OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Crime Law and Social Change is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	27
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	26
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	21
Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides	13
Revisiting crime, punishment and deterrence in a rapidly changing society: new evidence from panel data analysis in China	12
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	10
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy	10
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	10
Book review	10
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	10
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	10
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	9
Mass shooters and the death penalty: An exploration of sentencing outcomes and changes over time	9
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	8
Plea bargaining in the Nigerian criminal justice system: A procedural tool for loot recovery or justice administration?	8
COVID-19 as a trigger for racially motivated and extremist violent crime: a temporal analysis of hate crimes in Slovakia amidst a global pandemic	8
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	7
Understanding contextual heterogeneity in the outcomes of large-scale security policies: evidence from Italy (2007–12)	7
“You’re a product of your environment for sure”: Correctional educators on their perceptions of and contributions to prison social climate	7
Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands	6
From an offender-based to an offense-based justice: Changes in sentencing patterns in the juvenile justice system in São Paulo from 1990 to 2006	6
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	6
Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	6
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	6
Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	6

Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia	6
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	6
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	5
A farewell to the lone hero researcher: team research and writing	5
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	5
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	5
Dietary supplements, harm associated with synthetic adulterants and potential governance solutions	5
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018: Developing a contextualised understanding	5
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	5
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	5
Beyond assumptive deterrence: understanding the socio-environmental dynamics in crimes by Christian clerics and its implications for crime control	5
Challenging the criminal liability of online services providers for sex trafficking – A comparison of the American and French approaches	5
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
Behind the criminal economy: using UK tax fraud investigations to understand money laundering myths and models	4
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	4
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	4
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	4
An empirical test of techniques of neutralization regarding polluting behaviors in rural Iran	4
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	4
Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics	4
Enacting social engineering: the emotional experience of information security deception	4
A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling	4
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	3
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	3
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	3
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	3
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	3
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	3
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	3
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	3
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	3
Methods of terrorism financing: criminal procedural obstacles to the prevention of crime in Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland, by Fabian Teichmann	3
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	3
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	3
Mobilizing justice in sociolegal research: a mixed methods meta-analysis	3
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China	3
Exploring Perceptions of Portuguese Police about Human Trafficking Victims and Perpetrators	3
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	3
Unveiling sextortion in sport: a global inquiry into the nexus of sexual violence, abuse of power, and corruption for enhanced safeguarding	3
Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense	3
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	3
Analyzing the anti-corruption potential of ICT in SAARC countries	2
Should gains from criminal knowledge be forfeited?	2
The attribution of empirical desert in complex contexts: an experimental criminal law approach to voluntary intoxication	2
Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	2
Characteristics and situational aspects of seafood fraud: a comparative crime script analysis	2
Correction to: Protest policing and policing protesters: litigation in the U.S. Circuit courts of appeals	2
Violence against Women and Femicide: an analysis on the murders of foreign women in Italy	2
Equality, collaboration, flexibility: the emergence of (fragile) legitimacy in prison settings during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The logic of CPTED for public space or the social potential of physical security	2

Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime	2
Who steals? Who bribes? Multilevel determinants of corruption types in China	2
A continuum of hate: delimiting the field of hate studies	2
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective	2
The unintended consequences of anti-corruption measures: Regulating judicial conduct in Ghana	2
Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysis	2
The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action	2
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	2
Does internet access increase the perception of corruption?	2
Carceral Experiences of White-Collar Offenders: Qualitative Research Design Utilising the Offender-Based Definition and Pierre Bourdieu’s Capital Theory	2
Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption	2
Book Review: Political corruption: the internal enemy of public institutions, by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, Oxford University Press (2021)	2
The working of electoral corruption: the Ekiti model of vote buying	2
Why are victims fooled by fake investment platforms in China?? Insights from trust transfer theory	2
A color-blind Lens: public perceptions of systemic racism in the criminal justice system	2
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	2
Astronomical withdrawals: a green criminological examination of extreme energy mining on extraterrestrial objects	2
Rethinking cybercrime prevention in the age of the internet	2
Tax evasion and illicit cigarettes in California: prevalence and demand-side correlates	2
Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students	2
Assessing legal socialisation in a youth sample: procedural justice, legitimacy, and popular discontent in Nigeria	2
Hate in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: dehumanisation as a side effect; re-humanisation as a remedy	2
Online and offline determinants of drug trafficking across countries via cryptomarkets	2
The dark hand of the underworld: measuring the economic impact of organized crime	2
Criminal justice involvement, structural vulnerability and social safety net services among people living with HIV in Baltimore	2
Funding the colonial tax haven: unpacking the role of the paycheck protection program in Puerto Rico’s state-corporate crimes	2
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana	2
Children and youth born of conflict-related sexual violence: the making of the ‘other’ in Northern Uganda and Rwanda	1
Policing injustice in the digital age: analyzing police representation in social media activism	1
Stolen goods markets and criminal redistribution in Enugu state of Nigeria	1
Crime and crisis in China’s P2P online lending market: a comparative analysis of fraud	1
Trafficking North Korean women into China for forced marriage: Evidence from court judgments	1
Long-term mental health, victimization, and behavioral consequences associated with human sex trafficking	1
Social Media Jurors: Conceptualizing and Analyzing Online Public Engagement in reference to Legal Cases	1
Examining the multifaceted harms of corporate and white-collar crime	1
Criminal liability for correctional officer excessive use of force	1
Shadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal	1
Regulatory theater in the pork industry: how the capitalist state harms workers, farmers, and unions	1
Illicit organ trade: an empirical study of kidney trading networks in China	1
Legal challenges to combating cybercrime: An approach from Vietnam	1
Nelen, H. (2022) Ostrageous: How greed and crime erode professional football and we all look the other way	1
How does the MDB cross-debarment system curb corruption? — From the perspective of deterrence theory	1
Connected to the end: the deterrence/identity continuum in online criminal networks	1
Unveiling the Nexus of trafficking: Socio-economic determinants, victimization forms, and psychological impacts on women in Bangladesh	1
The “New Wars”: security and cooperation in Mexico and Northern Central America	1
A qualitative exploration of factors associated with recidivism in South Africa	1
The perils to democratic consolidation: citizens’ opinion on the army and support for democracy	1
Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina	1
Longitudinal patterns of regulatory violations in chemical corporations	1
‘I have used up my entire youth in the bush’: the Comités de Autodefensa during and after the Peruvian internal armed conflict	1
Decreasing corruption in the field of disaster management	1
Measuring judiciarization of people with mental illnesses	1
Idleness as work? How public defenders do their job by waiting	1
Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	1
Correction to: Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands	1
Following the (DNM) Bible? A crime script analysis of darknet drug vending	1
Obligation-based bribes in Vietnam: A view from the norm of reciprocity	1
Judicial practices in brazil: How do inquisitorial institutions apply adversarial norms?	1
Hawala in criminal court: the role of law and commercial culture in informal financial exchange	1
From (Possible) Detection to Action: The Real-World Impact of Suspicious Transaction Reports in Italy	1
Capture, commodify, kill: Legitimized harms and industrial meatpacking in the United States	1
Towards malum prohibitum: crime deterrence strategies for reducing illicit antiquities trade	1
The role of helplines in the anti-trafficking space: examining contacts to a major ‘modern slavery’ hotline	1
Tigers vs. flies: impact of official ranks on judicial trials in PRC’s anti-corruption campaign	1