OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Benefits of Art therapy in Prison Population with a Diagnosis of Mental Illness: A Systematic Review	19
The Greentown Project: Building Evidence to inform Intervention Design for Juveniles Caught-up in Local Criminal Networks	19
Unconditional Hope: Advocating for Hope Within a Positive Criminological Perspective	17
Differentiating Categories of Violent Adolescent Offending and the Associated Risks in Police and Youth Offending Service Records	17
Sociodemographic and psycho social Differences Between Hate Crime Offenders and Other Non-Bias-Motivated Criminals: Implications for Prison Rehabilitation Programs	16
A Systematic Review of Victim-Survivor, Familial, and Professional Views on the Reintegration of Men Convicted of a Sexual Offense into the Community	15
The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Based Psychoeducation on Anger Control and Cognitive Flexibility in İndividuals Convicted of Homicide	14
Assessing Rural-Urban Differences in Screening for Mental Health Needs Among Individuals in County Jails	12
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis on the Experience of Probation Officers in Managing People With Antisocial Personality Disorder	12
The Pragmatic American Revisited: A Direct Replication of Pickett and Baker (2014)	12
Experiences of Loneliness: COVID-19 Versus Incarceration	12
Wrongful Convictions and Erroneous Acquittals: Applying Packer’s Model to Examine Public Perceptions of Judicial Errors in Australia	12
Gender-responsive Classification of Women in Prison: A Typology Based on Mental Health Symptoms and Coping Strategies	11
Who’s Keeping an Eye on the Kids? Changes in Monitoring During Emerging Adulthood	10
Researching Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Youth Justice System: Reflections on Methodology From a Members of a Non-Indigenous Research Team	10
The Effect of Impression Management on Ex-offender Hiring Outcomes Is Not Moderated by Race and Ethnicity of the Ex-offender and Hiring Manager	10
Scientism, Ethics and Evil: From Mens Rea to Cerebrum Reus	10
Estimating the Global Prevalence of Mass Public Shootings	10
Burnout Among Probation Officers: The Importance of Resilience	10
Understanding Engagement With Forensic Smartphone Apps: The Service Design Engagement Model	9
Evading Detection: Characteristics of Individuals With Extrafamilial Child Sexual Offences and Long Detection Lags	9
Surviving Senior Psychopathy: Informant Reports of Deceit and Antisocial Behavior in Multiple Types of Relationships	9
Prediction of Youth Violence Perpetration by Parental Nurturing Over Time	9
Forgiveness-Seeking Behaviors Among Online Romance Fraudsters: Insights from Sakawa Actors in Ghana	8
Expanding the IDEA: Ongoing- and Evolving-Evaluation of an Art Therapy in Prisons Program	8

Delusions and Delinquencies: A Comparison of Violent and Non-Violent Offenders With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders	8
Expanding Knowledge About Music and Well-Being in Carceral Settings: A Methodological Review	8
Entrepreneurship and Criminal Justice Populations: A Social Cognitive Perspective	8
“I’m Not a Child Molester, But a Victim Myself”: Examining Rationalizations Among Male Sex Offenders Who Report Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse	7
Spiritual Victimology: Basic Principles	7
Overrepresentation of Young Indigenous Offenders: Differences in Criminogenic Risk/Needs and Implications for Practice	7
Living Situation of Juveniles After Secure Residential Treatment: Exploring the Role of Family Centeredness, Child, and Family Factors	7
Drug Addiction and Incarceration: A Call for Research and Transparency Among Prison-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Programs	7
Dignity, Social Reintegration of Prisoners, and the New Penal Power: European Human Rights, Experiences of Belgian Prisoners, and Professional Practices	7
“It’s Just Flourishing Hope Everywhere”: The Experiences of Incarcerated Men Sharing Their Stories	7
Substance Use Treatment for Indigenous Offenders: The Effects of Race on Drug Court Treatment Outcomes	6
Why and When Do Narcissists Aggress Celebrities Online? Investigating Relative Deprivation and Empathic Self-Efficacy as Potential Mechanisms	6
The Role of Deterministic Perceptions in Criminal Identity Process Among Adolescent Gang Members	6
What if Marquis de Sade Was a Woman? New Evidence of Sex Differences in Behavioral Manifestation of Sadism	6
Working with Women in Forensic Mental Health Care: Guidelines for Gender-Responsive Assessment and Treatment	6
Experiencing Burnout: John Henryism, Gender Role Conflict, and Anxiety Among Incarcerated Black Men	6
Access to Healthcare Among Young Adult Probationers Participating in a Pilot Health-Focused Reentry Program	6
Prison Adjustment Among Military Veterans: The Impact of Traumatic Events, Service History, and PTSD	6
Introducing the New Editor-in-Chief of IJOTCC: Continuing a Legacy of Excellence and Advancing a Vision for the Future	5
Which Clinical and Demographic Factors are Related to Incarceration in Male Patients With Antisocial Personality Disorder?	5
Learning a Lesson: Spiritual Attributions of Sexual Trauma and Revictimization	5
The Predictive Value of Criminogenic Needs on Institutional Misconduct in a Dutch Forensic Hospital	5
Empathy and Offending, a Study About the Role of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Sexual Violence	5
Assessing a Faith-Based Program for Trauma Healing Among Jail Inmates: A Quasi-Experimental Study	5
Possibility of Sincere Apology in Restorative Justice: When and How?	5
The Impact of Ineffective Parenting Practices on Cyber-Deviance in South Korean Adolescents: Examining the Applicability of General Strain Theory	5
Investigating the Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument (MAYSI-2)	5
Police-Identified Psychological Distress, Substance Use, and Physical Violence Among Male Intimate Partner Stalkers	5
The Impact of Working with Farm Animals on People with Offending Histories: A Scoping Review	5
A Tailored Approach for Justice Involved Youth With an Intellectual Disability: The Suitability of a Small-Scale Community-Integrated Approach	5
Practice Frameworks in the Correctional Domain: How Values Drive Knowledge Generation and Treatment	5
Overt and Covert Delinquency: Socio-Demographic Correlates in Justice-Involved Adolescent Males	5
Faith and Fortitude: 10-Year Assessment of Recidivism at a New Church-Based Prison in South Korea	5
In Search of Public Perceptions of Disorder and Crime: Examining the Core Tenets of Broken Windows Theory	5
An Intervention Program for Male Juvenile Offenders in Turkey: A Pilot Randomized Trial	5
Female Murderers and Stigma: Coping With the “Bad Woman” Label	5
Public Support for “Get Smart” Criminal Justice Reform Post-2020: Virginia as a Case Study	5
Victim and Victim Support Staff Experiences of a Domestic Violence Electronic Monitoring Program in Australia	5
Emotional States Related to Sexual Offending Versus Violent Offending Using a Schema Therapy Perspective	4
The Synergistic Effects of Risk-Principle Adherence in the Supervision and Treatment of Individuals Who Have Sexually Offended	4
Adolescent Violent Delinquency Associated With Increased Emergency Department Usage in Young Adulthood	4
“People say you’re going home, but I don’t have a home”: Housing After Prison	4
A Deeper Understanding of Child to Parent Violence (CPV): Personal Traits, Family Context, and Parenting	4
Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Male Portuguese Prisoners	4
Examining Trajectories of Change on the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-Entry (DRAOR)	4
Strengths and Weaknesses of Inviting Men to a Voluntary-Based Domestic Violence Intervention	4
Power and Intimacy Motives in Narratives About Closeness Presented by People Staying in a Penitentiary Institution	4
Creating a Benevolent World: Exploration of a Music-Based Rehabilitation Program for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals	4
Sexual Offending: The Intrepid Professional-Adventurer and The Dejected Revenger-Victim	4
Parental Divorce and Adolescent Offending: A Comparison Between Children of Discordant Siblings	4

Understanding the Self-Harming Behavior of Filipino Male Detainees (32–58 Years Old): A Descriptive Phenomenology	4
Predictors of General Deviance in the Context of COVID-19	4
Don’t Beat Around the Bush! The Relationship Between Forensic Vigilance and Communication Style	4
Mentoring: A Traditional Cook Island Approach to Support Men	4
Do the Redundant and Locally Dependent Items of the LS/CMI Contribute in Any Meaningful Way to Its Reliability and Its Potential to Predict Criminal Recidivism?	4
Retraction “Proof in the Science of the Criminal Process in Ukraine: Conceptual Approaches to Understanding the Essence”	4
Motivations for Seeking Laser Tattoo Removal and Perceived Outcomes as Reported by Justice Involved Adults	4
Religion and Misconduct Among Prison Inmates in South Korea	4
Understanding Violent Extremism: Identifying Motivational Classes in Male Jihadist Detainees	4
Systematic Aggression Registration in Forensic Psychiatric Care: A Qualitative Study on Preconditions for Successful Implementation	4
The Efficacy of Outsourced Employment Services for Adults Exiting Australian Prisons	4
Therapeutic Alliance Moderates Psychopathy-Outcome Relation in Treatment of Substance-Abusing Offenders	4
The Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Different Types of Offending Behavior: An Examination Across Two Generations of British Males	4
Examining Differences in the Effect of Vicarious and Personal Procedural Justice on Legal Orientations and Offending Across Race/Ethnicity Among a Sample of Serious Juvenile Offenders	3
Gender Stereotypes and Perceptions of Stranger Violence: Attributions of Blame and Motivation	3
Delivering Peer-Based Support in Prisons During the COVID Pandemic and Lockdown: Innovative Activities Delivered by People Who Care	3
Effectiveness of Ellis’s Rational-Emotional Approach on Criminal Thinking and Law-Evasion in Male Prisoners	3
Terror and Crime: Anatomy of an Austrian Jihadist Prison Cohort	3
The Role of Negative Parental Influences and Criminal Thinking in Juvenile Offending Behaviors	3
The Role of Identity Formation in Explaining Dynamic Risk Factors Among Incarcerated Emerging Adults	3
Transportation Among Returning Citizens: “You Just Want to Stay Down and Get High”	3
Examination of the Weinberger Adjustment Inventory—Short Form Among Portuguese Young Adults: Psychometrics and Measurement Invariance	3
Exploring the Role of Self-Control Across Distinct Patterns of Cyber-Deviance in Emerging Adolescence	3
Implementing Reform: Approaches to Alter the Use of Local Jail for People with Behavioral Health Conditions	3
Experiences of Sentencing and the Pains of Punishment: Prisoners’ Perspectives	3
Differentiating Sexual From Other Violent Offence Types for Case Assessment, Planning, and Management	3
Violent Recidivism and Adverse Childhood Experiences in Forensic Psychiatric Patients With Impaired Intellectual Functioning	3
Implementing a Recovery Capital Model Into Therapeutic Courts: Case Study and Lessons Learned	3
Sadistic Sexual Crimes Against Children: Comparing the Manifestation of Sexual Sadism and Crime-Commission Process	3
An Examination of Economic Strain, Negative Emotions, and Low Self-Control: A Test With Institutionalized Juveniles	3
COVID-19 Pandemic as Subjective Repeated Strains and its Effects on Deviant Behavior in a Sample of Italian Youth	3
Exploring Characteristics of Homicide Offenders With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Via Machine Learning	3
Leaving Their Drugs at the Gate? Exploring Changes in Drug Use From Before to During Incarceration in Norway	3
Monitoring Therapist Fidelity to the Good Lives Model (GLM)	3
Psychometric Properties of the Sexually Aggressive Behaviors Scale: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Construct Validity in a Sample of Portuguese Female College Students	3
Pre-Prison and Indigenous Predictors of Institutional Misconduct	3
Strengthening Parental Identity of Incarcerated Fathers through Innovative Practices of Drama in Education	3
Art Therapy in Australian Prisons: A Research Agenda	3
Circles ReBoot: A Feasibility Study and Preliminary Outcome Evaluation	3
The Effect of 6 weeks Physical Activity on Cognitive Control and Trait Impulsivity in Multi-problem Young Adults: First Findings of an RCT-study	3
Peer Mentors as Prison Volunteers: Building Bridges Between Institutions and Communities	3
Enhancing Pre-Treatment Motivation Improves Forensic Mental Health Outcomes	3
Pull and Push: The Effect of Social Support and Professional Resilience on the Relationship Between Correctional Officers’ Cynicism and Service Impact	3