The Overlap Between Restorative Justice and Desistance	3
The Dynamics of Internet Sexual Solicitation: Examining the Criminal Careers of Online Groomers	3
The Effect of Bully Victimization on Self-Reported Delinquency and Substance Use Using the General Strain Theory Framework: Sex, Race, and Ethnicity Differences	3
Cybersecurity Expert Perspectives on Data Thieves’ Actions in Digital Environments: Potential Refinements for Routine Activity Theory	3
The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies	3
Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap	3
Identity Interruption Processes Among Young Adults in Community Supervision: Evidence from Interactive Journaling	3
“Some Do it Out of Necessity, Others Because They Like Money and Others Because They Find it Easy” : Motivations for the Involvement of Women in Drug Trafficking in Peru	3
Primary and Secondary Variants of Psychopathy in Incarcerated Youth: An Investigation with a Focus on Social Anxiety	3
Order or Stability: The Role of Penal Administrators in the Transformation of Instability within Correctional Institution	3
It’s Pride Y’all: Mechanical and Organic Solidarity’s Impact on White LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Deep South	3
From Financial Statement Fraud to Asset Misappropriation: Fraud in Nonprofit Sports Clubs and Cultural Underpinnings	3
Accounting for Enhanced Interrogation: Elite Perspectives	3
The Reputation of the Invisibles: The Society of Santa as a Para-Masonic Criminal Entity Above the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta	3
Early Adverse Childhood Experiences and Later Delinquency: Considering the Role of Middle Childhood Risk Factors	3
Dancing Through COVID: The Precarious Working Conditions of Exotic Dancers During the Pandemic	2
Cybercriminal Networks and Operational Dynamics of Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scammers: Insights from the “Black Axe” Confraternity	2
Convenience Theory and Cybercrime Opportunity: An Analysis of Online Cyber Offending	2
Tax Evasion and Benefit Fraud: A Study of the Use of Techniques of Neutralization	2
Ransomware HR: Human Resources Practices and Organizational Support in the Conti Ransomware Group	2
A Comparative Content Analysis of Pre-Internet and Contemporary Child Sexual Abuse Material	2
Games to Control Gaming Behavior: An Observation Based on Teenager Families	2
Subgroups of Persistent Juvenile Offenders: Latent Class Analysis of Repeated Juvenile Assessment Center Entries	2
“It’s What I Do that Defines Me”: Real Life Superheroes, Identity, and Vigilantism	2
Endorsing Deviance: Examining the Influence of Legitimacy and Injustice on Responses to Strain	2
Folk Devils or Moral Entrepreneurs? Gap Bridging in the Social Studies of Pro-ana Communities	2
Testing Key Concepts of Three Delinquency Theories in a Multi-National Sample of Adolescents	2
Poaching of Domestic Protected Species in China: Using Legal Cases to Understand the Poaching of Wild Boars	2
A Content Analysis of the Stigma of Multilevel Marketing Participants on Reddit	2
Dating Applications: A Honeypot for Sextortion Victims	2
Understanding Public Preferences for Policing Homeless Individuals in the United States: Results from a National Survey	2
“It’s Not You, It’s Me”: Examining the Role of Conflicted Relationships, Mental Illness, and Intimate Partner Violence	2
Preponderant Relationships: Violent Crime, Premises Security Litigation, and Low-Income Housing	2
Age and Type of First Exposure to Pornography: It Matters for Girls and Boys	2
Hate Speech Propagation and Regulation in WhatsApp Groups: Evidence from Nigeria	2
Politicization of Economic Cybercrime: Perceptions Among Ghanaian Facebook Users	2
Match-Fixing in European Sports: Attitudes and Experiences	2
Mediating the Peer Delinquency–Future Offending Relationship with Legal Cynicism and Moral Neutralization	2
Validity of the Expanded Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy (E-LSRP) in a Brazilian Sample: Factor Structure, Construct Validity, and Associations with the Brazilian Jeitinho	2
Parental Management on Juvenile Delinquency through Low Self-control And Misperception	2
Correction	2
Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders	2
Examining the Relationship Between the Dimensions of the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy and Externalizing Disorders in Male Adolescents	2
Public Opinion about America’s Opioid Crisis: Severity, Sources, and Solutions in Context	2
Homosexual/Bisexual Men’s HIV or Sexually Transmitted Infection and Their Heterosexual Wives’ Remarriage in China	2
Athletes’ Perceptions and Knowledge About Match Fixing: An Investigation in Six European Countries	2
Risk Profiles for Cybercrime Victimization: A Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations	2
Expertise Integration in Cybercrime Policing: Exploring Civilian Career Lifecycles	2
Assessing the Gendered General Strain Theory Over Time in Individuals with a Residential Care History	2
Social Concern as a Means of Understanding the Risk of Workplace Deviance	2
How K-pop Fans Utilize Conventional and Subcultural Frameworks to Construct Fan Identities: A Case Study of Seungri and the Burning Sun Scandal	2
Exploring the Situational Contexts of Traditional Bullying Perpetration: A Social Bonding Theory Perspective	2
Correction	2
Mapping Restorative Justice for Green Crime Offenders: An Empirical Study of Sentencing Outcomes in China	2
Legal and Illegal Trade in CITES Protected Mammals – a Closer Look at the European Union	2
“Similar to Legal Companies”: Vendor Brands and Other Aspects of Marketing Communication in the Darknet Drug Trade	2
Unpacking the Impact of Gratitude on Unethical Behavior	2
Profiles of Death Penalty Attitudes: A Latent Class Approach	2
From Outsider to Insider: A Look at the Subculture of Microdosing	2
The Tattoo Environment as a Therapeutic Healing Space for Sexual Assault Survivors	2
Gang Violence and Homicide: Do Select Factors that Police Report Contribute to Gang Violence, Specifically Predict Gang Homicide?	2
Drug Dependency Due to Traumatic Childhood Experiences and Low Emotional Intelligence of Juvenile Felons in India	2
Lifestyle-Exposure Theory as a Framework to Analyze Victimization of People Experiencing Homelessness	2