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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	31
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	27
Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides	24
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	20
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	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	12
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	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
Mass shooters and the death penalty: An exploration of sentencing outcomes and changes over time	10
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	10
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	9
Understanding contextual heterogeneity in the outcomes of large-scale security policies: evidence from Italy (2007–12)	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
Plea bargaining in the Nigerian criminal justice system: A procedural tool for loot recovery or justice administration?	8
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	7
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	7
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	7
Challenging the criminal liability of online services providers for sex trafficking – A comparison of the American and French approaches	6
Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia	6
Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	6
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

Dietary supplements, harm associated with synthetic adulterants and potential governance solutions	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
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
Fault lines of food fraud: key issues in research and policy	5
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
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	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
Enacting social engineering: the emotional experience of information security deception	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
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
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	4
An empirical test of techniques of neutralization regarding polluting behaviors in rural Iran	4
Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics	4
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	4
A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling	4
Behind the criminal economy: using UK tax fraud investigations to understand money laundering myths and models	4
Exploring Perceptions of Portuguese Police about Human Trafficking Victims and Perpetrators	4
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	3
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	3
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	3
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	3
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	3
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	3
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	3
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	3
Methods of terrorism financing: criminal procedural obstacles to the prevention of crime in Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland, by Fabian Teichmann	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
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	3
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China	3
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	3
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	3
Reviewing international anti-corruption cooperation arrangements in China – based on the implementation review mechanism of UNCAC	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
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	2
Correction to: Protest policing and policing protesters: litigation in the U.S. Circuit courts of appeals	2
Criminal justice involvement, structural vulnerability and social safety net services among people living with HIV in Baltimore	2
A color-blind Lens: public perceptions of systemic racism in the criminal justice system	2
Online and offline determinants of drug trafficking across countries via cryptomarkets	2
Rural criminal collaborations and the food crimes of the countryside: realist social relations theory of illicit venison production	2
The attribution of empirical desert in complex contexts: an experimental criminal law approach to voluntary intoxication	2
Assessing legal socialisation in a youth sample: procedural justice, legitimacy, and popular discontent in Nigeria	2

Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	2
Analyzing the anti-corruption potential of ICT in SAARC countries	2
Tax evasion and illicit cigarettes in California: prevalence and demand-side correlates	2
The logic of CPTED for public space or the social potential of physical security	2
Book Review: Political corruption: the internal enemy of public institutions, by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, Oxford University Press (2021)	2
Characteristics and situational aspects of seafood fraud: a comparative crime script analysis	2
Who steals? Who bribes? Multilevel determinants of corruption types in China	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
Funding the colonial tax haven: unpacking the role of the paycheck protection program in Puerto Rico’s state-corporate crimes	2
Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysis	2
A continuum of hate: delimiting the field of hate studies	2
The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action	2
Carceral Experiences of White-Collar Offenders: Qualitative Research Design Utilising the Offender-Based Definition and Pierre Bourdieu’s Capital Theory	2
Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students	2
Should gains from criminal knowledge be forfeited?	2
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective	2
The dark hand of the underworld: measuring the economic impact of organized crime	2
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana	2
Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime	2
Does internet access increase the perception of corruption?	2
The unintended consequences of anti-corruption measures: Regulating judicial conduct in Ghana	2
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	2
Astronomical withdrawals: a green criminological examination of extreme energy mining on extraterrestrial objects	2
Violence against Women and Femicide: an analysis on the murders of foreign women in Italy	2
Social Media Jurors: Conceptualizing and Analyzing Online Public Engagement in reference to Legal Cases	1
Obligation-based bribes in Vietnam: A view from the norm of reciprocity	1
From (Possible) Detection to Action: The Real-World Impact of Suspicious Transaction Reports in Italy	1
The welfare of wildlife: an interdisciplinary analysis of harm in the legal and illegal wildlife trades and possible ways forward	1
Towards malum prohibitum: crime deterrence strategies for reducing illicit antiquities trade	1
Judicial practices in brazil: How do inquisitorial institutions apply adversarial norms?	1
Measuring judiciarization of people with mental illnesses	1
Capture, commodify, kill: Legitimized harms and industrial meatpacking in the United States	1
Illicit organ trade: an empirical study of kidney trading networks in China	1
Hawala in criminal court: the role of law and commercial culture in informal financial exchange	1
Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	1
Equality, collaboration, flexibility: the emergence of (fragile) legitimacy in prison settings during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Legal challenges to combating cybercrime: An approach from Vietnam	1
Connected to the end: the deterrence/identity continuum in online criminal networks	1
Why lawyers internationalize and police transnationalize: disjointed criminal justice at the border of the state	1
Unveiling the Nexus of trafficking: Socio-economic determinants, victimization forms, and psychological impacts on women in Bangladesh	1
Decreasing corruption in the field of disaster management	1
Trafficking North Korean women into China for forced marriage: Evidence from court judgments	1
Criminal liability for correctional officer excessive use of force	1
‘I have used up my entire youth in the bush’: the Comités de Autodefensa during and after the Peruvian internal armed conflict	1
The role of helplines in the anti-trafficking space: examining contacts to a major ‘modern slavery’ hotline	1
Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina	1
Tigers vs. flies: impact of official ranks on judicial trials in PRC’s anti-corruption campaign	1
Carceral-capital-charitable politics in Kingston, Ontario: analyzing relationships of embeddedness and indebtedness	1
Professionalism versus democracy? Historical and institutional analysis of police oversight mechanisms in three Asian jurisdictions	1
Nelen, H. (2022) Ostrageous: How greed and crime erode professional football and we all look the other way	1
Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption	1
How does the MDB cross-debarment system curb corruption? — From the perspective of deterrence theory	1
Correction to: Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands	1
Crime and crisis in China’s P2P online lending market: a comparative analysis of fraud	1
Long-term mental health, victimization, and behavioral consequences associated with human sex trafficking	1
Regulatory theater in the pork industry: how the capitalist state harms workers, farmers, and unions	1
The “New Wars”: security and cooperation in Mexico and Northern Central America	1
Longitudinal patterns of regulatory violations in chemical corporations	1
Shadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal	1
Policing injustice in the digital age: analyzing police representation in social media activism	1
Examining the multifaceted harms of corporate and white-collar crime	1
Children and youth born of conflict-related sexual violence: the making of the ‘other’ in Northern Uganda and Rwanda	1
A qualitative exploration of factors associated with recidivism in South Africa	1
Idleness as work? How public defenders do their job by waiting	1
Hate in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: dehumanisation as a side effect; re-humanisation as a remedy	1
The perils to democratic consolidation: citizens’ opinion on the army and support for democracy	1
Stolen goods markets and criminal redistribution in Enugu state of Nigeria	1
The horror of corporate harms: purdue pharma and the opioid epidemic	1
Following the (DNM) Bible? A crime script analysis of darknet drug vending	1