OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Crime Law and Social Change is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	30
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	27
Revisiting crime, punishment and deterrence in a rapidly changing society: new evidence from panel data analysis in China	15
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	12
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	11
Book review	10
To report or not to report corruption? An empirical investigation of the determinants of corruption reporting in Africa	10
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	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 continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	9
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	9
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
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
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
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	7
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	7
Firearms policy and regional structures: how Brazil responds in divergent ways	7
Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	6
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
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

Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	6
Politically biased or morally loose? Exploring the role of individual predictors of tolerance towards political corruption	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
Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics	5
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	5
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	5
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	5
Work-related suicide: an international social justice perspective	5
A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling	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
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018: Developing a contextualised understanding	5
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	5
An empirical test of techniques of neutralization regarding polluting behaviors in rural Iran	5
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	5
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	4
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	4
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China	4
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	4
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	4
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	4
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	4
Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysis	3
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana	3
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	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
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	3
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	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
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	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
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	3
Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	3
Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students	3
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective	3
Beyond refugee camps: housing solutions for war refugees from Ukraine in Poland	3
Profiles of identity theft victimization and the role of lifestyle-routine activities: a conjunctive analysis of case configurations	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
Rethinking cybercrime prevention in the age of the internet	3
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	3