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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	38
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	17
Punishment configuration and prevention of carbon trading fraud crimes: experience from China	15
Revisiting crime, punishment and deterrence in a rapidly changing society: new evidence from panel data analysis in China	15
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	14
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	14
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	14
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	12
To report or not to report corruption? An empirical investigation of the determinants of corruption reporting in Africa	12
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy	11
Firearms policy and regional structures: how Brazil responds in divergent ways	10
Mass shooters and the death penalty: An exploration of sentencing outcomes and changes over time	10
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	10
Book review	10
COVID-19 as a trigger for racially motivated and extremist violent crime: a temporal analysis of hate crimes in Slovakia amidst a global pandemic	9
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	9
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	9
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	9
The systemic issues with the lower judiciary in India and proposed remedial measures	9
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	9
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	8
Transnational copyright enforcement in the digital age: balancing rights holders and public access across jurisdictions	8
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	8
Partners in crime: A network perspective of street gangs elites	8
The involvement process for financial-economic cyber-enabled crime: Exploring the roles of preexisting ties and offender convergence settings	7

Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	7
Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia	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
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	6
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	6
Challenging the criminal liability of online services providers for sex trafficking – A comparison of the American and French approaches	6
Politically biased or morally loose? Exploring the role of individual predictors of tolerance towards political corruption	6
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	6
Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	6
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	6
Work-related suicide: an international social justice perspective	6
Homicidal violence and state capacity in Latin America: the story of the Paper Leviathans	5
Women in organized crime: a comparison of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)	5
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	5
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	5
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	5
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	5
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
Closing loopholes or maintaining control? Corporate power through algorithmic opacity in Australia’s gig economy regulation	5
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	5
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	5
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	4
Profiles of identity theft victimization and the role of lifestyle-routine activities: a conjunctive analysis of case configurations	4
Does carceral status signal fitness for jury service? An exploratory study of the state’s role in shaping public opinion	4
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	4
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	4
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	4
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	4
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	4
Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense	4
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	4
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	4
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	4
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	4
Poverty, incivilities, media consumption and the perception of increased crime at the national, local and neighborhood levels: evidence from Chile in 2023	4
Unveiling sextortion in sport: a global inquiry into the nexus of sexual violence, abuse of power, and corruption for enhanced safeguarding	4
Exceptional workers? sex work, labor rights and the law	4
Chinese criminal justice practitioners’ death penalty opinion and justifications:	3
Rethinking cybercrime prevention in the age of the internet	3
Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysis	3
Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students	3
Why are victims fooled by fake investment platforms in China?? Insights from trust transfer theory	3
Towards a democratic use of technologies for urban security: Scoping and practical guidance for decision-makers	3
Strengthening legal frameworks and community engagement: addressing illegal wildlife trade involving Quang Binh laborers in Malaysia	3
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	3
Predictive policing in action: a field-based critique of the Italian case	3
Those left behind. Selective hospitality and uneven reception of people fleeing Ukraine in Poland	3
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	3
Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	3
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	3

Beyond refugee camps: housing solutions for war refugees from Ukraine in Poland	3
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	3
Criminal justice involvement, structural vulnerability and social safety net services among people living with HIV in Baltimore	2
The logic of CPTED for public space or the social potential of physical security	2
Funding the colonial tax haven: unpacking the role of the paycheck protection program in Puerto Rico’s state-corporate crimes	2
Online and offline determinants of drug trafficking across countries via cryptomarkets	2
Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption	2
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton (University of California Press, 2023, 328 pp., ISBN: 978-0520396326)	2
Compensation over justice: inequalities in Uzbekistan’s restorative practices	2
The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action	2
Data brokers in the shadows: the social harms of information exploitation	2
Carceral Experiences of White-Collar Offenders: Qualitative Research Design Utilising the Offender-Based Definition and Pierre Bourdieu’s Capital Theory	2
Economic growth, poverty and female employment on crime rates at global level	2
Nelen, H. (2022) Ostrageous: How greed and crime erode professional football and we all look the other way	2
Book Review: Political corruption: the internal enemy of public institutions, by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, Oxford University Press (2021)	2
Hate in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: dehumanisation as a side effect; re-humanisation as a remedy	2
Are financial markets resilient to political corruption scandals? Evidence from Latin America	2
Inevitable violations? Etiology of deviance in organizations	2
The dark hand of the underworld: measuring the economic impact of organized crime	2
The unintended consequences of anti-corruption measures: Regulating judicial conduct in Ghana	2
The role of helplines in the anti-trafficking space: examining contacts to a major ‘modern slavery’ hotline	2
Assessing legal socialisation in a youth sample: procedural justice, legitimacy, and popular discontent in Nigeria	2
Correction to: Protest policing and policing protesters: litigation in the U.S. Circuit courts of appeals	2
Who steals? Who bribes? Multilevel determinants of corruption types in China	2
The attribution of empirical desert in complex contexts: an experimental criminal law approach to voluntary intoxication	2
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective	2
Equality, collaboration, flexibility: the emergence of (fragile) legitimacy in prison settings during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Rethinking access to protection and wage recovery for victims of human trafficking for labour exploitation: a capabilities perspective	2
Astronomical withdrawals: a green criminological examination of extreme energy mining on extraterrestrial objects	2
Characteristics and situational aspects of seafood fraud: a comparative crime script analysis	2
Analyzing the anti-corruption potential of ICT in SAARC countries	2
Towards malum prohibitum: crime deterrence strategies for reducing illicit antiquities trade	2
Misinformation in the digital age: How algorithmic censorship and media manipulation shape public perception and trust	2
Illicit organ trade: an empirical study of kidney trading networks in China	1
Policing injustice in the digital age: analyzing police representation in social media activism	1
Hawala in criminal court: the role of law and commercial culture in informal financial exchange	1
Trust in the law but beware! The possible corruptogenic effects of the law on public procurement in Malawi	1
Connected to the end: the deterrence/identity continuum in online criminal networks	1
Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	1
A positive feedback mechanism? Institutional responsiveness to bribery reporting by citizens in 12 African countries	1
How does the MDB cross-debarment system curb corruption? — From the perspective of deterrence theory	1
Unveiling the Nexus of trafficking: Socio-economic determinants, victimization forms, and psychological impacts on women in Bangladesh	1
A qualitative exploration of factors associated with recidivism in South Africa	1
The “New Wars”: security and cooperation in Mexico and Northern Central America	1
Untangling the geographical patterns of buying trafficked women in China, 2014-2020	1
The political economy of local autonomy, economic growth, and social harmony: A focus on the perspectives of local government officials	1
Decreasing corruption in the field of disaster management	1
Children and youth born of conflict-related sexual violence: the making of the ‘other’ in Northern Uganda and Rwanda	1
The perils to democratic consolidation: citizens’ opinion on the army and support for democracy	1
Examining the multifaceted harms of corporate and white-collar crime	1
Correction to: legal aspects of corporate systems for preventing cybercrime among personnel	1
Law enforcement, social demands and reputation risks as drivers of compliance functions: a comparative analysis of the largest banks’ disclosures in the UK and Brazil	1
Murder, gender and the law: from crime of passion to femicide	1
Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina	1
Following the (DNM) Bible? A crime script analysis of darknet drug vending	1
Shadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal	1
Changing attitudes towards refugees in Lithuania in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine: conflict, accommodation, assimilation, or integration?	1
Criminal liability for correctional officer excessive use of force	1
Crime and crisis in China’s P2P online lending market: a comparative analysis of fraud	1
Social Media Jurors: Conceptualizing and Analyzing Online Public Engagement in reference to Legal Cases	1
Judicial practices in brazil: How do inquisitorial institutions apply adversarial norms?	1
How policy effectiveness leads to voluntary policy compliance during crises: A cross-national comparison between the US and South Korea	1
Longitudinal patterns of regulatory violations in chemical corporations	1
Correction to: Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton (University of California Press, 2023, 328 pp., ISBN: 978-0520396326)	1
Detoxifying the system: Insights into strategic behavior and corruption in China’s drug policy	1
Silencing Paritutu	1
Accident, scandal, disaster: the media framing of corporate crime	1
The horror of corporate harms: purdue pharma and the opioid epidemic	1
Stolen goods markets and criminal redistribution in Enugu state of Nigeria	1
State-corporate legal symbiosis and social harm: the case of the steel factory ‘Ilva’ in Taranto, Italy	1
Capture, commodify, kill: Legitimized harms and industrial meatpacking in the United States	1
‘I have used up my entire youth in the bush’: the Comités de Autodefensa during and after the Peruvian internal armed conflict	1
Idleness as work? How public defenders do their job by waiting	1
Long-term mental health, victimization, and behavioral consequences associated with human sex trafficking	1
From (Possible) Detection to Action: The Real-World Impact of Suspicious Transaction Reports in Italy	1
Trafficking North Korean women into China for forced marriage: Evidence from court judgments	1
Tigers vs. flies: impact of official ranks on judicial trials in PRC’s anti-corruption campaign	1