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

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	32
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	29
Revisiting crime, punishment and deterrence in a rapidly changing society: new evidence from panel data analysis in China	16
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	12
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	12
Book review	12
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	10
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
To report or not to report corruption? An empirical investigation of the determinants of corruption reporting in Africa	10
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	9
Plea bargaining in the Nigerian criminal justice system: A procedural tool for loot recovery or justice administration?	8
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
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	8
Mass shooters and the death penalty: An exploration of sentencing outcomes and changes over time	8
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	7
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	7
Firearms policy and regional structures: how Brazil responds in divergent ways	7
Partners in crime: A network perspective of street gangs elites	7
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	7
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	7
Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	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
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018: Developing a contextualised understanding	6

Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia	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
Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	6
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	6
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	5
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	5
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	5
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	5
A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling	5
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
Work-related suicide: an international social justice perspective	5
An empirical test of techniques of neutralization regarding polluting behaviors in rural Iran	5
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	5
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	5
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	5
Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics	5
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	5
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
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	4
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	4
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	4
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China	4
Methods of terrorism financing: criminal procedural obstacles to the prevention of crime in Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland, by Fabian Teichmann	4
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	4
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	4
Profiles of identity theft victimization and the role of lifestyle-routine activities: a conjunctive analysis of case configurations	4
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	4
Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysis	3
Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	3
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	3
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	3
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	3
Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students	3
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana	3
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	3
Unveiling sextortion in sport: a global inquiry into the nexus of sexual violence, abuse of power, and corruption for enhanced safeguarding	3
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	3
Chinese criminal justice practitioners’ death penalty opinion and justifications:	3
Why are victims fooled by fake investment platforms in China?? Insights from trust transfer theory	3
Online and offline determinants of drug trafficking across countries via cryptomarkets	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
Rethinking cybercrime prevention in the age of the internet	3
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	3
Predictive policing in action: a field-based critique of the Italian case	3
Tigers vs. flies: impact of official ranks on judicial trials in PRC’s anti-corruption campaign	2
Violence against Women and Femicide: an analysis on the murders of foreign women in Italy	2
Towards malum prohibitum: crime deterrence strategies for reducing illicit antiquities trade	2

Economic growth, poverty and female employment on crime rates at global level	2
Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime	2
The attribution of empirical desert in complex contexts: an experimental criminal law approach to voluntary intoxication	2
Equality, collaboration, flexibility: the emergence of (fragile) legitimacy in prison settings during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective	2
Characteristics and situational aspects of seafood fraud: a comparative crime script analysis	2
The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action	2
Assessing legal socialisation in a youth sample: procedural justice, legitimacy, and popular discontent in Nigeria	2
Idleness as work? How public defenders do their job by waiting	2
Carceral Experiences of White-Collar Offenders: Qualitative Research Design Utilising the Offender-Based Definition and Pierre Bourdieu’s Capital Theory	2
Nelen, H. (2022) Ostrageous: How greed and crime erode professional football and we all look the other way	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
Children and youth born of conflict-related sexual violence: the making of the ‘other’ in Northern Uganda and Rwanda	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
Beyond refugee camps: housing solutions for war refugees from Ukraine in Poland	2
Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption	2
The unintended consequences of anti-corruption measures: Regulating judicial conduct in Ghana	2
Compensation over justice: inequalities in Uzbekistan’s restorative practices	2
Tax evasion and illicit cigarettes in California: prevalence and demand-side correlates	2
Astronomical withdrawals: a green criminological examination of extreme energy mining on extraterrestrial objects	2
Correction to: Protest policing and policing protesters: litigation in the U.S. Circuit courts of appeals	2
Hate in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: dehumanisation as a side effect; re-humanisation as a remedy	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
Who steals? Who bribes? Multilevel determinants of corruption types in China	2
Analyzing the anti-corruption potential of ICT in SAARC countries	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
The dark hand of the underworld: measuring the economic impact of organized crime	2
From (Possible) Detection to Action: The Real-World Impact of Suspicious Transaction Reports in Italy	1
Illicit organ trade: an empirical study of kidney trading networks in China	1
Shadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal	1
Silencing Paritutu	1
Correction to: legal aspects of corporate systems for preventing cybercrime among personnel	1
Connected to the end: the deterrence/identity continuum in online criminal networks	1
Examining the multifaceted harms of corporate and white-collar crime	1
Social Media Jurors: Conceptualizing and Analyzing Online Public Engagement in reference to Legal Cases	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
Murder, gender and the law: from crime of passion to femicide	1
Criminal liability for correctional officer excessive use of force	1
The perils to democratic consolidation: citizens’ opinion on the army and support for democracy	1
Unveiling the Nexus of trafficking: Socio-economic determinants, victimization forms, and psychological impacts on women in Bangladesh	1
Regulatory theater in the pork industry: how the capitalist state harms workers, farmers, and unions	1
The role of helplines in the anti-trafficking space: examining contacts to a major ‘modern slavery’ hotline	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
The Holocaust and Disciplinary Myopia in Criminology and Sociology: Social injury as a response to the challenges of legal formalism	1
Accident, scandal, disaster: the media framing of corporate crime	1
A positive feedback mechanism? Institutional responsiveness to bribery reporting by citizens in 12 African countries	1
Crime and crisis in China’s P2P online lending market: a comparative analysis of fraud	1
Correction to: Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands	1
Trafficking North Korean women into China for forced marriage: Evidence from court judgments	1
How does the MDB cross-debarment system curb corruption? — From the perspective of deterrence theory	1
Long-term mental health, victimization, and behavioral consequences associated with human sex trafficking	1
Capture, commodify, kill: Legitimized harms and industrial meatpacking in the United States	1
Untangling the geographical patterns of buying trafficked women in China, 2014-2020	1
Decreasing corruption in the field of disaster management	1
Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	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
Cannabis and international criminology: tolerance, aversion, and legal technical assistance	1
State-corporate legal symbiosis and social harm: the case of the steel factory ‘Ilva’ in Taranto, Italy	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
The horror of corporate harms: purdue pharma and the opioid epidemic	1
Hawala in criminal court: the role of law and commercial culture in informal financial exchange	1
Judicial practices in brazil: How do inquisitorial institutions apply adversarial norms?	1
Stolen goods markets and criminal redistribution in Enugu state of Nigeria	1
Obligation-based bribes in Vietnam: A view from the norm of reciprocity	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
Measuring judiciarization of people with mental illnesses	1
Policing injustice in the digital age: analyzing police representation in social media activism	1