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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	29
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	24
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	20
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	17
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy	12
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	11
Book review	11
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	10
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	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
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
“You’re a product of your environment for sure”: Correctional educators on their perceptions of and contributions to prison social climate	8
Anger versus fear about crime: how common is it, where does it come from, and why does it matter?	8
Plea bargaining in the Nigerian criminal justice system: A procedural tool for loot recovery or justice administration?	8
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	7
Effect of incarceration on criminality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil	7
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	7
Public policies against criminal assets in mexico: challenges and opportunities from the north border states	7
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	6
Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	6
Understanding contextual heterogeneity in the outcomes of large-scale security policies: evidence from Italy (2007–12)	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

Dietary supplements, harm associated with synthetic adulterants and potential governance solutions	6
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	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
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018: Developing a contextualised understanding	5
A farewell to the lone hero researcher: team research and writing	5
Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands	5
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	5
The politics of criminal violence in Brazil: State violence, gang and the plebs	5
The ouster clause in the Hong Kong national security law: its effectiveness in the common law and its implications for the rule of law	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
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	4
Fault lines of food fraud: key issues in research and policy	4
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	4
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	4
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	4
Behind the criminal economy: using UK tax fraud investigations to understand money laundering myths and models	4
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	4
Enacting social engineering: the emotional experience of information security deception	4
Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics	3
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	3
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	3
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China	3
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	3
An empirical test of techniques of neutralization regarding polluting behaviors in rural Iran	3
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	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
Methods of terrorism financing: criminal procedural obstacles to the prevention of crime in Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland, by Fabian Teichmann	3
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	3
A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling	3
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	3
Exploring Perceptions of Portuguese Police about Human Trafficking Victims and Perpetrators	3
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	3
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	3
Should gains from criminal knowledge be forfeited?	2
The logic of CPTED for public space or the social potential of physical security	2
Online and offline determinants of drug trafficking across countries via cryptomarkets	2
Criminal justice involvement, structural vulnerability and social safety net services among people living with HIV in Baltimore	2
Mobilizing justice in sociolegal research: a mixed methods meta-analysis	2
Unveiling sextortion in sport: a global inquiry into the nexus of sexual violence, abuse of power, and corruption for enhanced safeguarding	2
Reviewing international anti-corruption cooperation arrangements in China – based on the implementation review mechanism of UNCAC	2
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	2
Does internet access increase the perception of corruption?	2
Violence against Women and Femicide: an analysis on the murders of foreign women in Italy	2
Assessing legal socialisation in a youth sample: procedural justice, legitimacy, and popular discontent in Nigeria	2
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective	2
Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students	2
Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysis	2

International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	2
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	2
Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	2
The Dark Web and anonymizing technologies: legal pitfalls, ethical prospects, and policy directions from radical criminology	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
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana	2
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	2
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	2
Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense	2
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	2
Book Review: Political corruption: the internal enemy of public institutions, by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, Oxford University Press (2021)	2
Examining the multifaceted harms of corporate and white-collar crime	1
Shadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal	1
The perils to democratic consolidation: citizens’ opinion on the army and support for democracy	1
How does the MDB cross-debarment system curb corruption? — From the perspective of deterrence theory	1
Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	1
Decreasing corruption in the field of disaster management	1
Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption	1
The role of helplines in the anti-trafficking space: examining contacts to a major ‘modern slavery’ hotline	1
The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action	1
The unintended consequences of anti-corruption measures: Regulating judicial conduct in Ghana	1
Measuring judiciarization of people with mental illnesses	1
Astronomical withdrawals: a green criminological examination of extreme energy mining on extraterrestrial objects	1
Carceral Experiences of White-Collar Offenders: Qualitative Research Design Utilising the Offender-Based Definition and Pierre Bourdieu’s Capital Theory	1
Legal challenges to combating cybercrime: An approach from Vietnam	1
Tigers vs. flies: impact of official ranks on judicial trials in PRC’s anti-corruption campaign	1
‘I have used up my entire youth in the bush’: the Comités de Autodefensa during and after the Peruvian internal armed conflict	1
Professionalism versus democracy? Historical and institutional analysis of police oversight mechanisms in three Asian jurisdictions	1
Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina	1
Stolen goods markets and criminal redistribution in Enugu state of Nigeria	1
Idleness as work? How public defenders do their job by waiting	1
Crime and (price) punishment in the Chilean real estate market: the case of Santiago	1
Nelen, H. (2022) Ostrageous: How greed and crime erode professional football and we all look the other way	1
Social Media Jurors: Conceptualizing and Analyzing Online Public Engagement in reference to Legal Cases	1
Hate in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: dehumanisation as a side effect; re-humanisation as a remedy	1
Policing injustice in the digital age: analyzing police representation in social media activism	1
Funding the colonial tax haven: unpacking the role of the paycheck protection program in Puerto Rico’s state-corporate crimes	1
The attribution of empirical desert in complex contexts: an experimental criminal law approach to voluntary intoxication	1
Tax evasion and illicit cigarettes in California: prevalence and demand-side correlates	1
Illicit organ trade: an empirical study of kidney trading networks in China	1
Correction to: Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands	1
The “New Wars”: security and cooperation in Mexico and Northern Central America	1
Carceral-capital-charitable politics in Kingston, Ontario: analyzing relationships of embeddedness and indebtedness	1
Capture, commodify, kill: Legitimized harms and industrial meatpacking in the United States	1
A color-blind Lens: public perceptions of systemic racism in the criminal justice system	1
Hawala in criminal court: the role of law and commercial culture in informal financial exchange	1
Children and youth born of conflict-related sexual violence: the making of the ‘other’ in Northern Uganda and Rwanda	1
Towards malum prohibitum: crime deterrence strategies for reducing illicit antiquities trade	1
Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime	1
Regulatory theater in the pork industry: how the capitalist state harms workers, farmers, and unions	1
The working of electoral corruption: the Ekiti model of vote buying	1
Criminal liability for correctional officer excessive use of force	1
Characteristics and situational aspects of seafood fraud: a comparative crime script analysis	1
A continuum of hate: delimiting the field of hate studies	1
The dark hand of the underworld: measuring the economic impact of organized crime	1
Rural criminal collaborations and the food crimes of the countryside: realist social relations theory of illicit venison production	1
Longitudinal patterns of regulatory violations in chemical corporations	1
Judicial practices in brazil: How do inquisitorial institutions apply adversarial norms?	1